Johann Bernard Cilliers

Johann was appointed to the STAR board as an independent non-executive director and as a member of STAR’s audit and risk committee on 18 August 2017. He was subsequently appointed to the nomination committee on 10 January 2018. Johann completed his articles at PwC in 1988, following which he was appointed as financial director of Hicor Limited. In 1990 he joined Langeberg Foods Limited as group financial manager, serving on the board of that company from 1991 to 1998 as financial director. In 1998, Johann joined the Pepkor group as operations director of PepSA and as an executive director. In 2004 he was appointed as an executive director of Pepkor Retail Limited and, until 2011, served on the group executive committee of Pepkor Retail Limited in various capacities. In 2011 he relinquished his executive role within the Pepkor group and was appointed as a non-executive director of Pepkor Holdings Proprietary Limited, which non-executive position he held until the acquisition of the Pepkor group by Steinhoff in 2015. Johann currently manages various private investments.