Dr David Kalombo

Dr David Kalombo is the project manager of the South African national Department of Health’s Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Care, Management and Treatment Plan. Dr Kalombo is medical doctor who completed his medical degree in 1990, he grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has worked as a medical doctor and manager for the past 17 years. After coming to South Africa in 1991, Dr Kalombo completed his internship at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town and Sebokeng Hospital in the Vaal in 1993, and worked at a number of hospitals thereafter, including Johannesburg Hospital, Hillbrow Hospital, South Rand Hospital, Edenvale Hospital and finally at Dr George Mukhari Hospital in Garankuwa where he was a senior medical executive up to June 2004. He joined the national Department of Health in July 2004 as the first project manager of the now known as one of the HIV&AIDS Comprehensive Plan in the world. Dr Kalombo is busy completing his MBA from the Milpark Business School with only the Dissertation left. He attended many short course and workshops in Africa and abroad, the last one was on Decentralization tool at University of Harvard, School of Public Health in June 2007. In politics, Dr Kalombo is a Health advisor of Prof Dr Oscar Kashala presidential candidate of the last democratic elections in DRC, member of the executive committee of one of the major political parties in DRC leader of Southern Africa region. He participated actively to the first Democratic elections after decade in DRC helping Prof Dr Oscar Kashala to be fifth in the presidential race and now in the major opposition group. Dr Kalombo is also a born again Christian and a leader in the biggest French speaking church in South Africa under the Apostolic Faith Mission. Finally Dr Kalombo is a true son of Africa and believe in a new African leadership for a sustainable development and well-being of all Africans.

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Gale Lemmert

Gale Lemmert, Executive, Organisational Performance, Barloworld Motor. Gale joined Barloworld Motor in 2007 in the capacity of Organisational Performance Executive. In this role she’s responsible for designing and developing interventions and initiatives to ensure sustained value creation through employees. Prior to this she was a Group Strategy Consultant at Barloworld responsible for managing and facilitating the Business Unit Strategy Analysis process.   Gale completed a BA LLB degree at the University of Cape Town, and a MBA from Gonzaga University, Washington State, USA. In her spare time, Gale enjoys the spending time outdoors engaging in activities such as rock climbing and hiking. Gale also has two community related interests. She acts a mentor to the National Children’s Theatre Trust, advising management on strategy and business issues as well as serves on the Board of Management of the Endangered Wildlife Trust.

Gary Campbell

Gary Campbell heads up the FUEL Trust, a newly formed NGO based in Johannesburg, whose vision is to make a positive and permanent contribution to the lives of young South Africans. FUEL has engaged with government to support them in enhancing the quality of their National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP), which targets 6 million primary school children daily. Gary returned to South Africa in January 2007, having spent 9 years working in the UK. He was Commercial Director of Nando’s UK for 5 years where he was responsible for procurement, logistics, safety, menu development and maintenance of the UK group which managed 150 corporate owned restaurants. Prior to that Gary worked as an investment manager for Capricorn, a private equity business which operated in the leisure and financial services sectors both in SA and in the UK. Prior to leaving for the UK in 1998, Gary worked for four years as Group Financial Manager for Cullinan Holdings Ltd, having completed his articles and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte & Touche in Johannesburg in 1994. Gary is married to Alison and they have two young daughters. Gary is passionate about sport and the outdoors.

Gugu Msibi

Gugu Msibi holds a BA (Journalism and Economics) from Durban University of Technology, Management Advanced Programme (MAP) Wits Business School, MBA (Bond University, Australia). In her capacity as Executive Director of Spin Media, she is responsible for media training, development of communications and public affairs strategies for different government departments and companies. She is a former Marketing and Communications Executive at the State Information Technology (SITA), was responsible for creating and managing the brand of the agency. She worked for four years as a political journalist at SABC, including work as a senior producer on AM/PM Live (SAFM). She spent two years as Head of Broadcast Training at the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, (IAJ) which involved training journalists and government medial liaison officers on media management. She is a strategy and media advisor to the Chairman of Mvela Group, Tokyo Sexwale, the SABC, Land Bank, Gauten Shared Services (GSSC), Parliament, Transnet and the Department of Home Affairs. She has a rich history of involvement in community media and media skills training, and has conducted over 150 media skills training sessions in South and Southern Africa. She co-founded Spin Media in 2000 with two other partners. Gugu, is also a non-executive director of Powertel, a telecommunications company. Spin Media (Pty) Ltd is a black-owned South African communications consultancy, based in Johannesburg. Spin Media specialises in the following: Reputation management and repositioning Communication strategy development and implementation; Media strategy development and implementation of media management plans; Communications management training; Business-to-government relations and public affairs management. Spin's combined experience straddles development communication, government communication, and mass and community media work. This ensures the development and implementation of communication plans and strategies that are both effective and appropriate - and underpinned by a strong commitment to capacity building, transformation and empowerment.

