Leadership - Board of Directors
P (Philisiwe) Buthelezi (46)
Independent non-executive director and chairperson
BA Economics, MSC in Economics (University of Paris, Sorbonne), MBA (UK)
Chairperson of nominations committee
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Appointed July 2007 as non-executive director |
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Appointed as chairperson from October 2007 |
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CEO of the National Empowerment Fund (NEF), tasked with promoting and facilitating economic
equality and transformation |
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Philisiwe started her career in London with the investment bank, Banque Nationale de Paris
(BNP-Paribas) in 1991 |
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In 1992, she was employed by the SA Reserve Bank and a year later became the first black
South African woman to be a corporate dealer at Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank |
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Before she joined the NEF in 2005, she was the chief director of black economic empowerment
at the Department of Trade and Industry (dti). From 1997 – 2002 she was the regional director of
Europe for the dti |
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She is a non-executive director of Mvelaphanda Resources Limited |
MR (Mike) Upton (55)
Executive director and chief executive officer
BSc Electrical Engineering, Professional Engineer (Pr. Eng), Business Management Diploma
(Newcastle, UK), FSAIEE
Executive committee member, member of audit committee, member of risk committee, member of remuneration committee
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Joined 2002 |
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Appointed to the board and as CEO in 2006 |
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Mike has eight years’ experience at Group Five in multi-disciplinary construction, plant engineering
and business repositioning, with the last four years as exco member, executive director and CEO |
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Before that, Mike was with NEI, Rolls Royce and ABB where he gained over 20 years’ experience in
manufacturing, engineering, commercial and marketing and international construction and services |
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He has been operating at an exco and board level since 1994 |
CMF (Cristina) Teixeira (37)
Executive director and chief financial officer
BCom, BCompt (Hons), CA(SA) Advanced Management Programme (INSEAD)
Executive committee member
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Joined 2002 |
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Appointed to the board and as CFO in 2008 |
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Cristina completed her articles in 1997 with Coopers & Lybrand and was at PricewaterhouseCoopers
until 2002, where she was a senior audit manager in the energy and mining group |
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In 2008, she completed the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD (France) |
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During her eight years at Group Five, she has clearly demonstrated her ability to manage the group’s
complex and demanding financial environment, both locally and in the group’s international operations |
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Cristina has a thorough understanding of the group’s external environment with respect to investors,
analysts, financiers, insurers and other stakeholders. Under her guidance, the group has won a number
of awards for reporting and disclosure over the past few years, including the Investment Analysts
Society (IAS) award in its sector for reporting and communications four years in a row, as well as being
the overall South African winner for 2009 |
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She is a non-executive director of digitalME (Proprietary) Limited. |
LE (Lindiwe) Bakoro (36)
Independent non-executive director
BCom, H Dip in Tax Law, Post-graduate diploma in Accounting, MCom CA(SA)
Member of audit committee
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Appointed November 2008 as non-executive director |
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Lindiwe is a founder and executive of a property development and investment company,
Bakoro Capital Partners |
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She has also worked as an independent financial advisor with a focus on project finance and
infrastructure-related transactions. She built up extensive merchant banking experience in project
and infrastructure finance while working at Rand Merchant Bank |
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She currently serves as a non-executive director and a member of the audit and risk committees
of Woolworths, Imperial Bank, Sea Harvest and Liquid Capital |
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She is a member of the investment committee of the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) |
Baroness L (Lynda) Chalker of Wallasey (68) (British)
Independent non-executive director
Fellow of the Institute of Statisticians, Recipient of nine UK honorary degrees
Member of audit committee, member of risk committee, member of nominations committee, chairperson of SED committee
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Appointed February 2001 as non-executive director |
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Previously an independent advisor to the World Bank |
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UK Member of Parliament for Wallasey between 1974 and 1992 |
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UK government minister for 18 consecutive years (Minister of State for Transport, Minister of State for Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Minister for Overseas Development) |
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Founder Trustee of the Investment Climate Facility for Africa |
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Lynda is a director of a number of listed and unlisted foreign companies, including being the chairman
of Africa Matters Limited, an advisory company on bringing investment to sub-Saharan Africa, a board
member of the Global Leadership Foundation and a member of the international advisory boards of
MerchantBridge International and Lafarge et Cie |
Dr JL (John) Job (65)
Independent non-executive director
BSc (Hons), PhD (Hons) in Physical Chemistry
Member of risk committee, member of remuneration committee
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Appointed November 2008 as non-executive director |
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Experienced industry senior executive, particularly in the chemical and forest products industries,
