Board of Directors

Jens Montanana

Jens Montanana
Chief executive officer, Age 46 (British)
Date of appointment 06 October 1994

1994 Jens is the founder and chief architect behind Datatec, which he established in 1986. Between 1989 and 1993 Jens served as managing director and vice-president of US Robotics (UK) operations, a wholly owned subsidiary of US Robotics, now 3Com. In 1993 he co-founded US start up Xedia Corporation in Boston, MA, an early pioneer of network switching and one of the market leaders in IP bandwidth management, which was subsequently sold to Lucent Corporation. In 1994 Jens returned to SA and became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of Datatec which listed on the JSE in November 1994. Jens is also chairman of the 100% owned subsidiary company Logicalis, a role he assumed in March 2007. Jens is a non-executive director of Versatile Systems, Inc. a Toronto and London-listed Canadian company.

David Pfaff

David Pfaff
Group finance director, Age 42 (South African)
Date of appointment 01 July 2001

David was appointed the Group finance director on 1 June 2002. In addition to his finance director role, David is also responsible for global investor relations, corporate communications and the Africa and Middle East business. Prior to joining Datatec, David was a director of Anglo American Industrial Corporation and many of its subsidiaries.

Leslie Boyd

Leslie Boyd
Independent non-executive chairman, Age 70 (South African)
Date of appointment 06 December 2001

In addition to his position as chairman at Datatec, Leslie is chairman of Imperial Holdings, Highveld Steel and Metmar. Leslie is also a director of a number of other companies, including Aspen, Columbus Stainless, Sun International and Tongaat-Hulett. In the past, Leslie has also held chairman positions at several of these companies. Leslie was the founding president of the South African Chamber of Business in 1990 and was president of the South Africa Foundation 1999/2000.

Colin Brayshaw

Colin Brayshaw
Independent non-executive director, Age 71 (South African)
Date of appointment 06 December 2001

Colin is currently chairman of Coronation Investments and Trading and a nonexecutive director on the boards of a number of listed companies, including: AngloGold Ashanti, AECI, Johnnic Communications and Highveld Steel. Previously he was chairman and managing partner of Deloitte & Touche and various of its predecessor firms.

Prof Wiseman Nkuhlu

Prof Wiseman Nkuhlu
Independent non-executive director, Age 63 (South African)
Date of appointment 01 September 2006

Wiseman, who was trained as a chartered accountant and who served articles with PricewaterhouseCoopers, currently serves as chairman of Pan- African Capital Holdings (Pty) Ltd and holds directorships with Kagiso Trust Investments and AngloGold Ashanti. Between October 2000 and July 2005 he served as economic adviser to President Thabo Mbeki and Chief Executive of the Secretariat of New Partnership for Africa’s Development (“NEPAD”).

Stephen Davidson

Stephen Davidson
Independent non-executive director, Age 51 (British)
Date of appointment 01 February 2007

Stephen is chairman of SPG Media plc, Enteraction TV Ltd and Digital Marketing Group plc. He is also a non-executive director of Inmarsat plc, Betex Group plc, EBT Mobile China plc. Stephen has held various positions in investment banking, most recently at WestLB Panmure where he was global head of media and telecoms, investment banking, then vice chairman of investment banking. From 1993 to 1998 Stephen was finance director, then CEO of Telewest Communications plc. He was chairman of the Cable Communications Association from 1996 to 1998. Stephen holds a 1st Class Hons in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Aberdeen.

Cedric Savage

Cedric Savage
Independent non-executive director , Age 68 (South African)
Date of appointment 06 December 2001

Cedric started his career as a graduate engineer at Fairey Aviation in the UK. In 1963 he returned to SA to work as an engineer in the oil (Mobil) and textiles (Felt & Textiles) industries and subsequently as joint managing director of Rainbow Chickens. He joined The Tongaat Group in 1977 as managing director of Tongaat Foods and thereafter progressed to executive chairman of the building materials division and CEO of The Tongaat-Hulett Group in 1991. In 2002 he retired from executive duties and is now non-executive chairman of The Tongaat-Hulett Group and director of other JSE-listed companies, including Harmony Gold Mining Company, the Nedbank Group and Denel.

Chris Seabrooke

Chris Seabrooke
Independent non-executive director, Age 54 (South African)
Date of appointment 06 October 1994

Chris has over the years been a director of over twenty JSE-listed companies. He is currently CEO of Sabvest, chairman of Massmart Holdings, Metrofi le Holdings and Setpoint Technology Holdings and a director of Primedia. He is also a director of Net1 U.E.P.S. Technologies, Inc. listed on NASDAQ and a director of a number of unlisted companies including Mineworkers Investment Company and S.A. Bias Industries in SA. He is a former chairman of the South African State Theatre and former deputy chairman of the inaugural Board of the National Arts Council.

Nick Temple

Nick Temple
Independent non-executive director, Age 58 (British)
Date of appointment 01 October 2002

Nick has had a distinguished career at IBM, serving for thirty years in various positions around the world. He was one of IBM’s most senior international executives. He currently serves as a director of a number of LSE-listed companies including Electrocomponents, DataCash and 4imprint, the latter as non-executive chairman. Nick is also the chairman of a number of privately owned companies.