Senior management

Managing director: CBI-electric: african cables
MSc (Eng),MBA
Appointed in 1997
Born 14 December 1970

A Dickson

Alan studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and gained a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering. He spent a short time in the consulting engineering fraternity before joining African Cables as a design engineer in 1997.

He held several management positions within the organisation before taking up the responsibility heading up all commercial activity in February 2000. He was appointed commercial director in 2007 and held this position until being appointed managing director in February 2009.

			Managing director: CBI-electric: low voltage BSc (Eng) (Elec), MBL, Certificate of Competency (Factories) Appointed in 1998 Born 29 January 1957
CGP Oliver			Chris started his career as an engineer in training with Eskom. He joined Armscor in 1986 as programme manager. He held the positions of divisional manager and executive manager at Denel Aviation. Chris joined CBI-electric: low voltage in 1998 as product manager and subsequently held the position of divisional manager until his appointment to the CBI board in 2005. In 2007 he was appointed managing director of CBI-electric: low voltage.

			Chief executive: CBI-electric: Aberdare ATC telecom cables BCompt Appointed to the group in 1984 Born 4 May 1957
SG Newnes			Selwyn joined the Reutech division in 1984 as financial manager. He was appointed financial director of Reutech Solutions in 1987, and served in this role until his transfer in 1999 to the position of operations director where he was responsible for the consolidation and streamlining of Reutech Solutions. In 2001 he was appointed CEO of Reutech Solutions. During his tenure, he was successful in transforming a mainly military business into a well-balanced enterprise of both military and commercial activities. He was appointed CEO of CBI-electric: Aberdare ATC Telecom Cables (Pty) Limited in September 2010.

			Managing Director: Quince Capital CA (SA) Appointed 1 January 2009 Born 20 February 1975
BJ Korb			Bertus completed his accounting articles at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1997 after which he joined PwC Corporate Finance. He left PwC for the Absa Group in 2001, where he held a number of positions including group capital manager. He founded and headed up Absa Retail Bank’s special projects team before ending his eight year career with Absa as the general manager: finance for Absa Vehicle and Asset Finance. In January 2009, Bertus was appointed as managing director of Quince Capital.

			Chief operating officer: Reutech Qualifications MSc (Elec Eng) Wits, MSc (Aerospace) Cranfield UK Appointed 17 July 2008 Born 31 March 1956
DP van der Bijl			Peter started his career at Denel (Kentron) in 1979 working on the design of military systems and progressed via various management positions to spending eight years in export marketing. Between 2000 and 2005, he was marketing director for the French design company GECI, based in Paris after which he joined African Defence Systems (a Thales subsidiary in South Africa) as general manager of the Land and Joint business. In 2008 he was appointed as chief operating officer of Reutech and he currently leads the digital television migration and renewable energy initiatives within Reunert.

			Managing director: Nashua Limited (Office Automation) MBA Appointed to the group 1 September 1987 Born 7 May 1963
DP Coutinho			Dave started 23 years ago as a technician at Nashua Ltd and has since worked his way through the ranks to be appointed managing director on 3 November 2011. His knowledge of all the operations within Nashua makes him key to the sales environment. Dave has studied part time to enable him to face the challenges of each position he held. He completed a management diploma through the Henley Business School as well as a program for Management Development with the University of Cape Town (UCT). In 2006 he graduated with a Master’s in Business Administration through UCT in Systems Thinking.

			Managing director: Nashua Mobile CA(SA) Appointed 1 July 2002 Born 18 February 1966
CJ Radley			Chris qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1990 and completed his articles at Coopers and Lybrand. He continued working as audit manager before joining SDD, an IT distribution company in the Siltek Group in 1995 as financial director. In 2002 Chris joined Nashua Mobile as divisional director for credit with the main focus on reducing financial risk and exposure and to restructure regional activities. He was appointed to the Nashua Mobile board in 2004 and as managing director on 3 November 2011.

Managing director: Nashua ECN
B Pharm, AEP
Appointed within Reunert group 1 June 2011
Born 16 February 1964

AP Openshaw

Andy is a born entrepreneur. After obtaining his pharmacy degree at Rhodes in1985, he completed his internship and worked at Glaxo Pharmaceuticals. In 1991 he left to take advantage of opportunities in the veterinary pharmaceutical industry.

In 1995 Andy made the transition to telecommunications when he sold his veterinary interests and took over TDC, a telecommunications business specializing in access network products. Via one of his later investments HIH, Andy became an early channel partner to ECN. Andy sold out of HIH to join ECN as a shareholder and as full time chief commercial officer in 2007. ECN was bought by Reunert in June 2011 and he was appointed managing director on 3 November 2011.