South Africa

Kelly-Maree de Kock is specialised in the areas of corporate finance and investor relations, as well as mergers and acquisitions. She has more than eleven years’ commercial experience in the financial services sector and currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer at Old Mutual Wealth Trust Company. She previously held the positions of Head of… read more »

Phakama has more than 15 years’ experience in all segments of the banking industry and has a strong interest in the construction industry. Until recently, she held the position of Head of Construction and Related Sectors at Barclays Africa Limited. Prior to joining Barclays, she held roles at Standard Bank Group, Investment Solutions, Alexander Forbes… read more »

Sello Moloko is the co-founder and executive chairman of Thesele Group and has more than 24 years’ experience in financial services. He is the former non-executive chairman of Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Limited, former CEO of Old Mutual Asset Managers and former deputy CEO of Capital Alliance Asset Managers. Sello Moloko is currently the chairman of Sibanye… read more »

He originally completed his articles in financial services at PwC and thereafter headed up the regulatory reporting and tax teams at Santam. He has sat on the South African Insurance Association taxation subcommittee and the Financial Services Board’s SAM discussion group.

Partnering with NIB in the promotion and subsequent listing of Acucap Properties Limited on the JSE, Paul successfully led Acucap as CEO for close on 15 years prior to its merger with Growthpoint in 2015. He is a former partner of KPMG.

She served as a professor in the College of Accounting at the University of Cape Town until March 2018, where her area of expertise was financial reporting and other forms of corporate reporting. She is also a former chairman of the Accounting Practices Committee (Technical Accounting Committee of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants)… read more »

He served as a member of the executive board of Royal Ahold N.V. from 2003 to 2009 where he also held the position of chief corporate governance counsel. He was heavily involved in Royal Ahold’s restructuring and divestment program and became chief architect of its corporate responsibility strategy. Mr Wakkie has held numerous roles on… read more »

She served as managing director of Land Rover, Volvo and Jaguar in southern Africa from 2000 to 2004. She was the managing director of control instruments, automotive from 2004 to 2005. She was general manager of re-engineering at Transnet Limited from 2005 to 2007 and group executive of capital projects from 2007 to 2012. She… read more »

KHANYISILE KWEYAMA has extensive commercial experience working in a number of international companies. She served as group executive of human resources & industrial relations at Allied Technologies from 2003 to 2008, and as group executive of global HR, transformation and sustainability at Barloworld Ltd from 2008 to 2011. KHANYISILE KWEYAMA also served as executive head… read more »

ANGELA KRÜGER-STEINHOFF obtained a bachelor’s degree in 1997 at the EBS European Business School. She joined the Steinhoff group in 1997 as a financial manager. In 1999, she was seconded to act as managing director of the Australian operations. She resigned from the group at the end of 2005 and now attends to the Steinhoff family… read more »

Dr Booysen earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of South Africa and a PhD (Accountancy) from the University of Pretoria. He went on to complete his articles with Ernst & Young and acted as lecturer at the University of South Africa. In 2006, he was appointed as council member of the University of Pretoria…. read more »

Ms Sonn attained her Masters of Science from Georgetown University, and a BA from Smith College, Massachusetts. On completion of her studies in 1997, she joined Merrill Lynch New York as an investment banking analyst. She returned to South Africa in 1999 and took up a position with Sanlam Investment Management in Cape Town. She… read more »

He obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Stellenbosch and went on to qualify as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 1997 after completing his articles. He joined Jan S de Villiers and was appointed a partner of the firm in 1998. With the merger of Werksmans Attorneys in 2009,… read more »

He completed his articles with Ernst & Young and worked for four years as a corporate tax consultant. He joined Murray & Roberts as financial director of its marine construction operation and spent five years with Gensec Investment Bank as part of its corporate finance advisory unit, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and… read more »

He earned his Honours degree in Accountancy at the University of Pretoria. He joined Deloitte & Touche in 1980, where he qualified as a chartered accountant in 1981. He transferred to the tax division, specialising in corporate and international tax planning, and became a tax partner in 1987. After leaving Deloitte, he joined Unitrans Limited… read more »