The Business Champions Leadership Panel: Session 2
Meet the business leaders whose clear and visible leadership is making a big difference. They are our Business Champions! We have selected them because of their credibility and influence as leaders in the South African business community and because they are involved in leading complex, large and people intensive organisations, with an impressive track record of growing people and getting results.
The panel discussion with the Business Champions will explore their lives as leaders, the forces and events which have shaped their lives and the leadership habits which underpin their success as leaders of some of South Africa's finest and most respected businesses.
The business champions are:
Mr Phuthuma Nhleko
Mr. Phuthuma Nhleko is the Group President & Chief Executive Officer of the MTN Group Limited, a leading provider of communication services primarily in 21 countries within Africa and the Middle East. The MTN Group is listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange. By year-end December 2006, group subscriber numbers grew by 73% to exceed 40 million, making MTN Africa's largest telecom company. With a market capitalization of R180bn, it is the sixth most valuable company listed on the JSE and the largest within its primary listing in SA.
Phuthuma holds a BSc in Civil Engineering from Ohio State University and an MBA in finance from Atlanta University. As one of the founding members of WAIH, an investment holding company, he helped build the company to a book value of investments of approximately R3, 5-billion. Mr. Nhleko has also held directorships in other major South African industrial companies and banking institutions, including Old Mutual SA, Nedbank and the Bidvest Group.
www.mtn.com/mtn.group.web/explore/CEO/CEO.asp
www.top300.co.za/National/Awards/TopBusinessmenoftheYear.htm
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Prof. Gill Marcus
As of 1 July 2007 Gill Marcus will assume the position of Non-Executive Chairperson of the ABSA Group. She serves on the boards of Bidvest and Goldfields Ltd, as well as the International Marketing Council, the Advisory Board of the Auditor General and the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors.
Gill Marcus grew up in Johannesburg and obtained her B.Com degree from the University of South Africa. From 1970 onwards Gill worked with the ANC in exile. Returning to SA in 1990 Gill was elected to Parliament. In 1996 she was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance, and in 1999 Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, the first woman to hold such a position.
www.absa.co.za
www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/marcus-g.htm
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Mr Mark Lamberti
Mark Lamberti is Deputy Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Massmart Holdings Limited. Massmart is a wholesale and retail group which listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange on 4 July 2000. It has sales of R33b per annum, 22 000 employees and has experienced a six year compounded annual growth of 19% in sales and 41% in headline earnings to June 2006. In 2006, Massmart was recognised as the 15th fastest growing retailer in the world over the previous 5 years.
Mark's leadership has been widely recognised and acknowledged. Amongst other accolades he was the winner of the 2001 Ernst & Young South Africa's Best Entrepreneur Award and was one of 22 finalists in the 2001 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur competition. In 2004 he was named the Italian-South African Businessman of the Year. In 2006 he was chosen by the CEO's of all South Africa's listed companies as one of 5 finalists in the "Moneyweb CEO's CEO of the Year"
Mark holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, a Masters degree in Business Administration and is an alumnus of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where he completed the Presidents Programme in Leadership.
www.massmart.co.za
Mark Lamberti on building a new economy retailer
www.mediatoolbox.co.za/pebble.asp?relid=2964&p=54
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