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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Mfundiso Johnson Ntabankulu
("JJ") Njeke (52)
Independent Chairman
BCom, CA(SA)
Appointment 1 July 2010
Outside directorships held Kagiso Group companies, ArcelorMittal (SA), Metropolitan Holdings, NM Rothschild (SA), Resilient Property Income Fund, MTN, Barloworld, Sasol and the Council of the University of Johannesburg – Director. |
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Richard Linden Pike (48)
Chief Executive Officer
BCom (Hons), CA(SA)
Appointed 18 October 2000
No outside directorships held. |
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Campbell Bomela (60)
Executive Director – Group Services
BCom, MBA
Appointed 1 March 2006
Outside directorships held Matlapeng Resources. |
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Anthony Mark Sher (40)
Chief Financial Officer
BCom, BAcc, CA(SA), CFA
Appointed 2 December 2009
Outside directorships held
Rockstar Trading 3 |
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Petrus Cornelius (“Nelis”) Swart (48)
Chief Operations Officer
MCom
Appointed 9 September 2002
Outside directorships held
BPeSA. |
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Louisa Madiako Mojela (53)
Non-Executive Director
BCom
Appointed 1 June 2007
Outside directorships held
Wiphold, Distell Group, Sun International, ABB SA, African People Industrial Corporation, Afrisun Gauteng, Afrisun Leisure, Emfuleni Resorts, National Casino Resort Manco, Phaphama Holdings, SA Corporate Real Estate Fund Manager, Skyprops 142, SA Airways, USB-ED, Wiphold Financial Services No 1, Wip Investments and Wip Three Investments. |
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Mmakeaya Magoro Tryphosa
Ramano (38)
Non-Executive Director
BCom, CA(SA)
Appointed 1 June 2007
Outside directorships held
Sasria, Wiphold, Afrisun Leisure, Emfuleni Resorts, USB Executive Development, Development Bank of South Africa, Financial Services Board of South Africa, Old Mutual Investment Group Property Investments, Real
Africa Holdings, African Women Chartered Accountants and Sasol Mining. |
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Muthanyi Robinson Ramaite (40)
Non-Executive Director
B.Juris, Master’s degree
Appointed 1 June 2007
Outside directorships held
Verge Management Services, Gobodo Forensic and Investigative Accounting, Simeka Group, Khullela, Fintech, Majestic Silver Trading, Newshelf 669, Golden Pond Trading 350, MRR Management, Ramaite Brothers Family Trust, Ramaite Properties, Simeka BSG, Simeka Management Services, Simeka Properties, Wescoal Holdings and Carbon Reductions SA. |
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Amanda Toise Albäck (36)
Independent Non-Executive Director
BCompt (Honours), CA(SA)
Appointed 14 April 2009
Outside directorships held
Spescom Datafusion, Spescom Datavoice and Spescom Telecommunications. |
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Timothy Dacre Aird (“Tim”) Ross(65)
Independent Non-Executive Director
CTA, CA(SA)
Appointed 1 September 2009
Outside directorships held
Liberty Holdings, Liberty Group, Eqstra Holdings, Pretoria Portland Cement and Cida Empowerment. |
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Mncane Esau Mthunzi (38)
Independent Non-Executive Director
BCom
Appointed 28 February 2010
Outside directorships held
Accenture board of trustees, FTK Trust, Business Unity South Africa Council and Consumer Goods Council of South Africa. |
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Mfundiso Johnson Ntabankulu (“JJ”) Njeke (52) JJ obtained a BCom degree from the University of
Fort Hare. He then registered for a training contract
with Hoek and Wiehahn, which later became part of
PricewaterhouseCoopers. He enrolled with UNISA for a
BCompt (Honours) degree and qualified as a Chartered
Accountant in 1986. Two years later he was admitted as
a partner in Umtata. He moved to Johannesburg in 1990
and enrolled with The University of Johannesburg for a
Higher Diploma in Tax, which he completed in 1991. He
resigned from PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1994 to become
Managing Director of Kagiso Trust Investments.
He is the past Chairman of the South African Institute of
Chartered Accountants and its Education Committee.
He serves on the boards of Kagiso Group companies,
ArcelorMittal (SA), Metropolitan Holdings, NM Rothschild
(SA), Resilient Property Income Fund, MTN, Barloworld, Sasol
and the Council of the University of Johannesburg.
