BOARD OF DIRECTORS

13 February, 2008


EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS


CB (Clive) Thomson Chief Executive Officer: Barloworld Limited BCom (Hons), CA(SA), MPhil (Cantab) 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 Limited on 18 December 2006.		PJ (John) Blackbeard Chief Executive Officer: Barloworld Handling BSc Eng (Hons), Dip Bus M John joined Barloworld in 1996 and was appointed to the Barloworld board in 2004. He was appointed chief executive officer of the scientific division in 2004. Previously he was chief operating officer of PPC. As from 1 October 2007, John was appointed as chief executive officer of Barloworld Handling.


M (Martin) Laubscher Chief Executive Officer: Barloworld Automotive BAcc, BCompt (Hons), CTA, MCom (Business Management) Martin joined Barloworld in 1980 and was appointed to the Barloworld board in May 2005. He was appointed chief executive officer of the motor division in 2003. Previously he was the director of the Motor group franchise operations.		OI (Isaac) Shongwe Chief Executive Officer: Barloworld Logistics Africa BA (Hons) US, MPhil (Oxon) Isaac joined Barloworld Logistics Africa as executive director for Business Development and Transformation in 2005. He was appointed to the Barloworld board as chief executive officer of Barloworld Logistics Africa in January 2007.


PM (Peter) Surgey Executive Director BA, LLB Peter joined Barloworld in 1983 and was appointed to the Barloworld board in August 1995. Previously he was chief executive officer of the coatings division. He was appointed HR director in 2003.		DG (Donald) Wilson Finance Director BCom CTA, CA(SA) 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.

NON–EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS


DB (Dumisa) Ntsebeza Chairman LLB, BProc, BA, Master’s Law degree – LLM (International Law) Dumisa was appointed to the Barloworld board in May 1999 and became chairman in June 2007. Previously he acted as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and was the first African advocate in the Cape Bar to be conferred the status of silk. He served as a commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and was appointed as acting judge of the High Court of South Africa until 2000.		SAM (Selby) Baqwa BJuris, LLB, MBA, DTech (hc) Selby was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2005. He is group executive: head of governance and compliance at Nedbank Limited and a member of the executive committee of Nedbank Limited. He was appointed Public Protector of the Republic of South Africa in 1995.


AGK (Gordon) Hamilton* MA (Cantab), FCA 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 United Kingdom practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP. He is a nonexecutive director of the United Kingdom listed Lloyds underwriter Beazley Group plc, and is a member of the United Kingdom Financial Reporting Review Panel.		MJ (Mike) Levett BCom, DEcon Sc (hc), FIA, FFA, FASSA Mike was appointed to the Barloworld board in November 1985. He was chairman and chief executive of Old Mutual,chairman of Mutual & Federal Insurance, and director of Nedbank Limited, SABMiller and Sasol Limited.


SS (Bongi) Mkhabela Dip Business Management (WITS) Bongi was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2006. She sits on the Stanlib board and on the Deloitte’s Best Company to Work for programme. She served as director for programmes and projects at the office of then Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki.		TH (Hixonia) Nyasulu BA (Hons) Psychology Hixonia was appointed to the Barloworld board in January 2007. She is the executive chairman of Ayavuna Women’s Investments (Pty) Limited and a director of Defy (Pty) Limited, the Tongaat-Hulett Group Limited, Sasol Limited and Unilever PLC/NV.


SB (Steve) Pfeiffer^ BA, MA (Oxon), JD (Yale) Steve was appointed to the Barloworld board in August 2001. He is the elected chair of the executive committee of Fulbright and Jaworski LLP, a US legal firm. He is a non-executive director of Iridium Holdings LLC, chairman emeritus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, USA, a trustee of the Africa-America Institute in New York, a director of Project HOPE in Washington DC and a director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York.		G (Gonzalo) Rodriguez de Castro Garcia de los Rios† 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 was appointed chairman in 2007. He was chief executive officer of the Madrid Stock Exchange and chairman of Euroquote in Brussels.

*British
†Spanish
^ American

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