Joshin Raghubar

Joshin Raghubar is currently the Managing Director of iKineo, a Relationship Marketing and Brand Activation firm. Since founding iKineo in 2000, the firm has developed a blue-chip client base of leading brands in South Africa and other markets. Joshin started his career at Interactive Africa, where he was extensively involved in the 2006 Soccer World Cup Bid; project-managed the transcontinental African Connection Rally; and managed the International Design Indaba. Joshin served as a non-executive director of the Cape Information Technology Initiative (CITi), the public/ private sector agency tasked with development of the region as a Technology cluster; and he currently serves as Non-Executive Chairman of the Bandwidth Barn which is South Africa’s leading non-profit business incubator and accelerator for technology businesses. He has recently joined the board of the South African Chamber of Commerce in America. Joshin is a Fellow of the Southern Africa-United States Centre for Leadership & Public Values 2007/8 Emerging Leaders Programme; and was selected in 2006 as a Transformation Thinker by the Bertelsman Institute and the GTZ, the German government’s development agency, as part of their global Transformation Thinkers programme. Joshin has a Business Science (Honours) degree, majoring in Finance and Accounting, from the University of Cape Town, and is completing a Masters programme in Development Studies.

Lisa Klein

Lisa Klein is currently an independent strategy consultant. Her client base has included the National Treasury, Standard Bank, Google.org, TechnoServe, Associated Magazines, Spier, Mondi Forestry and the Resolve Group. She has a diverse work experience including working as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co; as strategy advisor to Jay Naidoo and Jayendra Naidoo (J&J Group); and as Strategic Planning Director at FCB.   A common thread through her working life has been the desire to use her skills to stretch the boundaries of the possible within the private and public sector. She is keen to work with and nurture a new generation of young talent to understand their power to enact change. To this end, she has played a leadership role in McKinsey Alumni in Development (SA) and is currently Assistant General Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship (SA). Lisa obtained her Doctorate in Political Studies from Oxford University, where she was on a Rhodes scholarship. She has a BA Honours (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Mark Long

Mark Long has obtained a Theological Diploma (ICI University USA), Road Transport Diploma (RAU University South Africa), MBA (Wales University United Kingdom). Mark is based in Durban South Africa and runs his own management consulting business. His business specialises in supply chain consulting with particular focus on the Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry. Prior to starting his own consulting business Mark was Managing Director of DHL Consumer and Industrial South Africa. DHL serviced the logistics and distribution requirements within South and Southern Africa for companies like Unilever, Cadbury’s, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg’s, British American Tobacco, GSK, Pfizer, etc. Mark has worked within the logistics and supply chain industry for over twenty five years. Throughout most of this time he has either run his own businesses or been in executive leadership roles working for multinational supply chain companies. Mark is also the holder of patents in over thirty countries, including Australia, USA and Europe, for his invention, which facilitates the optimisation of truck load carrying compartments, called ‘Volumax’. Mark has a particular fervour for matters supply chain and transport related.

Nkuli Mkhize

Nkuli Mkhize, maiden surname Nkonyane, was born in Cape Town. She attended several schools in Cape Town and matriculated at Rhodes High School in 1993. She went on to study a Bachelors Degree in Social Science and Humanities at UCT and graduated in 1997. Nkuli worked for a consultancy in Cape Town, then known as Sedgewick Noble Lowndes South Africa for a few months before joining Investment South Africa (ISA), the then National Agency responsible for promoting foreign direct investment into South Africa, in February 1999. Nkuli worked in the office of the CEO/ Deputy Director General at ISA as the Executive Assistant to the CEO until January 2000, when due to her hard work and initiatives in the CEO’s office, she was promoted to Investment Manager for the automotive and metals sector at ISA. During her work at ISA Nkuli was nominated for the CEO’s Award due to her excellent contribution to the organisation. Her work at ISA involved mainly project management, business development, marketing and relationship building in the context of Investment Promotion.   In May 2001, Nkuli was posted to serve as the Economic Counsellor/Foreign Economic Representative at the South African Embassy in Tel Aviv. Nkuli served in Tel Aviv for a year and was in April 2002 transferred to serve as the Economic Consul/Foreign Economic Representative at the South African Consulate in Dubai, where she has been until January 2005. Her work during her postings was a continuation of the work she was doing at ISA, but over and above this, she acquired both on the job and academic skills in financial management, managing people, strategic management and leadership. During her time in Tel Aviv and Dubai, Nkuli studied and obtained an MBA from the University of Hawaii. On returning to South Africa, Nkuli joined Wesgro as the Executive Manager responsible for leading a team of 20 project managers and support staff in the work of trade and investment promotion at the Agency. Nkuli spent a little over a year at Wesgro and decided to leave the world of Investment & Trade Promotion to join the exciting world of Development Finance. She joined the Development Bank of Southern Africa as a Business Development & Stakeholder Relations Manager since 1 August 2006. Nkuli is currently busy with her Masters degree in Development Finance at the University of Stellenbosch Business School. Nkuli is married with one child and lives in Johannesburg.

