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| I A J CLARK (65) |
| CA(SA) |
| Appointed 1993 |
| Chairman |
| Employed by the group in 1977 and held various senior financial
and executive positions in the Shipping division. Served as group
managing director/chief executive officer from 1999 to 2006.
Appointed chairman of Grindrod Limited in 2007 and chairman of
Grindrod Bank Limited in 2006. |
| Not independent |
| Remuneration/nomination committee |
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| H ADAMS (56) |
| Appointed 2000 |
| Chairman of ASCH Consulting Engineers. Deputy chairman
of SunWest, Table Bay Hotel and Proman Project Managers.
Has diversified business interests in engineering, project
management, leisure and gaming. |
| Independent |
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| W D GEACH (54) |
| BA LLB; MCOM; CTA; CA(SA) |
| Appointed 2008 |
| Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. Senior professor in
the Graduate School of Business University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Previously on the tax committee of the South African Institute of
Chartered Accountants KZN and technical committee member of
South African Institute of Professional Accountants. |
| Independent |
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| I M GROVES (63) |
| CA(SA) |
| Appointed 1986 |
| Previously managing director of the group. Retired from this
position in 1999. Has considerable experience in the shipping
industry. Non-executive director of Value Group Limited, Tiger
Wheels Limited, Grindrod Bank Limited and SA Corporate Real
Estate Fund Managers Limited. |
| Independent |
| Chairman – Audit committee |
| Remuneration/nomination committee |
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| R A NORTON (69) |
| BA; MA FIBSA |
| Appointed 1998 |
| Non-executive director of Grindrod Bank Limited and Illovo Sugar
Limited. Considerable experience as an executive in commerce.
Past president of the JSE. |
| Independent |
| Audit committee |
| Chairman – Remuneration/nomination committee |
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| N T Y SIWENDU (42) |
| BSocSc (Hons); LLB |
| Appointed 2008 |
| Non-executive director of Grindrod Bank Limited and The
Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) and chairs the
operational risk committee of this board. Director of Siwendu
& Partners Inc., Siwendu GHP Inc., Abakwa Investments (Pty)
Limited and Busara Trade and Investments (Pty) Limited.
Corporate/commercial lawyer and specialist in corporate
governance practice. Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. |
| Independent |
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| A K OLIVIER (48) |
| CA(SA) |
| Appointed 1999 |
| Chief executive officer |
| Employed in 1986 in the Shipping division where he has held
senior treasury and financial positions. Previously chief executive
of Unicorn Shipping and appointed group chief executive officer
effective 1 January 2007. Director of local and international
subsidiary companies, including Grindrod Bank Limited. Also
serves as deputy chairman of The United Kingdom Mutual
Steamship Assurance (Bermuda) Limited. |
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| J G JONES (58) |
| Appointed 2002 |
| Executive director – Ships Agencies |
| Employed in 1969. Has considerable experience in freight and
ships agency businesses. Director of various subsidiary
companies. |
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| T J T McCLURE (Captain) (58) |
| DipM Law |
| Appointed 2002 |
| Executive director – Shipping |
| Employed in 1999. Director of major local and international
subsidiaries and UK Freight Demurrage & Defence Association.
President of South African branch of Institute of Chartered
Shipbrokers. |
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| D A POLKINGHORNE (44) |
| BCom; MA (Oxon) |
| Appointed 2006 |
| Executive director – Financial Services |
| Employed in 2006. Managing director of Grindrod Bank Limited.
Extensive corporate and investment banking experience. |
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| D A RENNIE (Captain) (48) |
| Appointed 2002 |
| Executive director – Freight Services |
| Employed in 1978. Considerable seafaring and seafreight
logistics experience and currently chief executive officer of Freight
Services division. Previously managing director and now a nonexecutive
director of Ocean Africa Container Lines (Pty) Limited.
Director of major local subsidiaries, chairman of the Container
Liner Operators Forum and co-chairman of the South African
Container Terminals Advisory Board. |
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| A F STEWART (44) |
| CA(SA) |
| Appointed 2003 |
| Financial director |
| Employed in 2000 as financial manager of Unicorn Shipping, also
responsible for group taxation and treasury function. Promoted to
group financial manager in 2002. Director of major local and
international subsidiary companies within the group. |
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| L R STUART-HILL (45) |
| CA(SA) |
| Appointed 1999 |
| Executive director – Shipping |
| Employed as treasury manager by Unicorn Lines in 1993.
Promoted to financial manager of Unicorn Tankers in 1996 and
then to Grindrod Limited financial director in 1999. Moved to
head up the group’s Freight Services division in 2002 and then to
Unicorn Shipping in 2006. Director of major local and
international subsidiary companies within the group. Appointed
director of Marine Shipping Mutual Insurance Company Limited
(MSMI) in 2008. |
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| J B McILMURRAY (65) |
| LLB (University of London) |
| Appointed 2008 to executive committee |
| Chief executive officer – Trading |
| 10 years in marketing in the mining industry with Union
Corporation, Impala Platinum and Anglovaal. Founding member
and director of Oreport – 1985. Executive chairman of Oreport
group since 2003. |
| Serves on the executive committee together with the seven
executive directors |
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