both in South Africa and internationally |
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He was CEO of Sentrachem Limited from 1991 – 1998 |
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He was an executive director of Sappi Ltd until his retirement in 2005, after which he served as a
non-executive director on Sappi’s board until 2006 |
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He was Chairman of Global Forest Products from 2005 to 2007 |
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John has experience in large capital projects and business strategy |
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He is a director of a number of unlisted companies, including Makhutswi River Game Farms,
Natural Echo Investments and Dream World Investments |
SG (Stuart) Morris (64)
Independent non-executive director
BCom, CA(SA)
Chairperson of audit committee, member of risk committee, chairperson of remuneration committee, member of nominations committee
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Appointed July 2005 as non-executive director |
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Practised at KPMG South Africa for over 30 years, ultimately as CEO. He was also the chairman of
KPMG Africa and a member of the KPMG International Board and its exco |
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After KPMG, he became group financial director of Nedbank Group, with exco responsibility for finance,
risk, compliance, tax, human resources and management services |
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Other non-executive directorships include City Lodge Holdings where he is the chairman of the audit
committee and a member of the risk committee, Hudaco Industries where he is a member of the audit &
risk and remuneration & nomination committees, Mwana Africa where he is the chairman of the audit
committee and a member of the remuneration committee, Sasol Pension Fund where he is the
chairman of the board and of the audit & risk and operations committees, Wits Donald Gordon Medical
Centre where he is the chairman of the board, audit committee and of exco, Witwatersrand University
where he is a member of the council and of the finance and audit committees and Zurich Insurance
Company (South Africa) where he is the chairman of the audit & risk committees and remuneration
and nomination committees |
KK (Kalaa) Mpinga (49) (Congolese)
Independent non-executive director
BSc Agricultural Economics, MSc International Agricultural Development
Member of audit committee, chairperson of risk committee, member of nominations committee, member of SED committee
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Appointed July 2002 as non-executive director |
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Kalaa worked for Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco before joining the LTA Group, a subsidiary of
Anglo American Corporation in 1991 |
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In 1995, he joined the new mining business of Anglo American, responsible for exploration and the
acquisition of resources in Africa |
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He was appointed as an alternate director of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa in 1997 |
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He left Anglo American in December 2001 to pursue business opportunities in mining. He established
Mwana Africa Holdings (Mwana) in 2003. The company has since listed on AIM |
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Kalaa is a director of Global Multi Trade and Mwana, a non-executive director of Freda Rebecca
Goldmines and a chairman of Bindura Nickel, both situated in Zimbabwe |
Mr OA (Oyama) Mabandla (48)
Independent non-executive director
Juris Doctor, BA (Political Science)
Member of the Audit Committee and Risk Committee
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Appointed non- executive director in August 2011 |
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Oyama is a qualified advocate with extensive commercial experience within the legal and investment banking professions. |
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He previously served as the chairperson to Vodacom, Consol Glass (Pty) limited and as Acting Chief Executive for South African Airways. |
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Currently chairs the Eastern Cape Development Corporation as well as the Langa Group. He is also a member of the senior advisory board of JP Morgan and sits as a director and a member of the audit committee of Mvelaphanda Group. |
Mr S (Struan) Robertson (61)
Independent non-executive director
Bsc (Mechanical Engineering), MBA
Member of the Audit Committee and Risk Committee
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Appointed non- executive director in August 2011 |
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Struan held a variety of senior appointments with BP, including CEO of Oil Trading International, the world’s largest oil trading firm and Executive Chairman of BP Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. |
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He was appointed Senior Vice President Technology and Marketing, following the merger with Amoco. Whilst at BP he attended the Wharton Business School AMP programme and a Stanford University Business School Executive programme. |
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After retiring from BP he was appointed Group Chief Executive of the Wates Group Ltd, one of the UK’s largest privately owned construction and property groups. He stepped down from this role in 2004. |
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He is currently Chairman of Eredene Capital plc and Senior Independent Director of Henderson TR Pacific Investment Trust plc and Salamander Energy plc. He was previously Senior Independent Director at Atkins plc and a Non Executive Director at International Power plc, Tomkins plc and Forth Ports plc. |
Company secretary
NC (Nonqaba) Katamzi (41)
Company secretary
BA Law, LLB, CIBM
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Appointed January 2009 |
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Served and completed articles of clerkship with the Government of Swaziland in the Attorney
General’s Chambers |
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Admitted as an attorney in the High Court of Swaziland in 2005 |
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Relocated to Cape Town in March 2006 and employed as legal advisor in the Western Cape
Enforcement Centre with SARS |
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Appointed as group company secretary to Sekunjalo Investments Limited in Cape Town from
September 2007 until 2008 |
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