Board of Directors

Jens Montana

Jens Montanana
Chief Executive Officer, Age 45 (British)
Date of appointment 06 October 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 vicepresident 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 Limited in November 1994. Jens is also CEO of the 100% owned subsidiary company Logicalis Group, the integration division, a role he assumed in October 2002.

David Pfaff

David Pfaff
Group Finance Director, Age 41 (South African)
Date of appointment 01 June 2002

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 and corporate communications. 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 69 (South African)
Date of appointment 06 December 2001

In addition to his position as Chairman at Datatec, Leslie is chairman of Imperial Holdings. Leslie is also a director of a number of other companies including: ABSA Bank, Anglo American Platinum Corporation, Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation and The Tongaat-Hulett Group. 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 African Foundation 1999/2000.

Colin Brayshaw

Colin Brayshaw
Independent Non-Executive Director, Age 70 (South African)
Date of appointment 06 December 2001

Colin is currently chairman of Freestone Properties and a non-executive director on the boards of a number of listed companies, including: Anglogold, Anglo Platinum Corporation, AECI, Johnnic Communications, Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation. Previously he was chairman and managing partner of Deloitte & Touche and various of its predecessor firms.

Cedric Savage

Cedric Savage
Independent Non-Executive Director , Age 67 (South African)
Date of appointment 06 December 2001

Cedric started his career as an 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 Limited and director of other JSE-listed companies, including Kumba Resources, Harmony Gold Mining and Nedbank Group.

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Chris Seabrooke
Independent Non-Executive Director, Age 53 (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 Limited, chairman of Massmart Holdings Limited, Metrofile Holdings Limited and Setpoint Technology Holdings Limited and a director of Primedia Limited. 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 (Pty) Limited and S.A. Bias Industries Limited in SA. He is a former chairman of the South African State Theatre and former deputy chairman of both the inaugural Board of the National Arts Council and the founding Board of BASA.

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 and 4imprint, the latter as nonexecutive chairman.