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BCompt (Hons), CA(SA), Advanced Management Programme (INSEAD)

Jan served as CEO of Italtile from 2016 to 2021, prior to which he held the position of Chief Operating Officer ("COO") from 2014. He retired from his executive role in December 2021. He is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and has extensive senior‑level experience in the retail and supply chain sectors, having served as CEO and formerly Financial Director of Massdiscounters (a division of Massmart). He also served as a business manager at Clover SA and spent eight years at SABMiller in senior financial roles. Jan currently serves as a non‑executive director on the boards of The Foschini Group Limited and Motus Holdings Limited.

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MCom Business Economics

Brand is a well-known and respected businessman in South Africa, particularly in the motor industry where he held the position of Managing Director for Toyota SA for eight years and that of CEO of McCarthy Limited from 1999 to his retirement in 2011. Brand currently serves as a non‑executive director on the board of InvoTech. Two honorary doctorate degrees in marketing and leadership respectively were awarded to Brand by leading South African universities.

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BAcc, CA(SA)

Brandon is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and prior to joining the Group, was an audit manager at EY. He joined Italtile in 2010 as Group Financial Manager and was appointed as CFO in 2013, a position in which he served for five years. From 2018, Brandon served as Executive Director: Commercial and Supply Chain and Executive Director: Retail, prior to being reappointed as CFO in 2020. Brandon was appointed as Chief Operating Officer on 1 July 2024.

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BCom (Accounting) Cum Laude; CA(SA)

Lamar is a Chartered Accountant (SA). He joined the Group as Finance Executive in 2023. Prior to that, he held senior financial positions in the telecommunications industry, most recently at a JSE-listed company. Lamar completed his articles at PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. in 2013. Lamar was appointed as Chief Financial Officer on 1 July 2024.

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BBusSc, CA(SA)

Lushane is a Chartered Accountant (SA) having completed her articles at PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. She has 18 years of experience in investment banking, specifically in mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings at Morgan Stanley, J.P.Morgan and Fidelis Partners. She currently has her own advisory and consulting business.

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B.Iuris, LLB, PhD

Alex holds a doctorate in private law from UCT and was admitted as an attorney in 1997. She has extensive experience in legal, governance, conduct and regulatory risk management. She is currently the CEO and founder of Justings (Pty) Ltd, a business that provides regulatory and conduct risk management advisory services. From 2014 to 2021, Alex was Conduct and Regulatory Risk Management Executive for the FirstRand group. Prior to that, she was Regulatory and Corporate Affairs Group Executive at Tiger Brands Limited. She has also served as executive director and General Counsel for Siemens in Africa, and as an independent non‑executive board member for Pick n Pay Stores Limited until August 2020.

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PGDip (Tax Law), MBA (Distinction), BCom Honours (Information Systems), BCom (Accounting and Information Systems)

As a former CEO of a private equity fund manager, together with over 20 years' experience in private equity, investment banking and information systems, she brings a wealth of experience and expertise in driving value through governance and execution excellence. Mamedupi has served as a non‑executive director on boards spanning the energy, telecoms, healthcare, industrial and insurance sectors. She currently serves as a non‑executive director on the boards of Absa financial services, Absa Life, Absa insurance company and Novasun Products.