Tim Molefe Modise

CEO, Sizwe Africa IT Group

Tim has been a broadcasting personality for more than 30 years, working for the SABC, Radio 702, SA FM and Carte Blanche. He was a political analyst for Credit Suisse First Boston until 2002 and chaired the Proudly South African campaign until 2005.

He received the Best Broadcaster Radio award in 1991 and the Rotary Award for Community Service in 1999. In 2001, Tim won the Reconciliation Award, the TV and Radio Presenter Award, the President’s Award and the Communicator of the Year Award.

He also received the Paul Harris Award (2002), the “Best Man” Award (2004) and the Old Mutual Leadership Award (2004). The prestigious Jaime Brunet award for the promotion of human rights, previously awarded to the Dalai Lama, was bestowed on Tim in 2003. After chairing the Proudly South African Campaign Tim was the Chief Executive Officer for the Marketing Campaign of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

He currently serves on the board of Sizwe as Chief Executive Officer where he holds a minority share.

Kuseni Dlamini

CEO, Old Mutual SA and Emerging Markets

Kuseni joined Old Mutual as CEO of Old Mutual SA and Emerging Markets on 1 September 2009. He was previously the head of Anglo American’s South African operations, where he had also held the position of Executive Chairman of Richards Bay Coal Terminal Company as well as a number of senior HR positions at Anglo Gold Ashanti and De Beers.

He graduated from the University of Natal with a degree in social science and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where he did a Master's degree in philosophy.

In 2008 he was selected as one of the Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum and the Mail & Guardian named him as one of the top 200 young people worth taking to lunch.

Kuseni is active in professional bodies including the Economic Advisory Council of the Association of Southern African Chambers of Commerce and the South African Institute of International Affairs.

Hlengani Mathebula

Chairperson, Black Business Executive Circle

Hlengani Mathebula holds qualifications from the University of the North, Stellenbosch University, the University of Cape Town, the University of Johannesburg and Harvard Business School. He has vast experience in financial services with South Africa’s leading banking and investment institutions and now heads up Absa Private Bank.

His career in financial services spans almost 20 years. He moved through the ranks at three of South Africa’s largest banks – first via a mentorship programme and then in a variety of leadership and management positions in retail, corporate, merchant and private banking.

Hlengani attributes much of his career success to his personal philosophy that nothing is ‘unachievable’ and that the only thing that stops people from achieving their aspirations is the limitations they place on themselves through their own mindset.

He is chairman of the Black Business Executive Circle and a member of the Black Management Forum. He also serves on the council of the University of the Western Cape. He is chairman of the African Leadership Group and the North West Growth Fund. ånd a member of the boards of Absa Investment Management Services, Absa Fund Managers and Absa Stockbrokers.

Dionne Kerr

CEO, Siyakha Consulting

Dionne Kerr is CEO of Siyakha Consulting, a management consulting firm focusing on providing solutions to the private and public sectors in performance, productivity and people management. She has advised companies on issues around Black Economic Empowerment, human resources, job creation programmes and organisational development for the past 10 years.

She has spoken at seminars, conferences and events on Black Economic Empowerment and transformation and has developed Black Economic Empowerment strategies for South African and global companies across several industries. She has engaged with a number of trade missions from all over the world on issues around investment in South Africa.

An avid believer in community development, Dionne remains actively involved in entrepreneurial development, community development, job creation, disability support programmes and youth support.

She is a past recipient of the DIVA Africa award for her involvement in SMME development. She is a lead advisor to UKTI, presents widely on BEE for both inward and outward-bound trade missions and is the chairperson of the National Association of BEE Consultants (NABC).

Setlakalane Molepo

Managing Director, Khula Enterprise Finance

Having paved the way to its position as a leader in the provision of finance and mentorship services to the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, Khula Enterprise Finance Ltd has appointed a new MD, Setlakalane Molepo, who is set to move the organisation to the next level.

No stranger to the SME sector, having cut his teeth within several engineering firms, Molepo has garnered extensive experience - more recently as head of the Metal, Transport and Machinery Products Strategic Business Unit -- through his 10-year tenure at the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). In the last two years, as head of the unit, he managed development-oriented on-balance-sheet funds to enable the IDC to accomplish its developmental mandate, namely development of the SME sector.

He grew the portfolio of approximately R450 million  over an eight-year period to around R800 million, with commitments of well over R1.5 billion. He also managed approximately R59 million off-balance-sheet funds and a second round of funds for R50 million called Risk Capital Facility. These funds were earmarked for the development of the SME sector owned by black economic empowerment or historically disadvantaged individuals with a primary focus on job creation.

