Tina Eboka

Date of birth

1959

Qualifications

BSc (Industrial Eng, Textile Eng), MBA

Designation

Chair

Date of appointment

25 February 2016 (to the Board)

21 September 2022 (as Chair)

Appointment to committees

30 March 2021 - Social and ethics committee

Significant directorships

TymeBank; TymeHolding; Reunert Group

Non-significant directorships

Three

Skills and expertise: Business turnaround management, strategy, engineering, corporate governance, change management, stakeholder management and corporate affairs

Experience: In addition to being chair of the Omnia Holdings board of directors, Tina runs family investments in textile manufacturing, fashion design and communications. She was previously the group managing director of NTP Radioisotopes (SOC) Limited, the commercial subsidiary of NECSA. She was the vice chair of the OECD-NEA committee of medical radioisotopes for two terms. Her work experience in private and public sectors includes banking, science/technology research, retail, and manufacturing sectors.

Tina is a recognised business turnaround leader who has served on the group executive committee of Standard Bank responsible for setting up group corporate affairs. Prior to that, she was vice-president at CSIR; a senior manager in textiles and stakeholder management at Woolworths; and head of engineering in a manufacturing firm in the USA. Tina previously served on other listed company boards.

Prof. Nick Binedell

Date of birth

1953

Qualifications

BCom; MBA; PhD

Designation

Independent non-executive director

Date of appointment

24 February 2017 - Board

Appointment to committees

None

Significant directorships

None

Skills and expertise:Business management, strategy, governance, finance

Experience: Nick was the founding Dean of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) (1998 – 2015).

He has been a board member of two listed companies and a member of a variety of international accreditation bodies for business schools.

He lectures and consults in the area of strategic leadership.

Ronald Clifford Bowen

Date of birth

1951

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) - 1st class

Designation

Independent non-executive director

Date of appointment

28 September 2011

Appointment to committees

13 April 2017 - audit and risk

Significant directorship

None

Skills and expertise: Business management, strategy, global and local governance, chemical industry

Experience: Former senior executive, managing specialty chemical businesses on five continents for Süd-Chemie AG, Germany for 30 years. He also worked for Ashland Chemicals Inc. of the United States. He has served on several boards, both locally and internationally, as managing director, executive director and chairman with joint-venture shareholders such as Sasol Limited, the Industrial Development Corporation, Central Energy Fund (CEF) Limited and PetroSA.

George Cavaleros

Date of birth

1956

Qualifications

CA(SA), CFA, ACIS, CIA, CISA, CFP, MCom (Applied Risk Management)

Designation

Independent non-executive director

Date of appointment

5 August 2019

Appointment to committees

5 August 2019 – audit and risk (chair)

16 October 2019 – remuneration and nominations

Significant directorships

Sygnia Limited

Skills and expertise: External and internal audit, finance and accounting, risk management and controls, corporate governance

Experience: George retired from Deloitte during 2015 after a 30-year career with the firm. As a fi nancial services industry partner, George provided audit and a variety of other professional services to clients including life insurance and reinsurance companies, asset managers, hedge funds and other finance entities.

Currently, George is the lead independent non-executive director of a financial services group, Sygnia Limited, and chairs the group’s audit and risk committee.

Previously, George held audit committee leadership positions at a medical scheme and a leading South African university. In addition, George served as an independent non-executive director on the board of Accelerate Property Fund Limited, a listed real estate investment trust (REIT), where he was a member of and later chaired the audit and risk committee.

Sizwe Mncwango

Date of birth

1966

Qualifications

BSc; MSc (Civ Eng); MBA

Designation

Independent non-executive director

Date of appointment

29 July 2010

Appointment to committees

None

Significant directorships

Shell Downstream South Africa; Sekelo Oil Trading; Science, Technology and Innovation for Africa (STISA) Oil Trading; Thebe Mining Resources; Empact Group

Non-significant directorships

Six

Skills and expertise:Business management, engineering, governance, strategy

Experience: Sizwe is the group chief executive officer of Thebe Investment Corporation, one of the leading investment holding companies that came into being shortly before South Africa’s formal political transition to democracy. He was the chief executive officer of Thebe Energy & Resources since 1 April 2015, a role he assumed after serving for two years as the chief executive officer of the Central Energy Fund. The CEF is a state-owned SA entity focusing on oil, gas, coal, renewable and alternative primary energy sources.

Sizwe has served on numerous boards over the past two decades and brings along with him extensive experience in energy and energy-related investments acquired over the last 30 years.

