Geoffrey is former chief executive officer of the Industrial Development Corporation (“IDC”) of South Africa. During his tenure, he grew the IDC’s asset base from R31bn in 2004 to R137bn in 2018.

He has experience serving as a non-executive director and chairperson on Boards of listed and unlisted companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Investec Bank Limited and Exxaro Resources Limited as a non-executive director and chairperson respectively. Geoffrey holds an Honours Degree in Accounting Science and is accredited as a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) with SAICA.

Brian has over 30 years of experience in the financial services sector, encompassing executive and non-executive Board roles within large institutions and smaller high- growth private companies.

His experience spans debt and equity capital markets, corporate banking, private equity, commercial property finance, and mergers and acquisitions.

When Nedbank acquired BOE Ltd in 2002, Brian was tasked with merging BOE Merchant Bank, Nedbank Treasury, Nedcor Investment Bank and Cape of Good Hope Bank to create an integrated capital markets franchise in Nedbank.

In his last Executive role, he served as Group Managing Executive of Nedbank’s Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) Unit. During his tenure, CIB grew headline earnings from R4.7 billion to R6.7 billion over four years, producing an ROE greater than 20% for shareholders. In 2020, CIB contributed approximately 60% of Nedbank’s earnings and deployed a balance sheet of R350 billion to corporate South Africa and across the African continent.

Brian holds an MBA, BSc Electrical Engineering, MSc Electrical Engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer. He currently serves on the Boards of Ecobank Transnational Inc, Afrisam Holdings (Pty) Ltd and Nozala Investments.

Ethel Matenge-Sebesho is a highly professional and experienced board director with extensive experience leading organisations, specifically within the housing and banking industries. She was responsible for driving and establishing new markets to facilitate access to housing finance in the low to medium income market, for a number of African countries. This involved engaging with mortgage lenders, Banking Regulators, short-term insurers and Insurance Regulators and reputable housing and infrastructure developers. She had succeeded in establishing business operations in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Botswana, Namibia and Nigeria. The process of establishing business in all these countries has resulted in Ethel having extensive and useful contacts and networks abroad and in most African countries. She has held various positions within Standard Chartered Bank Botswana Ltd and was responsible for the management of the Bank’s personal banking and marketing activities, as well as the restructuring of the all the bank’s departments and implementation of new processes. In 1996 she was appointed by the Botswana Cabinet as a board member of the Botswana Housing Corporation. Ethel visited Oslo, Norway at the invitation of the largest Housing Association (OBOS), to benchmark their operations against those of Botswana to identify best practice. She attended the Asian Regional Conference of Women World Banking affiliates and visited banks in both India and Bangladesh to obtain input from their officials on how they run their banks and how they manage recovery rates on loans. She was formerly a non-executive director of FirstRand Limited and Capevin Holdings.

Funke is a commercially astute and experienced business leader who has served on the boards of several private and publicly listed companies, bringing diverse and extensive leadership experience and expertise in a large number of business disciplines, but specifically in finance, business strategy, governance and risk management.

She is a former CFO of Tiger Brands Limited and Primedia Limited and an executive director of Barloworld Limited and of 9mobile (Nigeria's fourth largest Telco). She founded and led the private equity business of Kagiso Trust Investment Group. She was formerly a non-executive director of Datatec Limited and Transaction Capital Limited.

Mr Herman Singh holds an MBA, BSc. Mechanical Engineering and a Graduate Diploma, Industrial Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand. He is an innovative business thinker and a high impact player with a mix of business technology, leadership and entrepreneurial skills. He has led and guided many disruptive businesses in the ongoing convergence of technology and business for over 20 years.

Ipeleng is a qualified international strategist and an entrepreneur. She has done work in diverse sectors including ICT, Ports, Maritime, Energy, Telecommunications, Aviation, and Investment Promotion Agencies. She conceptualised and launched the first ever portal of African Maritime Affairs that was launched at the African Union. She has particular strengths in ESG and specialises in foreign market entry strategies and execution in maritime, ports value chain and maritime countries.

Ipeleng's commercial interests are in diverse sectors including Energy, Business and Foreign Market Entry Strategy Consultancy, Rail Transport, SMME’s and Maritime Transport/Ports Infrastructure.

Ipeleng holds an MSc international strategy majoring in Foreign Market Entry Strategy from the University of London South Bank, has completed an African Leadership Executive Course as part of her TUTU Fellowship as well as a Strategy Execution Qualification. She is currently completing her MBA in Oil and Gas as well as a Postgraduate in Mechanics of Renewable Energy. She serves on the Boards of Siemens Energy SA, Mahlako Energy Infrastructure and Satsanga Fintech Holdings.

