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Meet The Board
From left to right:
CD Raphiri, AG Hall, T Lesoli, RI Stewart, JJ Louw, EK Diack, AM Thompson, LE Schönknecht, KDK Mokhele
The board comprises two executive and eight non-executive directors, all of whom are classified as independent in terms of King III.
Khotso MokheleChairmanPhD Microbiology, MSc Food Science, BSc Agriculture
Khotso Mokhele was the founder president of the National Research Foundation and served as its CEO from 1999-2006. He has been the chairman of the National Skills Authority, acting as an adviser to the Minister of Labour and chairman of the Premier’s Economic Advisory Council for the Free State Province. In addition to his non-executive chairmanship of Adcock Ingram. Khotso serves in a non-executive capacity on the boards of Impala Platinum Holdings (chairman), Tiger Brands Limited and Zimplat Holdings as well as on the board of trustees of the Hans Merensky Foundation.
Jonathan LouwChief Executive OfficerMB.ChB, MBA
Jonathan Louw practised as an anaesthetist at St. Mary’s Hospital in London in the 1990s before leaving full time medical practice to join the pharmaceutical industry in 1999. He initially worked for AstraZeneca in South Africa. He later joined Adcock Ingram Holdings in 2001, as the new business development executive, overseeing geographic expansion and spearheading acquisitions and new product development. Jonathan took over the management of the pharmaceutical business in late 2002, restructuring the business and integrating various acquisitions. He is currently the chief executive officer of the Adcock Ingram Group; and the president of the Pharmaceutical Industry Association of South Africa.
Andy HallChief Financial OfficerCA (SA), BPharm
Andy Hall joined Adcock Ingram in October 2007 as the chief financial officer from his previous position as chief financial officer of another listed pharmaceutical company in South Africa. Prior to that, Andy was the partner in charge of health sciences at Ernst & Young where he spent 13 years. Before joining Ernst & Young he was involved in retail pharmacy for two years and in sales and marketing with Pfizer for five years.
Eric DiackBAcc, CA (SA), AMP (Harvard), AMP (UCT)
Eric Diack is a chartered accountant and was previously the CEO of Anglo American Ferrous and Industries Division. In addition to his directorship of Adcock Ingram, Eric serves as a non-executive director of ArcelorMittal, Ayavuna Appliance Holdings, Ayavuna Appliance Investments and Deplian Investments. He has previously been a director on the boards of ten listed companies as well as numerous major unlisted companies. He is the chairman of the Adcock Ingram audit committee.
Tlalane LesoliMB BS, Dip of Child Health
Tlalane Lesoli is a medical doctor and is a registered practitioner with the South African Medical and Dental Council and the British General Medical Council. She has served as a medical director for the Transmed Medical Fund and co-founded and managed a health products company, Mother Earth Distributors. Tlalane is a non-executive director on various other boards, including Woman Investment Africa Network. She chairs the transformation committee of Adcock Ingram.
Clifford RaphiriBSc. Mechanical Engineering, Graduate Diploma in Engineering, MBA
Clifford Raphiri began his career as a consulting engineer with Andersen Consulting. After a stint at Metal Box (now Bevcan) as a project engineer, he went on to join SA Breweries (SAB) as a quality assurance technologist and has served in various manufacturing leadership positions. Clifford is currently employed as the manufacturing and technical director of SAB and serves on the boards of various SAB Limited subsidiaries.
Leon SchönknechtBCompt (Hons), CA (SA)
Leon Schönknecht is a chartered accountant who previously held the position of CEO of United Pharmaceutical Distributors (UPD). He was later appointed managing director of New Teltron (Pty) Limited as well as non-executive chairman of UPD and a director of the Premier Group. Leon remains the managing director of New Teltron (Pty) Limited.
Roger StewartPhD (Med), MB, ChB, Grad Dip Comp Dir
Roger Stewart serves as associate professor of physiology at the University of Stellenbosch and a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. He was formerly a group executive at the South African Medical Research Council. Roger was also responsible for local and international products and business development for the SA Druggists Group. He also serves on the boards of a number of private companies in Southern Africa and Europe.
Andrew ThompsonBSc (Civil Engineering), MBA
Andrew Thompson spent much of his career in the Mondi Group where he joined as group Fibre Resources Manager in 1987. He rose quickly through the ranks to become Group CEO in 1999 and executive chairman in 2003. Between 1996 to 2004, he represented the Mondi Group’s interests on the boards of some 20 subsidiary and associated companies. Andrew currently serves on the board of Mondi Packaging South Africa and is a Trustee of WWF (SA).
Paul Mpho MakwanaBachelor of Administration (University of Zululand), Bachelor of Administration (Honours) (University of Pretoria), Post Graduate Diploma: Retailing Management (University of Stirling's Institute of Retail Studies)
Mpho has experience across a wide range of businesses in both the private and public sectors. He was until recently (27 June 2011) the chairman of Eskom Holdings, having served on the board for almost nine years, and being appointed as chairman in 2010. Prior to his full-time role as chairman of Eskom, Mpho was a member of the group executive of Edcon, responsible for transformation and corporate affairs, between 2006 and 2009. He is currently chairman of the board of trustees at The New LoveLife Trust, and a trustee of The Business Trust, the Transaction Advisory Fund and World Wildlife Fund South Africa. He is also chairman of ITNA, a newly established IT company, and a non-executive director of Biotherm Energy (Pty) Ltd.
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