Directors

Executive Directors

STEFAN JOSELOWITZ (53)

Chief Executive Officer/Director

Confirmed 29 August 2007

RIËTTE BOTHA (44)

Executive – Special Projects / Director

BCom (Hons)
Re-elected 31 August 2009

Riëtte practiced as an accountant with various companies, before joining MiX Telematics Africa in 1999. Her career at MiX has seen her through a variety of positions such as financial manager, financial director, chief operating officer, and managing director of the MiX Telematics Africa operation.  Riëtte was recently appointed Executive of Special Projects.  She also serves on the newly formed social and ethics committee.

TERRY BUZER (63)

Executive –  Development and Engineering / Director

BSc (Hons)
Re-elected 13 September 2011

Terry was appointed to the board of Control Instruments Group Ltd in 1987.  He was involved in Control Instruments’ investment in Matrix (now MiX Telematics Africa) and the start-up and growth of OmniBridge (now MiX Telematics International), the two core companies on which MiX Telematics was founded.  Terry is now heading up our technology, engineering and development teams, based in Stellenbosch.

MEGAN PYDIGADU (37)

Chief Financial Director

CA(SA)
Re-elected 13 September 2011

Megan is a CA(SA), having completed her articles with Deloitte & Touche in 1999. She stayed on for a further two years as an audit manager.  She has experience working for global groups, having worked for both De Beers and Bateman Engineering in the head office function.

HOWARD SCOTT (53)

Executive – Strategy and Acquisitions / Director

BBusSci; CTA
Re-elected 13 September 2011

Howard has relocated to the USA to fulfil a full-time role in the area of strategy, mergers and acquisitions.  Howard was formerly registered with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and CPA Australia, trained in computer auditing with Arthur Young & Co.  He was the financial director of the Radiospoor group for 12 years. He also served as a non-executive director for a JSE DCM listed software house.

CHARLES TASKER (48)

Executive – MiX Telematics International / Director

Re-elected 7 September 2010

Charles Tasker founded DataPro in 1986, which was subsequently acquired by Control Instruments in 1996.  In 1997 Charles joined Control Instruments Group Ltd as managing director of their fleet management business which became OmniBridge (now MiX Telematics International).  Charles has a strong sales and commercial background and is passionate about technology.  Today he is responsible for MiX Telematics’ fleet business globally.

Non-executive directors

RICHARD BRUYNS (59) ^1,2,3

Chairman

CA(SA), PDM (Harvard)
Re-elected 7 September 2010

Richard’s directorship experience spans many industries and achievements. During the past 20 years, Richard has led companies of 500 to 12,000 employees with annual sales ranging from R500 million to R20 billion in the IT, manufacturing, construction, hospitality and consumer goods industries. His experience includes turning one of Africa’s largest operators and managers of high-end bush lodges from losses to strong profitability and culminating with “best hotel in Africa and the Middle East”, and “second best small hotel in the world 2005” for two of the group’s lodges.

Richard has served on many boards including Malbak Ltd, Kohler Packaging Ltd, Kimberly Clark of SA Ltd, Crown Cork SA (Pty) Ltd, Control Instruments Ltd, Carnelley Rangecroft Consultancy, Conservation Corporation of SA Ltd (CC Africa), Shift Interactive Communications, and New Africa Investments Ltd.

HUBERT BRODY (48)

CA(SA)
Re-elected 13 September 2011

Hubert is chief executive and chairman of the executive board of Imperial Holdings, the diversified mobility group with an annual turnover of over R65 billion and assets of R34 billion.

He studied at the University of Stellenbosch and qualified as a CA in 1988.  He has previously worked in the property, IT and banking industries.  Before being transferred to Imperial Holdings in 2003, he was the chief financial officer of Imperial Bank.

