Directorate and executive management

Independent non-executive directors

   
Gavin Tipper (49)
BCom, BAcc, CA(SA), MBA
Chairman
  Ethan Dube (55)
MSc (statistics), executive MBA (Sweden)
  Louis van der Watt (47)
CA(SA), CIMA (UK )

Appointed chairman 2013. Committees: audit, remuneration and nomination

Gavin has been involved in the financial services industry for over 20 years, and was formerly an executive director of Coronation Investments and Trading Limited and a technical partner at KPMG South Africa. He is a director of a number of listed companies.

 

Appointed 2006. Committees: remuneration and nomination (chair)

Ethan has significant corporate finance and asset management experience. He spent three years with Southern Life Asset Managers as a senior analyst and two years with Standard Bank in the corporate finance division. In 1996 he founded Infinity Asset Management with three partners and, in 1998, founded Vunani Limited, a financial services company where he is currently CEO.

 

Appointed 2011.

Louis co-founded Atterbury Property, one of the largest property developers in South Africa, in 1994, after completing his articles at Deloitte Consulting (the management consulting arm of Deloitte & Touche). He also co-founded Attfund Limited, which was subsequently acquired by Hyprop.

   
Lindie Engelbrecht (39)
CA(SA)
  Thabo Mokgatlha (39)
CA(SA)
  Mike Lewin (59)
BCom, BAgric Management

Appointed 2011. Committees: audit (chair), risk, remuneration and nomination

Lindie is a former technical director at KPMG and director of governance and sustainability services at Ernst & Young. She previously served as chief executive officer of the Institute of Directors. Lindie is a member of the King Committee on Corporate Governance and has advised, consulted and presented to boards in the public and private sectors on corporate, legal and governance matters.

 

Appointed 2013. Committees: audit

Thabo began his career as a senior lecturer in accounting and taxation at the University of the North West. He subsequently worked as finance manager of the North West Parks Board, centre manager in the Rustenburg office of the auditor-general and finance manager of Royal Bafokeng Administration. He serves on the boards of a number of listed companies.

 

Appointed 2010. Committees: social and ethics

Mike has over 20 years’ experience in the property industry and headed the group retail division of Redefine Properties Limited until December 2013. He was previously with Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited for 18 years as their property development executive.


Non-executive directors

   
Stewart Shaw-Taylor (62)
CA(SA), Harvard PMD
  Kevin Ellerine (46)
National Diploma in company administration
  Louis Norval (58)
BSc (QS)

Appointed 2000. Committees: risk (chair), remuneration and nomination, investment

Stewart has over 30 years’ experience in investment banking and real estate. He is currently head of CIB Real Estate Investments, Standard Bank Group. He is responsible for the real estate, equityrelated activities undertaken by Standard Bank’s corporate investment banking division.

 

Appointed 2009. Committees: investment

Kevin joined the family business, Ellerine Holdings, in 1991 as merchandise manager. In 1993 he became property manager of Ellerine Bros (Proprietary) Limited, and was appointed managing director of the property division in 2000 where he remains today. He sits on the boards of all property and private equity companies in which Ellerine Bros is invested.

 

Appointed 2011. Committees: investment

Louis co-founded Attfund Limited and was executive chairman and chief executive of Attfund Retail Limited when it was acquired by Hyprop. He is managing director of the Parkdev group of companies. Louis was a founding member and senior partner of Norval Wentzel Steinberg Quantity Surveyors and executive director of Baker Street Associates Holdings (Proprietary) Limited. He currently serves as a non-executive director of Capital & Regional plc.


Executive directors

     
Pieter Prinsloo (49)
BSc (QS)
Chief executive officer
  Laurence Cohen (41)
BCom, CA(SA)
Financial director
   

Appointed 2011. Committees: investment (chair), social and ethics (chair) and risk

Pieter was CEO of Hyprop from 2002 to 2009, and reappointed in May 2011. A quantity surveyor, he has been engaged in every aspect of property development, management and finance for 21 years, including senior positions at Sanlam Properties, Standard Bank Properties and Absa Commercial Property Finance.

 

Appointed 2006. Committees: investment and risk

Laurence joined the group in 2003 as financial director of Hyprop management company, after spending three years in Grant Thornton’s corporate finance division. He has been extensively involved in various aspects of the group during his tenure with the company. Laurence also chairs the accounting and JSE committee of the SA REIT Association, and serves on its executive committee.

   

Executive management

     
Steven Riley (43)
Development executive
  Mark de Klerk (53)
National technical manager
  Brenda Frylinck (51)
National facilities manager
  Riegardt Marais (43)
Marketing executive
             
       
Desirée Nafte (48)
National legal executive
  Karin Eichhorn (37)
Human resources and IT systems
  Nikki Catrakilis-Wagner (40)
Investor relations executive
   

Regional executives

   
Wayne Abegglen (48)
Regional executive: Cape Town
  Nicole Greenstone (46)
Regional executive: Johannesburg
  Yvette van der Merwe (41)
Regional executive: Pretoria