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Independent non-executive directors
 
  Douglas Denoon Balharrie Band (67)
BCom, CA(SA)

Appointed October 27 2003. Non- executive director of The Standard Bank Group Limited and MIH Holdings Limited. Doug has extensive experience in both commerce and industry and has served in an executive position in various blue-chip listed companies.
Board committee membership: Chairman of the remuneration, acquisition and nominations committees
     
  Lilian Garner Boyle (64)
British
MA, Econ (Glasgow), MBA

Non-executive director, appointed January 23 2001. Non-executive chairperson of South African Express Airways. Lilian has 42 years of diverse business experience including seven years in the freight management industry and 21 years in the travel industry.
     
  Muriel Betty Nicolle Dube (38)
BA (Hons), MSc (Oxon), Finance Executive Programme (SAID, Oxford), Executive Programme (Harvard).

Appointed October 27 2003. Muriel has senior strategic management and operational experience in the public sector and with multi-nationals in the private sector. Muriel is currently with Investec in London and is responsible for originating and structuring financing transactions and for originating other value generating opportunities for the Bank in emerging markets.
     
  Stephen Koseff (60)
BCom, CA(SA), HDip BDP, MBA

Appointed June 17 1997. Chief executive officer of Investec Limited and Investec plc. Stephen has 35 years of financial experience and is the recipient of numerous business awards. He is a former member of the Financial Markets Advisory Board and former chairman of the Independent Banks Association. He is the current chairman of the Banking Association. His directorships include Rensburg Sheppards plc.
     
  Nkateko Peter Mageza (56)
ACCA (UK)

Appointed August 28 2009. Former group chief operations officer and executive director of Absa Group Limited. Peter started his career within the audit environment at Coopers & Lybrand and worked as an audit manager within Transnet Limited’s group internal audit services. He became chief executive officer of Autonet in 1995, the road passenger and freight logistics division of Transnet. Peter is a director of Sappi Group Limited, MTN Group Limited, Rainbow Chicken Limited, Clover Industries Limited and Remgro Group Limited.
Board committee membership: audit
     
  Nigel George Payne (51)
BCom (Hons), CA(SA), MBL

Appointed June 28 2006. Director of a number of companies including the JSE Limited, Mr Price Limited and BSi Steel Limited and chairman of Bidvest Bank Limited. Nigel is a leading authority on corporate governance and risk management and is a member of the King Committee.
Board committee membership: Chairman of the audit, risk and sustainability committees
     
  Joseph Leon Pamensky (81)
CA(SA), OMSG

Appointed January 8 1990. Director of Schindler Lifts (SA) (Pty) Limited,  Worldwide African Investment Holdings (Pty) Limited, Stonehage Financial  Services (Pty) Limited and Bidvest Bank Limited. Joe is the longest serving  non-executive director of Bidvest with over 53 years’ experience in the  financial, insurance and banking industries and the recipient of a number of  business and public awards, including the highest civil award obtainable in  South Africa. He serves as a non-executive director of companies and is a  member of a number of audit and remuneration committees. Originally also  a director of Bid Corporation Limited.
Board committee membership: audit, remuneration, acquisition, nominations
     
  Donald Masson (80)
ACIS

Appointed March 10 1992. Director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries, Cashbuild Limited and Valley Irrigation Limited. Trustee of various pension funds. Donald is a former president of the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut and a former member of the President’s Economic Advisory Council and chairman of the SA Post Office. He has 44 years of diverse business experience in senior executive positions at listed, unlisted and parastatal organisations. 
Board committee membership: audit, risk and sustainability, remuneration, acquisition
     
  Adv Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula (54)
DTech (Legal Studies) Honoris Causu (VUT), BProc, LLB, LLM (Harvard)

Appointed June 28 2006. Chief electoral officer of the Independent Electoral Commission. Director of Lehotsa Holdings (Pty) Limited, MMRT (Pty) Limited and Khomanani Women’s Investment (Pty) Limited, Chairperson of Board of the National Credit Regulator and Chancellor of the Vaal University of Technology. Pansy is a member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, part of the African Union, for which she is the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa.
Board committee membership: transformation
     

Alternate non-executive director

 

  Lebogang Joseph Mokoena (52)
BSc (Med Sci), MBA

Appointed as alternate to AA da Costa on December 8 2003. Non-executive director of Ten Alliance Holdings (Pty) Limited, Sesiu Investment Holdings (Pty) Limited, Bloemfontein Correctional Contracts (Pty) Limited, Culca Investments (Pty) Limited and Dinatla Investment Holdings (Pty) Limited. Currently Chairman of Bloemfontein Correctional Contracts (Pty) Limited. Lebogang has a number of years’ experience as a director of private companies. Over the years he provided management consultancy services to SMMEs, the public and private sectors. In recent years he devoted most of his time to investment management and strategy development.
 

Resignation

Myron Cyril Berzack resigned as a director of the company on September 7 2011.

 
 
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