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Emmy Leeka has held the position of CEO for Barloworld Equipment South Africa since 1 October 2012 which equates to 60% of the southern African business. His career stretches over various commodities and disciplines in the industry. Emmy Leeka was previously the CEO of Hernic Ferrochrome having previously held senior executive roles at other organisations… read more »

National Teacher’s Qualification, Botshabelo Training Institution, Management Advanced Programme (MAP) Certificate, University of the Witwatersrand Business School, Effective Directorship. Certificate, Kagiso Leadership School and Gordon Institute of Business. He joined the mining industry from 1977 to 1996 as a multi-skilled worker at East Rand Gold & Uranium. At the time of leaving ERGO he was… read more »

Nick started working in 1969 as a Marketing Trainee with Colgate-Palmolive and in 1976 was transferred to Colgate-Palmolive, United Kingdom. He later moved to Germany, where he held the position of Assistant Managing Director ColgatePalmolive, Germany. He returned to South Africa and joined Barlow Rand Limited in July 1982 and became a Director of Barlow… read more »

Kajal Bissessor is a CA(SA) having served articles with KPMG subsequent to completing a B Acc, HDip Acc and the SAICA Board exams. During Kajal’s articles, she gained international experience at KPMG Ireland (Dublin office) where she worked as audit senior for a period of four months. Post articles, Kajal worked as audit manager at… read more »

Omair is a CA (SA) having served articles with KPMG. At KPMG Omair was part of the Financial Services division and the Financial Engineering Group where he gained experience in the global and local financial markets auditing financial institutions. Omair joined Anchor prior to its listing in September 2014 as group financial manager in charge… read more »

Mike Teke was born in 1964 in Kwa Thema, Springs, South Africa and has the following qualifications: BA (Ed), B.Ed (University of the North) 1985-1989; BA (Hons) (RAU) 1995-1996 and MBA (Unisa) 1999-2002. He started work as a school teacher and subsequently served in various HR roles at Unilever, Bayer, BHP Billiton and Impala Platinum… read more »

Mr Armitage is a CA(SA), having served articles with Deloitte & Touche. Mr Armitage has 23 years’ experience in global financial markets, having worked as an analyst, Head of Research and Chief Investment Officer. Peter also ran an internet media business in 2000 and 2001. Mr Armitage has achieved a record number of No. 1… read more »

Astrino Nicoloudakis joined Acsion in 2015. He has been tasked with new deal origination across Europe and Africa, revenue enhancement innovations, photovoltaic rooftop solar installations and Acsiopolis concept design. Astrino Nicoloudakis qualified as a CA(SA) in 2005 and has strong exposure to exponential growth ventures and deal origination.

Jeanette Nel joined the group in 2013 from Old Mutual Properties and is a seasoned property professional with 28 years’ experience in the industry, including financial management, property management, development deal origination and leasing. Jeanette Nel manages a leasing support team consisting of 8 people.

Dimitris has been with Acsion since 2004, and heads up the leasing and development function at the group, where he is responsible for driving key negotiations with all tenants, conceptualising tenant mix and layout design, planning and implementing strategies to maximize investment performance of the existing portfolio, as well as growth of the portfolio. He… read more »

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 »