BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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| From left to right: Theofelus Mberirua, Adv. Raymond Heathcote, Dr Tobie Aupindi, Floors J Abrahams, Veronica De Klerk, Quinton van Rooyen and Winton Johan Geyser |
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| Jan Jones | Adrian Lee Bock |
Theofelus Mberirua
Chairperson Remuneration Committee
(Non Executive)
Masters of Business Administration
T Mberirua has held various executive positions and directorships with large Namibian Companies in various industries, such as First National Bank but to name one. He also lectured financial courses and information technology in the USA and in Namibia. He is currently a partner at 123 Insurance
Adv. Raymond Heathcote (SC)
Chairperson
(Non-Executive)
LLB
Adv. Heathcote joined the Government Attorney in Namibia in 1991. He was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of Namibia towards the end of 1992. He acted as a Judge of the High Court of Namibia in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011 and several of his judgments have been reported in the Namibian Law Reports and South African Law Reports. During September 2009 he was honoured by being appointed Senior Counsel. Adv. Heathcote currently serves as the president of the Law Society of Namibia.
Dr Tobie Aupindi
(Non-Executive)
PHD Global Corporate Strategy
MBA
A well-qualified, globally exposed, experienced and successful international business leader with an impressive track record of success in strategic roles in the commercial and state sectors. Adept at presenting concepts and influencing and inspiring others, he combines excellent networking skills with marketing expertise to facilitate and drive success.
Passionate about applying his business re-engineering skills to maximise stakeholder returns by transforming organisations, he had successfully negotiated international upstream oil and gas exploration agreements worth billions of U.S Dollars. He also Achieved international recognition in the international business sectors when voted 'Africa's Personality for 2010 (WTA), voted by 183,000 business and travel expert leaders from all over the world. He developed and successfully utilised the Tobie Aupindi Corporate Strategy Framework as a strategic business tool for creating 'high-performance enterprises' by identifying strategic options and adopting a systematic and robust approach.
Floors J Abrahams
(Executive)
B.Comm
Abrahams commenced with his articles in 1997 after obtaining his degree and completed them in 1999. During this time he participated in Trustco's audits. He was appointed Group Financial Manager in 2000. On 1 April 2004 he accepted appointment as Group Financial Director.
Veronica De Klerk
(Non-Executive)
De Klerk is currently the Executive Director of Namibia's most prominent rural development organisation – Women's Action for Development (WAD), which is widely known as one of the most effective NGO's in Namibia. Under her leadership WAD is initiating a wide range of small businesses and engaged in training an impressive number of unemployed Namibians country-wide, to acquire various skills to enter the labour market. Through her directorship and prominence in the media, the organisation has attracted a number of frontline Black Economic Empowerment partners to promote broad-based economic empowerment among the poor.
Previously she was a well-known Television and Radio personality and has gained business and economic experience when she was appointed to the President's Economic Advisory Council during 1997.
De Klerk is acknowledged in the publication: "Guide to Namibian Politics" as one of the 109 Namibian key-players that influences political direction in the country.
Quinton van Rooyen
(Executive)
B. Iuris & LLB
Van Rooyen acquired Trustco for a meagre N$ 100.00 in 1992 upon finalizing his studies and simultaneously took over its debt. His business creativity has led to him being voted Business Communicator of the Year in 2003 and voted second Most Admired Business Personality of the Year in 2007. His talent and passion is to create products and services that are both socially responsible and that create extraordinary wealth by harnessing opportunities in Africa. Van Rooyen passionately believes that the full potential of Africa is yet to be realized.
Winton Johan Geyser
Chairperson Audit and Risk Comittee
(Non Executive)
B Compt
B Compt (Hons)
W J Geyser He completed his articles and was qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the Republic of South Africa and is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. He held the position of Assistant Manager at the audit firm Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte) and later joined their Financial Management Services division where he provided accounting assistance, taxation and estate planning to a number of individuals and companies. Since then he has performed consultancy work for large Corporations and has held various senior positions such as Group Financial Manager at Fluid Holdings Limited, General Manager (Finance) with Agra Co-op Ltd and Financial Director of M Pupkewitz & Sons (Pty) Ltd. Geyser currently holds the position of Group Managing Director of Epic Holdings (Pty)Ltd and various other directorships in Namibian Companies.
Jan Jones
(Executive - Alternate to Quinton van Rooyen)
Jones has a wide range of experience in business management, ranging from operational and client management in several firms in Pretoria, to sales and marketing management (as well as co-owner) with firms in Namibia. Of particular note was his rise from IT manager for Wise Computer Solutions to his eventual buy-out of their most successful product, Schoolwrite, a student administration system that had sole mandate for schools in the Western Cape. Since starting with Trustco in 2000, Jones has moved up from being IT manager to General Manager and Company Director in 2003, before accepting the position of alternate to QVR on the board.
Adrian Lee Bock
(Executive - South African)
IRBA,CA(SA, Advanced Certificate in Auditing,BCompt (Hons) BCompt.
Mr. Adrian Bock is a qualified chartered accountant and auditor with a wealth of experience in corporate finance, mergers & acquisition, change management and operations and risk management. Following the completion of his articles in 1997, Mr. Bock gained practical experience in the United Kingdom working for amongst others, Accenture Consulting and Deutsche Bank. He later started his own business offering niche corporate finance services. Adrian joined Trustco in April 2011 as Head of Corporate Finance.
