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Barati Mahloele
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Midrand, Gauteng,
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Our board comprises a diverse set of corporate leadership skills, experience, independence and deep industry knowledge to carry out its responsibilities objectively and effectively.
In 2024, the group's delegation of authority framework was reviewed and approved by the board to align with the new operating model and the restructured business unit clusters, to ensure devolvement of decision-making in our business operations and to enable agile execution on delivery of the group strategy.
The board committees are constituted to carry out their duties and responsibilities on behalf of the board.
Annually, each committee's terms of reference, work plan and membership are reviewed, considering prevailing governance trends, best practice standards and the appropriateness of skills required by each committee to effectively execute its mandate.
The chairmen of the board committees provide feedback to the board on key issues deliberated on and decisions taken by committees, as well as matters worthy of the board's attention.
Our executive committee comprises an experienced diverse team with appropriate knowledge, backgrounds and is responsible for strategy execution and the day-to-day management of operations.
Independent non-executives 7
Non-executives 1
Executives 2
Michael Ajukwu retired from the board
effective 20 February 2025
Women 4
Men 6
40% representation of women on the board
against the 50% target by 2030
Black 7^
White 3
^ Two non-South Africans
1 to 3 years 5
4 to 6 years 4
7 to 9 years 1
65+ years 5
56 to 64 years 2
46 to 55 years 3
The average age of our board is 61 years
The retirement age of non-executive directors is 75 years
The board is satisfied that it has an appropriate and effective balance of diversity in skills, experience, knowledge and independence to discharge its governance role and responsibilities.
Our board of directors oversees governance and management, guiding ethical, sustainable practices that integrate environmental, social and governance-related impacts, risks and opportunities, aligned with our purpose to nourish and nurture more lives every day.
Executive Director
Chief executive officer
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Appointed November 2023
Social, ethics and sustainability committee
Qualifications
CA(SA), PMD
Area of expertise and contribution
Executive Director
Chief financial officer
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Appointed January 2024
Qualifications
CA(SA), MBA
Area of expertise and contribution
Independent non-executive director
Chairman of the board
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Appointed September 2020 and as chairman on January 2021
Nomination and governance committee
Social, ethics and sustainability committee
Remuneration committee
Investment committee
Geraldine serves as chancellor of the Nelson Mandela University, a non-executive director on the board of the Standard Bank Group and Standard Bank South Africa and lead independent director of Exxaro Resources Limited. She is also chairman of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation. She is a fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and has completed a leadership course at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.
Qualifications
MA in Administration, Leading Organisational Change Executive Programme
Area of expertise and contribution
Independent non-executive director
Lead independent director
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Appointed April 2022
Audit committee
Nomination and governance committee
Investment committee
Based in Dubai, Frank has deep FMCG and emerging markets experience, having held various senior and executive roles at Unilever in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. Other previous roles include executive chairman of Feronia Inc., chief investment officer of Amatheon Agri Holding and a short period at Procter & Gamble. He is currently chairman of MSI International and Baobab International, a non-executive director of Buhler Holdings AG (Switzerland), AECF LLC (USA) and Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Kenya).
Qualifications
Masters in Law, MBA
Area of expertise and contribution
Independent non-executive director
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Appointed December 2016
Audit committee
Social, ethics and transformation committee
Emma is co-founder and CEO of MASA Group of Companies, which includes MASA Risk Advisory Services (Proprietary) Limited and MASA Chartered Accountants Incorporated. A seasoned chartered accountant, she has more than 15 years’ experience leading internal audit, external audit and advisory teams at various multi-national companies in the public and private sectors, including logistics, mining, financial services, retail, FMCG, real estate management, healthcare and non-profit organisations. Until 30 September 2023, Emma served as a non-executive director on the boards of Capitec Bank Holdings Limited and Capitec Bank.
Qualifications
BCompt (Unisa), BCom Honours, CA(SA), MBA, Global Executive Development Programme
Area of expertise and contribution
Independent non-executive director
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Appointed June 2019
Audit committee
Remuneration committee
Investment committee
Donald is an experienced finance executive whose career spans over 20 years working for listed entities with global operations. He retired in 2020 as group finance director of Barloworld Limited, a global industrial company. At Barloworld, he played a strategic role during the unbundling of PPC Limited and the listing of Freeworld Limited. He is a non-executive director of Mpact Limited and Zeda Limited and director of BHBW Holdings (Proprietary) Limited.
Qualifications
CA(SA), BCom, CTA qualification
Area of expertise and contribution
Independent non-executive director
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Appointed June 2022
Remuneration committee
Nomination and governance committee
Social, ethics and transformation committee
As an executive and strategic business partner within international corporate and startup operations, Lucia has wide-ranging experience in human resources leadership. She started her career with Reckitt & Colman before joining BP Southern Africa as human resources officer. Following this, she spent eight years at the Seagram Group of Companies as human resources director and later joined Sappi Limited as group head of HR. She also served as the vice president, people at AB InBev Africa Zone. Previously, Lucia served as a non-executive director of Clicks Holdings Limited, Zambian Breweries Plc and SABMiller Namibia Proprietary Limited. She is currently a non-executive director of Mr Price Group, Santam, Isizwe Advisory Services Proprietary Limited and MiWay Insurance Holdings.
