Absa Group

• Group Audit and Compliance Committee (GACC) (Chairman)
• Group Risk and Capital Management Committee (GRCMC)
• Directors’ Affairs Committee (DAC)
• Board Finance Committee (BFC)

• Non-executive director of Sasol Limited.
• Non-executive director of SAB Zenzele Holdings Limited.

Colin holds a BCom (Hons) from the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1971. He is the former senior partner and Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Southern Africa having retired from this position in June 2009. Throughout his career, he served on several boards and councils of PwC`s global firm. He was also the chairman of the SAICA board in 2002/3 and is a member of the Accounting Practices Board.

• Board Finance Committee (BFC)

• Executive director of South African Breweries Limited.
• Non-executive director of Reunert Limited.
• Non-executive director of Steinhoff International Holdings Limited.
• Non-executive director of Reatile Resources Proprietary Limited.
• Member of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Investment and Endowment Committee.

Yolanda began her career in marketing with Robertsons Foods in 1999. She moved to Fisher Hoffman, an auditing firm, where she completed her articles in 2002. In January 2003, she joined the corporate finance division of Mvelaphanda Group Limited. Yolanda was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive Officer and, in July 2007, as Chief Executive Officer of Mvelaphanda Group Limited. Yolanda Cuba joined South African Breweries Limited as Executive Director: Development and Decision Support in September 2011.

• Group Audit and Compliance Committee (GACC)

• Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Shauket was the Auditor-General of South Africa for seven years and served as Chairman of the UN Panel of External Auditors, Secretary General for the Auditors-General Association on the African continent, and as External Auditor to both the World Health Organisation and the United Nations.He was also a member of the Audit Advisory Committee to the World Bank in Washington. He currently holds an executive position at MTN, responsible for Internal Audit and Business Risk Management.

• Group Audit and Compliance Committee (GACC) (permanent attendee)
• Group Risk and Capital Management Committee (GRCMC)
• Directors' Affairs Committee (DAC) (Chairman)
• Group Remuneration and Human Resources Committee (GRHRC)
• Concentration Risk Committee (CoRC) (Chairman)
• Board Finance Committee (BFC) (Chairman)
• Social and Ethics Committee (SEC)

• Non-executive director of Swiss Re Life and Health Africa Limited.
• Non-executive director of Suiderland Development Corporation Limited.
• Non-executive director of Resource Ballast Technologies Proprietary Limited.
• Trustee of the University of Cape Town Foundation.

Garth worked for Old Mutual from 1970 to 1999, and was finally the Managing Director responsible for Old Mutual's worldwide asset management and unit trust businesses, as well as all activities outside South Africa. He served as a non-executive director on several boards in the South African financial services sector and is currently a non-executive board member of Suiderland Development Corporation Limited and Swiss Re Life and Health Africa Limited. He was President of the Actuarial Society of South Africa for 2008 and 2009.

• Concentration Risk Committee (CoRC)

David completed his articles with KPMG where he became a partner in the financial services team. He then joined Standard Bank Group, where, for seven years, he was involved in group risk and retail credit. David joined Absa in 2008 as the Chief Risk Officer. He was appointed as Absa’s Group Financial Director on 1 March 2010.

• Group Audit and Compliance Committee (GACC)
• Directors' Affairs Committee (DAC)
• Board Finance Committee (BFC)
• Social and Ethics Committee (SEC) (Chairman)

• Trustee of the Wits Law School Endowment Appeal.
• Director of Knowles Husain Lindsay Incorporated.
• Director of KLH Investments Proprietary Limited.
• Non-executive Chairman of Andulela Investment Holdings Limited.

Mohamed has been an attorney for approximately 27 years, during which time he has represented a diverse range of clients in commercial and corporate litigation, insolvency law and administrative law. He is a former president and current member of the executive committee of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. He was one of the advisers to the Constitution Assembly on the drafting of the final Constitution and has also acted as a Judge of the High Court. He is also a past president of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces.

• Group Audit and Compliance Committee (GACC) (permanent attendee)
• Group Remuneration and Human Resources Committee (GRHRC)

Antony was appointed Chief Executive of Retail and Business Banking and joined Barclays Executive Committee in November 2009. Prior to that he had been Chief Executive of Barclaycard since January 2006. Antony served as a non-executive director on the boards of Visa Europe Limited and Mobility Operations Group plc until the end of 2011.

• Group Risk and Capital Management Committee (GRCMC)
• Directors' Affairs Committee (DAC)

Robert worked for many years at J.P. Morgan in the capital markets, fixed income, emerging markets and credit areas and later in the risk management function. He joined Barclays in 2002 as the Head of Risk Management at Barclays Capital. Robert was appointed Chief Risk Officer at Barclays in 2004 and holds this position to date.

• Executive director of Tiger Brands Limited.
• Non-executive director of Kumba Iron Ore Limited.
• Non-executive director of Oceana Group Limited.

Peter is the Chief Executive Officer of Tiger Brands Limited. He is the previous Executive Director of Commercial at Vodacom SA Proprietary Limited, Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer of Vodacom Group Limited and Chief Executive Officer of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).He began his career with the Urban Foundation and Citibank, and gained international experience in the USA and Europe. 

