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| Board of directors
Executive directors
1. Petrus Johannes Uys (Pieter) (46)
2. Mohamed Shameel Aziz Joosub (38)
3. Johan van der Watt (43)
Independent non-executive directors
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1. Mthandazo Peter Moyo (46)
Chairman of the Board
Peter holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science from UNISA,
a Higher Diploma in Tax Law from Wits University and is
a Chartered Accountant of South Africa. Peter is a director
and shareholder of Amabubesi Group, a diversified
investment group that was co-founded by Peter and his
partners, Sango Ntsaluba and Thabiso Tlelai in 2002.
Peter has been working full time for Amabubesi since
January 2008 after he left Alexander Forbes. The only
listed group company that he is a director of is Pinnacle
Technology Holdings. Peter is also a non-executive director
and member of the audit committee at Transnet Limited. He
serves as Chairman of the audit committee of the Auditor
General’s Office. Peter also serves on the advisory council
of the Stellenbosch Business School. He has just accepted
an appointment to the board of Liberty Holdings, effective
February 2009. Before joining Amabubesi he was
Group CEO of Alexander Forbes, which he had joined in
November 2005. During the time he led the Group, his
responsibilities extended to other countries in Africa and
Europe. Prior to joining Forbes Peter was Deputy Managing
Director of Old Mutual South Africa, a position he held
for over five years where he was responsible for all the
company’s businesses that served the corporate market
like Old Mutual Asset Managers, Old Mutual Properties,
Employee Benefits, Group Schemes, Healthcare, Symmetry
Multi Manger and Old Mutual Specialised Finance. Prior
to being Deputy MD at Old Mutual, he was CEO of the
Employee Benefits Division, having joined the company
in 1997. Before joining Old Mutual he was a partner
at Ernst & Young in Johannesburg. Outside his full time
employment, Peter also served on the board of Telkom from
2001 to 2004. He chaired the audit committee and was
involved at Telkom at the time of its preparation for its listing
on the JSE Limited and New York Stock Exchange.
He was appointed to Chairman of the Vodacom Board in
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2. Thomas Andrew Boardman (Tom) (59)
Chairman of the Audit Committee
Tom holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and C.T.A.
from the University of the Witwatersrand and is also a
Chartered Accountant of South Africa. He is the Chief
Executive of Nedbank Group Limited and Nedbank
Limited. He was previously the Chief Executive of BOE
Limited. He was the founding shareholder and managing
director of the retail household goods chain, Boardmans.
Prior to this he was a director of Blaikie Johnston Limited,
managing director of Sam Newman Limited and worked for
the Anglo American Corporation for three years. He served
his articles at Deloitte & Touche. He is a non-executive
director of Mutual & Federal Insurance and The Banking
Association of South Africa and serves as a trustee on a
number of charitable organisations. He was appointed to
the Vodacom Board in February 2009. |
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3. Phuti Malabie (38)
Phuti holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from
Rutgers University and an MBA from De Montfort University.
