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NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
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| Thulani Sikhulu Gcabashe (56)* |
| BA (Botswana), MURP (Ball State Univ, USA), PED, IMD Lausanne, CD(SA) |
Thulani is the retired CEO of Eskom, the
executive chairperson of BuiltAfrica Holdings and
the chairperson of MTN Zakhele. He currently
serves as a director of Standard Bank Group and
The Standard Bank of South Africa. Thulani was
appointed to the board in January 2008 and as
chairperson in
April 2008. |
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| Hubert Rene Brody (50) |
| BAcc (Hons), CA(SA) |
Hubert served as the CEO of Imperial from July 2007 until
February 2014. He joined the group in April 2000 as CFO of
Imperial Bank and served as CEO of the Motor division and
member of the executive committee. He is also a
non-executive director of Comair, Mix Telematics and
Woolworths. He was appointed to the board of Imperial in
August 2006 and retired as an executive of the group at the
end of
April 2014. |
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| Phumzile Langeni (39)* |
| BCom (Acc), BCom (Hons) |
| Phumzile is the executive chairperson of
Afropulse Group, a woman-led investment,
investor relations and corporate advisory house.
She is currently the chairperson of Astrapak
Holdings and the Mineworkers’ Investment
Company. She also serves as an independent
non-executive director of Massmart Holdings,
Metrofile and Primedia. She is a Trustee of the
KZN Growth Fund. She was appointed to the
board in June 2004. |
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| Michael John Leeming (70)* |
| BCom, MCom, FCMA, FIBSA, AMP |
| Mike is a former executive director of Nedcor. He has served as
chairperson of the Banking Council of South Africa and as president of the
Institute of Bankers. He is currently a non-executive director of the Altron
Group and Woolworths. Mike was appointed to the board in November
2002. |
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| Mohammed Valli Moosa (57) |
| BSc |
| Valli is a non-executive director of Sanlam Group
Holdings and Sappi and a non-executive chairperson
of Anglo Platinum and Sun International. He is an
executive director of Lereko. Previously, he was
president of the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature and the chairperson of
Eskom. He also served as a cabinet minister in the
national government of South Africa from 1994 to
2004. He is also the chairperson of WWF (SA). Valli
was appointed to the board in June 2005. |
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| Roderick John Alwyn Sparks (55)* |
| 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). He is a non-executive
director of Truworths International and Trencor and
serves on the board of advisors of the UCT Graduate
School of Business. Roddy was appointed to the
board in August 2006. |
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| Thembisa Dingaan (41)* |
| BProc, LLB (Natal), LLM (Harvard), HDip Tax (Wits) |
| Thembisa is the past chairperson of Ukhamba
Holdings, an empowerment shareholder
in Imperial. She is currently a director of Absa
Bank, the Development Bank of Southern
Africa, Mustek, Adapt It, Skweyiya Investment
Holdings and Sumitomo Rubber South Africa.
She was appointed to the board in
November 2009. |
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| Younaid Waja (62)* |
| BCom, BCompt (Hons), CA(SA), HDip Tax Law |
| Younaid is a practicing tax and business
consultant. He is a non-executive director and
a sub-committee member of Dipula Income
Fund, Pareto, subsidiaries of the Gauteng
Growth and Development Agency: Supplier
Park Development Company and Automotive
Industry Development Centre. His immediate
past directorships include the PIC, Telkom,
Real Africa Holdings and Blue IQ. His former
memberships include vice-president of
ABASA, chairperson of the PAAB – now the
IRBA, a member of the Income Tax Special
Court and treasurer of the Black Business
Council. He was appointed to the board in
June 2004. |
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| Recht Louis (Tak) Hiemstra (58) |
| BCompt (Hons), CA(SA) |
| Tak served as director of strategic
development of Imperial until his
retirement as executive director in 2012.
He was responsible for strategy and
enterprise and business development.
He is the chairperson of DAWN and a
non-executive director of AECI. He joined
the group in 1992 and was appointed to
the board in August 1995. |
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| Schalk Engelbrecht (68)* |
| BSc, MBL, AMP Insead |
| Schalk is the retired CEO of AECI, where he is
currently the chairperson. He was appointed as
CEO of AECI in 2003 and was appointed
chairperson in May 2012. Schalk was also the
managing director of Chemical Services
(Chemserve) before joining the AECI board. He
was appointed to the board in June 2008. |
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| Ashley (Oshy) Tugendhaft (66) |
| BA, LLB |
| Oshy is the senior partner of Tugendhaft
Wapnick Banchetti & Partners, a leading
Johannesburg niche law firm. He is also a
non-executive director of Pinnacle
Technology Holdings. He was appointed to
the board in April 1998 and as deputy
chairperson in March 2008. |
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
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| Mohammed Akoojee (35) |
| BCom Acc (Hons), CA(SA), CFA |
| Mohammed is the executive director
responsible for mergers, acquisitions,
strategy and investor relations for the
group. He joined the group in 2009,
having previously worked within the
corporate finance and investment banking
team at Investec. Prior to joining
Investec, Mohammed worked for
Nedbank Securities as an investment
analyst. He is also a director of DAWN ,
Ukhamba Holdings, and various subsidiary
and divisional boards. He was appointed
to the executive committee in January
2011 and to the board in November 2013. |
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| Osman Suluman Arbee (55) |
| BAcc, CA (SA), HDip Tax |
| Osman is the group CFO.