Dr Nobs Mwanda

Dr Nobs Mwanda is a mother, wife, social entrepreneur and the Chief Executive Officer of Community-based Prevention and Empowerment Strategies in South Africa (COPES-SA), a social profit organisation that focuses on the building of safe, secure and caring communities for the children.   She founded COPES-SA in Soweto in 2004 after a very short stint in private practice. Born in the rural Eastern Cape, she qualified as a medical practitioner from Wits University, in 1988 and subsequently did her Master of Science degree in Community Paediatrics, from the same university. Having worked for most of her life in the child abuse arena, she has received recognition for her scholarly contributions, from her peers, both nationally and internationally. Her major passion is community development.

Norman Beaulieu

Norman Beaulieu is founder and CEO of Aedi Group, LLC, a private, branded social investment firm established in 2003. Norman is building Aedi Group into a growing network of “Aedi” branded companies that deliver a social or environmental dividend. Among this family of companies, Norman founded Aedi Development, an eco-friendly property development group that created the first multi-unit LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified homes in the United States. He is now co-launching an estimated US $2 billion initiative to develop one of the world’s first totally “green”, energy independent towns to help drive sustainable economic development. Norman has also co-founded Aedi Technology, a real time artificial intelligence technology company that has spawned new application companies such as Aedi Enterprise, Aedi Bio, and Aedi Media. In 2000, Norman was part of the founding team at Vaultus, a wireless technology company. Previously, he began his entrepreneurial pursuits by co-founding Modify, an Internet software services company. Modify Services was sold to Art Technology Group, (NASDAQ:ARTG) in 1999. Norman has published technology related book chapters, articles and has patents pending. He is actively involved with various volunteer activities and fundraising efforts. Norman graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University. He lives with his wife and daughter in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Ntuthuko Bhengu

Dr. Ntuthuko Bhengu obtained his MB,ChB degree from Natal University in 1991 and the Diploma in Anesthetics from the College of Medicine of SA in 1994. His formal management training includes an MBA (Wales, Cardiff) and MPH Healthcare Management (Harvard, USA) degrees obtained in 1998 and 2001 respectively. The latter degree gave him an in-depth understanding of Health Care Policy and Management of corporations in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, hospital and health insurance industries. After leaving full-time anesthetics practice, Ntuthuko joined the corporate sector in 1996 and subsequently operated in various consulting and executive management roles within the health care industry. His entrepreneurial interests include Afrika Biopharma Investments, which he co-founded in 2003.   Dr. Bhengu serves on the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI), which advises the Minister of Science and Technology on the role and contribution of science, mathematics, innovation and technology in promoting national objectives. He is also Deputy Chairman of the National Biotechnology Advisory Committee, a member of the Audit Committee of Polmed Medical Scheme and a Trustee of the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA). Previously, he was appointed by the Minister of Health to serve on the Pharmaceutical Pricing Committee Working Group and, during the Africa Nations Cup soccer tournament in 1996, he was the Durban group’s Chief Drug Testing Officer. 

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Raisibe Morathi

Raisibe Morathi is a CA (SA) and has Certificate in Advanced Management Programme from INSEAD (France) and Higher Diploma in Taxation from Wits University. Currently she is the Economic Advisor to the Deputy President of South Africa. Raisibe has held a number of positions at the IDC inclusive of Chief Operating Officer, Acting Investment Officer and other executive positions. Previously she worked in Investment Banking institutions. She is a Director in a number of companies, both listed and unlisted.

