South Africa

Nosiphiwo’s career in the property industry has spanned a decade. She commenced her career in 2005 at Standard Bank Property Finance involved in their portfolio of commercial- to-residential conversions. She later joined Investec Property Investments where she spent 4 years, initially as a property research analyst and thereafter also assumed client management responsibilities on retail… read more »

Mpumi was previously chief director in the Gauteng provincial government. During her time at Bidvest, she has held various senior management and executive board director positions such as general manager business development, divisional director business development, corporate affairs director and sales and marketing director. She is a director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries.

Lindsay Peter Ralphs was appointed a director of Bidvest on 10 May 1992. He is a director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries, chairman of the Bidvest operational divisions and chairman of Bidvest Namibia. During his Bidvest career he has been Group operations director, managing director of Bidvest Steiner and was responsible for forming the Bidvest Services division… read more »

Doug, our Chief Executive Officer, joined the Group in 1985, was appointed to the Operating Board in 1997 and was appointed as an Executive Director of The Foschini Group Limited in 2007. Doug’s extensive retail experience includes holding the positions of Managing Director: Pages (subsequently rebranded Exact) and Managing Director: American Swiss Jewellers. He was… read more »

Appointed: 1 July 2018 Yokesh joins Tiger Brands from Distell Limited, where he held the position of Managing Director: Africa since 2017. Prior to joining Distell, he spent 17 years at South African Breweries (SAB). During his tenure at SAB, Yokesh held the positions of Executive Director: Sales/Distribution, Executive Director: HR as well as the… read more »

A former Senior Vice President, Group Human Capital for the Sasol Group since 2016. She held various human resources leadership positions in Sasol since 2008, both locally and globally. Prior to joining Sasol, she spent 10 years at Shell in various roles in South Africa and Netherlands. She is a well-rounded and highly experienced human… read more »

Appointed: 2 April 2018 He was previously with ABInBev Africa as Director: Strategic Projects since 2016. Prior to this role, he served as Head of Strategy and Planning at SAB and Business Development Executive at SABMiller Africa. He has extensive experience in business development, strategy development and execution, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance in… read more »

Marc Eyres: Appointed in April 2015 Experience Senior FMCG sales and customer marketing roles across Africa, south Asia and Australia, including customer vice-president for Unilever South Africa and India.

Appointed on 1 December 2016 Over 20 years’ business experience in oil and gas and mining, she spent the last two years leading the Global Capital Campaign for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital Trust.

Appointed in August 2012 Experience Twenty-seven years in FMCG, including as supply chain vice-president for Unilever South Africa.

Appointed on 1 May 2015 Experience Admitted attorney, with over 16 years’ experience as corporate counsel, mostly in the FMCG industry, and particularly in African operations.

Appointed on 1 February 2017 He was previously a CEO of GWK Group. He has over 25 years of business experience in the FMCG and Agricultural sectors from a number of local and international companies, including Cadbury, Coca-Cola, Diageo and Brandhouse.

Appointed: July 2015 (member of executive committee from July 2012) Board committees membership Audit, risk and sustainability, investment. External appointments Non-executive director of Oceana Group and National Foods Holdings (Zimbabwe). Areas of expertise and contribution Accounting and auditing, governance, fast-moving consumer goods, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions.

Board committees membership: Audit, remuneration, nominations, social, ethics and transformation and investment. External appointments: Non-executive director of Oceana Group. Areas of expertise and contribution: General management, strategy execution, fast-moving consumer goods, Africa, developing markets.

Head of internal audit and risk advisory services at Nkonki Incorporated Area of expertise and contribution: Auditing, financial management, governance, enterprise risk management