Barloworld Limited: Leading Brands

Barloworld Group Board

Executive Directors

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  Qualifications:

  BSc Chemical Engineering

  Nationality:

  South African

  Age:

  57

  Dominic re-joined Barloworld in 2007 as chief executive officer to the Equipment division South Africa. In 2014 he was promoted to chief operating officer of Barloworld Equipment Southern Africa and thereafter Chief Executive Officer of Barloworld Equipment Southern Africa. He joined the board on 19 March 2014 and was subsequently appointed Deputy Chief Executive effective 1 March 2016. From 1 October 2016, Dominic became the Chief Executive designate of Barloworld. Prior to joining Barloworld, Dominic was Deputy Managing Director of Afgri Limited. On 8 February 2017 Dominic was appointed Chief Executive of Barloworld Limited.

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  Qualifications:

  BCom (Hons), CA(SA), BCom Accounting Science, Post Graduate Certificate in Corporate Governance, Woman in Insurance Management Development Programme, Higher Certificate in Financial Markets and Instruments.

  Nationality:

  South African

  Age:

  53

  Nopasika Lila was appointed as the Group Finance Director of Barloworld Limited with effect from 1 August 2019. Nopasika previously served as the CEO and principal officer preceded by being the CFO of the Eskom Pension and Provident Fund. She is a chartered accountant with more than 20 years' of experience in finance, corporate governance and the financial industry. She possesses advanced proficiencies in Funds Administration, Corporate Governance and Compliance Management, with demonstrated skills in leading major funds sustainably with astute control over risk management, reputation and stakeholder relations. She previously served on various boards both listed and unlisted, namely enX Group Limited, Nampak Limited and Basil Read and chaired some of the audit committees.

Independent non-executive directors

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  Qualifications:

  BA (university of Fort Hare), M.Sc Social Policy & Planning (London School of Economics & Political Science), PhD in Development Planning (University College, London), Masters in Philosophy (St Augustine College)

  Nationality:

  South African

  Age:

  63

  Lulu was appointed as Chairman of the Barloworld Board in October 2021. She is an accomplished development planner, business leader and philanthropist. She has experience as an Independent Non-Executive Director on Afrox Limited, Sun International, First Rand Group Limited, Tsebo Outsourcing, South Point, Development Bank of South Africa and Airports Company South Africa. She is the CEO of Lereko Investment, a black-owned investment company. She currently chairs the FirstRand Foundation. Lulu's passion for spatial equity has driven her philanthropic work. Two decades ago, she founded the Mhakazi Trust to empower the young people of Umzimkulu, some of whom have even graduated from tertiary institutions. In 1996 she founded Traversing Liminality to empower young African women between the ages 21-30.

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  Qualifications:

  BCom, AMP, Advanced Management Programme.

  Nationality:

  South African

  Age:

  61

  Neo was appointed to the Barloworld board on 1 February 2019. Neo has over 25 years' experience in marketing, corporate affairs, development finance, strategy and corporate governance. Neo was a senior executive at the Industrial Development Corporation including serving as the executive responsible for market development into the rest of Africa. She currently serves on the board of WDB Investments Holdings and Mozal Aluminium Co. She was previously on the boards of Clover SA and Scaw Metals.

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  Qualifications:

  BSc Comp, MSc Comp

  Nationality:

  South African

  Age:

  56

  Hugh was appointed to the Barloworld board on 1 February 2019. Hugh began his early career at Hewlett Packard in the US, as a software engineer and then moved on to spend 22 years at Intuit, a financial software and services firm based in the US where he remained until 2015. During his tenure at Intuit, he became an engineering fellow and vice president leading the Intuit Labs Incubator. Hugh is the CEO and founder of Ujama, a community messaging platform. He also serves on the boards of Mozilla Corporation and Echoing Green.

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  Qualifications:

  BCompt (Hons), CA (SA)

  Nationality:

  South African

  Age:

  66

  Nomavuso was appointed to the Barloworld board in October 2017. She was a senior partner and member of the executive committee of SizweNtsaluba VSP before serving as Group audit and risk executive at Imperial Holdings Limited. She is a former director of Nedbank Group and the JSE.

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  Qualifications:

  BCom (Hons), CA (SA)

  Nationality:

  South African

  Age:

  60

  Peter was appointed to the Barloworld board in April 2017. Until recently, Peter was global head of Private Equity at ACTIS and he was responsible for the Global PE business. He spent 11 years in Ethos Private Equity as a partner where he led and originated many buyouts across southern Africa. Peter was also previously with Investec Asset Management where he was responsible for Alternative Investments until recently. Peter has served on numerous boards across emerging markets, including Alexander Forbes.

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  Qualifications:

  Master's Degree in Economics, University of Venice (Italy), Italian Chartered Accountant, Executive Training programs at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and at Olin School of Business, St Louis, Missouri, USA

  Nationality:

  Italian

  Age:

  58

  Nicola was appointed to the Barloworld board in February 2022. He has over 30 years' corporate experience working for public US, French and Italian multinational groups mainly in the Agribusiness & Food sector (Bunge, Cargill, Cerestar, Saudi Agriculture and Livestock Investment Co.), as Global CFO, VP Strategy & Business Development, VP Performance Improvement. Over the years he executed a large number of Mergers & Acquisitions, large-scale investments and change management activities. He is currently Professor of Private Equity & Development Funding at the University of Venice (Italy) and President of Cropfield Consulting, his Strategy & Finance consulting company.

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  Qualifications:

  An alumnus of Imperial College (University of London) and University of Manchester, a Chartered Accountant (FCA), a certified member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators-UK (MCIArb) with a certificate in Business excellence (Columbia Business school).

  Nationality:

  Nigerian

  Age:

  61

  Bashirat was appointed to the Barloworld Board in May 2023. She is a business development veteran, well-versed in business strategy, having spent three decades in the finance and banking industry. Until recently, she was the executive heading corporate banking (Energy, Natural Resources & Infrastructure), at First Bank Nigeria Ltd, prior to which she was the line executive for their international banking group. Bashirat currently serves as an Independent NED on the board of Seplat Energy Plc (quoted on the LSE and NGX), an INED on the board of Leadway Holdings and Chair of the Board of FBN Bank, Senegal. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Franco-Nigeria Chamber of Commerce and Industry, where she serves as Treasurer. Bashirat is passionate about supporting younger professionals (particularly women) in fulfilling their aspirations and is a mentor/sponsor to many.

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  Qualifications:

  BSc (Inf Proc) (Rhodes University), BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Rhodes University), Accountants Conversion Course (University of Cape Town), Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting (University of Cape Town), CA (SA).

  Nationality:

  South African

  Age:

  54

  Vuyisa was appointed to the Barloworld Board in May 2023. He is a chartered accountant by training and has worked extensively in investment banking and private equity over the past 25 years. He started his career with Deutsche Bank where he gained investment banking experience primarily in corporate and project finance advisory work. Vuyisa has served in various executive leadership roles in a number of organisations including as a Financial Director of Worldwide African Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd, as a Finance Director of Zatic Group (Pty) Ltd, as Director: Investments in Tiso Group Investments (Pty) Ltd, Deputy CEO of Kagiso Tiso Holdings (Pty) Ltd ("KTH") and as CEO of KTH, an investment holding company. He now runs a family private equity fund business and continues to serve on the boards of Emira Property Fund Ltd (Chairman : Audit and Risk Committees), Guardrisk Group (Pty) Ltd (Chairman) and as an Investment Committee member of two private equity funds.