Board of Directors

Merlyn Claude Mehl (68) PhD (Physics)
Lead Independent Director
Chairman of the Risk and Capital Management Committee

Merlyn serves on the boards of a number of companies. He was previously the chancellor of Peninsula Technikon and the chief executive officer of the Independent Development Trust. He is presently the executive chairman of Triple L Academy.

Nonhlanhla Sylvia Mjoli-Mncube (52) BA, MA (City and Regional Planning)

Nonhlanhla manages her own company, Mjoli Development Group. She was previously the economic advisor to the former Deputy President of South Africa. She has worked as a town and regional planner in South Africa and as a survey research supervisor at Washington State University. She was an executive director at a subsidiary of Murray & Roberts, the chair-man of the National Urban Reconstruction and Housing Agency (NURCHA), as well as the chairman of the Rural Housing Loan Fund, Women for Housing and the Open Society Institute in South Africa. She is a fellow of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA), and a Harvard University Leadership Alumnus. She has won several business women awards. She is a director of Pioneer Foods, Tongaat Hulletts and WBHO Construction.

Michiel Scholtz du Pré le Roux (61) BComm LLB
Chairman of the Board and Directors' Affairs Committee

Michiel is the chairman of Capitec and Capitec Bank. He was the chief executive officer of the bank until 2004. Michiel is a director of Zeder Investments. He spent the first 20 years of his career in the brandy and wine industry before entering the banking industry.

Markus Johannes Jooste (50) BAcc, CTA, CA(SA)

Markus is the chief executive officer of the Steinhoff International Group. He was appointed as group managing director of Steinhoff with responsibility for the Steinhoff group's northern hemisphere interests in 2000. Through these responsibilities he has gained extensive experience in the international business environment.

He serves on the boards of, inter alia PSG Group, KAP International Holdings and Phumelela Gaming and Leisure.

Markus was appointed to the boards of Capitec and Capitec Bank on 28 January 2011.

Reitumetse Jacqueline Huntley (48) BProc LLB

Jackie is the managing director of Mkhabela Huntley Adekeye Inc. and has extensive experience in commercial and corporate law, including telecommunications law. She has also worked extensively in low cost housing, having advised both the Department of Housing and institutions in the housing sector on housing policy and legal aspects of housing. Jackie assisted the City of Johannesburg with the implementation of the bus rapid transit project where she was the interim chief executive officer up to February 2011. She serves on the board and various board committees of Telkom SA and is a director of Rorisang Basadi Investements.

Jackie was appointed to the boards of Capitec and Capitec Bank on14 April 2011.

Petrus Johannes Mouton (34) BComm (Maths)

Piet is the chief executive officer of PSG Group. He serves as a non-executive director on the boards of various PSG Group companies, including Paladin Capital, Thembeka Capital and Curro Holdings. He has been active in the investment and financial services industry since 1999.

Riaan Stassen (57) BComm (Hons), CA(SA)
Chief Executive Officer

Riaan joined Capitec Bank as the managing director in 2000 and was appointed chief executive officer of Capitec and Capitec Bank effective March 2004. He gained extensive experience in retail and banking and held senior positions in both environments. Riaan was awarded the Cape Times/ KPMG Business Personality of the Year award in 2007. The nomination criteria for this award included business and entrepreneurial excellence and out-standing company performance.