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Matamela
Cyril Ramaphosa (56)
BProc
Non-executive chairman, appointed
July 6 2004.
Executive chairman of Shanduka
Group (Pty) Limited. Joint non-executive
chairman of Mondi plc and Mondi Limited.
Non-executive chairman of MTN Group
Limited and SASRIA Limited. Co-chairman
of Macsteel Service Centres SA (Pty)
Limited. Non-executive director of
SAB Miller plc, Macsteel Global BV,
Alexander Forbes Equity Holdings
Limited, The Standard Bank Group
Limited and The Coca-Cola Company's
International Public Advisory Board.
He is a member of United Nations
Global Leadership group on Business
and Human Rights. Cyril is the past
chairman of the Black Economic Empowerment
Commission and has received several
honorary doctorates. |
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Brian
Joffe (62)
CA(SA)
Chief executive, appointed
March 1 1989.
Director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries.
Since founding Bid Corporation in
1988, Brian served as executive chairman
until his appointment as chief executive
in 2004. He has over 31 years of
South African and international commercial
experience. He was one of the Sunday
Times' top five businessmen in 1992
and is a past recipient of the Jewish
Business Achiever of the Year award.
Brian was voted South Africa's Top
Manager of the Year in 2002 in the
Corporate Research Foundation's publication
South Africa's Leading Managers
and represented South Africa at the
coveted Ernst & Young World
Entrepreneur of the Year award in
2003. Awarded an honorary doctorate
in May 2008 by Unisa. |
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Frederick
John Barnes (58)
British
Chief executive of Bidvest
Europe and 3663 First for Foodservice,
appointed October 27 2003.
Fred has extensive international
foodservice and distribution experience. |
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Bernard
Larry Berson (44)
Australian
CA
Chief executive of Bidvest Asia
Pacific, appointed October 27 2003.
Bernard has 22 years of international
financial, administrative and management
experience in numerous industries,
the past 14 years in the Australian,
New Zealand and Asian foodservice
industries. |
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Myron
Cyril Berzack (60)
Chief executive of Bid Industrial
and Commercial Products, appointed
April 29 2002.
Non-executive director of Allied
Electronics Corporation and director
of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries.
Myron has 40 years' experience
in the electrical industry, specialising
in marketing, distribution, financial
control and reporting functions. |
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David
Edward Cleasby (47)
CA(SA)
Group financial director,
appointed July 9 2007.
Director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries.
David was financial director of Rennies
Terminals when Bidvest acquired Rennies
in 1998. In 2001, he joined the Bidvest
corporate office, where he has been
involved in both Group corporate
finance and investor relations. David
was appointed as an alternate director
to Peter Nyman on June 28 2006 and
appointed Group financial director
on July 9 2007. |
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Anthony
William Dawe (43)
CA(SA)
Chief executive of Bidfreight,
appointed June 28 2006.
Director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries.
Anthony has 15 years' experience
in the freight industry with most
of those years focused in the South
African port environment. Prior to
this, Anthony's experience was in
financing in London and he worked
for one of the large accounting firms
in South Africa. |
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Lionel
Isaac Jacobs (65)
BCom,
MBA
Commercial director Bidserv,
appointed August 20 2003.
Director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries,
Bassap Investments (Pty) Limited
and Dinatla Investment Holdings (Pty)
Limited. Lionel is an entrepreneur
with extensive negotiating and investment
skills and established Bassap Investments
(Pty) Limited, a core shareholder
in the Dinatla consortium, to further
his commitment to the principles
of black economic empowerment. |
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Peter Nyman (64)
CA(SA), HDip Tax Law
Executive director, appointed February 1 1991.
Peter, the previous financial director, has been an executive
director of the Group for nearly 19 years. He is also director
of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries, including Bid Industrial
and Commercial Products, Bidserv and Bidvest Bank, chairman
of the trustees of the Quantum Medical Aid Society, Bidcorp
Group Pension Fund and Bidcorp Group Provident Fund. Peter
has extensive local and international financial experience
in a diverse range of industries, specialising in tax. |
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Sybrand Gerhardus Pretorius (61)
MCom Business Economics
Chief executive of Bid Auto, appointed February
19 2004.
Director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries. Brand has
36 years’ experience in the motor industry (manufacturing
and retail). He is the vice-chairman of the State President’s
International Marketing Council and serves on the boards
of the National Business Initiative, the University of
Stellenbosch Business School, the ABSA group and the READ
Educational Trust. Brand is the immediate past president
of the South African Retail Motor Industry Association. |
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Lindsay Peter Ralphs (53)
CA(SA)Chief executive of Bidserv, appointed May 10 1992.
Director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries. Lindsay joined
Bidvest as operations director in 1992. In 1994 he was
appointed managing director of Steiner and following the
acquisition of Prestige to form Bidserv, appointed chief
executive of Bidserv. |
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Alan Charles Salomon (60)
CA(SA), BSc (London)
(with honours)
Executive director, appointed September 10 1990.
Director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries and managing
director of Bidvest Bank. Alan has 30 years’ experience
in the fields of manufacturing, distribution and treasury
management. |
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