Directors

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  Age:

  74

  Qualifications:

  B.Comm, CA(SA), MBA, H Dip. BDP and Hon. DCom (Wits)

  Appointed:

  August 16 2017

  Board committee: 

  Nominations committee (chairman) ▍

   

  Experience and expertise: Stephen is a stalwart of the South African business and financial services landscape. His decades of experience in building and sustaining the Investec Group into a global bank culminated in 22 years as CEO, ending in 2018. His inspirational leadership has resulted in him receiving multiple prestigious awards, including the 2009 Sunday Times Lifetime Achievers Award, the 2014 Southern Africa Master Entrepreneur Winner at the EY World Entrepreneur Awards, and an Honorary Doctor of Commerce Degree from the University of Witwatersrand in 2017.

  He has served on many prominent boards and associations, including Business Leadership South Africa, the South African Banking Association, the JSE Limited, Bidvest Group Limited, Irongate Funds Management Limited (Australia), the Financial Markets Advisory Board, and the Independent Bankers Association.

  Stephen divides his time between Australia and South Africa and currently serves as the chairman of Bid Corporation Limited, Bud Group (Pty) Limited, Innovation Africa SA NPC, ArrowPoint Capital, EDT Trust, co-chair of Youth Employment Service (YES), and is a non-executive director of Investec Limited and Investec plc, as well as other companies in the Investec group.

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  Age:

  60

  Qualifications:

  BComm and BAcc

  Appointed:

  March 10 2016

  Board committee: 

  Acquisitions committee, Social and ethics committee ▍▍

  Experience and expertise: After qualifying as a chartered accountant, Bernard joined Bidvest in South Africa in 1990. A move to Canada in 1993 meant a short break from the group, but he rejoined Bidvest in Australia in 1996, shortly after the first Bidvest offshore acquisition in Australia, expanding the group's footprint beyond South Africa.

  Bernard was instrumental in the development of Bidvest's foodservice business in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, and in 2010 assumed responsibility for the global foodservice businesses, including the UK and Europe operations.

  Following the group's unbundling and separate JSE listing of Bid Corporation Limited in 2016, Bernard was appointed as chief executive officer and has been integral in developing the group's strategy and global footprint.

  Bernard is based in Sydney, Australia, and travels extensively across the breadth of the group's operations, engaging and supporting local management in the delivery of their strategy, as well as exploring further growth opportunities.

  Bernard blends a wealth of operational, finance, and M&A experience with an entrepreneurial mindset and has been responsible for multiple acquisitions and delivering sustained growth over the past many years.

  * Australian.

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  Age:

  63

  Qualifications:

  CA(SA)

  Appointed:

  September 12 2007

  Board committee: 

  Acquisitions committee ▍

  Experience and expertise: David was financial director of Rennies Terminals when Bidvest acquired the Rennies group in 1998. In 2001, he joined the Bidvest corporate office where he was involved in both group corporate finance and investor relations, before being appointed as Bidvest financial director on July 9 2007. David managed Bidvest's interests in the investments made by the group over the years.

  David was appointed as chief financial officer of Bid Corporation Limited on April 14 2016. He is based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and travels extensively across the spread of Bidcorp geographies, enabling him to maintain a global and local focus. David is actively involved in managing stakeholder interests.

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  Age:

  51

  Qualifications:

  CA(SA)

  Appointed:

  September 16 2019

  Board committee: 

  Social and ethics committee (chairman), Audit and risk committee ▍▍

  Experience and expertise: Tasneem contributes a broad palette of knowledge from her time as an audit partner at Deloitte, her subsequent role as the lead of the Deloitte Risk Advisory business in her market area and her time served on the Deloitte board in South Africa. Her detailed understanding of accounting and business practices was founded during her years as a post-graduate lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand.

  She has expanded her executive experience into non-executive director positions at Reunert Limited, where she chairs the remuneration committee, and of Absa Group Limited, one of Africa's leading financial services providers with operations across 12 countries. At Absa, she also chairs the group's audit committee and is a non-executive director of Absa Bank Limited. She previously served as chair of the Absa Financial Services Limited board.

  Tasneem's insights into operational, compliance, and sustainability matters through regular engagements with developed market thought leadership allows her to bring additional perspectives into the boardroom conversation.