He previously served as a member of the Katz Commission of
Inquiry into Taxation in South Africa, the General Committee
of the JSE Limited, the Audit Commission - Supervisory Body
of the Office of Auditor General, the Audit Committee of
National Treasury and the Editorial Board of The Journal
of Accounting Research.
Richard Linden Pike (48) Richard qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989
and holds a BCom (Honours) from the University of the
Witwatersrand. He has been Chief Executive Officer of
Adcorp since 2001. He joined the group as Deputy Chief
Executive Officer the previous year when Adcorp acquired
the listed company, Acumen Holdings Limited. In 1995,
Richard co-founded Morgan University Alliance, a private
education and business consulting initiative that offered
degree and diploma courses in business management
through the University of Warwick in the UK. Four years later,
in 1999, he listed Morgan on the JSE Limited as Acumen
Holdings Limited. Before starting this venture, he was
Financial Director at HL&H Mining Timber, having previously
been Group Financial Manager at Hunt Lechaurs
& Hepburn Holdings Ltd. He is a member of Business
Leadership South Africa and the Millennium Labour
Council. He is an experienced public speaker and lecturer
and has written widely on business and current affairs.
Campbell Bomela (60)
Campbell holds a BCom from Fort Hare University and a
MBA from Wits Business School. He was Managing Director
of the Black Management Forum Investments Company
(BMFI) before he joined Adcorp as Executive Director in
March 2006. He has been a senior business professional
for more than 16 years. His area of expertise lies in strategic
management and development finance structuring,
and he has extensive experience with start-ups in small
and medium-sized businesses. He helped establish the Department of Economic Affairs of the Eastern Cape
government after the 1994 elections. Later he was seconded
to help with the amalgamation and rationalisation of
economic development corporations that had operated in
the Eastern Cape before 1994. Once this was completed,
Campbell started and ran his own businesses. He has served
as non-executive regional director of the International
Council for Small Business Eastern Cape, and regional non-executive
director of the Development Bank of Southern
Africa (Transkei representative). He also served as regional
non-executive director of the Black Management Forum.
Anthony Mark Sher (40)
Anthony is a Chartered Accountant and a chartered
financial analyst. He obtained his BCom and BAcc from the
University of the Witwatersrand in 1992 and 1993 respectively.
Anthony was articled to Grant Thornton and in 2000 he was
awarded his CFA charter by the CFA Institute. Anthony is
Chief Financial Officer at Adcorp, In November 2009, he
joined the company as head of investor relations and
corporate finance and during the following month he was
appointed to his current position. He joined Adcorp from
Ellerine Bros (Pty) Ltd where he had served as an internal
investment professional from January 2008 until June 2009.
Prior to Ellerine Bros, Anthony served as an Equity Analyst
and Fund Manager of small cap investments at Stanlib
Asset Management from April 2002. Two years previously,
in 2000, he joined SCMB as the Banking and Insurance
Analyst. From 1998 to 2000, Anthony was the Financial
Director of a private financial services company he was
instrumental in co-founding.
Petrus Cornelius (“Nelis”) Swart (48)
Nelis acquired his MCom from the Free State University
in 2004. He joined Adcorp in March of 1999, initially as
Managing Director of Quest Staffing Solutions. Nelis
became the Divisional Director for Flexible Staffing in 2002
and was subsequently promoted to Chief Operating Officer
in 2007. Prior to joining Adcorp, Nelis was the Commercial
Director of Beier Industries (Pty) Ltd in KwaZulu-Natal. He was
also involved with Deloitte & Touche as well as Byrne Fleming
during his seven years in the management consulting
industry. Nelis also lectured at the University of Pretoria
and was at the same time a co-founder of the marketing
research business, Konsulta.
Louisa Madiako Mojela (53)
Louisa obtained a BCom from the University of Lesotho and
later completed an executive Leadership Programme at
the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.
She is Chief Executive Officer of Women Investment Portfolio
Holdings Limited (Wiphold). She helped found the institution
in 1995, and acted as Executive Director until recently when
she assumed her new position. Wiphold is the first women-controlled
institution to be listed on the JSE. Between 1993
and 1995, before setting up Wiphold, she managed the
emerging markets division at Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank focusing on Lesotho, Swaziland, Malawi and
Zambia. Prior to this, Louisa was at the Development Bank
of Southern Africa where she assisted in the privatisation of
parastatals belonging to the former government of Venda.
During this time, she was seconded to the World Bank in
Washington where she was involved in the privatisation
programmes of Lesotho, Zambia and Malawi. She was
one of 40 women to be honoured as one of the Leading
Women Entrepreneurs of the World in Venice, Italy, in 2000.
