DANIËL MAREE (DANIE) VAN DER MERWE

He was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 1986 and practised as an attorney specialising in the commercial and labour law fields. In 1990, he joined the Roadway Transport Group and was instrumental in developing the strategic direction and growth of this group. In early 1998, following the merger of Roadway Transport Group with Steinhoff Africa, he joined the Steinhoff group and in 1999, was appointed as a director of Steinhoff International Holdings Limited. He previously acted as chief executive officer for Steinhoff’s Southern Hemisphere operations and was appointed as group chief operating officer in 2013. He holds several other appointments within the Steinhoff group of companies and currently serves on the boards of Steinhoff Asia Pacific Limited and Steinhoff UK Holdings Limited. He also serves as a non-executive director of KAP Industrial Holdings Limited (member of the human resources and remuneration and nomination committees). Mr van der Merwe was the group’s chief operating officer and was designated as acting chief executive officer on 19 December 2017.