|
The Believe Begin Become Advisory Committee comprises eight outstanding business professionals committed to improving the entrepreneurial climate in South Africa. The key roles of the advisory committee include, but are not limited to, advising TechnoServe's staff in the design and implementation of the programme, providing networking resources and promoting Believe Begin Become among the business commmunity, entrepreneurs and other relevant associations.
Ms Futhi Mtoba
Chairman of Deloitte South Africa
View website
Ms Futhi Mtoba is Chairman of Deloitte South Africa. She is a CA (SA), holding a Higher Diploma in Banking Law (Rand Afrikaans University); B Compt (Hons) (University of South Africa); BA (Econ) (Hons) (University of South Africa); BA (Econ) (University of Botswana and Swaziland).
She is the first black partner at Deloitte, first female president of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of SA. In 2004 she was honoured as '2004 Business Woman of the Year' by the Businesswomen Association and Nedbank. In May 2006, she was appointed to the board of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative.
Futhi serves on the board of the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants, the Public Accountants and Auditors Board, the Money Laundering Advisory Board, and the Financial Services Advisory Board. She is also a vice-president of Business Unity SA, as well as commissioner and chairman of the investment committee of the Public Investment Commissioners, which manages assets of R302 billion.
Her experience includes managing the audits of large corporate treasuries, local and international financial institutions, including the treasury of a large parastatal organisation.
Over and above these high-profile responsibilities, she manages to remain a loving mother of two children, aged 14 and nine, and is married to Mbulelo Mtoba, a doctor at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.
Mr ACG 'Connie' Molusi
Executive Director Kabo Capital (Pty) Ltd.
Mr ACG 'Connie' Molusi is the Executive Director Kabo Capital (Pty) Ltd, formerly the Executive Director and Group Chief Executive Officer, Johnnic Communications, 2000-2006.
A career journalist with various South African publications and news agency since 1988-1995 and was Media Advisor for the Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the President Responsible for the Reconstruction and Development Programme, Advisor to the Minister of Communications.
He is director in several listed companies including Johnnic Holdings, Johnnic Communications, Caxton & CTP Publishers and Printers Limited, chairman of African Media and Entertainment. Other directorship Chairman Johannesburg Tourism Company, South African Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Media Development and Diversity Agency, Trustee World Wildlife Fund (South Africa). Former President of the Print Media SA and Member of the Board World Association of Newspapers. Mr. Molusi earned a BA in Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, and a MA at the University of Notre Dame in the United States.
Dr Nomsa Masuku
Head of Corporate Social Investment
View website
Dr Nomsa Masuku completed her junior degree at the University of Swaziland majoring in English Languages and Literature and African Languages and Literature. She went on to do her Masters in Arts (Linguistics) and Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language at the University of Sydney, Australia. She then did her PhD in the area of Applied English Linguistics (Text Linguistics/Discourse Analysis and Construction of Knowledge) at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. She has also done a few short courses including a Research Methodology, Project Management, Human Rights, Women and Literacy in the Development Process, Conflict Management and Strategic Leadership.
Nomsa is a theorist in written communication and has taught at University level. She has worked with especially women’s groups (Women and the Law in South Africa), Swaziland Action Group against Abuse. She has extensive editing and writing experience. She was employed by the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa for eight years where her portfolio included the strategic development of programmes that assist the Commission to contribute to the entrenchment of constitutional democracy. She also had oversight over the Commission’s provision and promotion of voter and balloting education. She is currently employed by Standard Bank as the Head of Corporate Social Investment.
Nomsa presents a varied and eclectic range of interests. These have centred on education, development issues, democracy and governance, policy development and implementation. Her interest also extends to the personal development of women professionals and occasionally offers motivational interventions for this particular group.
Mr Allon Raiz
Director, Raizcorp
View website
Mr Allon Raiz is a serial entrepreneur, involved in more than 30 businesses. He runs Africa’s only unfunded for-profit business incubator, Raizcorp. He is an author, a radio show host, and has a reality TV show, all in the field of entrepreneurship. He is an accomplished international speaker and is completing his Doctorate in Entrepreneurial Studies and Innovation.