Qualifications
BA in Psychology and Geography, Human Resources Management Diploma, Advanced Management Programme
Area of expertise and contribution
Independent non-executive director
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Appointed October 2019
Nomination and governance committee
Social, ethics and sustainability committee
Mahlape is a practising advocate and a member of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates and of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce Council. She has been in practice since 2003. She is a panellist with the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa and China-Africa Joint Arbitration Centre. She is currently non-executive director of Life Healthcare Group Holdings Limited. Mahlape was appointed a member of the South African Law Reform Commission in 2007, on which she served until December 2011, before being re-appointed in August 2013. She was previously chairman of Murray & Roberts Limited, having been appointed to the board in 2009 and as chairman in 2013. She was chairman of the Advertising Industry Tribunal Appeal Committee of the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (appointed in 2013).
Qualifications
Area of expertise and contribution
Independent non-executive director
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Appointed August 2020
Social, ethics and sustainability committee
Remuneration committee
Investment committee
Olivier is a senior executive with more than 30 years of experience in the food and beverage industry. He is currently director of Risamar (USA) and Resiter S.A. (Chile). He has held various general management roles, including as president, leading the PepsiCo Food businesses in Latin America (except Mexico). He has specialised in successfully turning businesses around in Latin America and leading M&A activities. Former director Marilan Alimentos (S.A.) (Brazil).
Qualifications
Area of expertise and contribution
Non-executive director
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Appointed April 2023
Remuneration committee
Nomination and governance committee
Investment committee
Sam is co-founder and CIO of Value Capital Partners (VCP). Prior to VCP, he held several leadership positions at Brait including as executive director: Capital & Treasury. He was a partner at Deloitte, where he was group leader for the Financial Services Audit Practice in the Johannesburg office. Sam is chairman of Sun International, as well as an alternate non-executive director of Metair Investments and a former non-executive director of Altron and Adcorp Holdings.
Qualifications
BAcc (Hons), CA(SA), CA(Z), PLD
Area of expertise and contribution
Chief executive officer
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Appointed November 2023
Qualifications
CA(SA), PMD
Tjaart is a CA(SA) with a PMD from Harvard Business School and has more than 30 years of leadership experience garnered from multiple leading South African companies including strong fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) know-how. He sharpened his career through previous experience as divisional managing director at ICS Foods Limited (today Astral Foods), CEO of Country Bird Proprietary Limited, and at Tiger Brands as the managing executive for the Pharmaceuticals and Grains divisions over the period 2001 to 2007. In 2007, Tjaart was appointed as CEO of Afrox Limited where he gained experience in managing a global company with responsibility for operations in six countries. Prior to re-joining Tiger Brands in 2023, Tjaart served as CEO of Premier Foods over the period 2011 to 2021.
Chief financial officer
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Appointed January 2024
Qualifications
CA(SA), MBA
Thushen re-joined Tiger Brands from Aspen Pharmacare, where he was group commercial officer responsible for markets including China, Russia, Ukraine, USA and Israel. Prior to this, he played a pivotal role in developing the international strategy of the Pioneer Foods Group with direct-line responsibility for the global exports business into markets such as North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, with Pioneer's subsidiaries based in West and East Africa and the UK also reporting to him. During his previous tenure at Tiger Brands, he played a pivotal role in the execution and development of Tiger Brands' growth strategy, having held the position of group strategy, investor relations and business development executive.
Managing director: Bakeries
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Appointed February 2024
Qualifications
BCom (Hons) (Statistics)
Quinton joined Tiger Brands in November 2023 as managing director: Culinary from Nampak where he was the group executive for the Paper and Plastic division with oversight of 10 business units across seven countries. Prior to joining Nampak, Quinton held several key roles at Sasol, including business intelligence and strategy as well as commercial marketing and sales.
Managing director: Culinary
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Appointed February 2024
Qualifications
CA(SA), Post-graduate Diploma in Accounting, BAcc
Dumo joined Tiger Brands in 2016 from PepsiCo, and has held numerous senior positions within the company. As finance director: Enterprise Food, Dumo played a pivotal role in re-establishing the business unit after the Listeria outbreak and preparing it for sale, as well as leading negotiations for its eventual disposal. As finance director: Culinary division, he laid the foundation for the Culinary turnaround he now leads as managing director: Culinary. Most recently, Dumo was the managing director: Cereals, where he drove innovation speed-to-market, and re-established key brands as market leaders.
Managing director: Grains
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Appointed February 2024
Qualifications
BCom (Marketing)
Liezel was appointed managing director: Baby in April 2023 and started her journey at Tiger Brands 20 years ago as a graduate in marketing. She has expanded her skills and knowledge across various leadership roles within Tiger Brands including marketing, customer marketing and customer. Liezel was pivotal in step-changing the business trajectory in both Home, Personal Care & Baby (HPCB) and Total Tiger.
