Mr MG Qhena
Board Human Resources Committee member
(Age 44) BCompt (Hons), CA (SA), SEP, Adv Tax Cert

Non-executive director and Chairman

Mr Qhena is a non-executive director and the Chairman of the company. He is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), Foskor’s parent company.

Mr MA Pitse
Board Audit and Risk Committee member
Board Technical Committee member
Board Human Resources Committee member
(Age 55) BCompt (Hons), MBL, CA (SA)

Executive director and President/Chief Executive Officer

Mr Pitse is an executive director and is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Foskor. Prior to joining the Foskor group in June 2003, he was the CEO of Prilla 2000 (Pty) Ltd, a South African textile manufacturer, from January 2002 to June 2003, where he continues to hold the position of Chairman. Before that, he worked for the IDC as the Head of the Finance Department and was responsible for the IDC’s internal financial reporting and planning function.

Mr Pitse was the elected President of the Fertiliser Society of South Africa (FSSA) from 2005 to 2007 and currently serves as the elected Vice President of the FSSA. He serves as the Vice President, representing South Africa, of the International Fertiliser Association (IFA). He also serves as the President of the Africa Forum of IFA.

Mr A Vellayan
Board Human Resources Committee member
Non-resident
(Age 57) BCom, Ind Admin, MBS

Non-executive director

Mr Vellayan is a non-executive director of Foskor. He is the Executive Chairman of the Murugappa group, and the Chairman of Coromandel International Ltd (CIL) and EID Parry (India) Ltd. CIL has a 14% shareholding in Foskor. Mr Vellayan is also Co-chairman of the Fertiliser Association of India and serves on the Board of the Indian Overseas Bank.

Mr G van Wyk
Board Audit and Risk Committee member
Board Human Resources Committee member
(Age 50) BCom (Hons), MCom, MBL, AMP (INSEAD)

Non-executive director

Mr van Wyk is a non-executive director of Foskor and is currently the Chief Risk Officer at the IDC, with responsibility for the overall risk management function within the IDC. Mr van Wyk is also responsible for ensuring compliance with environmental, health and safety requirements, and for management of the restructuring of investments and the valuation of assets financed. Prior to this appointment in 2004, he was the Executive Vice President at the IDC, responsible for the new economy sector corporate finance division. From 1995 to 1999 he served as the Chief Economist of the Research and Information Department at the IDC.

Ms SS Ngoma
Board Audit and Risk Committee member
(Age 34) BCom (Hons), CA (SA)

Non-executive director

Ms Ngoma is a non-executive director of Foskor and is currently the Head of the Internal Audit Department at the IDC, with responsibility for developing and implementing the internal audit strategy for the IDC. From 2003 to 2006 Ms Ngoma served as the Senior Account Manager in the metals business unit of the IDC.

Ms JM Modise
Board Human Resources Committee member
(Age 47) BCom, MDP, SEP, MBL

Non-executive director

Ms Modise is a non-executive director of the company. She is currently a member of the executive of the IDC. Prior to this, Ms Modise served as the Human Resources Director and Executive at various organisations, including Hewlett Packard South Africa, SAP Africa, Mutual & Federal and most recently Sappi Southern Africa. Ms Modise was also involved in management consulting and property investment.

Ms AT Albäck
Board Audit and Risk Committee member (Chairman)
(Age 37) BCom (Hons) CA (SA)

Non-executive director

Ms Albäck is Non-executive Director of the company. She is currently working as a consultant to Vodacom on Integrated Reporting. Prior to this she was the Chief Financial Officer at Spescom; Executive Head of Financial Control at Vodacom Group; and Senior Manager of Passenger Revenue Accounting at SAA.

Amanda is also an independent non-executive director of Adcorp Holdings, and serves on its Audit & Risk Committee. She is a qualified CA(SA), and has completed various management and professional short courses, including a year-long Vodacom Advanced Executive Programme in association with Unisa.

Dr DS Phaho
Board Technical Committee member
(Age 42) BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD

Independent non-executive director

Dr Phaho is an independent non-executive director of the company and is currently the CEO of the Tshumisano Trust, a Department of Science and Technology agency dedicated to improving the competitiveness and innovation capacity of small and medium enterprises in key manufacturing sectors of the economy.

Dr Phaho is responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of the Tshumisano Trust. Before joining the Department of Science and Technology, Dr Phaho was a Research Group Leader at Sasol Technology (until June 2004). He serves on the Board of Pikitup (Pty) Ltd as a non-executive director and is the Chair of Council for the Vaal University of Technology.

Mr F Madavo
Board Technical Committee member
(Age 50) BSc (Hons) Chem Eng, MSc, IEDP

Independent non-executive director

Mr Madavo is an independent non-executive director of Foskor and is currently employed at the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) Ltd as the Portfolio Manager in Resources. The PIC is an investment management company, wholly owned by the government of South Africa, and manages a diversified portfolio of assets. Mr Madavo is responsible for all equity research and investments made by the PIC in listed resource companies.

Prior to joining the PIC, Mr Madavo was the Vice President of Metals and Mining at Citigroup, and was primarily responsible for equity research on platinum companies listed on the JSE. He has worked for a number of companies in South Africa and abroad.

Mr SP Ngwenya
Board Technical Committee member
BCom (Hons) UNISA

Non-executive director

Mr Ngwenya is a non-executive director of the company and is currently the Executive Chairman and founder of Makana Investment Corporation (Pty) Ltd.