| BOARD
PROFILE |
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| Mervyn Eldred
King (68)* |
| BA, LLB (cum laude) H Dip Tax (Wits) |
| Senior Chairman –
Appointed to the board 1998 |
Mervyn King is a senior counsel and former Judge
of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He has chaired and been
a director of several companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock
Exchange, including First National Bank Holdings Limited, Capital
Alliance Limited, Metro Cash & Carry Limited and Frame Group
Holdings.
In South Africa, he is Professor Extraordinaire at the University
of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Chairman of the King
Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, President
of the Advertising Standards Authority, First Vice president
of the Institute of Directors Southern Africa, a member of the
Securities Regulation Panel which oversees all mergers and acquisitions
in South Africa, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Witwatersrand
University Foundation and Chairman of the Appeal Committee of
the United Cricket Board of South Africa.
He is a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World
Bank on Corporate Governance, a member of the international
advisory boards of Stern Stewart of the USA, Tomorrows Company
of the United Kingdom and the Asian Centre of Corporate Governance.
He is the chairman and a member of the United Nations Steering
Committee of eminent persons to review the governance and oversight
within the United Nations, its funds, programmes and specialised
agencies. He was the first President of the Commonwealth Association
of Corporate Governance, a former Governor of the International
Corporate Governance Network and the South African representative
of the International Chamber of Commerce International Court
of Arbitration in Paris.
He is presently Chairman of the Automobile Association of South
Africa, Strate, the settlement arm of trades in equities and
other instruments in South Africa and a director of JD Group
listed in Johannesburg.
He has consulted, advised and spoken on legal, business and
corporate governance issues in 28 countries and has received
many awards. |
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| Antony Charles
Ball (47)* |
| BCom (Hons), MPhil (Oxon), CA(SA) |
| Executive Chairman
– Appointed to the board 1998 |
| Antony Ball was a co-founder of Brait's Private
equity business. He has led the raising and governance of the
group's principal private equity funds. He is responsible for
numerous of the groups' private equity investments. He was appointed
group Chief Executive of Brait in March 2000 and Executive Chairman
in 2005. |
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| Paul Adrian
Barlow Beercroft (59)† |
| MA (Oxon) Physics, MBA (Harvard Business School),
F. Inst. P |
| Non-Executive Director
– Appointed to the board 2005 |
Adrian Beercroft has a first class honours degree
in physics from the Queen's College, Oxford. Following graduation
in 1968, he worked for ICL in the computer industry for five
years. In 1974 he went as a Harkness Fellow to the Harvard Business
School, graduating as a Baker scholar in 1976. He then joined
the Boston Consulting Group in London. He was promoted to manager
in 1979 and then to vicepresident of BCG Worldwide in 1982.
Adrian joined Apax, the venture capital and private equity investment
company, in 1984. He played a major part in the international
expansion of the business, which now has over
US$15 billion under management. Apax is widely recognised as
one of the leading private equity houses in Europe. Adrian is
the company's chief investment officer and second largest shareholder.
He was chairman of the British Venture Capital Association in
1991/92. He has represented Apax on the boards of over 20 private
and public companies. |
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| Jean Ernest
Bodoni (58)** |
| Commercial Engineer |
| Non-Executive Director
– Appointed to the board 1998 |
| Jean Bodoni has in excess of 30 years' experience
in the Luxembourg banking sector and currently holds the position
of President of the Executive Board with Experta Luxembourg
S.A.. Jean is a director of a number of Luxembourg resident
companies. |
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| Brett Ivor
Childs (44)† |
| CA(SA) |
| Executive Director
– Appointed to the board 2005 |
Brett Childs, following completion of his training
with Deloitte & Touche in 1987, co-founded a small re-insurance
consultancy business providing investigative and audit services
to the London re-insurance industry which was sold in 1994.
He was one of the first to be approved by Lloyds of London to
act in the capacity of Finance Director to agencies managing
the first corporate capital syndicates admitted to Lloyds of
London.
He joined New Africa Technology Holdings (Proprietary) Limited,
the information technology arm of New Africa Investments Limited,
in 1998 as Finance Director. Following a management buy-out
in 2000, he managed, the buy-out vehicle realising value for
its shareowners through IPO's and trade sales. Following this,
he started his own successful private equity investment company
in Mauritius where he currently resides. Brett joined Brait
in November 2004 as Executive Chairman of its Mauritian operation. |
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Nationality
* South African
** Luxembourgish
† British
‡ Dutch
° Irish |
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