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Board of Directors

The board of directors remains responsible for the Capitec group in its entirety. Functioning within the ambit of an annually reviewed charter supported by a schedule of reserved powers, the board instructs and oversees a management and control structure which directs and executes all functions within the group.

Independent Non-executive

John David McKenzie (65) B.Sc (Chemical Eng), MA)

Jock serves on the boards of a number of companies. He was the Chairman and CEO of Caltex Petroleum Corporation until 2001. He was extensively involved in the merger of Caltex, Chevron and Texaco and was appointed President - Asia, Middle East and Africa of Chevrontexaco until 2004. Between 1997 and 2003 he was a member of a number of advisory boards in Singapore, including the American Chamber of Commerce. He was the founder President of the South Africa-Singapore Business Association and a director of the US-Asian Business Council and the Singapore Economic Development Board. Since 2004 he has served as a consultant to the Energy Market Authority and Temasek Holdings in Singapore and acted as Chairman of the Commission of Enquiry into the Singapore Electricity and Gas supply Systems. In South Africa he has been involved in consulting to inter-alia Sasol, the South African Petroleum Industry Association's investigation into the impact of the global economic crisis on the South African Oil Industry and other related topics. He currently serves on the boards of Coronation Fund Managers, SAPPI and Wesgro and is Chairman of the UCT Foundation and Accelerate Cape Town.

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.

Jacobus Pieter van der Merwe (62) BA, CTA, CA(SA)
Chairman of the Audit Committee

Pieter is an experienced retail banker. He commenced his career in banking as chief accountant at Boland Bank in 1974 after which he joined Volkskas Merchant Bank as general manager of finance in 1983. He joined Trustbank in 1990 and after the amalgamation of Bankorp and Absa he was appointed general manager of Commercial Bank, a division of Absa, responsible for Absa Western Cape (1995 – 1999). In 2000 he was appointed operating executive of this division. From 2001 to his retirement in 2006 he was an executive director of Absa, the last two and a half years of which he was responsible for group administration, information management, IT, credit and risk.

Non-executive

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.

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.

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.

Chris Adriaan Otto (61) BComm LLB
Chairman of the Remuneration and Human Resources Committee

Chris has been an executive director of PSG Group since its formation and has served as a non-executive director since February 2009. He has been involved in PSG Group's investment in microfinance and the subsequent establishment of Capitec Bank of which he has been a non-executive director since its establishment. He is also a director of Zeder Investments, Kaap Agri and Capevin Investments.

Executive

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.

André Pierre du Plessis (49) BComm (Hons), CA(SA)
Financial Director

André joined Capitec Bank in 2000 as the executive: financial management and was appointed financial director of Capitec and Capitec Bank in May 2002. He has extensive experience in business advisory services, financial consulting and strategic and financial management. He was the chief executive of financial management of Boland PKS and NBS Boland Group from 1996 to 2000 and a partner at Arthur Andersen where he was employed from 1986 to 1996.

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