Leadership

Chairperson of the board and Nominations committee; Member of Risk, Remuneration and Social, ethics and transformation committees.

Appointed June 2004

Directorships:
Truworths International Limited (Chairman) Balwin Properties Limited (Chairman) Monarch Insurance Company Limited (Chairman)

Expertise and experience:
Corporate governance, strategy and finance.

Hilton is an experienced company director and a registered chartered accountant. He is the former chairperson of Mazars South Africa, an international accounting firm, as well as the former chairperson of Praxity Alliance, an international alliance of accounting firms.

Specific contribution to the board:
Hilton serves as the non-executive chairman of Lewis Group as well as the non-executive chairperson of Monarch Insurance Company, the Group’s insurance subsidiary. His extensive experience in corporate governance, strategy, accounting and finance supports the board in fulfilling its statutory obligations and financial oversight responsibilities. He performed these roles over a number of years for both listed and large private companies.

Chairperson of the Remuneration and Social, ethics and transformation committees. Member of the Risk, Remuneration and Nomination committees. Appointed as LID in 2021.

Appointed September 2005

Directorships:
The Foschini Group Limited Monarch Insurance Company Limited

Expertise and experience:
Human resources and remuneration.

Fatima is an academic, experienced company director and a registered industrial psychologist. She is an emeritus professor at the University of the Western Cape, having also served as Dean of the Faculty of economic and management sciences.

Specific contribution to the board:
Fatima has served as a non-executive director on the board of large listed companies, particularly in the retail sector. She has built up extensive business experience over the years, particularly in the area of remuneration, human capital, and ESG, and has added real value to the board in these areas. Her strong academic qualifications and experience provided her with extensive expertise in these areas. She performed similar roles for other listed and unlisted entities over a number of years.

Member of the Risk committee and attends the Audit committee by invitation.

Appointed to the board April 2018

Directorship:
Lewis Stores (Pty) Limited

Expertise and experience:
Jacques is an experienced chartered accountant with a background in short-term insurance, banking and retail. He joined the Group in 2012 and served as General manager: administration prior to his appointment as CFO.

Specific contribution to the board:
Jacques is the Chief financial officer and an Executive director of the Group.

Member of the Risk, Remuneration and Nominations committees.

Appointed June 2017

Directorship:
Polarity Consulting (Pty) Limited

Expertise and experience:
Legal and compliance.

Adheera practised at two of South Africa’s leading law firms where she specialised in intellectual property law, gambling law and financial sector law and policy. She headed the legal division of the National Treasury before starting Polarity Consulting which provides legal guidance and advisory services to local and international businesses in highly regulated industries.

Specific contribution to the board:
Adheera engages regularly with parliament and the various financial sector regulators which allows her to advise the board on future and existing regulations and policies impacting the business. Her broad understanding of the businesses’ legal and regulatory framework also enables her to contribute on matters relating to regulatory compliance as well as other legal aspects.

Member of the Audit, Risk, Remuneration and Nominations committees.

Appointed August 2022

Directorships:
Monarch Insurance Company Limited

Experience and expertise:
ACCOUNTING, FINANCE, GOVERNANCE, ASSURANCE AND RISK
Brendan is a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in South Africa. His roles at PwC included head of the South Africa and Africa audit/assurance practices, chair of the Africa governance board and head of the global internal audit practice. He was involved with and advised many large multinational companies over a number of years.

Specific contribution to the board:
Brendan serves as a non-executive director of Lewis Group and Monarch Insurance Company Limited. Brendan is an experienced accountant and former auditor with expertise in financial reporting, leadership and governance, and assurance and risk.

Member of the Risk, and the Social, ethics and transformation committees and attends all other committee meetings by invitation.

Appointed to the board October 2009

Directorship:
Lewis Stores (Pty) Limited.

Expertise and experience:
OPERATIONS, STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCE
Johan has 30 years credit furniture retail experience. He joined Lewis Group as a salesman in 1993 and rose rapidly through the ranks, holding positions including branch manager, regional controller, divisional general manager, general manager: operations and operations director of Lewis Stores. He was the Chief operating officer responsible for the retail operations of the Group prior to his appointment as Chief executive officer.

Specific contribution to the board:
Johan is the Chief executive officer and an executive director of the Group, and has a wealth of retail experience gained through all stages of the economic cycle.

Daphne is chairperson of the AC & RC, Remuneration, Nominations, and Social, ethics and transformation committees.

Appointed June 2017

Directorships:
Truworths International Limited Kapela Holdings (Pty) Limited NEC XON Holdings (Pty) Limited Toyota Tsusho Africa CFAO Motors South Africa (Pty) Limited

Experience and expertise:
FINANCE, BANKING, GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP
Daphne was formerly the chief executive of card and unsecured lending at Absa Bank and also served as managing director of Postbank. She previously served as a non-executive director of Investec Bank, Highveld Steel and Vanadium, Edcon, Mercantile Bank, Woolworths Financial Services, Rand Mutual Assurance and Thebe Investment Corporation.

Specific contribution to the board:
Daphne’s experience includes serving as chairperson of remuneration as well as social, ethics and transformation committees of other boards and serving as a member of the audit, risk as well as nominations/directors affairs committees

Member of the Audit, Risk, Remuneration and Nominations committees.

Appointed August 2019

Directorship:
W.consulting SA (Pty) Limited Sasfin Holdings Limited Sasfin Bank Limited

Experience and expertise:
ACCOUNTING, FINANCIAL REPORTING AND CONSULTING
Tapiwa is an executive director at W.consulting SA (Pty) Limited. He previously served as a non-executive director on the board of Iliad Africa Limited and Mercantile Bank Holdings Limited.

He was recognised for his contribution to the consulting industry receiving the “ Top Consulting Professional ” at the Sanlam South African Professional Services Awards – 2018. Tapiwa held roles in leading industry bodies and committees including being a member of the Accounting Practice Committee of SAICA, and as a member of the Financial Reporting Investigation Panel of the JSE.

Specific contribution to the board:
Tapiwa is an experienced non-executive director with expertise in the financial services sector, including experience chairing audit and technology committees for other entities, as well as experience on the remuneration and nominations committees of the company.

30 years of service

Johan is the chief executive officer of the Group.

7 years of service

Waleed is responsible to drive and manage the implementation of both strategic and operational human resources throughout the business.

12 years of service

Jacques is the Chief financial officer of the Group.

26 years of service

Rinus is responsible for the retail operations of the Group.