South Africa

Anthony Ball is the co-founder of Value Capital Partners (VCP). Prior to that, Anthony´s notable business accomplishment was the founding (1990) and building of Brait, South Africa´s premier private equity business which is regarded as being the pioneer of private equity in the region, and played an important role in bringing both domestic and international investors… read more »

Having served as Executive: Cement Operations and Executive: Lime along with other senior and general management roles across the cement and lime divisions Johannes Theodorus Claassen is a professional engineer who joined PPC in 1989. Johannes Theodorus Claassen has more than 28 years’ experience in all facets of the cement industry and has been with… read more »

Jabu Moleketi is the Non-Executive Chairman of Brait as well as the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Vodacom and Harith General Partners. Jabu Moleketi was the Deputy Minister of Finance (South Africa) from 2004 to 2008 and MEC of Financial and Economic Affairs in the Gauteng Provincial Government (1994-2004). During his tenure as the… read more »

Arthur qualified as a Chartered Accountant having graduated from the University of Cape Town. He completed his articles at Moores Rowland where he remained as an Audit Manager until joining Wooltru as Company Secretary. He joined the Trematon Group in 2008 where he currently fills the role of Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of… read more »

Herman Steyn has been involved in the investment management industry since 1985, having held senior management positions in several asset management companies. Herman Steyn began his career in investments after studying a BBusSc degree majoring in Actuarial Science, Statistics, and Economics at the University of Cape Town. Herman completed his BBusSc (Honours) in 1984 and… read more »

Tony graduated in 1967 with a BA in Social Anthropology at University of Witwatersrand. He started his career as merchandise manager at Edgars in 1968 and held management and Director positions at several major retail companies up to 2009. Since 2009 Tony is an Executive of Pepkor Retail and is also a Non-Executive Director of… read more »

Murray is a merchant banker with extensive corporate finance experience both locally and abroad. He was elected to the Board of Prescient in March 2004 (then Wooltru) and appointed Non-Executive Chairman on 13 December 2012. During 2017 his role changed to Financial Director and Chairman of PBT Group. Murray is also a Non-Executive Director of… read more »

Cheree Dyers is the CEO of Prescient Securities and sits on a number of Prescient Group boards. Outside of Prescient she is a member of the Gen Re South Africa Board of Directors (a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway) where she is also a Chairman of the Audit Committee. She has a Bachelor of Business Science… read more »

Pierre de Wet started his career at Anglo American Corporation’s head office as a scholarship holder. When an opportunity arose at stockbroking firm Huysamer Stals, Pierre was lured away and spent the next three years at the JSE gaining valuable experience in both the equity and capital markets. In 1992, he joined District Securities Bank… read more »

Lesego Amos Selaledi Joined Quantum Foods in 1999 while it was still a division of Pioneer Foods. He started at Nova Feeds as a technical specialist and joined Nulaid in 2003 as a technical manager. He progressed from technical manager to Regional manager then National Manager before being appointed as Executive for Layer Farming in January… read more »

Jannie started his career in the South African Navy. Thereafter, he spent nine years with Naspers Ltd during which time he was involved in many start-up internet and related businesses in South Africa, China and a number of other African countries, including Nigeria, where he was based for three years. Jannie has been involved in… read more »

Heather Elizabeth Pether has 20 years’ experience in the human resources field. She spent seven years as the human resources manager of the Tydstroom business while it was a division of Pioneer Foods. She was appointed as the executive responsible for human resources at Quantum Foods in 2013.

James Joseph Murray has 34 years’ experience in the poultry industry. Most of his early experience was gained at Rainbow Chicken Ltd in various senior farming production roles. After Rainbow, James Joseph Murray spent five years as managing director of Hy-Line SA (importer of Hy-Line grandparent layers), followed by five years as chief executive officer of… read more »

Adel joined Nova Feeds as procurement manager in 2008 and has over seven years’ experience in the feed industry. She joined Pioneer Foods in 1995. She started out in the corporate finance department but moved to central procurement, where she now has 16 years’ experience. She has spent the bulk of this time involved in… read more »

Thinus has been with the Nova Feeds business since 1997, when it was still a division of Pioneer Foods. He progressed from a financial manager to the executive responsible for the manufacturing and sales of the feed business. He has 16 years’ experience in the animal feed and poultry industry.