Our board

Area of expertise and contribution

• Strategy execution
• Extensive FMCG experience
• Culture alignment

Board meeting attendance

• N/A

Area of expertise and contribution

• Leadership and strategy
• Extensive finance and governance
• Risk management
• Innovation and IT
• Procurement practices
• FMCG

Board meeting attendance

• 9/9

Geraldine serves as chancellor of the Nelson Mandela University, a non-executive director on the board of the Standard Bank Group and Standard Bank South Africa and lead independent director of Exxaro Resources Limited. She is also chairman of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation. She is a fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and has completed a leadership course at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. She has been recognised with several awards, including the OP Dwivedi Public Service Award from the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Public Administration, and a special award for outstanding achievement from the University of Pretoria’s School of Public Management and Administration.

Area of expertise and contribution

• Leadership and strategy
• Extensive governance and public administration
• Stakeholder relations and sustainability/ ESG leadership

Board meeting attendance

• 9/9

Emma is co-founder and CEO of MASA Group of Companies, which includes MASA Risk Advisory Services (Proprietary) Limited and MASA Chartered Accountants Incorporated. A seasoned chartered accountant, she has more than 15 years’ experience leading internal audit, external audit and advisory teams at various multi-national companies in the public and private sectors, including logistics, mining, financial services, retail, FMCG, real estate management, healthcare and non-profit organisations. Until 30 September 2023, Emma served as a non-executive director on the boards of Capitec Bank Holdings Limited and Capitec Bank, and as chairman of Capitec Bank’s social and ethics committee. She holds an MBA from Wits Business School, BCom Honours (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and BCompt (UNISA).

Area of expertise and contribution

• Extensive auditing and finance
• Governance and leadership
• Corporate finance and banking
• FMCG
• Risk management

Board meeting attendance

• 8/9

Gail is the co-founder and chair of Savo Project Developers, an advisory and investment facilitation business focused on building a portfolio of sustainable businesses across the African continent. She additionally holds a portfolio of strategic and governance roles with various industries to help drive systemic change to a more sustainable economy. Her formal roles include board advisor to MAS Holdings, member of the supervisory board of Rabobank and chair of the Shell Foundation. Previously, Gail served as the business and transformation director for the global Business and Sustainable Development Commission, as customer and responsible business director for Old Mutual Plc and global chief sustainability director for Unilever (Proprietary) Limited. Earlier, Gail led several Unilever businesses, including as EVP for Unilever’s global savoury category and as CEO of the group’s South African business. She has a master’s degree in Sustainability Leadership from Cambridge University.

Area of expertise and contribution

• FMCG – General management and governance
• Stakeholder relations
• Brand and reputational management
• Innovation and marketing
• Extensive sustainability/ESG leadership and strategy

Board meeting attendance

• 9/9

Donald is an experienced finance executive whose career spans over 20 years working for listed entities with global operations. He retired in 2020 as group finance director of Barloworld Limited, a global industrial company. At Barloworld, he played a strategic role during the unbundling of PPC Limited and the listing of Freeworld Limited. He is a non-executive director of Mpact Limited and Zeda Limited and director of BHBW Holdings (Proprietary) Limited. Donald is a CA(SA).

Area of expertise and contribution

• Mergers and acquisitions and stakeholder engagement
• Extensive finance and general management
• Governance and remuneration
• Leadership and strategy

Board meeting attendance

• 9/9

As an executive and strategic business partner within international corporate and startup operations, Lucia has wide-ranging experience in human resources leadership. She started her career with Reckitt & Colman before joining BP Southern Africa as human resources officer. Following this, she spent eight years at the Seagram Group of Companies as human resources director and later joined Sappi Limited as group head of HR. She also served as the vice president, people at AB InBev Africa Zone. Previously Lucia served as a non-executive director of Clicks Holdings Limited, Zambian Breweries Plc and SABMiller Namibia (Proprietary) Limited. She is currently a non-executive director of Mr Price Group, Santam, Isizwe Advisory Services (Proprietary) Limited and Delta Corporation Limited (Zimbabwe).

Area of expertise and contribution

• General management and strategy
• Extensive human resources
• Remuneration policies
• Governance and FMCG

Board meeting attendance

• 9/9

Mahlape is a practising advocate and a member of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates and of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce Council. She has been in practice since 2003. She is a panellist with the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa and China-Africa Joint Arbitration Centre. She is currently non-executive director of Life Healthcare Group Holdings Limited. Mahlape was appointed a member of the South African Law Reform Commission in 2007, on which she served until December 2011, before being re-appointed in August 2013. She was previously chairman of Murray & Roberts Limited, having been appointed to the board in 2009 and as chairman in 2013. She was chairman of the Advertising Industry Tribunal Appeal Committee of the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (appointed in 2013).

Area of expertise and contribution

• Extensive legal and commercial expertise
• General management and leadership
• Governance, strategy
• Stakeholder relations

Board meeting attendance

• 9/9

Olivier is a senior executive with more than 30 years of experience in the food and beverage industry. He is currently director of Marilan Alimentos S.A. (Brazil), Risamar (USA) and Resiter S.A. (Chile). He has held various general management roles, including as president, leading the PepsiCo Food businesses in Latin America (except Mexico). He has specialised in successfully turning businesses around in Latin America and leading M&A activities.

Area of expertise and contribution

• General management and strategy
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Governance
• Business turnaround and culture transformation
• Risks management and marketing and brands
• ESG experience

Board meeting attendance

• 9/9

Based in Dubai, Frank has deep FMCG and emerging markets experience, having held various senior and executive roles at Unilever in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. Other previous roles include executive chairman of Feronia Inc., chief investment officer of Amatheon Agri Holding and a short period at Procter & Gamble. He is currently chairman of MSI International and Baobab International, a non-executive director of Buhler Holdings AG (Switzerland), AECF LLC (USA) and Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Kenya).

Area of expertise and contribution

• General management and strategy
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Governance and risk management
• FMCG and emerging market
• Sustainability/ESG

Board meeting attendance

• 9/9

Michael is a seasoned business executive who has held leadership roles across various sectors. He is currently non-executive director of International Breweries Plc, a subsidiary of AbInbev, MTN Limited (Nigeria), Novotel Hotels Group, Sterling Bank Plc, chairman of Munica Properties Investment Limited and Mobax Nigeria Limited. Previously, Michael was non-executive chairman of Fenikso Limited. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Lagos and an MBA from The Leonard N Stern School of Business.

Area of expertise and contribution

• Stakeholder relations
• Risks and general management
• Corporate finance
• West Africa
• Banking and finance
• FMCG

Board meeting attendance

• 9/9

Sam is co-founder and CEO of Value Capital Partners (VCP). Prior to VCP, he held several leadership positions at Brait including executive director: capital and treasury. He was a partner at Deloitte, where he was group leader for the Financial Services Audit Practice in the Johannesburg office. Sam is chairman of Sun International, as well as an alternate director of Metair Investments and Adcorp Holdings and a former non-executive director of Altron.

Area of expertise and contribution

• Extensive investment and finance expertise
• General management and strategy
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Governance
• Stakeholder relations

Board meeting attendance

• 6/6