Board of directors

Peter was appointed chairperson of the board on 16 November 2011. Up until June 2009 he held the position of group chief operations officer, and was an executive director of, Absa Group Limited. Peter started his career within the audit environment at Coopers & Lybrand and worked as an audit manager within Transnet Limited’s group internal audit services. He became chief executive officer of Autonet in 1995, the road passenger and freight logistics division of Transnet. Peter is a non-executive director of Sappi Group Limited, Bidvest Limited, MTN Group Limited, Rainbow Chicken Limited and Remgro Group Limited.

Martin has spent his entire career in the banking sector, which included being managing director of MLS Bank Limited and a member of ABSA’s executive team as well as a member of the ABSA enterprise risk management committee. He chaired the Imperial Bank risk and remuneration committees until November 2010. He has extensive general business management experience at executive level, with particular emphasis on strategy formulation, marketing and administration.

Sankie has been a deputy secretary-general of the African National Congress since 2002 and served in government as Housing Minister for eight years. She was awarded a doctorate by the Central University of Technology in the Free State in recognition of her work in this department. Sankie was the first female cabinet minister to act as State President for South Africa. Sankie is currently a director of ITB Manufacturing (Proprietary) Limited, Edwin Construction (Proprietary) Limited, DAWN Limited, Ma-Africa Film Productions (Proprietary) Limited and the Central Energy Fund (state owned enterprise).

Tony was appointed MD of Barlows Equipment Co in 1988, and MD of Finanzauto SA, Spain in 1992. He was appointed a director of Barloworld Limited in 1996 and was CEO from 1998 until 2006. From 2005 until 2007 Tony was the chairperson of Pretoria Portland Cement Company Limited. Tony is currently a director of Austro Group Limited (chairperson), Newman Lowther and Associates (chairperson), Worldwide Fund for Nature, Business Leadership South Africa, NOAH (chairperson), Kwikspace Modular Buildings Limited, Freeworld Coatings Limited (vice chairperson) and Mpact Limited (chairperson).

Tim was a partner with Deloitte & Touche for 36 years and retired in May 2008. He led the Deloitte Johannesburg audit practice and served on the executive as client service director as well as the board and remuneration committees. Tim was the lead advisory partner for a number of multinational clients and headed the Deloitte World Cup 2010 initiative. He is an independent non-executive director of Liberty Life Limited where he chairs the audit and actuarial committee and is a member of the group risk committee. He is also a director of Pretoria Portland Cement Company Limited, Mpact Limited, Adcorp Holdings Limited and CIDA Empowerment (Proprietary) Limited, where he chairs the audit committees. Tim is also a member of the Mpact Limited remuneration and nomination committee.

Veli is a director and co-founder of investment holding company Ninathi Investments Holdings (Proprietary) Limited. Until December 2010, Veli was CEO of Ukhamba Holdings (Proprietary) Limited. He was also previously an executive director of Imperial Fleet Services. Veli is currently a director of DAWN Limited, Executive Carport (Proprietary) Limited and chairperson of Giuricich Brothers Construction (Proprietary) Limited

Salu is the deputy-chairperson of Nozala Investments (Proprietary) Limited, a company she co-founded in 1996. Her early career experience included: senior investment officer at the Lesotho National Development Corporation (LNDC); African Development Bank; senior manager – Structured Finance Division at FirstCorp Merchant Bank, and assistant general manager at BOE Specialised Finance. Salu is a non-executive director of some of Nozala’s investee companies that include: Enviroserv Holdings Limited, Woodlands Dairy (Proprietary) Limited, Afripack (Proprietary) Limited, Tsebo Outsourcing Group (Proprietary) Limited, Synergy Freight International (Proprietary) Limited and Natal Rubber Compounders (Proprietary) Limited. She is also a director of MultiChoice South Africa Holdings (Proprietary) Limited

Walter joined the Imperial group in 1998 as MD of Imperial Fleet Services. He was appointed to the executive committee of Imperial Holdings Limited in 2002 and to the board in 2006. He was CEO of the Leasing and Capital Equipment division of Imperial when it unbundled in April 2008 to become Eqstra Holdings. Walter has been the CEO of Eqstra since unbundling. Before joining Imperial, Walter had a diverse management career with Eskom from 1980 until 1997.

Jannie was appointed CFO of Eqstra Holdings in January 2011. He started his career at Deloitte & Touche in 1999. After completing his training contract, he spent two years in the USA in Deloitte & Touche’s Washington DC practice, as part of their global development programme. He returned to South Africa in 2002. In 2007 he joined the Deloitte & Touche partnership as an assurance partner in the Pretoria office.

Erich was appointed CEO of the Contract Mining and Plant Rental division in January 2011 after being Eqstra’s CFO since April 2008. He joined Imperial in 1996 as financial director of Cargo Motors. In 2000 he moved to Imperial’s corporate office as group financial controller. In 2004 he was appointed group audit and risk executive to establish the internal audit and risk management functions. In 2006, with the acquisition of the MCC group, he was appointed to the board of the MCC group.