| BOARD
PROFILE (CONTINUED) |
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| John Joseph
Coulter (44) ° |
Law Degree (Trinity College Dublin), Master’s
in Business Studies
(University College Dublin) |
| Group Chief Executive
– Appointed to the board 2005 |
| After a 20 year career with JPMorgan in London,
New York and Johannesburg, John Coulter joined Brait S.A. as
the Group Chief Executive Officer in June 2005. Prior to joining
Brait, John was Chairman, Investment Banking, for JPMorgan in
Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa from 2004
to 2005. He was the Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan South
Africa from 1999 to 2005 with functional responsibility for
Investment Banking. From 2002 to 2004, John was Chairman of
the Foreign Bankers Association. On joining JPMorgan in 1985,
John was employed in Interest Rate, Currency Swaps and Commodity
Derivatives businesses in London and then New York until 1996
when he returned to London to head JPMorgan's Commodity Trading
businesses. |
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| John Andrew
Gnodde (40)* |
| BCom (UCT) |
| Executive Deputy Chairman
– Appointed to the board 2005 |
| John Gnodde, is a director of Brait and CEO of
Brait's private equity business and has overall responsibility
for Brait's private equity funds, having previously led the
management of each of the Predecessor Funds. John joined Brait
in 1995 and has been responsible for investments in consumer
products, construction, pharmaceutical, manufacture, beverages,
resources, mobile telecommunications and recruitment outsourcing
among others. Prior to joining Brait, John worked for Goldman
Sachs International in London for six years where he served
in the investment banking division. |
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| Richard John
Koch (55)† |
| MA (Oxon), MBA (Wharton) |
| Non-Executive Director
– Appointed to the board 1998 |
| Richard Koch was a founder of The LEK Partnership,
a partner of Bain & Co and a consultant with the Boston Consulting
Group, and has advised the chief executive officers and chairmen
of many blue-chip American and European corporations. Richard
is an author, investor and promoter in private equity investment. |
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| Allan Mark
Rosenzweig (51)‡ |
| BA, LLB, H Dip Tax |
| Non-Executive Director
– Appointed to the board 1998 |
| Allan Rosenzweig was an international tax advisor
and corporate financier with Price Waterhouse including its
New York office and Intertax, a South African international
tax consultancy. Allan is a director of both listed and unlisted
companies. He joined the MIH Group where he served as Group
Director of Corporate Finance. Allan is also a founding member
of the Ibex Group, which is active in the field of asset-backed
finance. Allan is currently based in New York. |
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| Christopher
John Tayelor (49)* |
| BAcc, CA(SA), AMP (Harvard) |
| Finance Director –
Appointed to the board 1998 |
| Chris Tayelor was part of the Southern African
national technical team at Price Waterhouse before he joined
Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited ("Johnnies")
in Corporate Finance, which he headed from 1990 to 1994. Following
the unbundling of Johnnies, Chris was appointed Financial Director
of JCI Limited and to the boards of its listed operations. He
left this position prior to joining Brait in May 1998. |
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| Hermanus
Roelof Willem Troskie (36)‡ |
| B Juris, LLB, LLM |
| Non-Executive Director
– Appointed to the board 2005 |
| Herman Troskie, is a director of Maitland, an
international professional services firm, and resides in Luxembourg.
After completing a legal research project at the Vrije Universiteit
in Amsterdam, Herman spent three years in legal practice in
Cape Town before joining the Luxembourg office of Maitland in
1998. He specialises in the area of international corporate
structuring and financing, and has experience in international
tax planning for corporate entities and individuals, with a
particular focus on Luxembourg and other European cross-border
investment structures. His practice also includes the listing
of companies and investment funds. Herman is admitted as a South
African Attorney and as an English Solicitor. |
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| Serge Joseph
Pierre Weber (42)** |
| Business Diploma (ESSEC Business School, Paris) |
| Executive Director
– Appointed to the board 2001 |
| Serge Weber is a director of TRAXYS Europe SA,
part of the TRAXYS SA Group, a joint-venture created in 2003
between the Luxembourg based ARCELOR Group and the Belgian-based
UMICORE Group. He is the Chief Financial Officer of TRAXYS Europe
and the Group Controller for the TRAXYS Group, a leading metals
and minerals marketing and trading group operating worldwide.
He has worked in treasury and finance for many years, including
Renault Trucks in France and SA des Minerais in Luxembourg. |
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| Peter Linford
Wilmot (66)* |
| CA(SA) |
| Non-Executive Director
– Appointed to the board 1999 |
| Peter Wilmot was the chairman of Deloitte & Touche
in South Africa from 1996 until his retirement in August 1999
after a career spanning 41 years in the auditing profession.
Peter has chaired the Accounting Practices Committee and was
President of the Transvaal Society of Chartered Accountants
and the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. He
was also the deputy chairman of the Standards Advisory Council
of the International Accounting Standards Board and is the immediate
past Chairman of the Accounting Practices Board. |
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Nationality
* South African
** Luxembourgish
† British
‡ Dutch
° Irish |
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