South Africa

Yanni Anastasiadis heads up the New Business Development and Project Management functions of the group, where he is responsible for driving the construction and development projects and ensuring feasibilities, budgets and value engineering are achieved. He has experience working in construction both abroad and in South Africa Since joining the group in 2005, Yanni Anastasiadis… read more »

Michael Reynolds is the partner-in-charge of the CMA East Rand office. He has twenty three years’ experience in audit, accounting and advisory work for a wide range of businesses, five years’ experience at the South African Revenue Services (SARS), four years’ experience as the largest shareholder and director of a JSE listed company and three… read more »

Thabani Jali has twenty years of experience in the legal profession as an Attorney, Mediator, Arbitrator Judge of the Competition Appeal Court and Deputy Judge President of the High Court having specialised in amongst others, commercial law, litigation, labour law and alternative dispute resolution. He is Company Secretary and Group Executive responsible for Governance, Compliance,… read more »

Phetole is a medical practitioner with thirty years of experience in this field. He has held various directorships at subsidiary level of the listed entity over the past seven years and prior to this was a Director at several companies including Meditech (8 years), Buhle Waste (17 years) and Liseko (9 years).

Sonja Griesell is a qualified Chartered Accountant and an expert in Financial Accounting, having lectured on this and related subjects at various local universities over a 26 year period. Most recently, Sonja Griesell was Senior Lecturer and Subject Responsible Lecturer at the University of Pretoria (2007 – 2011). She is a member of the South… read more »

Adv David Green is a Director of ProAfrica Property Services in Alliance with Cushman & Wakefield and an Admitted Advocate in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Adv David Green has extensive experience in the property industry having held the positions of Managing Director of Pace Property Group, Executive Director of Marriott Property Group, Head… read more »

Kiriakos Anastasiadis founded the group now known as Acsion approximately seventeen years ago. Kiriakos Anastasiadis holds a Masters Degree in BSc Structural Engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer with over 36 years’ construction and property development experience. SA

Chris Wierenga joined Barloworld in 1998 and has held various roles in strategy at the group and divisional level. Chris Wierenga has been directly involved in M&A activity in the Automotive division over the last 10 years and also supported various transactions in the Logistics business. Prior to his current position Chris was the CE… read more »

Tantaswa has worked for KPMG SA where she was Executive head: People (HR) and Transformation and a member of the executive committee. She is a chartered accountant with qualifications in industrial psychology, accounting, banking and finance. She has also served as National President at the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa… read more »

Matimba currently serves as Chief Business Development Officer for Barloworld Equipment Southern Africa. His main role is to drive dealer growth with specific focus on our underground mining business in Southern Africa and Russia. Prior to his current role, Matimba worked as COO, then CEO for RSA Equipment. Before joining Barloworld Equipment, Matimba worked for… read more »

Andronicca is currently the Divisional Executive Director Finance at Barloworld Equipment .Andronicca joined Barloworld in 2014 as Group Head of Internal Audit. Before she joined Barloworld, she was a Partner at KPMG and a member of the KPMG Board. She started her career at SARS as a Tax Compliance Auditor and then joined the Office… read more »

Litha joined the Barloworld group on 1 October 2007 when he was appointed Chief Executive of Barloworld Motor Retail. Since then he has fulfilled various executive and board roles at Barloworld Automotive & Logistics. Currently he is Executive: Empowerment & Transformation at Barloworld South Africa. He has a diverse business experience in banking, financial services… read more »

Gale Antonette Lemmert was appointed as an executive at Barloworld Automotive effective 1 November 2008 and currently holds the position of Executive: Sustainable Development. Gale Antonette Lemmert has extensive experience in the fields of strategy, transformation and sustainability. This experience was gained over a number of years in both the parastatal and private sectors in… read more »

Don rejoined Barloworld as finance director in 2006 and was appointed to the Barloworld board in September 2006. Previously he was executive director – Finance at Sappi Limited.