Salome Sengani

Salome Sengani is a Corporate Strategy executive with 20 years of extensive experience in the financial sector. Fourteen of these years were spent in banking, spanning from retail banking to Corporate and Merchant banking and Development Finance. Experience includes serving in community and business leadership roles, health care sector and in the financial sector (both in the public and private sector institutions), In her current position, Salome is leading the business transformation programme with its main objective of broadening and deepening affordable housing finance to the poorer section of society and making markets work for low income earners. She introduced, designed the project structure and delivered project work streams to operationalise the project. She is the programme head responsible for leading the successful implementation of through identification, involvement and coordination of various stakeholders including the shareholder, being government through the Department of Housing, National Treasury, the SA Reserve Bank, local and international partners, service providers, management and staff of the Corporation, and strategic relationships with clients. Salome, serves on the board of the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), a public entity wholly owned by the City Of Johannesburg and chairs its Marketing and Communications board sub-committees, and is also a member 2 of its sub-committees on the Development and Risk. She represents the JDA in the audit sub-committee of the Blue IQ’s development companies - Newtown and Constitutional Hill Development Companies. Blue IQ is a company owned by the Gauteng Province Government for the implementation of provincial projects. Salome holds a BComm – (majoring in Accounting and Business Economics) and BComm (Hons) degree in financial management from the University of South Africa, complimented by a Masters in Business Administration degree from the University of Pretoria. Salome is married with two children, one major and a teenage minor.

Sibani Mngomezulu

Sibani Mngomezulu is Group Executive: Governance and Corporate Affairs at Barloworld Limited. He is responsible for the Group Secretarial, Media and Public Affairs and Investor Relations portfolios. Prior to taking up employment at Barloworld, Sibani worked in corporate finance at JP Morgan, Cazenove and Merrill Lynch. He has been involved in advising large South African corporates on a number of transactions, including the demutualization and listings in London of Old Mutual, the restructuring of the Johnnic Group, leading to the formation of the MTN Group, the Barloworld acquisition of Avis and the Barclays acquisition of a stake in ABSA. His interests include the development of rural communities and assisting under-privileged children. He has led a Street Law programme in Pietermaritzburg for community schools and prisons and he has also provided financial and other assistance to learners and university students. He is a qualified lawyer and holds the degrees of LLM (Banking and Finance) from the Rand Afrikaans (now University of Johannesburg) and London Universities.

Sibongile Khumalo

Multi-talented, soulful and dynamic, Sibongile Khumalo has enchanted diverse audiences all over South Africa and beyond. She interprets with integrity and poise a variety of musical genres. From traditional South African and European sounds, to jazzy melodies, she glides from world to world with specifically South African flavours. Khumalo’s immense musical capacity launched her into the limelight when she won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award at the Grahamstown Festival in 1993. She has since performed with numerous celebrated groups and artists and has graced a variety of honoured occasions, amongst them President Nelson Mandela's 75th Birthday and 1994 Inauguration. She also led the South African and New Zealand National anthems at the world cup rugby finals in 1995. Through the guidance of her father, professor of music Khabi Mngoma, Khumalo began her musical journey at the age of eight under Emily Motsieloa. She has since matured and refined the art which first endeared her to her hometown Soweto supporters many years ago. She holds music degrees from the University of Zululand (B.A. Mus.) and Wits University (B.A. Hons), as well as a Higher Diploma in Personnel Management (Wits). She has taught and researched music at the University of Zululand, FUBA Academy and at the Madimba Institute of African Music (based at the Funda Centre). Also acting in musicals: Marabi, Baby Come Duze, Once on this Island, and Goree (which toured Europe and the U.S.A.). Khumalo has treated South Africans to numerous critically acclaimed performances, most notably: The 3 Faces of Sibongile Khumalo (Kippies, Johannesburg 1992); Sibongile Khumalo in Concert (Grahamstown Festival, Market Theatre - Johannesburg, and Baxter Theatre - Cape Town 1993); performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Johannesburg and Cape Town 1994 and 1995); the Brahms Alto Rhapsody (Johannesburg City Hall 1994 and Durban City Hall 1996); Sisters in Synch with Aviva Pelham (Civic Theatre - Johannesburg and Grahamstown Festival 1994); Rhythms of Africa with the National Symphony Orchestra (Sun City, Durban and Johannesburg 1994); Handel's Messiah with Lord Yehudi Menuhin (Cape Town and Johannesburg 1995); Sibongile Khumalo and Friends (Johannesburg 1995). She has also had concerts in France - with conductor Hubert Soudant; Egypt - with the National Symphony Orchestra; and London during Africa '95 with the Brodsky Quartet and at the S.A.A. 50th Anniversary Celebrations at the South African High Commission in London. Ranking high on her list of 1996 music highlights is Khumalo's debut album, Ancient Evenings - a magical journey through the rich tapestry of South African music culture; her critically acclaimed operatic debut as Carmen (Bizet) in Durban; CD and television recordings of Mzilikazi Khumalo's uShaka ka Senzangakhona; performing at the Two Nations Celebrate concert honouring President Mandela (Royal Albert Hall, London); the SAA/Sibongile Khumalo national tour. During April 1997, Sibongile was the mezzo-soprano soloist in the Verdi Requiem under the baton of Sir David Willcocks, during the South African tour of the London Bach Choir. Through her music, Sibongile Khumalo shares the spice, wisdom, and wealth of experience inherited from her family and community.

