Board of directors
ALEXANDRA WATSON
(68)
GEOFF WHYTE
(58)
JACQUELINE CHIMHANZI (DR) (51)
Chairperson, Independent Non-Executive Director
Executive Director, Group Chief Executive Officer
Independent Non-Executive Director
BCom (Hons), CA (SA)
MA (Economic Science), University of Aberdeen
BSc (Hons), MBA, PhD (Cardiff)
Appointed 2022
Appointed 2024
Appointed 2017
Committee membership:
Chair of the Nominations Committee and Member of the Remuneration and 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.
Strategic value contribution:
- Accounting
- Corporate and financial reporting
- Governance
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
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.
Geoff holds a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and has
more than 30 years’ experience across various industries. He is a commercially focused business
leader with executive experience in global organisations including Unilever, PepsiCo, Cadbury-
Schweppes, SAB-Miller and Nando’s. Geoff has a record of success in a wide variety of geographies
including South Africa, the UK, the USA, Holland, the rest of Africa, the Middle East and sub-continental India.
Jackie is the Regional Director for Southern Africa at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) helping political leaders and governments deliver. She has over 20 years of experience in strategy as both a practitioner and academic. Prior to this, she was the CEO of the African Leadership Institute focused on cultivating a new generation of African leaders, in partnership with Oxford University. 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 across Africa. She was recognised by Forbes Africa magazine as one of Africa’s Youngest Power Women in 2012. She currently serves on the board of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe and chairs the board’s ESG Committee and was previously a member of the World Economic Forum’s Africa Regional Strategy Group, a member of the ONE Campaign’s global board and its Africa Policy Advisory Board.
SYBILE LAZAR
(66)
HANNES BOONZAAIER
(51)
DANIEL SMITH
(53)
Independent Non-Executive Director
Executive Director, Group Chief Financial Officer
Independent Non-Executive Director
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
BCom (Hons), CTA, CA(SA)
B.Acc (Hons) (Wits), H.Dip Tax (Wits), CA(SA)
Appointed 2021
Appointed 2025
Appointed 2025
Committee membership:
Member of the Nominations and Investments Committees
Committee membership:
Member of the Investment Committee
Committee membership:
Member of the Nominations, Investment and Remuneration Committees
Strategic value contribution:
- Investment banking
- International finance
- Finance risk management
- Private equity
- Governance
- Strategy and leadership
- Merger and acquisitions
Strategic value contribution:
- Finance and investment banking
- Accounting
- Risk management
- Auditing
- Corporate financing
- Corporate governance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Financial management and commerce
Strategic value contribution:
- Investment banking
- Capital markets and mergers and acquisitions
- Corporate finance, capital allocation and treasury
- Fintech
Sybile is an experienced senior management executive with extensive experience in 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.
Hannes is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He was previously Group CFO at AfroCentric and a senior manager at KPMG, where he completed his Articles. He holds a BCom (Hons) from the University of Pretoria, a CTA from UNISA, and qualified as a CA(SA) in 2000. Hannes has received multiple industry accolades, including the CFO Transformation and Empowerment Award (2019) and awards for best integrated audit reports in 2022, 2023, and 2024.
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 Group Chief Financial Director at Lesaka Technologies. Prior to Lesaka, Dan previously held the position as Investment Partner 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.
STEWART VAN GRAAN
(69)
HARVEY CHRISTOPHERS
(56)
JESMANE BOGGENPOEL
(51)
Independent Non-Executive Director
Independent Non-Executive Director
Independent Non-Executive Director
BCom (Hons) Information Systems
BA (Hons) (University of Nottingham, Scotland) CA(UK)
BCom, BAcc (Wits), CA(SA), Masters in Public Administration (Harvard University, John F Kennedy School of Government)
Appointed 2024
Appointed 2025
Appointed 2025
Committee membership:
Member of the Nominations and TSEC Committees
Committee membership:
Member of the Audit and Risk, Investment and Remuneration Committees
Committee membership
Member of the Audit and Risk Committee (Effective, 1 January 2026), Investment Committee and Remuneration Committee
Strategic value contribution:
- Information communication and technology
- Strategy and business management
- Risk management and governance
- Business management
Strategic value contribution:
- Education and academia
- Corporate governance
- Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
- Human resources
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Risk management
- Transformation and diversity
- Strategy and business development
- International business and education exposure
- Finance, commerce and investment management
Strategic value contribution:
- Education and academia
- Corporate governance
- Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Risk management
- Transformation and diversity
- Strategy and business development
- International business and education exposure
- Finance, commerce and investment management
- Information communication and technology
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.
Harvey is a UK Chartered Accountant with a BA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Nottingham. He brings extensive global business and transformation leadership experience after a 32- year career with Deloitte across the UK, SA, Australia and the Netherlands firms having held senior executive and board roles. He has served the Higher Education industry working with a number of Universities as well as led Deloitte services to large listed organisations like Sanlam Limited, Ahold Delhaize and others.
Jesmane is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of the Witwatersrand. She also holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University’s, John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is a co-founder and the Chief Investment Officer of private equity firm AIH Capital. She currently serves on the boards of Spur Corporation, Boxer and MTN SA. She has more than 16 years’ experience of serving on corporate boards, including roles on audit and finance committees and brings a wealth of experience in finance, corporate risk and governance. She was recognised as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2013 and selected as a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader in 2022.
KEITH WARBURTON
(67)
Lead Independent Non-Executive Director
BCom, CTA (UCT), CA (SA)
Appointed 2015
Committee membership:
Chair of the Remuneration Committee, Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and Member of the Investment Committee
Strategic value contribution:
- Commerce and corporate management
- JSE listed entities and corporate governance
- Investment management
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Strategy and business development
Keith is a Chartered Accountant (SA) 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.
