About

Trevor spent his formative years from 1971 in a wide-ranging number of roles in financial and commercial management positions both in southern Africa and Europe. In the late 1980s he was appointed finance and commercial director of AECI Explosives and Chemicals Limited. In 1990 he was appointed managing director of Dulux Paints and in the period 1996 to 2000 managing director of Polifin Limited. In 2001 Trevor was appointed executive director and chief financial officer of Sasol Limited with responsibility also for corporate affairs and various other portfolios. Two years later he also assumed global responsibility for Sasol’s chemical businesses. In 2005 and 2006 he was deputy chief executive of Sasol Limited. At the end of 2006 he retired from executive roles and in 2007 became a non-executive director of various companies.

He serves as a board member of Absa Group Limited, Absa Bank Limited, Sasol Synfuels International (Pty) Limited, Sasol Petroleum International (Pty) Limited and Sasol Polymers and Sasol Nitro – both trading as divisions of Sasol Chemical Industries (Pty) Limited.

Brian retired as executive chairman of Nampak Limited in 2000, a position he held since 1990. He joined the Barlow Rand Group in 1964 and managed a number of subsidiaries before being appointed as director of Barlows in 1985.

He is a director of Absa Group Limited, Illovo Sugar Limited and Sasol Limited. In addition, Brian is a past councillor of the South Africa Foundation, Corporate Forum and the Institute of Directors, as well as a contributor to King I and King II on corporate governance.

Thabang is a strategy consultant and has consulted to major corporate clients such as DBSA, SA Port Operations, StatsSA, City of Tshwane, FFC, Nozala and Transnet for the past eight years.

Thabang spent 13 years at executive level in the Civil Aviation Directorate in Lesotho. During this period he was elected vice-president of the African Civil Aviation Commission for the East African region for three years. He joined Transnet in 1994 and was promoted to the position of transformation strategist at Transnet Group as general manager in 1997 and to chief executive of PX in 1998, a position which he held until January 2000.

Thabang has attended executive management programmes at London Business School, University of Singapore and the Harvard Business School.

Johannes worked for Old Mutual from 1971 to 2002, where he was general manager (investments) from 1985 to 1997.

In September 1997 he was appointed to lead Old Mutual’s demutualisation project, which culminated in July 1999 with its listing on the London Stock Exchange and the JSE Limited.

Over the past 20 years he has served on the boards of various companies listed on the JSE Limited. He currently serves on the boards of Assore Limited and Wooltru Limited.

After completing his articles, David joined Coopers & Lybrand and was then seconded to England for three years.

He has been involved in the electronics and electrical engineering industry for over 20 years, working for CG Smith, GEC and as deputy managing director of Alstom.

Kholeka started her career as trainee accountant and has held several senior finance positions across diverse industries. Until recently she was finance director at BP South Africa associate company. She joined 3M South Africa as corporate accountant and assumed the general manager finance role within six months. She has worked for Eskom in the consulting and treasury departments.

She serves on other audit committees among which is the United Nations World Food Programme and she is a member of the International Assembly for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in London. In 2008, Kholeka was a finalist in the BWA/Nedbank Business Woman of the Year competition. .

Rynhardt retired as group general manager Sasol Limited at the end of 2008 after 31 years with Sasol. During his employment with Sasol he held various positions in financial and accounting management. At retirement he was a member of Sasol’s group executive committee and director and member of most of Sasol’s major subsidiaries.

He is a director of Sasol Financing (Pty) Limited, Merisol GP LLC and Sasol Wax – a trading division of Sasol Chemicals Industries Limited. In addition, he is a trustee of the Sasol Pension Fund.