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Board of Directors

The full names, ages and profiles of the directors at last practicable date are set out below:

Executive Directors

Barloworld: Clive Thomson Barloworld: Donald Wilson Barloworld: Peter Blackbeard
Clive Bradney Thomson
Chief executive officer
Donald Gert Wilson
Group finance director
Peter John Blackbeard
Chief executive officer: Handling
Qualifications: BCom (Hons), CA(SA), MPhil (Cantab)
Business address: Barloworld Corporate Office, 180 Katherine Street, Sandton 
Nationality: South African
Age: 46
Profile:
Clive joined Barloworld in 1997 and was appointed to the Barloworld board in 2003 as finance director. He was subsequently appointed as chief executive officer of the Equipment division and then as chief executive officer of Barloworld on 18 December 2006. Previously he was a partner at Deloitte. In 1993 he completed his Master of Philosophy Degree at Cambridge University, England in the Economics and Politics of Development. Clive is a board member of Business Leadership South Africa.
Qualifications: BCom CTA, CA(SA)
Business address: Barloworld Corporate Office, 180 Katherine Street, Sandton
Nationality: South African
Age: 55 
Profile:
Don rejoined Barloworld as finance director in 2006 and was appointed to the Barloworld board in September 2006. Previously he was executive director – Finance at Sappi Limited.
Qualifications: BSc Eng (Mech) (Hons), Dip Business Management
Business address: Barloworld Handling Ltd, Unit A5, Westacott Business Centre, Maidenhead Office Park Westacott Way, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 3RT
Nationality: South African
Age: 55 
Profile:
John joined Barloworld in 1996 and was appointed to the Barloworld board in 2004. He was chief executive officer of the Scientific division prior to disposal of that business and in 2007 he was appointed chief executive officer of Barloworld Handling (formerly Barloworld Industrial Distribution). John was previously chief operating officer of PPC.
Barloworld: Peter Bulterman Barloworld: Martin Laubscher Barloworld: Oupa Shongwe
Peter John Bulterman
Chief executive officer: Equipment
southern Africa and Russia
Martin Laubscher
Chief executive officer:
Automotive and Logistics
Oupa Isaac Shongwe
Executive director:
Human Resources, Strategy, Sustainability
Qualifications: HDip Mechanical Engineering, 
Business address: Barloworld Corporate Office, 180 Katherine Street, Sandton
Nationality: South African
Age: 56
Profile:
Peter joined Barloworld in 1975 as a bursar and was appointed to the Barloworld board on 1 October 2009. He was appointed chief executive officer of Equipment Southern Africa in July 2007 and chairman of Barloworld Equipment UK. Prior to his appointment as CEO in July 2007, Peter served as chief operations officer for Equipment Southern Africa.
Qualifications: BAcc, BCompt (Hons), CTA, MCom (Business Management)
Business address: 6 Anvil Road, Isando, 1601  
Nationality: South African 
Age: 52 
Profile:
Martin joined Barloworld in 1980 as a bursar and was appointed to the Barloworld board in May 2005. He was appointed chief executive officer of the Automotive division in 2003, and chief executive officer of the Automotive and Logistics division following the integration of logistics into automotive on 1 May 2011.
Qualifications: BA (Hons) US, MPhil (Oxon) 
Business address: Barloworld Corporate Office, 180 Katherine Street, Sandton 
Nationality: South African
Age: 50
Profile:
Isaac joined Barloworld Logistics Africa as an executive director for Business development and Transformation in 2005. He was appointed executive director for Barloworld and chief executive officer for Barloworld Logistics Africa in January 2007 and chief executive officer of the Barloworld Logistics division on 1 January 2009. Isaac was appointed Human Resources, Strategy and Sustainability director on 1 July 2011.
Non - Executive Directors

Barloworld: Adovate Dumisa s a
Advocate D.B Ntsebeza
Chairman
Alexander G. K. Hamilton
Thembalihle H. Nyasulu
 
