Chief Financial Officer
The NYDA Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Khuthi Mbedzi Manana (30) is a versatile creative, who is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has had a wide range of experience from External Audit (EY), Project Finance Manager (RMB), Internal Audit (Bidvest Services), Finance Executive/CFO of several organisations before turning 30. She was previously the CFO of GC2T (Global Command and Control Technologies) (Pty) Ltd in Defence Sector and Finance Executive of UDS (UAV and Drones Solutions) subsidiary of Bidvest Services in Aviation and security sector. . 

Ms Manana is an Independent Board Member of the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee of the Defence Sector Charter Council. She also holds a Presenting Certificate from Media Concepts and has been the SAICA News Presenter and was recognised as one of the achievers in the Top 35 under 35 initiative. Ms Manana also holds a Strategic Leadership Certification from GIBS and is a Certified Life Coach from Transformation Coaching Academy.  

Ms Manana has a proven record of establishing policies and financial controls to cut expenses, mitigate business performance risks and increasing operational efficiencies.