Experience:

Hillie Meyer joined the Momentum Metropolitan Group on 15 February 2018, returning to the group where he spent eighteen fulfilling years. He was the Managing Director of the Momentum Group from 1996 to 2005. Before that, he had exposure to a wide range of actuarial and management positions in the Momentum Group which he joined in 1988. During the 12-year period that interrupted his career in the group, Hillie was the Managing Partner of a niche private equity manager he co-founded in 2010.

Appointed to board: February 2018

Experience:

Jeanette Marais joined Momentum Metropolitan (previously, MMI Holdings) on 1 March 2018 as Deputy Chief Executive Officer and CEO of Momentum Investments. Her portfolio also includes marketing of the Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Group of companies, as well as distribution through independent financial advisers. Jeanette was previously an executive director at Allan Gray and has extensive knowledge of the retail investments market, intermediary distribution and operational aspects of retail asset management. Jeanette started her career at Momentum in 1990 to 1999, responsible for sales and marketing for the group and Momentum Administration Services. She filled executive level positions at Stanlib and Old Mutual before joining Allan Gray in 2009.

Appointed to board: March 2018

Experience:

Risto Ketola joined Momentum Metropolitan Holdings (previously, MMI Holdings) in August 2016 to head up investor relations and business performance management. In this position, Risto was responsible for the investor relations function as well as the design, approval, monitoring, and reporting of balanced scorecards at various levels for the group. He has extensive experience as a financial services analyst and researcher with Standard Bank, Ketola Research and Deutsche Bank. As the Group Finance Director, Risto is responsible for Investor Relations, Business Performance, Group Reporting, Group-wide Services, Mergers and Acquisitions and Balance Sheet Management as well as the Executive in charge of the Rest of Africa business.

Appointed to board: January 2018

Experience:

JJ Njeke, a chartered accountant, spent six years as audit partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers prior to his appointment as managing director of Kagiso Trust Investments on 1 June 1994. He remained in this position, serving on various boards in the Kagiso group, until his resignation on 30 June 2010. He is presently the executive chairman of Silver Unicorn Coal and Minerals (Pty) Limited. He serves on the boards of Black Management Forum Investments ("BMFI"), Datatec, Delta Property Fund and Sasol Limited.

Appointed to board: December 2010

Experience:

Linda de Beer is a Chartered Accountant SA, a Chartered Director SA and holds a Master’s degree in taxation. She is an independent non-executive director, serving on the boards and audit committees of three other South African listed companies.

Linda provides reporting and corporate governance advice to various corporates, does mediation on technical reporting, auditing and governance matters, facilitates training and performs expert witness work on accounting and audit matters, from time to time. She is a member of the King Committee, the Investor Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in the United States of America and chairs the Financial Reporting Investigations Panel of the JSE, amongst others. She is an honorary professor (professor in practice) at the University of Johannesburg.

Appointed to board: January 2020

Experience:

Fatima Daniels currently conducts her own consulting business. She has extensive corporate experience and has served on many listed boards since 1994. She previously served on the Metropolitan Holdings Board (May 1996 to November 2001). She is currently a director of the MTN Group (West and Central Africa Region), Clicks Group Limited, Tongaat Hulett Limited, Afrisam Holdings (Pty) Limited and Rand Refinery Limited.

Appointed to board: December 2010

Experience:

Prof Stephen Jurisich is the Head of the School of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Witwatersrand. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in Edinburgh and Fellow of the Actuarial Society of SA. He has a wealth of actuarial experience, including previously being a director and consulting actuary at Quindiem Consulting, an executive committee member at Swiss Re Life Health in South Africa as well as being a member of various industry and actuarial professional committees.

Appointed to board: March 2011

Experience:

Frans Truter was an associate director at Deloitte and worked at the South African Reserve Bank. He joined Momentum in 1988 as chief financial officer and over the years he has been involved with the transactions to acquire Lifegro, Southern Life, Sage, and Sovereign Health. He also served as executive director of strategic investments at Momentum. He resigned as a Momentum Group executive in 2007. He is currently involved in private equity investments and serves as a non-executive director on the boards of a number of companies.

Appointed to board: December 2010

Experience:

Lisa Chiume is a senior investment executive at Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (“RMIH”) and RMB Holdings Limited. As portfolio manager, she is responsible for a number of the key RMI investments. She is also co-portfolio manager for AlphaCode (RMI’s fintech and next generation financial services incubator) and she has primary responsibility for RMI’s enterprise development programme to identify, partner and grow black financial services businesses.

Prior to RMI, Lisa was employed by Deutsche Bank South Africa as Director, Country Coverage and Investment Banking.

Appointed to board: March 2019

Experience:

Dr Sharron McPherson is co-founder and executive director at The Centre for Disruptive Technologies which leverages an impressive Africa-wide and global network of experts in disruptive technologies to advise government and businesses on digital transformation strategies. In addition, she is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer – Project Finance at the University of Cape Town – Graduate School of Business.

She is also a co-founder & shareholder of an investment consortium, Women in Infrastructure Development & Energy (WINDE). WINDE is one of the largest and most impactful women’s infrastructure investment consortiums in Africa.

Appointed to board: March 2019

Experience:

Sello Moloko is the Executive Chairman and co-founder of Thesele Group, a Black owned investment holding company. He has more than 27 years of business experience. He is the independent non-executive Chairman of Sibanye-Stillwater and non-executive director of Telkom, Stor-Age REIT and Prudential Investment Managers.

He was previously Chairman of Alexander Forbes Group and General Reinsurance Africa, and CEO of Old Mutual Asset Managers.

Appointed to board: March 2019

Experience:

Gcobisa Tyusha completed her articles at Deloitte. She has over 20 years’ experience in Company Secretariat and Governance, in the Financial Services industry. She has worked in development finance, banking and insurance companies.

Appointed: July 2019