Board of Directors

Board of Directors

CHRISTOPHER BOULLE

(51)

GEOFF WHYTE

(58)

JACQUELINE CHIMHANZI (DR) (49)

Chairman, Independent Non-Executive Director

Executive Director, Group Chief Executive Officer

Independent Non-Executive Director




BCom, LLB, LLM (WITS)

MA (Economic Sciences), University of Aberdeen 

BSc (Hons), MBA, PhD (Cardiff)




Appointed 2011

Appointed 2024

Appointed 2017




Committee membership:

Chair of the Nominations Committee and Member of the Transformation, Social and Ethics Committee (TSEC)

Committee membership:

Member of the Investment and TSEC Committees

Committee membership:

Chair of the TSEC Committee and member of the Audit and Risk committee. Member of the ESG Committee.




Strategic value contribution: 

  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate and trust law
  • Commercial, finance and tax law
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Transformation and leadership development

Strategic value contribution: 

  • Strategy, marketing, business development and general management
  • International commerce and management
  • Transformation and leadership development

Strategic value contribution: 

  • Strategy development and execution
  • Marketing
  • Business development
  • African enterprises



Chris is a commercial, corporate finance, tax and trust attorney. His experience as a non-executive

director of listed companies spans more than two decades. He currently serves as a director of companies listed on the JSE and is also a trustee of various trusts, including the ADvTECH Limited Share Incentive Trust. In 2015, he was appointed chairman of the board.


Geoff brings a wealth of experience, global perspective and commitment to excellence. He holds a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and has more than 30 years’ experience across various industries, including leadership roles at PepsiCo, Cadbury-Schweppes, SAB Miller and Nando’s.  He has a record of success in a wide variety of geographies including Europe, the UK, Africa, the Middle East and the United States.

Jackie is the chief executive officer of the African Leadership Institute (AFLI). She has some 20 years’ experience in Strategy as both a practitioner and academic. She has worked for the IDC as Senior Strategist and as Strategy Lead at Deloitte Consulting. She was instrumental in setting up the Deloitte Africa Desk and advised clients on accessing opportunities in Africa. She has been recognised by Forbes Africa magazine as one of Africa’s Youngest Power Women. She currently serves on the board of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe and chairs the board’s ESG Committee. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Africa Regional Strategy Group and a member of ONE’s global board and its Africa Policy Advisory Board.

SYBILE LAZAR

(64)

MONDE NKOSI

(32)

DIDIER OESCH

(57)

Independent Non-Executive Director

Non-Executive Director

Executive Director, Group Commercial Director and Chief Financial Officer




Certified Public Accountant (Chartered Accountant) Maîtrise de Sciences Financières et Comptables (MBA equivalent, major in Finance and Accounting) from the University of Paris-Dauphine, France

B.Bus.Sci. (UCT), MBA (Stanford), MA Education (Stanford)

BCompt (Hons) UNISA, CA(SA)




Appointed 2021

Appointed 2021

Appointed 2005




Committee membership:

Member of the Nominations and Investments Committees

Committee membership:

Member of the Investment, Nominations and Remuneration Committees

Committee membership:

Member of the investment committee




Strategic value contribution: 

  • Investment banking
  • International finance
  • Finance risk management
  • Private equity
  • Governance
  • Strategy and leadership
  • Merger and Acquisitions

Strategic value contribution:

  • Corporate finance and capital allocation
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Corporate strategy
  • Education and policy research

Strategic value contribution:

  • Financial management and commerce
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Corporate financing
  • Corporate governance



Sybile is an experienced senior management executive with extensive experience at leadership positions in investment banking and international finance in emerging markets. Some of her experience includes holding positions such as associate director at the International Finance Corporation, Washington D.C., USA; senior vice president at Société Générale, Investment Banking, Paris, France; investment officer at Inter-American Investment Corporation Washington, D.C., USA and consultant for The World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA.

Monde is an experienced investment professional in private and public equities in South Africa and the USA. He is currently an executive director and senior investment professional at Value Capital Partners (VCP), an investment firm that acts as an engaged shareholder in several JSE-listed entities. Prior to VCP, Monde was on the investment team of FFL Partners, a San-Francisco based private equity firm managing over USD2 billion. Monde has served on the boards of several JSE-listed companies, including Net1 UEPS Technologies Inc., Grand Parade Investments Limited and Adcorp Holdings Limited.



