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PROFILE POWERING THE WAY By Tarren Bolton Racheal Njoroge, managing director of Cummins Southern Africa, shares the company’s vision of making people’s lives better by powering a more prosperous world. C ummins, a global power leader and corporation of complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute and service a broad portfolio of power solutions, officially launched its state-of-the-art premises in the highly acclaimed business area of Waterfall Logistics Precinct in Waterfall City at the end of March – called the Power Hub. At the launch of the facility, Plant Equipment & Hire (PEH) caught up with Kenyan-born Racheal Njoroge (RN), managing director of Cummins Southern Africa, to chat with her about her history with Cummins, her role as a ‘woman in power’ and the future of powering on. 32 JUNE 2019 PEH: You’ve worked for Cummins for more than 12 years. Can you give some background on your journey with the company? RN: I studied in the US and joined Cummins right after obtaining my Master’s degree. I joined as a summer intern in Columbus, Indiana in May 2006. Soon thereafter, I was promoted to business systems analyst, working in the Distribution Processes & Systems (DP&S). During this time, I also led IT Functional Excellence efforts, IT planning, Cummins Business Services Usage Management activities and was the Distribution Business Unit (DBU) champion for PowerSweep III. In 2009, I earned the position of global IT strategy and planning leader. In April 2011 I joined the Africa Area Business Organisation (ABO) as the ABO IT leader. Here, I helped build the IT organisation as a key business enabler. I then moved on to develop the New Entities Execution and Facilities Management function in January 2014. My focus was to build a dedicated team to coordinate all new entity project management and execution activities as well as focus on the centralised management of all real estate and facilities activities for Africa. From January 2017, I headed up the Cummins Southern Africa Regional Offices www.plantonline.co.za