Dr Mothomang Diaho
Head of the Dialogue Programme, Nelson Mandela Foundation
View website
Dr Mothomang Diaho is the proud mother of two Children. Having received a scholarship, she obtained her medical degree in 1985 at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She has diplomas in Child Health, from the College of Medicine, Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and Public Health, and a Masters in Business Administration, from the University of the Witwatersrand and completed an executive programme (PMD) at the Harvard Business School. Mothomang is a current fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative; an Aspen Institute associated Leadership Initiative.
Mothomang’s working life spans 20 years. She has worked in various places as a Medical Officer including Soweto, Alexandra, Cape Town, Swaziland and Lesotho. Her consulting experience has focused on programme implementation support, evaluation and capacity development in Southern Africa. Leadership development and dialogue on HIV and AIDS is a recent foray which has led to her current position at the Nelson Mandela Foundation as developer of the dialogue platform for the organisation.
Professor John Luiz
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Management, University of Johannesburg
View website
Professor John Luiz is Executive Dean in the Faculty of Management at the University of Johannesburg. He was previously a Professor of Business Administration at the Wits Business School (University of the Witwatersrand), South Africa, and also served as their Director of International Programmes and as Academic Director. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999 and again in 2006 and a Research Affiliate at Columbia University in 2006. Besides the Ph.D. in Economics, John has completed various other courses including the Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics at Cambridge University. He is a member of various professional bodies including the National Council of the Economic Society of South Africa and is on the Editorial Board for the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, and the Journal of Development Perspectives. He has published dozens of articles in local and international journals.
John works as a consultant and has undertaken research for the Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Industrial Development Corporation, the Department of Trade and Industry, the United States Agency for International Development, the Johannesburg Development Agency, and the Centre for Development and Enterprise amongst others. He is active in management training and executive education at several leading multinational and South African corporations and public entities. He served as the Programme Director for the International Executive Development Programme in 2005 and 2006 and has lectured on the INSEAD My Globe Programme. He has been a member of the Euromed Marseilles International Scientific Committee in France since 2004 and on the Academic Board of a leading economics think-tank – Economic Research Southern Africa since 2005.
Paul Green
Country Director, TechnoServe South Africa
View website
Paul Green is the Country Director for TechnoServe South Africa. Paul joined Technoserve in January 2007 as Senior Program Manager. Before joining TechnoServe, Paul worked as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company in their Johannesburg office for four years, where he served clients in the basic materials and financial services sectors on a variety of topics. He is a Zimbabwean by origin, a South African by descent, a Mechanical Engineer by training and holds an MBA from the University of Oxford.
Ms Lulama Letlape
Group Executive of Corporate Communications, Telkom
View website
Ms Lulama Letlape is responsible for corporate image and corporate brand at Telkom SA. She holds a B.A. degree, a Higher Education Diploma (HDE) and a B.Ed. degree. She is currently completing her thesis on Leadership Challenges in Local Government for the completion of her M.A. in Public and Development Management. Lulama’s career started as a teacher and has touched various professions including public relations, communications and developments. Lulama enjoys spending time with family, playing golf, travelling and reading. Before re-joining Telkom, Lulama worked as CEO of World Vision South Africa.
Mr Lufuno Nevhutalu
Executive Chairman of Cornastone Enterprise Systems
View website
Mr Lufuno Nevhutalu is the executive chairman of Cornarstone Enterprise Systems. In 2001 he founded Cornerstone Technology Holdings, a black-owned and managed business.
Nevhutalu has worked for many years in the IT industry in different companies and capacities. Notably, he worked for IBM SA as a solutions salesman, and for Computer Configurations Holdings as executive director and a board member.
He is a trustee of the Thabo Mbeki Education Fund, among other nongovernmental organisations he participates in.
Nevhutalu has a BA Hons (University of the North and University of Natal) and several executive training course certificates.
|
