2019

EOH Board of Directors - Full CVs

The Board and management remain committed to delivering long-term, sustainable value to their people, stakeholders, shareholders and partners, always guided by a common purpose, philosophy and value system.

• 1. Dr Xolani Mkhwanazi
  Chairman and independent
  non-executive director

  Permanent invitee to all Board committees

  Appointed 5 June 2019

  BSc (Maths and Physics), MSc, PhD (Applied Physics), Executive Development Programme

  Xolani has been a director of many companies over the years, including Executive Chairman of BHP Billiton Southern Africa. Currently he sits on three boards – Murray and Roberts, South32 and is Deputy Chair of the Public Investment Corporation.

• 2. Andrew Mthembu
  Lead Independent non-executive director

  Chairperson of the Technology and Information Committee, member of the Audit Committee and Governance and Risk Committee

  Appointed 20 June 2019

  BSc (Chemistry, Biology), BSc (Civil Engineering), MSc (Construction Management), Executive Management Programme (Wharton and University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

  Andrew started his career in the Ministry of Works and Communications, went on to work for Otis Elevators. He later moved on to become Managing Director of Murray and Roberts in their toll roads concession business. He was subsequently appointed as MD of Vodacom SA. After serving as MD of Vodacom SA, Andrew was charged with setting up Vodacom International (Pty) Ltd and later promoted to Deputy Group CEO of the Vodacom Group of Companies, a position he held until he left. Andrew now manages his investment company and consults to various clients on ICT strategies, he also sits on various boards.

• 3. Dr Anushka Bogdanov
  Independent non-executive director

  Chairperson of the Social and Ethics Committee, member of the Governance and Risk Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Committee

  Appointed 20 June 2019

  BA (Political Science), Postgraduate Diploma (Financial Management), MBA (International Financial Management), PhD (International Finance and Financial Mathematics), Executive Development Programme (Rotman School of Business Canada), SingularityU Executive Programme

  Anushka started her career with Absa Corporate and Merchant Bank, thereafter she moved to Fitch Ratings as Senior Director. In 2003, she joined Nedbank and during her time in the banking industry she was instrumental in improving risk management capabilities, strengthening the use of business performance predictive models and building an impressive analytics team. Her most recent corporate role was at the DBSA before establishing her own risk management consulting firm. Anushka also lectures to MPhil students and supervises PhD Finance students at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.

• 4. Mike Bosman
  Independent non-executive director

  Chairperson of the Audit Committee, member of the Governance and Risk Committee, the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and the Technology and Information Committee

  Appointed 20 June 2019

  B Com (Hons) (Financial Accounting), LLM, CA(SA), Advanced Management Programme (Harvard)

  Mike began his career in corporate and project finance before moving into the creative world of advertising and became Group CEO of FCB South Africa and the Africa region. He later served as President and Chief Operating Officer of FCB North America. He headed up FCB’s operations in the US and Canada and was based in New York. After he returned to South Africa, he was appointed Group CEO of the large communications group, TBWA\ South Africa.

  He currently serves as the non-executive chairman of Spur Corporation Limited, nonexecutive chairman of Vinimark Holdings, non-executive director of MTN South Africa and non-executive director of AVI Limited.

• 5. Jesmane A Boggenpoel
  Independent non-executive director

  Chairperson of the Governance and Risk Committee and member of the Audit Committee

  Appointed 1 July 2018

  B Com (Accounting), B Acc, CA(SA), Masters in Public Administration (Harvard JFK School of Government)

  Jesmane has over 16 years’ experience mainly in investments and private equity, she has international work and study experience living on three continents (Africa, US and Europe). Jesmane was former Head of Business Engagement Africa, World Economic Forum based in Switzerland.

  She has served on various boards including Land Bank, Cell C, Senwes and Adcorp. Jesmane is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a member of the digital economy working group of BRICs (South African chapter). She is also a founding board member of a women’s investment company called African Women Chartered Accountants Investment Holdings. She has authored the published book ‘My blood divides and unites’ focusing on identity and building trust across communities.

• 6. Ismail Mamoojee
  Independent non-executive director

  Chairperson of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and member of the Audit Committee, Social and Ethics Committee and Technology and Information Committee

  Appointed 1 July 2018

  B Com (Accounting), CA(SA), CAIB (SA), Tax Law Cert (SA)

  Ismail has in excess of 20 years’ experience in financial services and is passionate about finance, internal controls, governance, risk and compliance. Currently he works at Liberty, which provides long/short-term insurance, asset management, property, direct financial and health services, and since January 2009 he has been the CFO of the Africa division.

  Ismail is an entrepreneur by nature and always seeks solutions to enhance operations of the organisation he serves.

  Ismail has served as a director on a number of the in-country boards.

• 7. Dr Moretlo Molefi

  Member of the Social and Ethics Committee, Technology and Information Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Committee

  Appointed 12 May 2017

  Bachelor of Science (University of Lesotho), MBChB (MEDUNSA), Telemedicine Diploma (University of Arkansas), Foreign Telemedicine (TATRC), SMP (Stellenbosch University)

  Dr Lynette Moretlo Molefi is a South African medical doctor, a dynamic and versatile entrepreneur and business executive, with a reputation for exemplary leadership. She has been one of the few pioneers of Telemedicine in South Africa and Africa with representation at various levels of government and non-governmental organisations. She currently holds executive positions at Telemedicine Africa (Pty) Ltd and Sunpa Africa (Pty) Ltd.

  Dr Molefi also serves as a board member of HCI; The International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth; eTV; Business Systems Group (Africa); and Syntell.

Executive directors

• 8. Stephen van Coller
  Group Chief Executive Officer

  Member of the Governance and Risk Committee, Social and Ethics Committee and Technology and Information Committee

  Appointed 1 September 2018

  B Com (Accounting), CA(SA), ACMA (UK)

  Prior to joining the EOH Group, Stephen was with the MTN Group and served as Vice President: Digital Services, Data Analytics and Business Development. He was a member of the MTN Group Executive Committee, Group Transformation Board and the Group Operations Committee.

  Stephen has over 20 years’ experience within the banking sector, Chief Executive of Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) at Barclays Africa Group from 2006 to 2016, a member of the Executive Committee and chaired the Citizenship and Innovation Committees across Africa, a member of the Barclays Plc Global Investment Committee, the Barclays Social Innovation Fund and was Chairman of The Absa Foundation Trust.

• 9. Megan Pydigadu
  Group Chief Financial Officer

  Member of the Technology and Information Committee

  Appointed 15 January 2019

  B Com (Accounting), H Dip Acc, CA(SA)

  Megan qualified as a chartered accountant in 1999 and completed her articles at Deloitte. She stayed on as a manager for a further two years. In 2002 she joined De Beers as a Senior Divisional Financial Manager in the head office function. In 2005 she joined Bateman Engineering Group which recently listed on the AIM exchange in London serving as Group Financial Controller until 2010. From August 2010 to January 2017 she served as Group CFO at MiX Telematics where she was involved in the successful listing of MiX Telematics on the New York Stock Exchange including a US$100 million capital raise.

• 10. Fatima Newman
  Chief Risk Officer

  Member of the Governance and Risk Committee and the Social and Ethics Committee

  Appointed 1 August 2019

  BA (Law), Certificate in Compliance Management, Leadership Programme (Singularity University)

  Fatima has a diverse experience across a range of industries including stockbroking, asset management and private banking, financial services, government and parastatals in both front office and infrastructure functions, some of which were Macquarie First South, Absa CIB and the MTN Group prior to joining the EOH Group.