South Africa

Kwape Mmela has more than 22 years’ of experience in both the public and private sectors. This includes working for the Constitutional Assembly during the drafting of the South Africa’s constitution post-Apartheid, and serving as a director of JSE-listed Platmin Limited (now Sedibelo Platinum Mines Limited) for almost ten years. He is a founder and… read more »

Erich Clarke has extensive experience in general management, finance, audit and risk management. Mr Clarke worked for the Imperial/Eqstra group for 18 years where he was instrumental in unbundling the group from Imperial Holdings Limited and listing Eqstra on the JSE. Mr Clarke joined the Sedibelo group in November 2014 as the CFO and assumed… read more »

Lumkile Mondi is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Economics and Business Science of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr Mondi is a strategist, economist and a leader. He has worked extensively in the African continent undertaking his responsibilities at the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), where he was an executive… read more »

Siya joined African Phoenix after a 10 year career at Medu Capital, a black-owned Private Equity firm where he was a partner and responsible for deal origination, transaction structuring and investment execution. He spent five years at PWC, where he initially undertook his articles and later became a manager of Transaction Services. From 2010 to… read more »

Martin Tolcher has been involved within the fund administration industry in Guernsey for over 25 years. Mr Tolcher has worked at senior levels for three Guernsey subsidiaries of Bermudan and Canadian international banks, gaining considerable experience in a wide variety of offshore fund and private equity structures. Mr Tolcher joined Legis Fund Services Limited in… read more »

Sam is the CEO and co-founder of Value Capital Partners Proprietary Limited and a current shareholder in African Phoenix. Sam previously served as the Group Financial Director of Brait SE for eight years and was a member of the Brait Investment Team for five years. Before that he was the Audit Leader for the Deloitte… read more »

Christo Wiese is chairperson of Pepkor Holdings (Pty) Limited and Shoprite Holdings Limited, respectively Africa’s largest clothing and food retailers with a total portfolio of approximately 6,000 stores in 24 countries and employing more than 150,000 people. Dr Wiese is a significant shareholder in a range of businesses throughout the world. Dr Wiese is the… read more »

Oyama joined the Johannesburg Bar as a practising advocate in January 1999 after working as an investment banker for the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS). He was then headhunted by South African Airways as general counsel, later becoming the Deputy CEO of the airline. He has held various positions during his career, including chairman of… read more »

ean Gilbertson graduated as a mining engineer from Wits University in South Africa having spent time in the country’s deep- level gold and platinum mines. Mr Gilbertson worked as project financier for Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and London specialising in independent power projects and public/private partnerships. In 1998, Mr Gilbertson co-founded globalCOAL, a company that… read more »

Zukie was CEO of Thebe Capital at Thebe Investment Corporation where she was responsible for managing a portfolio of strategic investments. Prior to joining the Thebe Group, Zukie held various senior positions at the Barclays Africa Group, Old Mutual Retail Mass, Royal Bafokeng Holdings and South African Breweries. Zukie serves on the Audit and Risk… read more »

Brian Gilbertson has extensive experience in the global natural resources industry. In his early career, he was managing director of Rustenburg Platinum Mines Limited, which gained recognition as the world’s foremost producer of platinum in the 1980s. Later, as executive chairman of Gencor Limited, Mr Gilbertson led the restructuring of the South African mining industry… read more »

Carmen Le Grange is the CFO of Denel a State-owned arms utility.  Carmen has 22 years experience in auditing and consulting in the accounting profession and was previously a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Proprietary Limited (“PwC”). She has had operational responsibility for a number of partners and associate directors of PwC where her focus was the… read more »

Althea (“Lea”) has extensive experience serving on the board of a JSE-listed company and is well skilled in scenario planning on future policies, strategy development and implementation as well as developing governance frameworks. Whilst serving on the board of Oceana, Lea led the process to ensure that Oceana’s inclusion on the JSE’s Socially Responsible Investment… read more »

Trevor holds a BComm and Post Graduate degree of Bachelor of Law (LLB) from University of Witwatersrand. Trevor has over 35 years of experience in the retail real estate sector. His experience includes being a senior member of the real estate division at Ellerines Group of Companies, joint head of the Real Estate Division at… read more »

Morris is currently a lecturer in the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science, a governance practitioner and a mass-tech entrepreneur. Previously, Morris pursued a two decade executive level career in financial services where he, amongst other roles, served as Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of a large investment management business and executive director of… read more »