Osman has been with Imperial since
September 2004. During this period,
he has been the CEO of the then Car
Rental and Tourism Division, and the
chairperson of the Aftermarket Parts
and the Automotive Retail divisions.
In addition, Osman is a non-executive
director of DAWN.
Prior to joining the group, Osman was
a senior partner at Deloitte and spent
23 years with Deloitte in various roles,
which included being a board and exco
member.
Osman is a member of Imperial’s
various subsidiary and divisional
boards, a trustee of the Imperial
Pension and Provident Fund and the
Ukhamba Trust which manages the
interests of the black employees
of the group.
He was appointed to the board in
July 2007 and as CFO on 1 July 2013.
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| Mark James Lamberti (64) |
| BCom MBA(Wits), PPL(Harvard), CD(SA) |
Mark was appointed CEO on 1 March 2014.
From 2008 until 2014 Mark was the CEO
and a major shareholder of Transaction
Capital. He served as its non-executive
chairperson until March 2014 when he
resigned to devote his attention fully
to Imperial.
In April 2014, he also resigned as
non-executive chairperson of the board
of Massmart Holdings, a position he
assumed in 2007 after serving for almost
19 years as founder, architect, CEO and
major shareholder.
Since his early 30s Mark has served as an
executive and non-executive on the
boards of various public companies,
including Wooltru, Primedia, Datatec,
Telkom and Altron.
Mark currently serves as an executive
committee member and director of
Business Leadership South Africa and
is a trustee and executive committee
member of the National Education
Collaboration Trust, which is a
government, business, labour and civil
society initiative to support the National
Development Plan and the Education
Sector Plan.
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| Johann Jurie Strydom (40) |
| BBus Sc, FIA, CFA, MBA (MIT) |
Jurie is the CEO of the Regent Insurance group of
companies which houses the insurance operations of
Imperial. Jurie joined the group in 2007 as chief actuary
of Regent Life and was appointed to the Regent Life
board in the same year. In 2008 he was instrumental in
the merger of the operations of Regent Life and Regent
Insurance, forming the Regent group as it is today.
Jurie has held senior leadership roles in the South
African financial services industry since 2001 when he
qualified as an actuary. During that time he managed
broker distribution for Sanlam Life before becoming
managing director of Alexander Forbes Life. He is a
Sloan Fellow from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (2011).
He was appointed to the executive committee in
February 2012 and to the board in November 2013. |
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| Philip Bernard Michaux (54) |
| Philip is the CEO of the Vehicle Retail, Rental and
Aftermarket Parts division. He started his career in
the motor industry in 1981 with Saficon Holdings and
has held various management positions within the
industry over the years. He spent the first 23 years
within the Mercedes-Benz franchise. Imperial
acquired Saficon in 1995, which resulted in him
joining the group. He was the managing director of
Cargo Motors until 2006 at which time he was
promoted to CEO of the Automotive Retail division. In
2013 his portfolio was expanded to include the Car
Rental division. This portfolio has been further
expanded to include Aftermarket Parts. He was
appointed to the executive committee in October
2011 and was appointed to the board in May 2014. |
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| Manuel Pereira de Canha (64) |
| Manny is the CEO of Associated Motor Holdings, responsible for the
distribution, industrial retail and allied services businesses. Manny has
extensive experience in the motor and import industries. He was part of the
founding team of Imperial and worked for Imperial in various positions from
1969 to 1985. From 1986 he was a director of Automotive Holdings Ltd in
Western Australia. He re-joined Imperial in 1995 and was appointed to the
board in November 2002. |
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| Marius Swanepoel (53) |
| BCom Acc (Hons) |
Marius is the CEO of Imperial Logistics Africa.
He joined the group in 1994 when Imperial acquired Highway Carriers, where
he was financial director since October 1990. Marius was appointed as financial
director of Imperial Transport Holdings in 1997 and CEO of Imperial Logistics
Transport & Warehousing in 2001. In October 2005, he was appointed CEO of
Imperial Logistics Africa. In May 2007 he joined the Imperial executive
committee and was appointed to the board in November 2009.
Marius started his career with SARS in Cape Town after completing his articles
at auditing firm Brink,
Roos & Du Toit.
Under is his leadership, Imperial Logistics Africa has been recognised for
numerous achievements, including National Business Awards, various Logistics
Achiever Awards in 2013 and the Supply Chain Educator Award for 2014.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The group executive committee comprises all
executive directors and the group commercial
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| Gerhard Wessel Riemann (68) |
Gerhard is the CEO of Logistics International and is
responsible for logistics operations outside Africa. He
joined the group in January 2000 with the acquisition
of the logistics interests from Thyssen Krupp where he
was a member of the executive board of the trading
arm, responsible for worldwide logistics and its bulk
ocean fleet, the largest in Germany. He has extensive
international experience and operated in all major
countries around the globe. Gerhard built up 20 years’
logistics experience in Lehnkering and Neska before
joining Thyssen Krupp.
Gerhard is a member of a number of industry bodies.
He was appointed to the board in January 2000. |
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| Berenice Joy Francis (38)* |
| BCompt (Hons), CIA |
| Berenice is the group’s commercial executive. Her responsibilities include
risk, talent management and group marketing. She joined the group in 2008
and was appointed to the executive committee in June 2009. She is a
member of the audit committee of the National Treasury and chairs its risk
committee. She is a past vice president of the Institute of Internal Auditors
(IIASA) and the Institute of Risk Management SA (IRMSA) and currently
chairs the Education and Technical committee of IRMSA. Prior to joining the
group, she was the chief risk officer for the State IT Agency. |
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