The Board

Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer prior to taking up the leadership role at Mara Delta Property Holdings. During her tenure at Delta Property Fund Limited, Bronwyn spearheaded the diversification of the REIT’s funding sources in the debt capital markets, leading to the establishment of a ZAR2 billion Domestic Medium Term Note Programme (DMTN Programme). She led the team responsible for obtaining a national scale issue rating from Global Credit Ratings as part of the DMTN Programme.

In addition, Bronwyn co-headed the team responsible for growing assets under management from ZAR2.2 billion at listing to ZAR11.8 billion in May 2016. Bronwyn is a founder member and served as Non-Executive Director on the Board of Mara Delta Property Holdings Limited (“Mara Delta” – now Grit Real Estate Income Group Limited) where she played a significant role in the listing and conversion of the fund to its current pan-African focus, underpinned by dollar based leases.

She assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer in the lead-up to the fund’s merger with Pivotal to form Mara Delta. She has grown the portfolio from $220 million at inception to approximately $600 million currently.

Other listed directorships:
Nil

Committees:
Investment and Social & Ethics

In 2004, Leon moved to Solenta Aviation, where he became Group Finance Director within 18 months. During his tenure as Group Finance Director, the group expanded from 12 aircraft to 48 aircraft, operating in eight African countries (including South Africa, Mozambique, Algeria, Ghana, Gabon, Kenya, Tanzania and Cote d’Ivoire).

Leon joined Grit in April 2015 as CFO, where he has continued to utilise his tax structuring knowledge and experience in operating in Africa to expand the asset base of the Group.

Other listed directorships:
Nil

Committees: 
Risk Committee

In 2000, Peter established Osiris Group in the British Virgin Islands and Mauritius to provide international corporate finance and administrative services to global clients. Peter has significant understanding of the property industry in the UK, South Africa and the rest of Africa.

Other listed directorships:
1 (Astoria Investments Limited)

Committees:
Investment (Chairman), Nomination (Chairman), Remuneration and Social & Ethics

He has been instrumental in the completion of a number of high profile real estate transactions including the listing of Picton Property Income Limited on the LSE and the formation of a £1.4 billion UK Property Authorised Investment Fund.  David is currently the CFO of Knight Frank Investment Management.

Other listed directorships:
Nil

Committees:
Audit, Risk and Social & Ethics

Catherine is a Fellow Member of the Mauritius Institute of Directors (“MioD”). She has also been a member of the Financial Reporting Council. She has served as an independent non-executive director and as a member of various committees of a number of public and private companies in Mauritius including AfrAsia Bank Limited from 2011 to 2017. Catherine also served as a Director of MioD for five years and as its Chairperson for 2 years from 2014 to 2016.

Other listed directorships:
8 (Astoria Investments Ltd, CIEL Limited, Les Gaz Industriels Limited, Barak Fund SPC Limited, MUA Limited and The Mauritius Union Assurance Company Limited, Paradise Property Investments Ltd).

Committees:
Social & Ethics (Chairman), Risk (Chairman), Audit (Chairman) and Remuneration (Chairman)

…following which he worked for Ashanti Goldfields and became CEO in 1986. Sir Jonah was elected Foreign Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

An Honorary Knighthood was conferred on him by Her Majesty the Queen in 2003 and in 2006 he was awarded Ghana’s highest national award, the Companion of the Order of the Star.

Other listed directorships:
1 (Bank of America)

Committees:
Investment, Remuneration and Social & Ethics

She is a former Chief Investment Officer of Pareto Limited, and prior to this, she worked as a Director and in the Sasol Group treasury unit as a Treasury Operations Manager. Nomzamo was awarded the IPM Business Leader of the year 2016 and the Five Star Woman award by the Women Property Network in 2009.

Other listed directorships:
1 (Munich Reinsurance Company of Africa Limited)

Committees:
Investment, Nomination and Social & Ethics

Johnny retired in 2012, after a 32-year career with HSBC where he held a wide range of senior positions in the group covering corporate and retail banking as well as control support functions such as Audit and Risk. His last position was Head of Wholesale Risk Asia Pacific where he was responsible for the Asia Pacific corporate credit portfolio.

He also served as Head of Credit HSBC France and Head of International at HSBC Bank plc UK, with oversight of Sub Sahara Africa. His other assignments included posts in Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Europe.

Johnny is a fellow of the Mauritius Institute of Directors and a former fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia as well as the Institute of Financial Services, UK.

Other listed directorships:
Nil

Committees:
Audit and risk

He is a member of the SA BRICS Agribusiness, a technical advisory and business development working group, as well as Alpha Africa Foundation, a non-profit organisation that primarily works in rural areas to improve the livelihood of community members.

Bright is also a former New Business Development Manager for two multinational companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Other listed directorships:
Nil

Committees:
Investment, Nomination and Social & Ethics (as permanent alternate to Nomzamo Radebe)