Directorate / Advisory Board

Directorate

Function Name Company Position
President

Peter van Binsbergen

BMW CEO

Deputy President
& Treasurer

Kay Schröder

WerthSchröder Inc.

Director

Vice President Franz-Peter Falke Falke KGaA

Managing Shareholder

Add. Director Saloshni Pillay

Deutsche Bank

CEO/Chief Country Officer and Head of Institutional Client Group (ICG) and Global Emerging Markets (GEM) for SA

Add. Director Mpho Toolo

Dr. Oetker

General Manager and Managing Director

Ex officio Simone Pohl Southern African-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chief Executive Officer
Immediate Past President Jens Papperitz

B.Braun Medical (Pty) Ltd

Senior Vice President Sales Latin America/Middle East/Africa at B. Braun SE.

Advisory Board

Name Company Position

Deniz Akay

Evonik Africa

Managing Director

Sabine Dall’Omo

Siemens Southern and Eastern Africa (Pty) Ltd

CEO

Ghitesh Deva

Mazars

Partner

Oliver Drews

Clifftop Colony Capital Partners (Pty) Ltd

Managing Partner

Jorge Levinson

Bayer Southern Africa

CEO

Ralf Franke

Logcoat (Pty) Ltd

Director

Rev Fr S Hippler

Hope Cape Town Trust

Executive Chair Board of Trustees

Abey Kgotle Mercedes-Benz South Africa Ltd. Executive Director Human Resources & Corporate Affairs

Dr Dieter Kovar

Schauenburg SA

Chief Executive Officer

Gregor Küpper

SolarWorld Africa (Pty) Ltd Managing Director

Jan Ludolph

GEODIS South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Managing Director

Thomas Milz

Volkswagen Group South Africa

National Sales Director

Sven Moeller

Bow Wave Advisory Group

Managing Director

Angela Naumann-Daun

Chatroom brand Marketing and Communications (Pty) Ltd

Director

Thabo Molekoa Siemens Energy (Pty) Ltd Chairman and MD

René Koinzac

Lufthansa Group

Senior Director Sales Southern & East Africa, Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea

Thomas Schaef

GIZ South Africa, Lesotho & eSwatini

Country Director

Dieter Sommer Rödl & Partner Director / Partner
Dr Markus Thill Robert Bosch (Pty) Ltd President Region Africa
Prof. André Thomashausen Institute of Foreign & Comparative Law (UNISA) Director
Sam Tsima COMETSA GoC International (Pty) Ltd Chief Executive Officer

Volker Werth

InterGest SA (Pty) Ltd

Director

Honorary Member for Life of the Advisory Board

Name
Terry Bowman
Dr Klaus Döring
Fritz Keller
Christoph Köpke
Leo Röhrig
Molefe Seth Phalatse