• Group Remuneration and Human Resources Committee (GRHRC)

• Non-executive director of Knorr-Bremse (SA) Proprietary Limited.
• Non-executive director of Vodacom Group Limited.
• Non-executive director of Paracon Holdings Limited.
• Executive director of Kutana Investment Group Limited.
• Non-executive director of Aveng Limited.

Thoko started her career as the Product Manager for Glaxo (1989 to 1994) and Merck, Sharp and Dohme (1994 to 1996) and Telkom (1996 to 2001). She served as Divisional Managing Director of Siemens Telecommunications Proprietary Limited from 2001 to 2004. Thoko subsequently served as Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel South Africa (2004) and Hewlett-Packard (2004 – 2008), and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Kutana Investment Group

• Group Remuneration and Human Resources Committee (GRHRC)

• Managing Director of Ninham Shand Mozambique Lda.
• Member of the Advisory Board of Confederation of Economic Associations (Mozambique).
• Non-executive director of Barclays Bank Mozambique.
• Director of The Lapdesk Company (South Africa).
• Chairman of Retail Masters SA (Pick n Pay master franchise Mozambique).
• Director of Liberty Holdings Lda.
• Director of Ilha Quilalea Lda.

Eduardo established and operated an Africa-focused trading company based in New York. He also established the Mozambique Business Council in Washington DC. Thereafter, Eduardo worked in the aerospace industry for a number of years with Boeing Commercial Airplanes, United Technologies and Guiness Peat Aviation. In 1994, he moved to the infrastructure development industry where he advised various multinational contractors in the development of strategically important infrastructure projects in southern Africa.

• Group Audit and Compliance Committee (GACC)
• Group Risk and Capital Management Committee (GRCMC) (Chairman)
• Directors' Affairs Committee (DAC)
• Concentration Risk Committee (CoRC)
• Board Finance Committee (BFC)

• Non-executive Chairman of Reunert Limited.
• Non-executive director of Iron Mineral Beneficiation Services Proprietary Limited.
• Non-executive director of Life Healthcare Group Holdings Limited.
• Non-executive director of Illovo Sugar Limited.

In the late 1980s, Trevor was appointed Finance and Commercial Director of AECI Explosives Chemicals Limited. He then served as Managing Director of Dulux Paints (early 1990s) followed by Polifin Limited (1996 – 2000). Trevor was appointed as an executive director of Sasol Limited, with global responsibility for finance and accounting, risk management, internal audit, corporate affairs and planning. In 2003, he assumed responsibility for Sasol Group's global chemical businesses. Trevor was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive of Sasol Limited on 1 July 2005. He retired from his executive responsibilities at Sasol on 31 December 2006.

• Directors' Affairs Committee (DAC)
• Group Remuneration and Human Resources Committee (GRHRC) (Chairman)
• Social and Ethics Committee (SEC)

• Non-executive director of Italtile Limited.
• Non-executive director of Reunert Limited.
• Non-executive director of RGT Smart Market Intelligence Limited.
• Non-executive director for Tata Africa Holdings.
• Non-executive director of Tongaat Hulett Limited.
• Board member of Business Against Crime SA.
• Board member of the Free Market Foundation.
• Board member of the National Business Initiative.
• Member of the board of Trustees of the READ Educational Trust.

Brand started his career at Toyota South Africa in 1973. In 1988, he was appointed as Managing Director of Toyota South Africa Marketing. Brand was appointed Chief Executive Officer of McCarthy Motor Holdings in 1995. In 2011 he retired as Chief Executive of McCarthy Limited and as an executive director of Bidvest Group Limited.

• Concentration Risk Committee (CoRC)

• Non-executive director of Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA.
• Member of the International Business Council Executive Committee.
• Member of the World Bank Chief Economist Advisory Panel.
• Member of Business Leadership South Africa.
• Member of the Banking Association of South Africa.

Maria was previously the Director-General of the National Treasury and in January 2004 she was appointed as the Group Chief Executive of Transnet Limited. Maria joined Absa as Group Chief Executive in March 2009, and is a member of the Barclays PLC Executive Committee.

• Group Remuneration and Human Resources Committee (GRHRC)
• Board Finance Committee (BFC)

• Member of Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee.

Ivan is a Managing Director and Head of Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa at Barclays Capital (appointed in June 2011), and is also a member of the Barclays Capital Executive Committee. He joined Barclays Capital in February 2002 as Managing Director and Global Head of Foreign Exchange. Before his current appointment, Ivan headed Global Markets Asia Pacific (2007), and Prime Services in 2008, before serving as Deputy Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) from September 2010.

• Concentration Risk Committee (CoRC)

Louis has worked in Absa's retail and commercial banking operations since 1981, where he held various branch, regional and provincial leadership positions. Louis was appointed Operating Executive of Absa Commercial Bank in 2000 following which he was appointed as an executive director of Absa Group in 2004, and Deputy Group Chief Executive in 2009.

• Group Risk and Capital Management Committee (GRCMC)
• Concentration Risk Committee (CoRC)

• Non-executive Chairman of the Nictus Group.
• Chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of the Free State.
• Trustee of the University of the Free State Provident Fund.

Working in various capacities in the agricultural sector, Johan had in-depth experience in agricultural marketing and strategy. He currently consults to major agricultural businesses in South Africa on agricultural business strategy, economics and markets.