ROBIN FREW (52) ¹

BBus Sci (UCT) B.Compt. (Hons)
Re-elected 31 August 2009

Robin manages investments in various operating companies including Wizzit Bank, PayM8, Thynk Property Fund and Hymax Telecommunications.  Robin also serves as a non-executive director for these investments.

Robin’s previous experience includes 15 years with Radiospoor Holdings Ltd, a supplier of cellular and other mobile services. Robin was chief executive officer of the group while it was listed on the JSE between 1997 and 2000. Robin has been involved with MiX Telematics since its inception.

RICHARD FRIEDMAN (57) ¹

BCom, AMP (Harvard)
Re-elected 13 September 2011

Richard joined Control Instruments Group Limited as a director of a subsidiary company in 1981. He became managing director of Control Instruments (Pty) Ltd in 1985 and managing director and CEO of Control Instruments Group Ltd in 1986. Richard resigned after 25 years as CEO of Control Instruments Group Ltd on 31 December 2011 to manage his and his family’s private investment and business portfolio, which include their interests in MiX.

CHRIS EWING (63) ^2,3

BCom LLB (Wits)
Appointed 30 January 2012

Chris is chairman of Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr and a director in the Corporate and Commercial practice, and has practiced in corporate law for more than 30 years, specialising in mergers and acquisitions.

Chris completed his BCom LLB at the University of Witwatersrand, and began his career in the finance department of South African Breweries in 1970.  He joined Cliffe Dekker as a candidate attorney in 1974, and was admitted as an attorney in 1976.  In 1978, he joined Credit Guarantee as their legal adviser, and returned to Cliffe Dekker as a director in 1979.  He was elected chairman in September 2001, then as chief executive officer of Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in 2008 and chairman in 2011.

FUNDISWA ROJI (36) ^2,3,4

BCom (Hons), BCompt, CA(SA)
Re-elected 13 September 2011

Fundi, a CA (SA), is a director of investments at Kagiso Tiso Holdings (Pty) Ltd. She was also previously the chairperson of Matrix Vehicle Tracking (Pty) Ltd (now MiX Telematics Africa), a wholly owned subsidiary of MiX Telematics prior to its listing.  Fundi qualified as a CA(SA) in 2000 having served her articles with Ernst & Young.  She is a director of several investee companies in the Kagiso Tiso Group.

She is the chairman of the audit and risk committee of the Technology Innovation Agency. She also sits on the board of Focus on Youth, an NGO focusing on youth development.  She is a member of the African Women Chartered Accountants (AWCA), an organisation which encourages and supports the advancement of black women in the accountancy profession.

ROY SHOUGH (62) ^2,3

CA(SA), HDipBDP, CIA
Appointed 1 June 2012

Roy has recently retired as a director in Risk Advisory at Deloitte. He created their Corporate Governance and Risk Management Services in January 1995, and led this function for many years until his recent retirement. He has over 40 years experience in advising listed and unlisted companies on corporate governance, internal audit, risk management implementation and risk assessment. Roy was a member of the King II and King III – Boards and Directors Task Teams. Roy is the new Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee.

TONY WELTON (64) ^3,4

CA(SA), MBL (Unisa)
Re-elected 13 September 2011

Tony brings a wealth of financial and operational expertise to the Group, having been the financial director of large listed companies from 1986 to 2002. Tony has in recent years worked as a financial consultant.  Tony resigned as a non-executive director in November 2009 and relinquished his position as audit committee chairman in order to fill the position of interim financial director following the resignation of the previous incumbent. Tony reverted to his position as a non-executive director and audit committee member and chairmen following the appointment of Megan Pydigadu as Group Financial Director. Following the introduction of the Companies Act of 2008, Tony became ineligible to serve on the audit and risk committee because he had held a prior executive position. However he remains an independent non-executive director. On 8 June 2011, Tony was appointed to the position of chairman of the social and ethics Committee.

KEY

1 - member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee

2 - member of the Audit and Risk Committee

3 - independent director

4 - member of the Social and Ethics Committee