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Qualifications: LLB, BProc, BA, LLM (International Law)
Business address: Fountain Chambers, Sandown Village Office Park, 86 Maude Street, Sandown
Nationality: South African
Age: 63
Profile:
Dumisa was appointed to the Barloworld board in May 1999. He is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Johannesburg Bar. In 2005 he was conferred the status of silk and was the first African advocate in the history of the Cape Bar to do so. He served as a commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has been appointed from time to time as acting judge of the High Court of South Africa. On 1 July 2009 Dumisa was appointed to serve on the Judicial Services Commission (JSC).
Qualifications: BJuris, LLB, MBA, DTech (hc), AMP (Harvard)
Business address: The High Court Building, Corner Vermeulen and Paul Kruger Street, Office number 2.12, Pretoria 0001
Nationality: South African
Age: 60
Profile:
Selby was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2005. He was appointed Public Protector of South Africa in 1995. He is currently an Acting Judge at the Northern Gauteng High Court, Pretoria.
Qualifications: MA (Cantab), FCA
Business address: Barloworld Corporate Office, 180 Katherine Street, Sandton
Nationality: British
Age: 67
Profile:
Gordon was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2007. He retired in 2006 after a career of more than 30 years as a partner of the UK practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP. He is a non-executive director of the UK-listed Lloyds underwriter Beazley Plc, Nedbank Private Wealth and Petra Diamonds Limited.


Qualifications: BA (Hons) Psychology, BA Social Work
Business address: 410 Jan Smuts Avenue, Craighall Park, 2196
Nationality: South African
Age: 58
Profile:
Hixonia was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2007. She is the executive chairman of Ayavuna Women’s Investments (Proprietary) Limited, non-executive chairman of Sasol Limited and a director of Unilever PLC/NV.
Barloworld: Steven Pfeiffer Barloworld: Gonzalo Rios Barloworld: Sibongile Mkhabela
Steven B. Pfeiffer
Gonzalo de los Rios
Sibongile S. Mkhabela
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Qualifications: BA, MA (Oxon), JD (Yale)
Business address: TFulbright & Jaworski LLP, 801 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC, USA 20004
Nationality: American
Age: 65
Profile:
Steven was appointed to the Barloworld board in August 2001. He is a partner and the elected chair of the executive committee of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, a USA legal firm. He is a non-executive director of Iridium Communications Inc, chairman emeritus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America, a trustee of The Africa-America Institute in New York, a director of Project HOPE in Washington, DC and a trustee of the NAACP Legal Defence Fund in New York.
Business address: Maria de Molina, N1 28006, Madrid, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Age: 70
Profile:
Gonzalo was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2004. He was appointed as a non-executive director of Barloworld’s Spanish equipment business in 1995 and chairman in 2007. He was chief executive officer of the Madrid Stock Exchange and chairman of Euroquote in Brussels.

Qualifications: BA Social Work (Hons), Dip Business Management (WITS), MAP
Business address: Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, 27 Eastwold Way, Saxonwold, 2196
Nationality: South African
Age: 56
Profile:
Bongi was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2006. She is the chief executive officer of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. She previously served as director for programmes and projects at the office of then deputy president Thabo Mbeki and is on the Stanlib board.
Barloworld: Sango Ntsaluba
Neo Phakama Dongwana
Babalwa Ngonyama
Sango S. Ntsaluba
A
Qualifications: BCom (Hons), CA (SA)
Business address:PO Box 688, Northlands, 2116
Nationality: South African
Age:40
Profile:
Neo was appointed to the Barloworld board in May 2012. Neo was the first black female to be placed in Top 10 of the Part II Qualifying Examination for Chartered Accountants in 1998. She was the first female partner in the Cape Town office of Deloitte & Touche and the second black female partner in the South African practice. She is a non-executive chairman of Pretoria Portland Ntsika Fund Proprietary Limited and a non-executive director of Anglovaal Industries Limited and MPact Limited.
Qualifications: Bcom (Accounting), MBA, HDip (Banking law), CA (SA)
Nationality: South African
Age:38
Profile:
Babalwa was appointed to the Barloworld board in May 2012. She is the chief executive officer of Sinayowetu Trading Enterprise, a non-executive director and member of the audit committee of Implats Limited and a non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of Evraz Highveld Steel Limited. Babalwa was formerly chief financial officer of Safika Holdings, group chief internal auditor of Nedbank Limited and a former audit partner in Deloitte’s Financial Institutions Services Team division. Babalwa was the founding chairman of African Women Chartered Accountants.
Qualifications: BCom, BCompt (Hons), CA(SA), HDip Tax Law
Business address: Building 4, Parc Nicol, 3001 William Nicol Drive, Bryanston
Nationality: South African
Age: 52
Profile:
Sango was appointed to the Barloworld board in July 2008. He is the executive chairman of the Amabubesi Group and a founder member of Sizwe Ntsaluba VSP, the largest black owned consulting, accounting and auditing practice in South Africa.
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