Experience:

Hillie, an actuary, has more than 35 years’ financial services experience. He has held leadership positions in insurance, pensions, investments and banking. He joined the Momentum Group in 1988 and served as its Managing Director from 1996 to 2005, after which he was a founder and managing executive of a private equity manager. He returned as Group CEO of Momentum Metropolitan in 2018.

Appointed to board: February 2018

Experience:

Jeanette, who has a strong track record of building profitable businesses at various financial institutions, is also Chief Executive Officer of Momentum Investments. She started her career at Momentum in 1990, filling various roles in actuarial product development, marketing and as part of the team that launched Momentum Administration Services, pioneering investment platforms in South Africa. She filled executive level positions at PSG, Stanlib and Old Mutual before joining Allan Gray in 2009 as co-head of retail business, where she became executive director. She is passionate about the upliftment of women and making financial services accessible to all South Africans.

Appointed to board: March 2018

Experience:

Risto headed up investor relations and business performance management for the Group before taking up his current position. He has extensive experience as a financial services analyst and researcher with Standard Bank, Ketola Research and Deutsche Bank. As the Group Finance Director, he is responsible for investor relations, business performance, Group reporting, finance group-wide services, mergers and acquisitions and balance sheet management.

Appointed to board: January 2018

Experience:

Sello, who was previously Chief Executive Officer of Old Mutual Asset managers and Chairman of the Alexander Forbes Group, General Reinsurance Africa and Sibanye-Stillwater, has a wealth of business experience. He is currently the Executive Chairman and co-founder of the Thesele Group, a black-owned investment holding company. He serves on the boards of Telkom SA SOC Limited and Stor-Age REIT Limited.

Appointed to board: March 2019

Experience:

Lisa is a senior investment executive at Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI) and RMB Holdings Limited (RMH) and is responsible for a number of RMI and RMH’s key investments. She is also co-portfolio manager for AlphaCode (RMI’s fintech and next generation financial services incubator) and has primary responsibility for identifying, partnering with and growing black financial services businesses as part of RMI’s enterprise development programme. She was previously Director: Country Coverage and Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank South Africa.

Appointed to board: March 2019

Experience:

Fatima, having previously had extensive corporate experience currently heads up her business consulting practice. She previously served on the Metropolitan Holdings Board (May 2005 to November 2010). She serves on the boards of Clicks Group Limited and MTN Ghana and Sudan.

Appointed to board: December 2010

Experience:

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

Appointed to board: March 2011

Experience:

Frans has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry and has a wealth of expertise in insurance, investments and banking. He joined the Momentum Group (now Momentum Metropolitan) in 1988 as Chief Financial Officer and also served as Executive Director: Strategic Investments. He is currently involved in private equity investments and serves as a non-executive director on a number of other boards.

Appointed to board: December 2010

Experience:

Sharron is the co-founder and executive director of 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. She is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer – Project Finance at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business and is also a co-founder and shareholder of Women in Infrastructure Development & Energy (WINDE), one of the largest and most impactful women’s infrastructure investment consortiums in Africa.

Appointed to board: March 2019

Experience:

Linda serves on the boards of a number of JSE-listed companies and was recently appointed as Chair of the Public Interest Oversight Board, a public foundation in Spain, that monitors the setting of international technical and ethical standards for auditors, in the public interest. She is also an honorary professor (professor in practice) at the University of Johannesburg. She recently retired as a member of the King Committee, the Investor Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in the USA and as Chair of the Financial Reporting Investigations Panel of the JSE. She serves on the boards of Aspen Holdings Limited, Omnia Holdings Limited and Tongaat Hulett Limited.

Appointed to board: January 2020

Experience:

David is an independent consultant specialising in life insurance. He is an active member of the Actuarial Society of South Africa, where he sits on the Professional Matters Board and is involved in the development and provision of technical and professional training to trainee actuaries. David was previously a director/partner at Deloitte, where he was the statutory actuary of a number of life insurance companies, a key adviser to several insurance companies, and was involved in the development of the current South African insurance legislation.

Appointed to board: December 2019

Experience:

Vuyisa has more than 20 years’ experience in investment banking and private equity. He joined Deutsche Bank in 1997, where he gained investment banking experience before serving as the Financial Director of Worldwide African Investment Holdings Propriety Limited and as director at Actis LLP in their black economic empowerment funding unit. He joined Kagiso Tiso Holdings as Chief Executive Officer in January 2012 and he resigned in 2017 to pursue various private business opportunities. He serves on the boards of Emira Property Fund Limited and Exxaro Resources Limited.

Appointed to board:July 2020

Experience:

Peter served as the Chief Executive Officer and Financial Director of RMB Holdings Limited (RMH) and Rand Merchant Investment Holdings Limited (RMI) until 2014. He serves on the boards of RMB Holdings Limited, Rand Merchant Investment Holdings Limited and Imperial Holdings Limited.

Appointed to board:July 2020

Experience:

Paballo Makosholo is the Group Chief Executive Officer at Kagiso Tiso Holdings (Pty) Ltd (“KTH”). He is a chartered accountant and previously held the position of Chief Financial Officer at Kagiso Trust and Chief Operations Officer at Kagiso Capital.

He serves on various boards associated with KTH these being Kagiso Media, Juta, Jacaranda, Mediamark, and Urban Brew Studios. He also serves on the board of UJ Invent. He previously served on a number of boards including FirstRand Limited.

Paballo is an experienced, well-rounded finance professional with more than 15 years experience in auditing, investment, finance, strategy development and implementation, governance, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, operations and company restructures.

Appointed to board: July 2020

Experience:

Nigel has extensive and varied experience in the insurance industry, which includes twenty-two years spent in various executive positions within the Momentum Group (now Momentum Metropolitan) until 2013. He left to own and manage a hotel golf and leisure business, whilst acting as a non-executive director of MMH interests in the UK, Guernsey, Gibraltar and South Africa. Nigel, who is currently resident in the United Kingdom, has experience as both an executive, non-executive board member and board chair.

Appointed to board: June 2021

Experience:

Seelan is currently the Group Chief Executive Officer of Omnia Holdings Limited, having previously held CEO positions at STANLIB Asset Management, Liberty Holdings Emerging Markets, Liberty Corporate and Old Mutual Corporate. With extensive international experience gained across multiple geographies and sectors in complex emerging and developed markets, Seelan has a proven track record of redefining the strategic direction of companies, turning around businesses and delivering sustainable growth.

Appointed to board: June 2021

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