Group executive committee overview

Given the unprecedented times we find ourselves in, our Group executive committee spent much of the latter part of the financial year reevaluating certain business expansion projects and instituting key initiatives to decisively respond to the impacts of the global pandemic on the sectors and regions in which we operate as well as on our organisation as a whole.

GROUP CHIEF
EXECUTIVE OFFICER

BUSINESS AND OPERATIONAL
GROUP EXECUTIVES
Dominic Sewela Our business and operational Group executives from left to right: Emmy Leeka (CE: Equipment southern Africa); Quinton McGeer (CE: Barloworld Equipment Eurasia and Barloworld UK); Charl Groenewald (CE: Barloworld Logistics); Kamogelo Mmutlana (CE: Automotive and Logistics)

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE OF THE EXECUTIVE

  • Accounting
  • Auditing
  • Corporate affairs
  • Digital and IT
  • Engineering
  • Finance
  • Governance, risk, compliance
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Public policy
  • Legal
  • Strategy
  • Sustainability

 

FEMALE REPRESENTATION AT EXECUTIVE LEVEL

37%

HISTORICALLY DISADVANTAGED INDIVIDUALS

66%

FUNCTIONAL GROUP EXECUTIVES
Our functional Group executives from left to right: Nopasika Lila (Group finance director); Tantaswa Fubu (Group executive: human capital and transformation); Lesibana Ledwaba* (Group executive: risk, ethics and compliance); Chris Wierenga (Group executive: strategy and M&A); Gugu Sepamla (Group executive: corporate affairs and public policy); Andiswa Thandeka Ndoni (Group executive: governance, compliance and sustainability)

2020 GROUP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOCUS AREAS

  • Proactively responding to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the business
  • Prioritising the health and safety of employees and stakeholders
  • Ensuring prudent balance sheet and liquidity management
  • Reviewing and recommending changes to the Fix, Optimise and Grow strategy
  • Reviewing risk management approach and mitigating actions
  • Driving strategy execution
  • Implementing a Group-wide organisational restructuring programme
  • Accelerating the asset disposal programme

 

  

KEY EXECUTIVE-LED COST SAVINGS AND CASH CONSERVATION INITIATIVES IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19

  • Cost savings relating to retrenchments
  • Salary sacrifices and pension holidays
  • Property operating leases' savings
  • Reduced capital expenditure
  • Restructuring functional core areas
  • Consolidating subsidiaries
  • Cancellation of non-essential travel, training and entertainment
  • Limiting consulting work and related fees to critical activities only
  • Introduction of more general austerity measures


Lesibana Ledwaba* (Group executive: risk, ethics and compliance) left 30 September 2020.