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  Age:

  69

  Qualifications:

  MBA (Manchester Bangor University of Wales), SEP (Harvard), AMD: ENSEAD (France), MDP (Stellenbosch University)

  Appointed:

  March 10 2016

  Board committee: 

  Acquisitions committee (chairman), Audit and risk committee, Remuneration committee, Nominations committee ▍▍▍▍

  Experience and expertise: Paul brings decades of financial services and banking experience to the Bidcorp board, from both private and public sector engagement. He brings extensive governance, risk, and operational experience gained from leading complex and diverse organisations through executive and board positions in South Africa and internationally. His global knowledge and experience have been bolstered by his previous roles as chairman and board member for a number of entities based outside of South Africa.

  His role as managing director for Nedbank Africa provided him with unique insights into the continent's people and business cultures. In his six-year term as chief executive officer at the Development Bank of South Africa he was instrumental in navigating a complex structure and multiple stakeholders while managing large-scale, successful infrastructure development across the continent. He is currently the managing director of CAP Leverage (Pty) Limited, an industrial holding company.

  Paul is the chairman of Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited, Peermont Holdings (Pty) Limited and Hulamin Limited, and serves on the board of Alphamin Resources Limited.

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  Age:

  65

  Qualifications:

  CA(SA)

  Appointed:

  November 13 2025

  Board committee: 

  Audit and risk committee ▍

  Experience and expertise: Trevor is an accomplished audit and governance professional with over 40 years of experience. He is the former Chairman of Deloitte Africa, where he served three consecutive terms (2011 – 2020), providing strategic direction and oversight to the firm's Africa Board, which spans 13 countries. During his tenure, he led the governance perspectives of integration of the Africa partnership and chaired multiple board committees, including, amongst others, Finance & Audit; Risk, Ethics & Compliance; and Nominations & Succession. Trevor also held several senior operational leadership positions within Deloitte Africa. His career included leading client engagements in the manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and consumer goods sectors. He has built expertise in IFRS, auditing standards, and the governance of listed companies.

  Trevor has gained recent experience in the Bidcorp group, chairing the Europe and Emerging Markets Divisional Audit and Risk Committees ('DARCs') and serving on the United Kingdom and Australasia DARCs since early 2023.

  He currently serves as a non-executive director of Nepad Business Foundation NPC and LIV Central NPC and chairs the audit committee of both companies.

  He has served as Independent Non-Executive Director at Avbob Mutual Assurance Society, Business Leadership South Africa's audit and risk committee and was an adviser to the audit committee of the SA SME Fund in its formative years.

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  Age:

  78

  Qualifications:

  CA(SA)

  Appointed:

  August 17 1995

  Board committee: 

  Acquisitions committee, Nominations committee ▍▍

  Experience and expertise: As the founder of The Bidvest Group Limited and Bid Corporation Limited, Brian has over 50 years' commercial experience across the global business landscape. His entrepreneurial approach has built multiple businesses, through both M&A activities and organic growth.

  Among his achievements, Brian has been recognised by Sunday Times as South Africa's businessman of the year, won the South African chapter of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Award, and represented South Africa at the World Entrepreneur Awards. Profiled as one of South Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs by MME Media in association with the Gordon Institute of Business Science, Brian has been named by Wits Business School Journal as one of South Africa's top 25 business leaders with significant impact on South African business.

  Brian is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Commerce from the University of South Africa, an Honorary Doctorate in Commerce from the University of Witwatersrand, and has been awarded the Sunday Times Lifetime Achiever Award. He has been included in the Forbes list of the 20 most influential people in Africa and awarded the CNBC All Africa Lifetime Achievement Award.

  Brian is based in Tel Aviv, Israel and currently serves as an independent non-executive director of Bidcorp.

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  Age:

  57

  Qualifications:

  NDip (Building Survey), BSc (QS), BCom, PGDA, CA(SA)

  Appointed:

  July 5 2021

  Board committee: 

  Social and ethics committee, Audit and risk committee ▍▍

  Experience and expertise: Keneilwe is a chartered accountant and a quantity surveyor, with executive experience gained in the construction, auditing and investment management industries.

