BCom (Acc), BCom (Hons), MCom
Phumzile is the co-founder and executive chairman of Afropulse Group Proprietary Limited, an unlisted investment and corporate advisory group. She was appointed by, President Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of the Republic of South Africa, as a Special Investment Envoy, and serves as Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council on Investments.

Other directorships: Metrofile Limited, Transaction Capital Limited, Primedia Holdings and the Mineworker’s Investment Company.

BCom, CA(SA), Harvard Business School, INSEAD AMP
Graham has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry both in South Africa and internationally. Graham serves as a non-executive director of a number of JSE listed companies.

Other directorships: Long4Life, Motus Holdings Limited, Sun International.

BPharm, MBA (France)
Juliet is the chairwoman of Jumia Nigeria and Chief Sustainability Officer at Jumia Group and oversees institutional relationships, corporate communications and ESG. She is an experienced executive with more than 28 years of experience. Before her current role, Juliet was the CEO of Jumia Nigeria, and prior to that spent 16 years at Accenture, as the partner managing Accenture’s Consumer Goods Practice in West Africa. Juliet also serves as a non-executive on corporate and non-profit boards. She is a member of the Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA) and Capital Club Lagos Chapter and is the chairperson of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce eCommerce chapter.

Other directorships: Jumia Nigeria, Flour Mills of Nigeria, First Bank Holdings (Nigeria), Consultative Action Group for the Poor.

BPharm, MBA (France)
Juliet is the chairwoman of Jumia Nigeria and Chief Sustainability Officer at Jumia Group and oversees institutional relationships, corporate communications and ESG. She is an experienced executive with more than 28 years of experience. Before her current role, Juliet was the CEO of Jumia Nigeria, and prior to that spent 16 years at Accenture, as the partner managing Accenture’s Consumer Goods Practice in West Africa. Juliet also serves as a non-executive on corporate and non-profit boards. She is a member of the Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA) and Capital Club Lagos Chapter and is the chairperson of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce eCommerce chapter.

Other directorships: Jumia Nigeria, Flour Mills of Nigeria, First Bank Holdings (Nigeria), Consultative Action Group for the Poor.

LLB (Hons), ACIArb (UK)
Bola is the chairman of Lagos State Employment Trust Fund and a director of Ecobank Nigeria. Prior to this, Bola was senior vice-chairman, Africa at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), chairman of SCB Mauritius and a board member of SCB Nigeria and West Africa. Bola was an executive director at First Bank of Nigeria Plc and managing director of Kakawa Discount House, Nigeria and also worked in Citibank in senior leadership roles in Nigeria and Tanzania. She is a director of SCB Ghana Plc, and Chairman of SCB Mauritius Ltd. She is a former Council Member and Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers Nigeria and serves on several corporate boards. In 2001, Bola co-founded Women in Management, Business and Public service (WIMBIZ) and currently serves on the WIMBIZ Board of Trustees. She is also a member of the IoDSA and of Women Corporate Directors.

Other directorships: FinTech Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Employment Trust Fund, UN Global Compact Board, Health Federation of Nigeria.

BCom (Hons), HDip Tax, CA(SA)
Peter is the recent former CEO of RMB Holdings Limited (RMH) and Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI). His early career was in the financial services sector, first as a tax consultant and later specialising in corporate and structured finance with UAL Merchant Bank. He joined Rand Merchant Bank in 1992 as a structured finance specialist and transferred to RMB Holdings in 1997, where he was appointed to the board in 1999.

Other directorships: RMI, Momentum Metropolitan Holdings, Shoprite Holdings.

BCom (Hons), CA(SA)
Bridget is an experienced executive and proven business leader with a successful record in helping businesses entrench sound financial processes, transformation and governance. She is the chief operating officer and executive director at Rothschild & Co South Africa. Prior to this she served as group CFO of Ubuntu-Botho Investments. Bridget started her career at Deloitte where she was an audit partner. In this role, she led multi-disciplinary engagement teams servicing JSE listed clients in geographies spanning Africa, Europe and America.

Other directorships: Motus Holdings Limited, Assupol Holdings Limited and Rothschild & Co (South Africa) Proprietary Limited.

MBA
Dirk is a global logistics industry expert, professional board member and investor. He previously served as the CEO of Cargolux Airlines International, on the management board of Kuehne & Nagel and as a non-executive director on the board of Panalpina. In 2016, he founded R&R International Aviation which offers strategic advice in the fields of aviation, logistics and e-commerce in China.

Other directorships: DFDS, Skycell, Instafreight, Log-hub, R+R International Aviation, PrimaFrio, Swiss Post.

BCom (Hons), CA(SA), MBA
Roddy is a former managing director of Old Mutual South Africa and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (SA), and the former chairperson of Old Mutual Unit Trusts, Old Mutual Specialised Finance and Old Mutual Asset Managers (SA).