Didier qualified as a chartered accountant in 1991, after completing his articles at Betty & Dickson. He gained considerable experience with the Nampak group in various financial positions, culminating in a four-year term in Europe as financial director of Nampak Plastics Europe. Didier joined ADvTECH as group financial manager before being appointed as group financial director in 2005. In 2019 he was appointed group commercial director and chief financial officer due to the increase in his area of responsibility.

DANIEL SMITH

(51)

CLIVE THOMSON

(56)

STEWART VAN GRAAN

(67)

Alternate Director to Monde Nkosi

Independent Non-Executive Director

Independent Non-Executive Director




B.Acc (Hons) (Wits), H.Dip. Tax (Wits), Dip. Strategic Client Management (UCT GSB), CA(SA), Oxford Fintech Programme (Said Business School)

BCom (Hons) (UCT) M.Phil (Cantab) CA (SA)

BCom (Hons) Information Systems




Appointed 2022

Appointed 2021

Appointed 2022




Committee membership:

None

Committee membership:

Chair of the Investment Committee and Member of the Audit and Risk, and Remuneration Committees

Committee membership:

Member of the Nominations and TSEC Committees




Strategic value contribution:

  • Investment Banking
  • Corporate Finance

Strategic value contribution:

  • Business leadership and strategy
  • Corporate restructuring, acquisitions and disposals
  • Corporate finance and treasury
  • Governance and risk management

Strategic value contribution:

  • Information Communication and Technology
  • Strategy and Business Management
  • Risk management and governance



Dan has over 20 years’ experience in Investment Banking in South Africa and the United Kingdom and industry experience across the financial services, property, industrials, consumer, hospitality and construction sectors. Dan currently holds the position as Investment Director at Value Capital Partners. He is the founder of the DLS Advisors and has previously held senior positions in Investment Banking at Standard Bank South Africa and Nomura International plc in London. 

Clive has over twenty years’ experience in senior leadership and executive roles. He served as chief executive officer of Barloworld for approximately ten years, and as group finance director for close to four years. Prior to his group chief executive officer role, he was chief executive officer of Barloworld Equipment with responsibility for leading the Caterpillar equipment business in Southern Africa, Russia and Iberia. Prior to joining Barloworld, Clive was a partner at Deloitte where he headed up the national education portfolio in addition to his audit client service and accounting technical advisory responsibilities. Clive is currently an independent non-executive director of Woolworths Holdings Limited and Vodacom Group Limited. He previously served for 6 years as a member of Council and chairman of the Finance committee at St Stithians College.

Stewart has in excess of 35 years’ experience in the Information Communication and Technology (ICT) industry as well as cross-functional knowledge and business management expertise which he gained across expansive geographies and multi-cultural environments with a strict adherence to corporate governance and ethical leadership.

KEITH WARBURTON

(64)

ALEXANDRA WATSON

(66)

Independent Non-Executive Director

Independent Non-Executive Director



BCom, CTA (UCT), CA (SA)

BCom (Hons), CA (SA)



Appointed 2015

Appointed 2022



Committee membership:

Chair of the Audit and Risk, and Remuneration Committees and Member of the Investment Committee

Committee membership:

Member of the Audit and Risk and Remunerations Committees. Member of the ESG Committee.



Strategic value contribution:

  • Commerce and corporate management
  • JSE Listed entities and corporate governance
  • Investment management
  • Mergers and acquisitions 
  • Strategy and business development

Strategic value contribution:

  • Accounting
  • Governance
  • Corporate and Financial Reporting
  • Education


Keith is a chartered accountant who has over 30 years’ experience in business and commerce and has held various executive management positions with several JSE Listed entities since qualifying as a chartered accountant at Arthur Andersen. Besides his experience in retailing and wholesaling, he also has experience in corporate finance as well as the steel and manufacturing industries. He worked for Clicks Group Ltd as chief financial officer and then as chief operating officer.

Alex was involved in accounting education for an extended period at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and more broadly in the accounting profession and following her early retirement is now an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at UCT. She chairs the JSE’s Financial Reporting Investigations Panel (FRIP). She was a board member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an Amsterdam based multi-stakeholder organisation focused on impact reporting. Her role as an adjudicator on EY’s Excellence in Reporting awards since its inception and various other roles in the development of corporate reporting has provided her with deep insight into corporate reporting. 


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