She was also a finalist in the World Entrepreneur Award for
the South Africa Chapter.
Mmakeaya Magoro Tryphosa Ramano (38)
Tryphosa has a BCom and a post-graduate diploma in
accounting from the University of Cape Town. She qualified
as a Chartered Accountant in 1994. She completed an
executive leadership programme at Harvard Business
School and participated in the Making Markets Work
programme through Harvard and the University of the
Witwatersrand. Tryphosa has been Chief Financial Officer
at Women Investment Portfolio Holdings (Wiphold) since
November 2006. She had previously spent two years as
CFO and Executive Vice-President of SAA, and acted as
the company's President. Tryphosa joined the national
carrier after spending two years heading up the asset
management of the Treasury, assisting with the restructuring
of state-owned assets and ensuring public entities complied
with the Public Finance Management Act. Between 1997
and 2001, she worked for Rand Merchant Bank as an
Investment Professional. During this time she also started
and headed up the Institute of Investment Excellence.
Muthanyi Robinson Ramaite (40)
Robinson attained a B.Juris degree from the University
of the North before completing his Master's in Public
and Development Management at the University of the
Witwatersrand in 1996. In 2003, he completed a young
managers programme at the Insead Business School
outside Paris. He has been a major influence in both public
and private institutions for the past 16 years. He has been
active in a number of investment initiatives in the mining,
property, aviation and ICT sectors to name a few, and
has also been influential in a number of transformation
and empowerment initiatives. During his term of office as
Director-General for the Department of Public Service and
Administration (1999 to 2003) he served as Chairman of
the Directors-General Governance and Administration
cluster of government, and board member of the State
Information Technology Agency (Sita) and the Centre for
Public Service Innovation (CPSI).
Amanda Toise Albäck (36)
Amanda is a qualified Chartered Accountant having
obtained her BCompt (Honours) through Unisa. She is the
Chief Financial Officer at Spescom, a post she took up in
August last year. Prior to this she was Executive Head of
Financial Control at Vodacom Group, having previously held the position of Executive Head of Financial Management at
Vodacom Service Provider. Between 2001 and 2003, before
making her transition into the field of telecommunications,
Amanda was Senior Manager of Passenger Revenue
Accounting at SAA.
Timothy Dacre Aird (“Tim”) Ross (65)
Tim studied at the University of Natal. He is a qualified
Chartered Accountant and Tax Advisor. He attended
Wits Business School in 1984 and did a six-week executive
development programme course. He holds several
directorships and chairman positions in local blue-chip
companies. In May 2008, he retired from Deloitte & Touche
where he had been a partner since 1972. At the time of
his retirement he had been the company's lead partner
on the 2010 FIFA World Cup initiative for two years. Tim was
a member of the Deloitte remuneration committee for six
years between 2001 and 2007, and Lead Client Service
and Advisory Partner for Deloitte's 'crown jewel' clients for
11 years between 1997 and 2008. Between 1994 and 1997
he served as National Client Service Director and was on
the Deloitte management committee. In 1988, he was
appointed to the board of Deloitte Haskins and Sells, and
after the merger in 1989/90 with Pim Goldby he served on
the joint board.
Mncane Esau Mthunzi (38)
Mncane holds a BCom degree and diplomas in several
management and executive programmes both locally
and abroad. Mncane was appointed CEO of the
Consumer Goods Council of South Africa in June 2009.
Before this he served as Managing Director of the Black
Management Forum for three years, during which time
corporate membership was increased 300 percent. He
was part of the BMF leadership team that presented in
2005 on African leadership at the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, and later at the African Economic
Forum in Cape Town. Before joining the BMF, Mncane spent
three years as an Enterprise Strategy Consultant and Sales
Executive at Microsoft. During 2003, Mncane was Senior
IT Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and prior to this
he spent seven years as a Management Consultant at
Accenture. Mncane's career has spanned a wide variety
of industries, including transport, telecommunications,
broadcasting, retail and IT.
Resignations Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert - 14 October 2009
Gugu Duda (Alternate Director) - 26 February 2010
Disqualified and removed
Faunce Burd – 6 December 2009
Appointments
Tim Ross – 1 September 2009
Anthony Sher – 2 December 2009
Mncane Mthunzi – 28 February 2010
Mfundiso Johnson Ntabankulu (“JJ”) Njeke – 1 July 2010
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