Thoko Mokgosi-Mwantembe

Date of birth

1961

Qualifications

Diploma in Teaching (Swaziland), BSc (Swaziland), MSc (Loughborough UK), SEP (Harvard USA), MCRP (IMD Switzerland)

Designation

Independent non-executive director

Date of appointment

1 June 2018

Appointment to committees

Remuneration and nominations (chair) – 1 August 2018

Significant directorships:

Royal Bafokeng Platinum, Old Mutual, Oceana, Balwin

Non-significant directorships

Nine

Skills and expertise: Business management, chemicals, information systems, strategy

Experience: Thoko holds a BSc and Teaching Diploma from Swaziland and a master’s degree in Medicinal Chemistry from Loughborough University in the UK. She serves as an independent non-executive director on the boards of a number of JSE-listed companies. In 2005, she was named finalist for IT Personality, winner of Top ICT Individual and winner of Top ICT Businesswoman in Africa. In 2007, she was named the Businesswoman of the year in the Corporate Category.

Willem (Wim) Plaizier

Date of birth

1961

Qualifications

BSc, MBA, EMCCC

Designation

Independent non-executive director

Date of appointment

11 February 2019

Appointment to committees

Audit and risk

Social and ethics (chair) – 1 April 2023

Significant directorships

None

Skills and expertise: Business management, strategy, supply chain operations, chemicals and mining industry, nature conservation, social development

Experience: Wim has over 40 years’ industry and strategic management consulting experience across predominantly the Chemicals, Energy, Oil & Gas, Agriculture, Pulp & Paper and Metals & Mining sectors. He also brings significant international experience to the board, with more than 15 years in Africa. Among other roles during his career, Wim until end 2017 served as a partner at Kearney where he was responsible for, inter alia, the African region and held multiple other management roles at regional and global levels. He retired in 2017 after 21 years within the group and served from September 2018 to December 2019 as interim COO of African parks, a nature conservancy. He is currently a non-executive on various philanthropic/NGO boards, an independent advisor, coach, and interim manager.

Ronel van Dijk

Date of birth

1972

Qualifications

CA(SA)

Designation

Independent non-executive director

Appointment to Board

1 May 2022

Appointment to committees

Audit and risk – 1 May 2022

Significant (JSE-listed) directorships

Adcorp Holdings Limited; Grand Parade Investments Limited

Non-significant (unlisted) directorships

Four

Skills and expertise: Finance, business management, corporate governance

Experience: Ronel is a CA(SA), having obtained a BAcc (Hons) from the University of Stellenbosch and completing articles with Arthur Andersen, where she attained the role of audit manager. In 2003, she joined the Spur Corporation Limited as financial manager, whereafter she was promoted to chief financial officer. After 15 years with the Spur Corporation, Ronel decided to step away from corporate life and became a freelance consultant.

Since June 2019, Ronel has served as a non-executive director and audit and risk committee member to Adcorp Holdings Limited. In 2023, she was appointed as a member of the human capital committee and chair of the social, ethics and sustainability committee. Ronel also served as an audit and risk committee member of GPI Limited from 2018 until April 2023.

Ronel acted as CFO of PPC Limited from 1 November 2019 to 31 March 2021 and continued to consult with the company until November 2022.

Thanaseelan (Seelan) Gobalsamy

Date of birth

1976

Qualifications

CA(SA), AMP (Harvard)

Designation

Chief Executive Officer

Date of appointment

10 September 2019

Appointment to committees

Social and ethics

Significant directorships

Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited, Momentum Metropolitan Life Limited

Non-significant directorships

Four

Skills and expertise: Finance, business management, strategy, mergers and acquisitions.

Experience: He is an accomplished, internationally experienced business leader from the financial services sector. He has assumed senior leadership roles across emerging markets for close to 20 years, including key leadership roles as chief executive officer, chief financial officer and managing director. He served as chief executive of emerging markets for Liberty Holdings and previously as the group chief executive of STANLIB Group. Prior to this, he was managing director of Old Mutual Corporate.

Stephan Serfontein

Date of birth

1977

Qualifications

CA (SA)

Designation

Finance director

Date of appointment

1 March 2020 - Board

Appointment to committees

None

Significant directorships

None

Skills and expertise: Finance, business management, strategy

Experience: He has been with Omnia Group for over a decade and served as financial director since August 2019. He began his career at Deloitte Consulting and has around 20 years of international finance experience in the manufacturing, chemicals, mining, and agriculture industries. He has served on several boards, both locally and internationally, in executive and non-executive capacities.