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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.