Keith is a qualified chartered accountant (SA) with a wealth of experience in corporate finance, having started his corporate finance career in 1987. Over the years, he has advised numerous listed companies on various types of corporate finance transactions. He is currently the chief executive officer of KAR Presentations, an advisory and presentation corporation, which specialises in corporate finance and regulatory advice and presentations (including, among others, presentations on the JSE Listings Requirements, Market Abuse, the Companies Act, Governance, Takeover Law, strategy and implementation of all corporate actions, valuation theory and practice, IFRS, as well as tax and refresher courses for listed companies’ directors.

He is a member of the JSE Issuer Regulation Advisory Committee and has been actively involved in assisting the JSE Issuer Regulation Division since 1995. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors in South Africa, is a non-broking member of the Institute of Stockbrokers in South Africa, and a member of the Investment Analysts Society.

Ms. Msimang is an entrepreneur and seasoned ICT and investment sector executive, with over 20 years’ of experience in the ICT Sector in South Africa and the wider African continent. She founded and managed a Pan-African ICT advisory firm, Pygma Consulting, for 11 years prior to joining Nozala Investments, a female-owned private equity firm, where she is currently the chief executive officer. Ms. Msimang’s professional areas of expertise include regulation, with a focus on infrastructure regulation, having obtained her MSc from the London School of Economics in 2004.

She also has experience in public policy, universal service and access, competition policy and broadband policy and funding. Ms Msimang has been involved in the regulation of the ICT sector since 1998 when she joined the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (now the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, ICASA) as the advisor to the deputy chairperson of the Council, until 2003.

Mr. Booi is a qualified electrical engineer registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), is currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Johannesburg. With a career spanning over three decades in the ICT sector, Mr. Booi possesses a wealth of experience and is well-versed in business strategy, innovation, engineering, policy, regulatory and general management.

Most recently, he concluded an 8-year tenure as the chief executive officer of Sentech SOC Ltd., a state-owned information and communications technology (“ICT”) infrastructure company, where he successfully led the organisation. Over a period of six years, he grew the company from revenues of R800m to R1,4bn. He is actively engaged in coaching and mentorship, having co-founded the Kutlwanong Centre for Maths and Science in 2005 and devoting significant time on weekends to teaching Science and Technology to grade 12 students in Soweto.

Prudence is a chartered accountant with over 18 years of experience in corporate finance, investor relations, private equity, financial reporting, stakeholder management and business development in the financial services and mining sectors. She is currently CEO of TriAlpha Investment Management, a specialist fixed income investment house.

Prior to that she was CEO and interim finance director of Gaia Infrastructure Capital Ltd, an infrastructure investment holding company listed on the main board of the JSE.

Prudence holds a BCom degree and a Higher Diploma in Accounting from the University of Witwatersrand. She is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (“SAICA”) and qualified in December 2005 after serving her articles at PricewaterhouseCoopers Incorporated. She currently serves on the Boards of DRDGold Ltd, Growthpoint Properties Ltd, and Iemas Financial Services (Co-operative) Ltd.

Sibusiso, a qualified chartered accountant, is the former chief executive and principal officer of the Eskom Pension and Provident Fund, a position he held for 8 years. He is one of the founding members and deputy chairman of Batseta, an organization for pension fund fiduciaries. Sibusiso was previously a non-executive director of Telkom and has previously served as CEO of Ithala Bank Limited and chairman of Cipla Medpro Pharmaceuticals Limited.

Currently he serves as a non-executive director and chairman of the Finance, Risk and Compliance Committee of BCX Limited and deputy chairman of Batseta.

Sibusiso previously served on the Boards of, among others, Murray and Roberts and African Rainbow Minerals, Denel and Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection and he was head of Wits Business School.

Sung is a former CEO and president of Samsung Africa, with unique executive experience across three continents, including 16 years in the United States and four years in Africa. He has a proven track record of turning around difficult business situations and significantly growing both new and existing business categories. He is an expert in tailoring global strategies to suit the needs of each market, and possesses hands-on technical sales skills across numerous product categories. He is a respected leader who strives to build meaningful relationships with both customers and employees.

Sung has worked with Samsung Electronics in a range of capacities, and across the world as CEO and president in South Africa, head of Mobile Sales, head of TV & AV Sales and head of IBM sales, respectively, in the United States of America, and new Business Development in Korea. He is currently an advisor to Samsung Electronics in Korea.

Sung has an MBA from the University of Illinois, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Korea University.