All About ADvTECH

JONATHAN JANSEN – 62 (Professor)
Independent non-executive director
Chair of the Transformation, Social and Ethics Committee
and member of the Nominations Committee
PhD (Stanford), MSc (Cornell), BEd, HEd (UNISA),
BSc (UWC)
Jonathan is Distinguished Professor of Education
at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
In 2016/17 he was a Fellow at the Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at
Stanford University. He is currently President of the
South African Institute of Race Relations and President
of the South African Academy of Science.
He started his career as a biology teacher in the Cape
after receiving his science degree from the University
of the Western Cape. He obtained a MS degree from
Cornell University and a PhD from Stanford. He holds
honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh,
the University of Vermont and Cleveland State
University.
In 2013, he was awarded the Education Africa Lifetime
Achiever Award in New York, the Spendlove Prize from
the University of California for his contributions to
tolerance, democracy and human rights, and he also
won the largest book award from the British Academy
for the Social Sciences and Humanities for his book,
Knowledge in the Blood (published by Stanford
University Press).
His recent books include Leading for Change: Race,
intimacy and leadership on divided university
campuses (Routledge, 2016), As by fire: the end of the
South African university (Tafelberg, 2017), Interracial
intimacies on campuses (Bookstorm, 2017) and Song
for Sarah (Bookstorm, 2017). His 2018 books include
South African Schooling: The Enigma of Inequality
(with Nic Spaull, published by Springer), The Politics
of Curriculum (Wits University Press) and Who gets in
and why? The politics of admissions in South Africa’s
elite schools (UCT Press). Jonathan joined the board
in 2004.
KEITH WARBURTON – 60
Independent non-executive director
Chair of the Audit Committee, member of the
Investment, Nominations, Risk and Remuneration
committees
BCom, CTA, CA(SA)
Keith is a CA who has obtained some 30 years’
experience in commerce and management since
qualifying as a chartered accountant at
Arthur Andersen. His broad experience includes the
banking, steel and manufacturing industries. Since
1990, he has been in the retail industry, with his latest
term being as chief operating officer of Clicks Group
Ltd. Keith has been involved in a number of large
enterprises, with experience in a number of JSE-listed
entities. He joined the board in July 2015.
STAFFORD MASIE – 44
Independent non-executive director
Member of the Nominations and Risk committees
Stafford commenced his education in South Africa
before undertaking studies in computer science at
Tel Aviv University, Israel. He has been involved in the
IT industry for nearly 20 years, and was associated
with pre-eminent IT companies such as Dimension
Data, Novell and Google. His passion for technology
led to him holding senior executive positions at
Novell USA and subsequently at Novell South Africa,
and being responsible for establishing Google’s
presence in South Africa. After leaving Google in
2009, he established his own business and is now
an entrepreneur with a particular interest in early
stage start-up businesses in the IT industry. He is
active as a business school lecturer, participant in
several radio broadcasts and speaker on the influence
of technology on modern day life, society and
education. Stafford joined the board in January 2014.
JENS ZIMMERMANN – 57
Independent non-executive director
BA (Business), MBA (Harvard)
Jens is chairman of the board of London-listed High
Growth Capital, which invests in new technologies.
He has more than two decades of private equity
experience, along with a track record of building
successful businesses internationally. This includes
a period as partner and managing director at New
Silk Route Growth Capital, a USD1.3 billion fund with
investments across the Middle East and Asia.
After working for Booz, Allen & Hamilton’s acquisition
services team in the early nineties he joined a pioneer
buyout group in Germany, before co-founding HGU
Hamburg Private Equity AG in 1998. Since 2004, Jens
has worked in Private Equity in South Asia and the
Middle East. He has led more than 40 Private Equity
investments, served on over 20 boards and founded
several companies in the US, Europe and Asia. With a
passion for education he has invested in and served
on the boards of several globally leading education
groups, specifically in the K-12 and tertiary sectors.
Jens joined the board in April 2018.
DIDIER OESCH – 53
Executive director, group financial director
Member of the Investment and Risk committees
BCompt (Hons), CA(SA)
Didier qualified as a chartered accountant in 1991
after completing his articles at Betty & Dickson. He
gained considerable experience with the Nampak
group in various financial positions, culminating in
a four-year term in Europe as financial director of
Nampak Plastics Europe. Didier joined ADvTECH
as group financial manager. He was appointed
a member of Exco and group financial director
in 2005.
SHIRLEY ZINN – 57 (Professor)
Independent non-executive director
Chair of the Remuneration Committee, member
of the Investment, Nominations and Transformation,
Social and Ethics committees
BA, HDipEd (UWC), BEd (Hons) (Unisa), MEd (UWC),
EdM and EdD (Harvard)
Shirley is the former group head of Human Resources
at Woolworths Holdings Limited. Prior to this, she
headed up Human Resources of Standard Bank
South Africa and was deputy global head of Human
Resources for the Standard Bank Group.
Currently, she is an Independent non-executive
director on the boards of JSE-listed Sanlam Limited
and Sanlam Life Insurance Limited, MTN-SA, Shoprite
Holdings, Afrocentric and was recently appointed to
the boards of LRMG Performance Architects, Cricket
South Africa and NPI.
Shirley has held several leadership roles in HR
management within the public (SARS) and private
sectors (more specifically, the banking industry).
Through Shirley Zinn Consulting, she consults
to various large organisations in HR strategy,
transformation, leadership and education. She is
a director and trustee of a number of companies
and trusts, including the Boston Consulting Group,
Nedbank Eyethu Community Trust, Tuesday
Consulting and former chair of the Starfish Greatheart
Foundation. She is also an extraordinary professor
at the University of Pretoria and more recently was
appointed adjunct professor at the University of Cape
Town where she also serves on the Council of the
university.
She is the past president of the Institute for People
Management South Africa and registered as Master
HR Professional with the South Africa Board for People
Practice.
In 2015, Shirley published an inspirational book about
her own personal and professional life. She joined the
board in October 2012.
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