  
Tamara Esau

Tamara Esau was admitted as a partner in July 2005, after spending 4.5 years progressing through the managerial ranks. As an audit partner at PwC, her core responsibility is to plan and execute audit assignments. Primarily this involves, ensuring that all audit risks areas are managed to an acceptable level in order to issue the appropriate audit opinion. One aspect of the audit includes attending audit committee meetings and presenting audit plans/findings. The members of these committees normally include the Chief Financial Officers and Chief Executive Officers of the relevant Holding companies. Tamara was recently appointed Human Capital Partner of the Assurance Western Cape Practice. She has various responsibilities in terms of Recruitment, Recognition and Retention of talent. (As part of this role, she co-ordinate/oversee 5 other partners, in ensuring that the firms objectives/interest are being met in whatever initiatives are being undertaken.) Within Tamara’s division, she is also responsible for specifically counseling individuals. Tamara is a member of the National Transformation Steering Committee and chaired the Century City Employment Equity Committee from July 2005 till July 2007 and the Assurance Transformation Committee for the same period. As a member of ABASA and AWCA, she is involved in various initiatives, eg. school visits, tutoring initiatives at universities and trainee workshops etc, which are aimed at increasing the number of black chartered accountants in South Africa.

  
Thamsanqa (Tami) Sokutu

Thamsanqa (Tami) Sokutu holds a M.Sc. degree (Plant Systematics and advanced Ecology, U.C.T., 1991), a certificate in Environmental Management: Theory and Practice, (U.C.T., 1993) and a certificate in Senior Executive Programme, (Wits and Harvard Business Schools, 1999). He has also completed a course on Finance for non-Finance Managers at Wits Business School (2003). He has vast experience in Environmental management and environmental Policy related disciplines, having been the regional head of environmental policy desk of the ANC in Transkei (1990 to 1992) and later head of the ANC national environmental desk (1994), where he played a pivotal role in laying the ground for the ANC environmental policies in preparation for the new government in 1994. He accepted a post of Chief director (1995) and DDG (1997) in the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. He later became the chairman of the Water Committee in the USA-SA bi-national Commission, led by then Deputy President Thabo Mbeki.   By this time Tami’s strength was already in combining his political leadership experience with his general leadership and managerial skills. This earned him appointment as Director General in the Department of Public Works in 1999 to 2002.   He is currently an Executive Director of African Bank Investment Limited, Chairman of Tourism Black Economic Empowerment Council, Non-Executive Director of Kelly Group and National Business Initiative.

Zeona Motshabi

Zeona Motshabi rejoined Cell C in January 2007 as the Chief Corporate Officer responsible for Corporate Communications, Legal and Regulatory Affairs. Previously Zeona was Chairperson for Lobedu Communications Group and Managing Director of Lobedu Leo Burnett. Zeona and two other shareholders owned 51% of the international communications company. She was instrumental in turning the business around, both from a creative and financial position. She previously held some of the most sought-after and dynamic communication and marketing positions in South Africa, such as Head of Corporate communications for Cell C at the time of its launch, Executive Head of Corporate Communications at Telkom, Director for Communications at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and joint Managing Director of a top South African advertising agency. Zeona currently holds the following board directorship positions, Civic Theatre in Johannesburg, Jozi Dance Company, Endeavor and Batswadi Pharmaceuticals. She previously served on the boards of Rand Water Services, Director of the Rewards Company, Lobedu Communications Group and the Advertising Communication Association. Given her experience Zeona has had the opportunity to focus significantly on marketing and communications in the early part of her career and over the last 5 years she broaden her skills base to include general management aspects. Zeona’s proudest contribution to the development of her current employer and that of the country has been the launch of Take a Girl Child to Work Day in 2002.