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CORPORATEGOVERNANCE REPORT (CONTINUED)BOARD MEMBERSCHARLES PETTIT (34)Chief Executive O cerAppointed to the Board in June 2012Charles graduated from the University of Cape Town with a First Class Honours degree and subsequently quali ed as a CFA charter holder after working in London for Close Brothers Corporate Finance. At Close Brothers Charles worked on a wide range of M&A and Restructuring transactions and following his return to South Africa in 2008 established AfrAsia Corporate Finance to focus on the provision of independ- ent advisory services to clients in the SADC region. Charles advised on the balance sheet restructuring of SA French from 2010 and led the 2011 rights issue for that company as well as its delisting and sale to Torre in 2012. He was appointed as CEO of Torre on 1 October 2012 and as CEO of Stellar on 5 October 2015.CHARL DE VILLIERS (31)Chief Financial O cerAppointed to the Board in February 2015Charl is a quali ed Chartered Accountant (SA). He holds B.Acc LLB (cum laude) and B.Acc (Hons) degrees from the University of Stellenbosch. He completed his SAICA training with Deloitte in its nancial services division and was later retained as an audit manager in the same division where he serviced a portfolio of asset managers and one of South Africa’s most prominent reinsurers. In May 2013, Charl joined AfrAsia Corporate Finance where he advised ConvergeNet Holdings Ltd on the sale of Sizwe Africa IT Group and other operating subsidiaries as well as the subsequent conversion of the Company to an investment entity.DUMISANI TABATA (60)Independent non-executive Chairman Appointed to the Board in January 2009 Chairman of the Nominations Committee Chairman of the Social and Ethics Committee Member of the Nominations CommitteeDumisani is an admitted attorney and director and founding partner of Smith Tabata Inc. in King William’s Town. As an attorney he has been involved in several Consti- tutional and Administrative Law related matters. In 1996 Mr Tabata was an Acting Judge of the High Court and served in the position for 3 terms, in April 1999 he was appointed by the Premier of the Eastern Cape, as one of the Joint Liquidators of the Transkei Agricultural CorporaBon. After the advent of democracy, Mr Tabata regularly acted as attorney for Government Departments, local authorities and parastatals. Dumisani was a member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (Border) and served on the National Executive thereof in 1998, member of the King William’s Town Transitional Local Council (First Interim Phase) and member of the Council’s Land Sale Committee 1994-1995, served as Deputy Chairman of ABSA Bank regional board, Eastern Cape, served as non-executive director and Chairman of Transactional Capital (Pty) Ltd as well as non-executive director of Amalgamated Appliances (Pty) Ltd. Currently he serves on the board of Vuwa Investments (Pty) Ltd as executive director, director of Smith Tabata Inc., Attorneys, Notaries and Conveyancers and Smith Tabata Buchanan Boyes Cape Town and Johannesburg.22 | STELLAR CAPITAL PARTNERS