Directorate

Executive Directors

Paul de Klerk (41)
CEO
B.Compt (Honours), CA(SA)
Paul has more than 15 years’ experience in the construction industry with significant experience in corporatising and integrating owner-managed businesses into listed companies. He served as Managing Director (and before that Financial Director) of Iliad Africa - Building Materials Division. There Paul managed 3 000 employees in 51 outlets in a division posting turnover in excess of R2,5 billion.

Herman Fourie (37)
CFO
B.Com, CA(SA)
Herman is a chartered accountant with 15 years’ experience as a financial manager/director in listed and unlisted companies. He was the Financial Director of Shaft Sinkers for five years prior to joining Buildmax.

 

Non-executive Directors

David Lamola (64)
BA MBL. CIS (Advanced Diploma in Labour Law)
David is an independent non-executive director of various companies. A former CEO of the Industrial Development Corporation, he is a senior lecturer of finance and corporate governance at UNISA.

Mark Matisonn (32)                                                                                           
MComm CA(SA)
Mark is an executive director of Westbrooke, which holds investments in various companies involved in retail, consumer products, construction, engineering consumables and equipment and mining services.

Raymond Munitz (35)
CA(SA)
Raymond worked in the investment banking, private equity and corporate finance industry for Corpcapital and Java Capital. In 2006 he joined private equity firm Interactive Capital which has successfully concluded a number of transactions in various industries including retail, micro finance, manufacturing, mining and buildware.

Bulelani Ngcuka (53)
B.Proc LLB MA
Bulelani is the chairman of Basil Read. He was admitted as an attorney in 1980 and has held various positions in different law firms. He has been involved in a number of committees and was elected to the Senate as Chief Whip of the ANC in 1994. In 1997 he was elected as Deputy Chairman of the National Council of Provinces. Bulelani was also the former National Director of Public Prosecutions. Previously the executive chairman of Amabubesi Investments (Pty) Limited, he co-founded Vuwa Investments (Pty) Limited in 2006.

Dennis Mack (39)
B.Com CA(SA)
A chartered accountant, Dennis is a director of Brait's private equity business and a principal of the Fund. He joined Brait in 2001 and his responsibilities include transaction execution and support activities, with executive responsibility for investments in the payment services, industrial chemicals and industrial packaging sectors, amongst others. Dennis worked previously at Deloitte and Marriott Merchant Bank.

Anil Maharaj (37)
B.Com CA(SA)
Anil, a chartered accountant, is a director of Brait’s private equity business. He joined Brait in 2004 where his responsibilities include investments in industrial services. Anil was previously a manager at Ernst & Young corporate finance in London.

Independent Non-executive Directors

Colin Wood (72)
CA(SA) PMD(Harvard)
Colin’s career included the role of Chairman of Boart Longyear Limited and LTA Limited and Deputy Chairman of Anglo American Industrial Corporation Limited. He is a Chartered Accountant and worked for 17 years in the accounting profession with Stewart Steyn (now Ernst & Young).

Colin Brayshaw (72)
CA(SA)
Colin is a chartered accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Accountants in England and Wales. He was a partner of various firms which today comprise Deloittes. In his last years in practice he was the Managing Partner of Deloitte & Touche followed by being its Chairman. He is currently a non-executive director of various companies and the Governor of the University of Witwatersrand Foundation, Chairman of Business against Crime Trust and Trustee of St Andrews College Foundation.