Other directorships: Truworths International, Trencor, UCT Foundation Investment Committee.

BCom (Acc) (Hons), CA(SA), CFA
Mohammed was appointed group CEO of Imperial on 1 February 2019. He joined the Imperial group in 2009, and prior to his current role, served as the acting CEO of Imperial Holdings in addition to his role as group CFO. His previous roles at Imperial included CEO of the Logistics African Regions division and executive director responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategy and investor relations for the group. Prior to joining Imperial in 2009, Mohammed worked within the corporate finance and investment banking team at Investec Bank and as an equity analyst for Nedbank Securities.

BCompt (Hons), CA(SA)
George is the group CFO of Imperial. George joined Imperial in 2005 and held various executive positions in subsequent years. He was also closely involved with the creation of the Market Access business and his expertise in integrating acquisitions and establishing controls contributed to the evolution of the business from a collection of relatively small transport businesses to the significant business it is today. Prior to joining Imperial, George was the financial director of Imperilog Limited. George is a director of various group subsidiaries (both local and international), chairs the divisional FRCCs and is a trustee of the South African Provident Fund.

MBA (Logistics)
Hakan is the CEO of the Logistics International business. Previously, he was the CEO of Imperial International BV & Co KG. Prior to this, Hakan was chief commercial officer at CEVA Logistics. He has also held senior management positions at Panalpina (executive vice-president strategic business development), the TOLL Group (managing director Europe and Middle East) and Kuehne & Nagel (senior vice-president global business development).

MTech (Met Eng.), IMP (MIT, USA), MDP (UP)
Edwin is the CEO of the Logistics Africa business, effective July 2020. This follows his appointment as CEO of Logistics South Africa in March 2020. He has an exceptional reputation for translating strategy into operational excellence and for simplifying organisational complexity in multiple industries across Africa. Edwin has led companies such as DAWN and Capital Africa Steel in his capacity as CEO, and served as the chief restructuring officer of PPC and group executive director of Murray & Roberts.

BA (Communication Science), Doctorate (Humanitarianism H.C.), Financial Management (Cert)
Esha is responsible for investor relations, ESG, internal and stakeholder communications, corporate affairs and brand positioning for the group. She is also the chairman of Imperial’s global women’s forum.

Esha’s previous roles include the head of investor relations at Kumba Iron Ore Limited and for Harmony Gold Mining Company.

She currently serves as the co-chairman of the World Economic Forum’s New Champions South Africa board, and a non-executive director and trustee of the Imperial and Motus Community Trust and the Unjani Clinics NPC. Esha is also a founding member of the Investor Relations Society of South Africa and the chairman of the integrated reporting and ESG sub-committee of CFO Forum South Africa.

BEng (Industrial) cum laude, BEng (Hons) (Industrial), BCom (Hons) Logistics
Cobus leads the newly established centre-led digital and IT function supporting Logistics Africa and Market Access. He is the custodian of the group’s digital mandate that includes disruptive venture investments, unlocking competitive advantage from digital capabilities, facilitating insights from data and standardising systems across the business and functions. Before joining Imperial in 2009, Cobus co-founded Volition which he led to evolve into Resolve to underpin the LLP business within Imperial. Prior to that, Cobus was logistics director of Cadbury South Africa.

Effective July 2020, Johan serves as the CEO of Imperial’s Market Access business. Integral to our ‘Gateway to Africa’ strategy, Johan guides this business across the globe as it works to facilitate trade flows into and out of Africa. His extensive experience in navigating the complex African continent – and proven success in developing and implementing market access solutions and value-add logistics – sees him well placed as a strategic partner to multinational clients wanting to enter and grow in emerging economies. Johan previously served as CEO of the African Regions – growing the business from humble beginnings to the go to strategic partner in Africa for brand owners looking for unique consumer and healthcare market access and logistics solutions. He initially joined the group with the acquisition of Broco in 2004, a business of which he was joint founder and managing director.

BA (Psychology/English), MBA
Steve is responsible for driving our cultural transformation and people-related and human resource initiatives and for developing and implementing integrated, world-class people policies and practices. An experienced global business leader, Steve has held numerous senior executive positions in large corporations in the United States (US), Europe and Africa. He worked for SABMiller for 20 years in human resources, corporate strategy and senior general management. Prior to SAB, Steve worked in the mining industry for Anglo American and De Beers for 10 years in the fields of labour relations and human resources.

BCom (Hons), CFA
Zayd serves as our EVP: Corporate Finance and has over 12 years of global investment banking experience. He has worked on numerous M&A and capital markets transactions for leading, international investment banks and has advised a diverse client base (including corporates, governments and financial sponsors). He has been involved in a variety of transactions encompassing cross-border M&A, IPOs, capital restructurings, bond issuance, equity derivatives and private placements.