A top official of East African Breweries Limited has resigned and is expected to leave Kenya at the end of the month.

British-born EABL Group Finance Director Tracey Barnes has been assigned an undisclosed new role within the parent company, Diageo, according to a filing to the Nairobi Securities Exchange.

Hungarian Dr Gyorgy Geiszl will replace the 52-year-old finance boss in board reconstitution that also saw the appointment of columnist Carol Musyoka as an independent director. “Ms Tracey Barnes has tendered her resignation as Group Finance Director of the company and Executive Director effective September 30, 2015 to take up another role within the Diageo Group in another country,” EABL said in a statement Thursday.

Geiszl was tapped from another Diageo subsidiary where he was the finance director for the operations in Russia and Eastern Europe markets. EABL, however, did not indicate whether her resignation was linked to the claims of racial discrimination and harassment made by a former staffer of the brewing giant.

Ms Barnes was accused earlier in the year of setting “outrageous” targets for workers and striking off local workers only to replace them with expatriates since her arrival at the firm in March 2012. The accusations landed her at the Immigration Department where she was questioned over the intimidation claims.

Stepped down

“It is very bad for Kenyans to be frustrated on their own soil by a foreigner, yet we have a solid government with a strong immigration department which is supposed to protect its citizens,” the complaint letter to the Immigration officials read in part. EABL denied that such allegation had been received.

Ms Musyoka’s appointment increases the board size to 11, and comes months after quick reconstitution of the directors. In July, Jane Karuku was appointed to the board and managing director of Kenya Breweries – the firm’s biggest and most important subsidiary, after the resignation of Joe Muganda, who took up the position of CEO at Nation Media Group.

Andy Fennell, another director, stepped down and was replaced by John Okeeffe, who is the President of Diego’s operations in Africa.