Leadership - Board of Directors
P (Philisiwe) Mthethwa (48)
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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Philisiwe holds an MBA (Corporate Finance), MSc (Economics:
thesis not defended), and was appointed Chief Executive
Officer of the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) in July 2005. |
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Prior to joining the NEF, Philisiwe worked for a French
investment bank in London, was responsible for risk
management control at the South African Reserve Bank and
worked in the Treasury division at Standard Corporate and
Merchant Bank. |
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She was employed by the dti to promote
European investment in South Africa. |
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In 2002 she returned to South Africa to become the Chief
Director of the black economic empowerment unit of the dti,
which developed the government’s broad-based black economic
empowerment strategy, the BBBEE Act and the Codes of Good
Practice. |
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Philisiwe also serves on the boards of SANLAM
Limited and SANLAM Life Insurance Limited and the Industrial
Development Corporation. |
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Among her recent accolades are: Corporate Business Woman:
Year Award 2011, Africa’s Business Woman of the Year 2011
by Africa Investor and being appointed “Chevalier de la Legion
d’Honneur” (Knight of the National Order of Merit) by the
President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, in recognition of her
distinguished achievements. |
MR (Mike) Upton (57)
Executive director and chief executive officer
BSc Electrical Engineering, Professional Engineer (Pr Eng), Business Management Diploma (Newcastle, UK), FSAIEE
(Newcastle, UK), FSAIEE
Executive committee member, member of risk committee,
member of social and ethics committee
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Mike joined Group Five in 2002. |
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He was appointed to the board
in 2006 and as CEO in 2007. |
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He has ten years’ experience at
Group Five in multi-disciplinary construction, plant engineering
and business repositioning, with the last seven 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 (39)
Executive director and chief financial officer
BCom, BCompt (Hons), CA(SA)
Executive committee member, member of social and ethics
committee*
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Cristina joined Group Five in 2002. |
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She was at PricewaterhouseCoopers
until 2002 where she was a senior audit manager in the energy
and mining group. |
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At Group Five she has filled a number of
positions in the group. She achieved the position of CFO within
six years of joining the group after clearly demonstrating her
ability to operate at a very senior level and to effectively manage
numerous complicated business and financial issues. |
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She is a
non-executive director of digitalME (Pty) Limited. |
LE (Lindiwe) Bakoro (38)
Independent non-executive director
BCom, Post-graduate diploma in Accounting, H Dip Tax Law,
MCom, CA(SA)
Incoming chairperson of social and ethics committee*, member
of audit committee*, member of remuneration committee
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Lindiwe was appointed in November 2008 as a 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 adviser with a
focus on project finance and infrastructure-related transactions. |
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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, Sea
Harvest, Hyundai Automotive South Africa and Liquid Capital. |
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She is also a member of the investment committee of the
National Empowerment Fund (NEF). |
Dr JL (John) Job (67)
Independent non-executive director
BSc (Hons), PhD in Physical Chemistry
Chairperson of remuneration committee, member of audit
committee*, member of risk committee
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John was appointed in November 2008 as a non-executive
director. |
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John has significant experience in large capital projects
and business strategy. |
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He was the CEO of Sentrachem Limited
from 1991 – 1998 and an executive director of Sappi Limited
until his retirement in 2005. |
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After that he served as a nonexecutive
director on Sappi’s board until 2006 and was
chairperson of Global Forest Products from 2005 – 2007. |
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He has
served on a number of boards, including Telkom Limited and
Denel. |
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He is a non-executive director of Armscor and a director
of a number of unlisted private companies. |
SG (Stuart) Morris (66)
Independent non-executive director
BCom, CA(SA)
Chairperson of audit committee*, member of nominations
committee, member of risk committee
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Stuart was appointed in July 2005 as a non-executive director |
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Stuart practised at KPMG South Africa for over 30 years,
ultimately as CEO. |
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After KPMG, he became group financial
director of Nedbank Group. |
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Stuart’s other non-executive
directorships include City Lodge Holdings where he is
chairperson of the audit committee and a member of the risk
committee, Hudaco Industries where he is chairperson of the
audit and risk committees and a member of the remuneration
and nominations committees, Mwana Africa where he is
chairperson of the audit committee and a member of the
remuneration committee, Rolex Watch Company (South Africa)
where he is the local director, Sasol Pension Fund where he is
chairperson of the board and of the audit and risk and
operations committees, Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre
where he is chairperson of the board, audit committee and of
exco, and Zurich Insurance Company (South Africa) where he is
chairperson of the audit and risk and remuneration committees. |
KK (Kalaa) Mpinga (51) (Congolese)
Independent non-executive director
BSc Agricultural Economics, MSc International Agricultural
Development
Chairperson of risk committee, member of audit committee*,
member of nominations committee
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Kalaa was appointed in July 2002 as a non-executive director. |
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Kalaa worked at 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 where he was 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 and
established Mwana Africa Holdings (Mwana) in 2003. |
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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 Gold Mine and chairperson of Bindura Nickel, both
situated in Zimbabwe. |
Mr OA (Oyama) Mabandla (49)
Independent non-executive director
Juris Doctor (Columbia University, New York), BA Political
Science (University of California)
Member of audit committee*, member of remuneration
committee, member of social and ethics committee*
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Oyama was appointed as a non-executive director in August
2011. |
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Oyama is a qualified advocate who practised law in the
late 1990s. |
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Before that he worked in corporate finance,
including working at global firm UBS as an associate. |
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He joined
South African Airways in 2000. |
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In his four years at the group, he
was involved in a number of very senior positions, including that
of general counsel, deputy CEO and acting CEO. |
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He was in exile
with the ANC in the 1980s and in 1992 published a book about
the South African freedom struggle titled Comrades Against
Apartheid. |
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He was the chairperson of the Vodacom Group from
2006 to 2009 and the chairperson of Consol Glass from 2007 to 2009. |
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He is currently a member of the J.P. Morgan advisory
board, the executive chairperson of investment company Langa
Group and a director and a member of the audit committee of
Mvelaphanda Group Limited, Group Five’s BBBEE shareholder |
Mr S (Struan) Robertson (62)
Independent non-executive director
BSc (Mech) Eng MBA
Member of audit committee*, member of risk committee
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Struan was appointed in August 2011 as a non-executive
director |
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Struan has had a long international career with BP.
He has lived and worked in South East Asia, Europe and Africa. |
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He was the executive chairperson of BP Asia Pacific and the
senior vice president: Technology and Marketing. After retiring
from BP he was appointed CEO of the Wates Group Limited, one
of the UK’s largest privately-owned construction and property
groups. |
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He was a director of the UK Major Contractors Group
and senior independent director of WS Atkins plc, the UK’s
largest engineering consultants. |
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He is currently the chairperson of Eredene Capital plc and
senior independent director of Henderson TR Pacific Investment
Trust plc and Salamander Energy plc. |
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Struan has extensive
international experience in the oil and gas, power, engineering
and construction sectors. |
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His experience of managing a major
UK contracting business and his commitment to health and
safety in the workplace is of great benefit to the board. |
Company secretary
N (Nonqaba) Katamzi (43)
Company secretary
BA Law, LLB, CIBM
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Nonqaba has solid experience in the company secretarial field,
with particular knowledge of governance issues and JSE
compliance. |
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This allows her to effectively advise the board on all
legislative requirements. |
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