Innocent Mavhunga has been appointed as acting chief executive officer following Peter Chikumba’s resignation.
Mavhunga is currently general manager of National Handling Services (NHS), a subsidiary of Air Zimbabwe. “The board has also appointed Mr Innocent Mavhunga as the acting chief executive officer with immediate effect. Mr Mavhunga is the substantive general manager of National Handling Services, a subsidiary of Air Zimbabwe,” said the airline’s board in a statement.
Mavhunga has been with Air Zimbabwe for the past 24 years, having started off as a traffic assistant and working his way up to station manager at Harare and Bulawayo airports. He became cargo services manager and was involved in the setting up of National Handling Services as one of its senior managers. Until his appointment to move back to head NHS, Mavhunga was acting director of marketing with Air Zimbabwe.