Phuti is the managing director of Shanduka Energy. Prior
to joining the Shanduka Group, Phuti headed the Project
Finance South Africa unit at the Development Bank of
Southern Africa and prior to that she spent six years with
Fieldstone, an international firm specialising in the financing
of infrastructure assets. Phuti was awarded the "Top in
Project Finance, 2003" award by the Association of Black
Securities & Investment Professionals. In 2007 she was
nominated Global Young Leader by the World Economic
Forum. She was listed as one of the "Top 50 women in the
world to watch in 2008" by the Wall Street Journal. She
was appointed to the Vodacom Board in February 2009. |
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4. Thoko Martha Mokgosi-Mwantembe (47)
Thoko holds a Bachelor of Science from the University
of Swaziland and a Master of Science in Medical
Chemistry from Loughborough University of Technology
(UK), completed a Senior Executive Programme at Harvard
and a Managing Corporate Resources Programme from
IMD (Swaziland) and holds a Diploma in Teaching from
Swaziland. Thoko is the CEO of Kutana Investment Group
and is a director at Knorr Bremse SA (Proprietary) Limited,
Absa Group Limited, Paracon Holdings Limited. Thoko
has held a number of senior executive positions at Telkom,
was marketing director at Lucent Technologies, a divisional
managing director of Siemens Telecommunications, the
CEO of Alcatel SA and until November 2008, CEO of
Hewlett Packard South Africa. Thoko is the recipient of the
BWA Businesswoman of the year award in the Corporate
category in 2007. In 2005 she won the ICT achiever of
the year award, top ICT business woman in Africa award
and ICT personality of the year. She was appointed to the
Vodacom Board in May 2009. |
Non-executive directors (Vodafone representatives
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1. Michael Joseph (63)
Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Cape Town and is a
member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
and the Institute of Electronic Engineers. Michael is directly
contracted by Vodafone for secondment to Safaricom as
the CEO of Safaricom, a position held since Vodafone’s
original investment in 2000. He has extensive international
experience in the implementation and operation of large
mobile and fixed-line networks, including operations in
Hungary, Spain, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Korea, United
States, Australia and the Middle East. Michael has been
the recipient of many awards, including CEO of the year
awarded by the Kenya Institute of Management and the
Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (an award given
by the President of Kenya to people who have made
a positive impact in Kenya). He was appointed to the
Vodacom Board in May 2009. |
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2. Morten Lundal (44)
Morten holds a Master of Business Administration from IMD,
Switzerland, and a Master of Business and Economics
from the Norwegian School of Management. He rose
through senior roles at Nordic mobile operator Telenor,
leading their Internet division, Business Solution division
and corporate strategy. He was most recently CEO of
Telenor’s Malaysian subsidiary DiGi Telecom. He has wide
ranging geographical experience through Europe, US and
Asia. Prior to Telenor, he was a management consultant
with Gemini Consulting UK and AT Kearney in Norway
and US. He is Vodafone’s CEO of the Africa and Central
Europe Region and a member of the Vodafone Executive
Committee. He was appointed to the Vodacom Board in
November 2008. |
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3. James Carl Grinwis Maclaurin (42)
James is a Chartered Accountant and member of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants (Scotland). Prior to joining
Vodafone, James held senior financial positions such as
CFO of Celtel International BV and UbiNetics Holdings
Limited, Executive Vice President Finance at Marconi Plc,
COO Marconi Finance Plc, Vice President Corporate
Finance and Finance Director GEC Singapore and
GEC Bangladesh. James is Vodafone's CFO of the
Africa and Central Europe Region. He was appointed
to the Vodacom Board in November 2008. |
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4. Ronald Schellekens (45)
Ronald is Vodafone’s Group Human Resources Director
and a member of the Vodafone Executive Committee. Prior
to joining Vodafone, Ronald was Executive Vice President
HR for Shell’s global downstream business (refining, retail,
commercial, lubricants, chemicals) responsible for 81 000
employees in approximately 120 countries. Prior to working
for Shell, he spent nine years working for PepsiCo in various
international senior HR roles, including assignments in
Switzerland, Spain, South Africa, the UK and Poland. In
his last role he was responsible for the Europe, Middle East
& Africa region for PepsiCo Foods International. Prior to
PepsiCo he worked nine years for AT&T Network Systems in
Human Resources roles in the Netherlands and Poland. He
was appointed to the Vodacom Board in February 2009. |
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5. Richard Charles Snow (42)
Richard holds a Masters degree in Natural Sciences from
Trinity College, Cambridge and is a Chartered Accountant
and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
(England & Wales). He worked in investment banking,
firstly for Charterhouse Bank, then from 1996 for Merrill
Lynch, latterly as a managing director of investment
banking. In 2004 he moved to Goldman Sachs as a
managing director in its financing group until he moved to
Vodafone in 2006 where he currently holds the position of
Group Investor Relations Director. He was appointed to the
Vodacom Board in February 2007. |
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