Board of Directors
How business is to be conducted by the Board in accordance with the principles for good corporate governance is regulated by the Board Governance Document, which sets out:
1. the management framework for the Group
2. the specific responsibilities to be discharged by Board members collectively
3. the individual roles expected from Board members
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Executive Chairman
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Johannes Theodorus Kleinhans (58) (Theo) B Mil (Comm) (Stellenbosch)
Theo spent some time in the South African Navy as a Logistics Officer. In 1989 he left the Navy and went into
private business. He worked as sales manager and regional manager at GKN Chep and left in 1993 to establish and operate his own airline catering company, Aerofare, which in a very short period was represented at all the major international and national airports in South Africa. He sold the company in 1996 but re entered the industry in 1999 and established Ground Crew, another successful airline catering company.
In 2002, together with a few others, he founded Ububele Holdings (Pty) Ltd. He was appointed CEO by the shareholders – a position he still holds today.
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Group Financial Director |
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Herbert William Cloete (44) (Bertie) BComm (Stellenbosch), CMA (London), MBL (Unisa)
During his working career until 1995, Bertie was the financial manager for one of the biggest construction and civil engineering companies in South Africa. Thereafter, until 1999, he was the financial director of one of the biggest fruit juice processors.
During 2000 he started his own entrepreneurial company, Unibert, and in conjunction with other private equity partners and financiers, built a sizable asset base. Most of these investments are in property, food and leisure-related businesses.
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Executive Director |
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Matthys Petrus Mocke (43) (Thys) BA. LLB (Stellenbosch)
During his working career, Thys practised as an attorney from 1994 to 1997, during which time he was a partner for two years. In 1998 he founded a fishing corporation and managed it as the chief executive officer for three years. In late 2000 Thys joined a South African registered merchant bank (Wipcapital Ltd) as the manager of the Cape Town office.
Thys also founded and/or operated businesses in Eritrea, Senegal, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia and Madagascar and consulted for a business in Kenya.
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Executive Director |
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Mrs JMK Matlala (56) (June) BS Ed (Library & Education Media), Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio, USA; B Bibl (Hons), Univ of Cape Town; MA Lib Sc, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; Dipl Spec Ed, UNISA.
June lectured at the College of Education before taking up the position of Chief Education Specialist for Policy Development and Monitoring at the Centre for Educational Technology and Distance Education. In 2001 she joined the City of Tshwane as General Manager: Special Programmes in the Office of the Executive Mayor. Over a period in her career, June served on several specialist working groups set up by various government departments. She is chairperson of the Capital Food Initiative, which is supported by IDASA, Pretoria News, City Improvement District and the City of Tshwane to eradicate poverty in Tshwane. She is also chairperson of the interim Gauteng PAET. She also sits on the board of the National Library of South Africa.
In 2005 June was a winner in the Gauteng Women in Local Government Awards.
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Stephan Abraham Roux (44) (Stephan)
Stephan, the entrepreneur, commenced his business career in the 1970s specialising in catering by managing and operating several restaurants before he entered the business of manufacturing ice cream after establishing a Dairy Maid agency. He established two ice cream manufacturing concerns, Cream Star and Avondale, in 1986 and 1990 respectively. He was instrumental in listing Milkworx on the JSE, AltX.
Stephan has interests in, amongst others, plastics and packaging operations as well as property developments.
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Non-Executive Director
Chairman: Audit&Risk Committee |
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Grant Irvine Bayne (40) (Grant) CA(SA); BSc (Wits); PGDA (Natal); BComm (Hons) (Taxation)
Grant completed his articles at Ernst & Young and was admitted as Chartered Accountant in 2002 and then worked in their Tax department for a couple of years and became a National Tax Partner. Later he established a tax consulting practice which he continues to run.
In 2004 Grant joined the Accounting Faculty at University of Cape Town after being an external examiner for a number of years. He also holds the position of Financial Director of a wine farm and a company with interests in tourism and food.
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Non-Executive director
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Trevor Bertram Hayter (48) (Trevor) B Com, CAIB, FIFM
Trevor served as chief executive of IQuad Group Limited until March 2010. He has notable skills and experience in financial services, treasury and banking, business development, entrepreneurship, acquisitions and mergers, as well as extensive experience in banking, forex risk management (financial and market risk), interest rate risk management and liquidity risk management. He has been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years, having been party to starting many different businesses. He was appointed as non-executive director of Ububele Holdings Ltd in July 2010.
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