Committee membership: - Risk and sustainability
- Social, ethics and transformation
- Remuneration
- Nominations
Qualifications: Mech Eng Diploma (Natal Technikon)
Date of appointment as chairman of the board: 2018
Date of appointment as a director: 1977
Skills and experience: With an engineering and manufacturing background, more than forty years’ experience in and knowledge of the mining and construction machinery industry both regionally and internationally.
Hennie van der Merwe (76) Lead Independent non executive
Chair:
- Risk and sustainability
- Nominations
Qualifications: BA (Law), LLB (Stellenbosch), LLM (Tax)(Wits)
Date of appointment: 2016
Skills and experience: After practicing as a commercial and corporate attorney for 12 years, Hennie held senior executive positions and directorships in large stock exchange listed corporate entities in the banking, commercial and industrial sectors, both in South Africa and abroad.
Directorships in other listed entities:
Master Drilling Group Ltd
Ashley Bell (41) Group chief executive
Committee membership:
- Risk and sustainability
- Social, ethics and transformation
Qualifications: BCom (Marketing) (UNISA)
Date of appointment as group chief executive: 1 January 2024
Date of appointment: 2015
Skills and experience: Ashley has 10 years’ experience in co-founding an OEM servicing the forestry and agriculture sectors, with cross-functional involvement in engineering, manufacturing, marketing and the aftermarket. In a partnership, Ashley also established an aviation contracting company which continues to successfully deliver helicopter services across Africa.
Meeting attendance FY2023: - Board: 6/6
- Risk and sustainability: 3/3
- Social, ethics and transformation: 3/3
Directorships in other listed entities: None
Karen van Haght (57) Group finance director
Committee membership: - Risk and sustainability
- Social, ethics and transformation
Qualifications: BCompt (Hons) (UNISA), CA (SA)
Date of appointment: 2006
Skills and experience: Karen was a senior audit manager at Deloitte & Touche prior to joining Bell as the group financial controller in 2000.
She has held the position of group finance director since 2006.
Meeting attendance FY2023:
- Board: 6/6
- Risk and sustainability: 3/3
- Social, ethics and transformation: 3/3
Directorships in other listed entities:
None
Derek Lawrance (76) Independent non executive
Chair:
- Audit
- Remuneration
Committee membership:
- Risk and sustainability
Qualifications: BCom (Economics) (Wits), CA (SA)
Date of appointment: 2016
Skills and experience: Derek has held numerous senior executive positions in both listed and unlisted South African companies, operating in multidisciplinary environments with both local and foreign partners and shareholders.
Qualifications: BCom (Wits), BCom Hons (UNISA), Masters (Development finance) (Stellenbosch), Masters (Leading innovation and change) (York St John, UK)
Date of appointment: 2017
Skills and experience: Mamokete is the Founder and CEO of Mamor Capital, an investment company focusing on the ICT sector.
Prior to this role she was the executive head of mergers and acquisitions at Vodacom Group, where she was responsible for evaluating and executing mergers and acquisitions transactions and other relevant corporate actions in line with the group’s strategy. She is a seasoned investment executive with more than 19 years’ experience in financial services; spanning corporate finance advisory, private equity, mezzanine finance, infrastructure finance and mergers and acquisitions.
Skills and experience: Rajendran was a partner at Deloitte in the financial institutions team and orporate finance practices. He was previously a group general manager at Sasol Limited responsible for corporate finance, investor relations and shareholder value management.
At that time he was also chairman of the audit committee of Sasol Petroleum International and served on the board of trustees for Sasol’s Group Enterprise Development Trust and worked closely with global investment banks and global consulting firms. Rajendran currently manages Pritor Capital which provides strategic and corporate development advisory and investment services.
Qualifications: Business Administration & Economics (Augsburg University), Business Studies
(University College, Swansea), MAN Executive Management Course (Oxford
University), CSEP (Columbia University Graduate School of Business)
Date of appointment: 2022
Skills and experience: After several senior executive positions held at Bosch-Siemen Hausgerate GmbH and Photon AG, he joined MAN Truck & Bus SE in 2004 holding various senior executive positions in a number of the business units both nationally and internationally, whereafter he was appointed Managing Director of MAN Automotive (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd in 2016. After leaving MAN in 2020 he accepted a position as director of finance and operations at AHI Carrier Fze in Sharjah, UAE, until the end of 2021. He has extensive experience in both finance and sales with a specific focus on the automotive manufacturing industry.
Meeting attendance FY2023: - Board: 6/6
Directorships in other listed entities: None
Ushadevi Maharaj (49) Independent non executive
Committee membership:
- Audit
- Risk and sustainability
Qualifications: BAcc(Hons)UKZN,CA (SA)
Date of appointment: 2022
Skills and experience: Ushadevi, a Chartered Accountant by
profession, was a Director at KPMG in KZN
where she was responsible for People, Finance,
and Operations while overseeing an Owner
Managed client base. Presently, she is actively
involved in leadership development. Since 2016,
she served as non-executive director on certain
unlisted company boards. In 2017, she joined
Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal as a nonexecutive
director and member of the Audit and
Risk (appointed Chair in October 2022), and HR,
Social and Ethics committees.
Avishkar Goordeen (44) Alternate executive director to Ashley Bell*
Qualifications: BCompt (Hons) (UNISA), CA (SA)
Date of appointment: 2017
Skills and experience: Avishkar has held senior positions within the Bell group in the areas of strategy, corporate finance, commercial activities, business development, risk management and IT.
Meeting attendance FY2023: - Board: 6/6
Directorships in other listed entities: None
*Previously alternate executive director to Leon Goosen
