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BOARD OF DIRECTORS


Executive directors

Clive Bradney Thomson – Chief Executive Age: 44
Business address: Barloworld Corporate Office, 180 Katherine Street, Sandton, 2196
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: BCom (Hons), CA(SA), MPhil (Cantab)
Profile: Clive joined Barloworld in 1997 and was appointed to the Barloworld board in 2003 as finance director. He was subsequently appointed as chief executive officer of the Equipment division and then as chief executive officer of Barloworld on 18 December 2006. Previously he was a partner at Deloitte. In 1993 he completed his Master of Philosophy Degree at Cambridge University, England in the Economics and Politics of Development. Clive is a board

member of Business Leadership South Africa.

Donald Gert Wilson – Finance Director Age: 53
Business address: Barloworld Corporate Office,
180 Katherine Street, Sandton, 2196
Nationality: South African
Qualification: BCom CTA, CA(SA)
Profile: Don rejoined Barloworld as finance director in 2006 and was appointed to the Barloworld board in September 2006. Previously he was executive director – Finance at Sappi Limited.

Peter John Blackbeard – CEO Barloworld Handling Age: 53
Business address: Barloworld Handling, Ground Floor, Statesman
House, Stafferton Way, Maidenhead, SL6 1AD, England
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: BSc Eng (Mech) (Hons), Dip Business
Management
Profile: John joined Barloworld in 1996 and was appointed to the Barloworld board in 2004. He was chief executive officer of the Scientific division prior to disposal of that business and in 2007 he was appointed chief executive officer of Barloworld Handling (formerly Barloworld Industrial Distribution). John was previously chief operating officer of PPC.

 


Martin Laubscher – CEO Barloworld Automotive and Logistics Age: 50
Business address: 6 Anvil Road, Isando, 1601
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: BAcc, BCompt (Hons), CTA, MCom
(Business Management)
Profile: Martin joined Barloworld in 1980 as a bursar and was appointed to the Barloworld board in May 2005. He was appointed chief executive officer of the Automotive division in 2003. Previously he was the director responsible for the Automotive Group Franchise Operations.

Oupa Isaac Shongwe – Executive director of strategy, innovation, solutions development and sustainability Age: 48
Business address: Barloworld Corporate Office,
180 Katherine Street, Sandton, 2196
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: BA (Hons) US, MPhil (Oxon)
Profile: Isaac joined Barloworld Logistics Africa as an executive director for Business Development and Transformation in 2005. He was appointed executive director for Barloworld and chief executive officer for Barloworld Logistics Africa in January 2007. Isaac was appointed as chief executive officer of the Barloworld

Peter John Bulterman – CEO Barloworld Equipment
Southern Africa Age: 54

Business address: Barloworld Corporate Office, 180 Katherine Street, Sandton, 2196
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: HDip Mechanical Engineering
Profile: Peter joined Barloworld in 1975 as a bursar and was appointed to the Barloworld board on 1 October 2009. He was appointed chief executive officer of Equipment Southern Africa in July 2007 and chairman of Barloworld Equipment UK. Prior to his appointment as CEO in July 2007, Peter served as chief operations officer for Equipment Southern Africa.


Non-executive

Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza – Chairman Age: 60
Business address: Fountain Chambers, Sandown Village Office
Park, 86 Maude Street, Sandown
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: LLB, BProc, BA, LLM (International Law)
Profile: Dumisa was appointed to the Barloworld board in
May 1999. He is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Johannesburg Bar. In 2005 he was conferred the status of silk and was the first African advocate in the history of the Cape Bar to do so. He served as a commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has been appointed from time to time, as acting judge of the High Court of South Africa. On 1 July 2009 Dumisa was appointed to serve on the Judicial Services Commission (JSC).

Selby Alan Masibonge Baqwa Age: 59
Business address: Block A, 1st Floor Nedcor Sandton, 135 Rivonia
Road, Sandown, 2196
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: BJuris, LLB, MBA, DTech (hc), AMP (Harvard)
Profile: Selby was appointed to the Barloworld board in
January 2005. He is Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Nedbank Limited and a member of the Executive Committee of Nedbank Limited. He was appointed Public Protector of South Africa in 1995.

Alexander Gordon Kelso Hamilton Age: 65
Business address: 51 Chelsea Square, London, SW36LH
Nationality: British
Qualifications: MA (Cantab), FCA
Profile: Gordon was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2007. He retired in 2006 after a career of more than 30 years as a partner of the UK practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP. He is a non-executive director of the UK-listed Lloyds underwriter Beazley Group plc and Fairbairn Private Bank. He is a member of the UK Financial Reporting Review Panel.


Sibongile Susan Mkhabela Age: 54
Business address: Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, 27 Eastwold
Way, Saxonwold, 2196
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: BA Social Work (Hons), Dip Business
Management (WITS), MAP
Profile: Bongi was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2006. She serves on the Stanlib board and on the Deloittes Best Company to Work for programme. She served as director for Programmes and Projects at the office of then Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. She is the CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund.


Mfundiso Johnson Ntabankulu Njeke Age: 51
Business address: Building A, Ground Floor, Bally Oaks Office Park,
33 Ballyclare Drive, Bryanston, 2021
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: BCom, BCompt (Hons), CA(SA), HDip Tax
Profile: JJ was appointed to the Barloworld board in September
2009. He is chairman of Silver Unicorn Trading 33 (Pty) Limited and the co-founder of Kagiso Trust Investments (Pty) Limited. He currently serves as a director on the boards of N M Rothschild (SA), Resilient Property Income Fund, MTN, Sasol and the Council of the University of Johannesburg, and is chairman of Arcelor Mittal (SA) and Metropolitan Holdings.

Sango Siviwe Ntsaluba Age: 50
Business address: 21 West Street, Houghton, 2198
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: BCom, BCompt (Hons), CA(SA), HDip Tax Law
Profile: Sango was appointed to the Barloworld board in July 2008. He is the CEO of the Amabubesi Group and a founder member of Sizwe Ntsaluba VSP, the largest black owned consulting, accounting and auditing practice in South Africa.


Thembalihle Hixonia Nyasulu Age: 56
Business address: 410 Jan Smuts Avenue, Craighall Park, 2196
Nationality: South African
Qualifications: BA (Hons) Psychology, BA Social Work
Profile: Hixonia was appointed to the Barloworld board in
January 2007. She is the executive chairman of Ayavuna Women’s Investments (Proprietary) Limited, non-executive chairman of Sasol Limited and a director of Defy (Proprietary) Limited and Unilever

PLC/NV

Steven Bernard Pfeiffer Age: 63
Business address: Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, 801 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW, Washington DC, USA 20004
Nationality: American
Qualifications: BA, MA (Oxon), JD (Yale)
Profile: Steve was appointed to the Barloworld board in August 2001. He is a partner of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., a US legal firm. He is a non-executive director of NASDAQ-quoted Iridium Communications, Inc., Chairman Emeritus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, USA, a trustee of the Africa-America Institute in New York, and a director of Project HOPE in Washington, DC and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund in New York.

Gonzalo Rodriguez de Castro Garcia de los Rios Age: 67
Business address: Maria de Molina, N1 28006, Madrid, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Profile: Gonzalo was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2004. He was appointed as a non-executive director of Barloworld’s Spanish equipment business in 1995 and chairman in 2007. He was chief executive officer of the Madrid Stock Exchange and chairman of Euroquote in Brussels.

  
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