Managing director: Home and Personal Care
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Appointed July 2024
Qualifications
BCom Economics and Taxation
Thabani joined Tiger Brands in 2022 as the customer strategy and capability director and was appointed customer director: Snacks, Treats and Beverages in June 2023. He brings well-rounded experience and a proven track record in various roles (customer director, customer marketing, strategy and managing director) at multinationals. At Tiger, Thabani also played a vital role in delivering key projects to drive route-to-market growth and e-commerce acceleration. He is a passionate people leader and also engages in coaching and career mentoring initiatives in his personal capacity.
Chief people officer
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Appointed May 2018
Qualifications
Bachelor of Social Sciences, MBA
S’ne is a seasoned and innovative business leader with a passion and track record for growing high impact teams that deliver results and create sustainable value. Before joining Tiger Brands, she was group senior vice president, human capital for the Sasol Group and has held various human resources leadership positions within Sasol since 2008, both locally and globally. Prior to joining Sasol, she spent 10 years at Shell in various roles in South Africa and the Netherlands. She is a well-rounded and highly experienced human resources executive having a proven track record in business strategy development and execution, global human resources leadership and organisational design.
Chief customer officer
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Re-joined the group in October 2009 Exco member since May 2019
Qualifications
MBA, Higher diploma in Education
Luigi has more than 15 years with Tiger Brands, after re-joining the group in 2009 as customer executive: Grains. He was previously with AVI: National Brands where he held the position of sales director of their Snackworks business. Luigi has more than 28 years’ experience in FMCG in both South Africa and international markets with particular emphasis on sales strategy and execution, customer management and customer relations.
Chief manufacturing officer
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Appointed May 2024
Qualifications
MBA, MSc in Packaging Technology, a Bachelor of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering
Praveen joined Tiger Brands in August 2022 as operations support director. He has more than 20 years of general management experience in supply chain and has worked in over 14 countries on the African continent. In his various career roles, Praveen has focused on driving performance improvement and implementing World Class Manufacturing (WCM) standards. He also has deep experience in process development and optimisation, new installation projects, people development and quality control.
Managing director: Snacks, Treats and Beverages
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Appointed December 2025
Qualifications
BSc in Chemistry & Biochemistry, a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing Management.
Shamiel joined Tiger Brands in 2025 from Unilever, after a distinguished 26-year career in which he held several senior leadership roles across multiple geographies including Southern and West Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, and North America. In his most recent role prior to joining Tiger Brands, he served as Strategy & Transformation Director, Southern Africa. Shamiel brings deep experience across marketing, innovation, operations, and business transformation, with a strong track record in building high-performing teams and driving inclusive growth.
Chief marketing and strategy officer
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Appointed March 2026
Qualifications
BCom in Marketing and Information Technology (Wits), BCom Honours in Marketing and a Master of Management in Strategic Marketing (Wits).
Re-imagine Tiger leadership development programme conducted in partnership with GIBS.
Lorraine de Graaff joined Tiger Brands in 2019 as marketing director for the Bakeries business unit. Prior to joining Tiger Brands, she held senior marketing leadership roles at several leading multinational companies across the FMCG and healthcare sectors, including Beiersdorf, Novartis, Kimberly-Clark and Whirlpool. She brings more than 20 years of experience driving brand and business growth across South Africa, the rest of Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
During her tenure as marketing director for the Bakeries business unit, Lorraine provided strong strategic and commercial leadership across Tiger Brands’ bakery portfolio. She led the repositioning of key brands including Albany and Tinkies, strengthening their relevance with consumers and sharpening their role within the portfolio. She also drove a focused programme of innovation and renovation, unlocking new growth opportunities while continuously improving the core range to deliver greater value for consumers and the business.
Chief corporate affairs and sustainability officer
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Appointed March 2026
Qualifications
BCom (Communication Management), Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration.
Werna joined Tiger Brands in 2021 as corporate communications director, leading the group’s corporate reputation programmes, and was promoted to lead the corporate affairs and sustainability function in 2024. Before joining Tiger Brands, she held senior roles in corporate affairs and human resources at The South African Breweries and Anheuser-Busch InBev. She has extensive experience in internal and external communications, reputation and crisis management, stakeholder engagement and managing change through mergers and acquisitions. As corporate affairs and sustainability director at Tiger Brands, she reorganised the function to better integrate delivery on Tiger Brands’ transformation, enterprise supplier development and socio-economic development agendas in line with business priorities and introduced greater focus and structure to stakeholder engagement efforts. She also led the development and successful launch of the new Tiger Brands corporate brand and co-developed the company’s sustainable agricultural sourcing framework. She is known for her purpose-driven leadership and commitment to sustainable business practices and transformative stakeholder partnerships.
The Tiger Brands board provides overall ethical leadership and strategic direction in the best interests of the company, guided by regulatory requirements, codes of good practice and market benchmarks.
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B-BBEE Compliance Report 2025
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Board Charter
Audit Committee Terms of Reference
Investment Committee Terms of Reference
Anti-bribery & corruption Policy
Health and safety Policy
Ethical sourcing Policy