  She has held board positions at a number of JSE listed companies, including Attacq Limited, Motus Holdings Limited, Brimstone Investment Corporation, and Long4Life Limited. Keneilwe currently holds board positions at Balwin Properties Limited and Bid Corporation Limited.

  In addition to her non-executive director roles, she actively contributes to the social environment by serving on the boards of several non-profit organisations. These organisations are dedicated to uplifting local South African communities through various initiatives, including early learning development, golf development, and social services.

  Keneilwe is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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  Age:

  65

  Qualifications:

  BCom (Hons), CA(SA), MBL (Unisa)

  Appointed:

  March 10 2016

  Board committee: 

  Remuneration committee (chairman), Social & ethics committee, Acquisitions committee, Audit and risk committee, Nominations committee ▍▍▍▍▍

  Experience and expertise: Nigel is an extremely experienced independent non-executive director. An exemplary academic record aligned with over 30 years of commercial and consulting experience provides a knowledgeable foundation from which he has served a range of multinational, listed organisations and their boards across the industrial, retail, consumer goods, property and financial services sectors.

  Nigel's early career included being an external audit partner, a CFO, and the head of a large internal audit and IT audit team. He has been a diligent chairman of audit and risk committees for the past 20 years, focused on detail and bringing strategic and global insights to the fore. He also has significant experience in acquisitions and strategic growth initiatives.

  His work with the King Committee, the Institute of Directors (IoD), and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) reflects his strong contribution in the areas of governance, financial management and risk. In 2023, Nigel received the President's Award from the South African Reward Association for his input over many years in the remuneration and human capital professions.

  Nigel is the chairman of the board at Mr Price Group Limited and Vukile Property Fund Limited.

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  Age:

  62

  Qualifications:

  BBusSci (Hons) (UCT); MScM (Hons) (Boston University)

  Appointed:

  September 16 2019

  Board committee: 

  Acquisitions committee, Remuneration committee ▍▍

   

  Experience and expertise: Clifford has over 25 years' experience leading change and innovation in technology and media companies, as an entrepreneur and an executive. As the former managing director of LinkedIn for Australia, New Zealand, and South-East Asia, he started the Australian office in 2009 and oversaw the expansion of LinkedIn in Australia from one to eight million members over eight years. Clifford was the managing director of Yahoo! Australia and New Zealand from 2003 to 2006, and was formerly the founder and managing director of iTouch Australia and New Zealand, where he grew the Australian office to one of the largest mobile content and application providers in the country.

  Based in Australia but bringing both South African and Asian corporate experience to Bidcorp, his more than 10 years spent on the boards of publicly listed companies have enabled him to bring a sharp technology and innovation focus to companies operating in more traditional sectors.

  He is an active investor, adviser and board member in the technology sector and is currently a non-executive director of ASX-listed Technology One Limited. He previously served on the boards of ASX-listed Afterpay Touch Limited, A2B Limited and Nearmap Limited.

  * Australian.

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  Age:

  59

  Qualifications:

  BSc (Hons) (University of Manchester), CA, GAICD, IDP-C INSEAD

  Appointed:

  March 10 2016

  Board committee: 

  Audit and risk committee (chairman), Social and ethics committee ▍▍

  Experience and expertise: Helen brings over 20 years of international board chair, non-executive director, and audit committee chair experience across a range of sectors including food, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, distribution, mining, energy, and healthcare. She has extensive governance, financial, risk and compliance oversight skills, having navigated growth, transformation, and turnaround scenarios, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and ESG initiatives, throughout her career.

  Helen spent 14 years in the corporate and international tax practices of KPMG UK and KPMG Australia, and was a partner in the Australian practice. She is a dual British‑Australian citizen; her current base in the United Kingdom provides her with easy access to Bidcorp's major operations across Europe.

  Helen chaired Bidvest's International foodservice business divisional audit committees from 2011 to 2016. Helen is a trustee director of SFI Health, is the President of the INSEAD International Directors Network, and is a non-executive director of Medway NHS Foundation Trust.

  * British.

• • ▍ Acquisitions committee
  • ▍ Nominations committee
  • ▍ Audit and risk committee
  • ▍ Remuneration committee
  • ▍ Social and ethics committee