Although Molepo’s training is rooted in the engineering discipline, he also received formal training at graduate business schools and development finance institutions, which led to his passion for the SME sector.

Molepo is a member of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), and is a registered professional engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA).

Imogen Mkhize

Chairman, Richards Bay Coal Terminal

Imogen Mkhize is the chairman of Richards Bay Coal Terminal and a director of companies including energy group Sasol , pulp and paper group Mondi Limited and Mondi Plc and telecommunications company MTN South Africa.

Imogen graduated in information systems from Rhodes University in 1984 and obtained a post- graduate diploma in higher education in 1985. A decade later she gained an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1995. She was recognised by the World Economic Forum in 2001 as a Global Leader for Tomorrow .

Her professional career spans a number of industries including mining, financial services, manufacturing, information technology and telecommunications.

She spent her early career years with Anglo American and Andersen Consulting and served two years as the executive director of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants. Her employment history also includes Nedcor and Lucent Technologies South Africa where she was managing director.

Imogen held the position of CEO of the World Petroleum Congress, an international oil and gas event, between June 2003 and July 2006.

Kgomotso D.C. Lekola

Director, LGC Capital

He holds a BSc degree and a diploma in datametrics and artificial intelligence from UNISA and an MBA from GIBS.

Kgomotso started his career as a program manager: business planning and strategy at MTN in the office of the managing director where he worked on major strategic projects.

In 2006 he joined the Mutual & Federal Group in a senior executive role as general manager responsible for setting up the new markets division to grow the company'smarket share beyond the existing client base, in that capacity he led the development of three new innovative products that were covered widely by the media.

He was later appointed CEO of the direct insurance subsidiary CGU Insurance.

Koosum Kaly

Koosum Kaly is Chairman of Kgontsi Holdings and Chairman of Edgo Merap in London.  Before starting her career with Shell South Africa  in 1990 as Chief Economist in the Corporate Planning Department, she worked as an economist at the South African Chamber of Mines  and at the Victoria State Electricity Commission in Australia.

She became General Manager of Shell Corporate Affairs in August 1995 and in 1998 was appointed  to Shell International Global Scenarios Team in London to map out the Africa Scenarios.

Since 2001 Koosum has held the position of Senior Business Development Manager/Exploration, Shell International Exploration. She is an adviser to the South African Government on state-owned enterprises in Africa, a member ofthe Steering Committee on Scenarios for South Africa and a member and co-facilitator of the UNAIDS/Shell Scenario Planning Team on HIV/AIDS in Africa.

She was seconded to British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa on a part-time basis as Private Sector Liaison and Coordinator for Africa. She has presented many papers on economic issues and oil and gas in Africa, as well as assisting a number of governments in Africa on long-term planning processes.

She serves on the Commonwealth Business Council Advisory Group and also chairs the G8 Business Action Against Corruption in Africa.

Koosum holds non-executive   directorships at Standard Bank, MTN, Kgontsi Holdings, Macdonald Steel, South African  Airways, South African Bank Note Company and the South African Mint Company.

Mr Sandile Zungu

Mr Sandile Zungu is the executive chairman of Zico. He has a BSc Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Cape Town as well as a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the UCT Graduate School of Business. In 2000 he completed the Program for Global Leadership certificate at the Harvard Business School in Boston, USA.

In August 2000 he joined the then R6 billion New Africa Investments Limited (NAIL) as executive director responsible for strategy and empowerment. He was intimately involved in developing and implementing plans by NAIL to distribute its interest in Metropolitan Life Limited (METLIFE). He left NAIL at the end of 2001 after its complete transformation to a R1 billion media company.

Sandile is past chairman of a number of companies, including Denel, Barnard Jacobs Mellet Holdings and Spectrum Shipping. Recently he resigned from the boards of a number of large organizations, such as Edcon, Ellerine Holdings, Clover, Metlife and Trade & Investment KwaZulu Natal, so that he could focus more exclusively on building Zico. He is non-executive director of SARHWU Investment Holdings, Viamax Fleet Solutions, Aflease Gold, sxr UraniumOne Africa and KwaZulu-Natal Growth Fund.

His many notable achievements include representing South Africa in 2000 at the 6th finals of the World Young Business Achievers, held in Florida, USA, where he won the much-coveted Outstanding Business Strategy award. Sandile is a member of the World Economic Forum in his capacity as Young Global Leader. He subscribes to the philosophy: hard work pays its dues and integrity sustains gains.