B Com (Hons), CA (SA), CMS (Oxon)
Chairman of the nomination committee
Member of the audit and risk, and remuneration committees
Appointed to the board in 2013
John spent over three decades in commerce and industry, including serving as a partner of Ernst & Young and holding a number of financial directorships. He is a director of Clicks Group, Sovereign Food Investments, Tower Property Fund, Personal Trust International and Western Province Rugby Proprietary Limited.
BA, LLB, LLM
Independent non-executive director
Chairman of the audit and risk committee
Appointed to the board in 2013
Bharti spent 14 years at the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa where she headed the corporate funding and international finance departments. She is a director of Bell Equipment, the Mineworkers Investment Company and Lenmed Investments.
B.Com (Honours) (UCT); CA (SA); MBA (UP)
Appointed to the board in 2016
Mary is the CEO of the Mineworkers Investment Company and has held senior executive positions across the resources, media, utilities and financial services sectors. Her directorships include FirstRand Group, Primedia, Metrofile Holdings, Peermont Global Holdings and Torre Industries.
BDS (Wits), MBA
Chairman of the remuneration and social and ethics committees
Member of the audit and risk, and nomination committees
Appointed to the board in 2016
Kinesh is the chairman of Kilimanjaro Capital and a director of Kefolile Health Investments and Bataung Energy Holdings. He has extensive experience in the trade union investment arena and has been instrumental in several significant BEE transactions in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.
B Com, CA (Zim)
Appointed to the board in 2008
Gary is the co-owner and CEO of Coast2Coast Capital and jointly founded Ascendis Health in 2008. Gary owned and ran several successful businesses, including a telecommunications company which was listed on the stock exchange, before venturing into private equity and establishing Coast2Coast Capital.
BA (Marketing Management), BA (Anthropology), MBA executive programmes (London, INSEAD, IMD)
Joined the group in August 2017
Thomas is responsible for the group’s European operations and is based in London. He has held senior executive positions at Johnson & Johnson Consumer (MD Nordic region), Reckitt Benckister (head of global consumer healthcare) and Novartis Consumer Healthcare (head of global health segment). Most recently he has focused on non-executive board positions for private equity and listed companies mainly in the pharma sector.
B Com (Hons), H Dip (Auditing), CA (SA)
Appointed to the board in 2015
Kieron has over 20 years experience in financial management across a range of industries, including five years at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Health care in the UK and Dubai, five years as CFO at TransUnion Group Africa and two years as CEO of Nando’s Company-owned Restaurants Division. He joined Ascendis Health in 2015.
MB BCh (Wits), MBA (Wits)
Independent and non-executive Director on the Board of Northern Platinum
Member of Rhodes Scholarship Selection committee
Board member of Governing Council of the Diocesan School for Girls
Appointed to the board in June 2018
Dr Jekwa holds the position of Capital Raising Director at Coast2Coast Capital (Pty) Ltd and has extensive experience in the Acquisition and Finance sector as well as in the Medical field in South Africa and the UK.
Dr Jekwa is proactively involved in community upliftment programmes (particularly in the education sector) and is the founding Director of Get Me to Graduation (non profit organisation)
