Executive Management
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Malcolm has had extensive executive experience within a number of listed companies on the JSE. His most relevant experience was his seven-year period at Murray and Roberts (M&R) where, as a member of the M&R Group Exco, his responsibilities included the Group’s portfolio of material supply and services businesses, the property development business and construction and related businesses in Zimbabwe. His career has included executive roles at Nedbank, PSG Investment Bank, Alacrity Financial Services and the Imperial Group. He joined Sanyati in May 2009. | |
Malcolm Hugh Lobban |
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Ms Jovner qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1994 after completing her articles at PriceWaterhouse Coopers. Aléta gained invaluable experience in the construction industry during an 11 year period at Murray & Roberts where she reached the position of Financial Director. She has been involved in a number of different projects including Murray & Roberts Foundries, Hall Longmore, the Greenpoint Stadium and the Medupi Power Station Joint Venture. Aléta joined the Sanyati Group as Chief Financial Officer and Group Financial Director as of 1 June 2011. | |
Aléta Jovner |
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| Chief Financial Officer and Group Financial Director |
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After qualifying from the University of Pretoria in 1988, Gerhard started working for Van Wyk & Louw Consulting Engineers (trading as Africon and lately as Aurocon). He was involved with the Bridge Design Department where he designed reinforced concrete structures including culverts, road over rail bridges, multi-span prestressed bridges as well as steel pedestrian bridges. Gerhard was also the resident engineer on the rehabilitation of a multi-span concrete bridge across the Omaruru River just North of Henties Bay in Namibia. In 1993 he moved to Lonerock Construction as a site agent and worked on various projects including the Roodepoort Athletics Stadium. Gerhard joined Protech Construction in 1996, starting as Contract Manager. He was then promoted to Contracts Director in February 1997 and finally became Managing Director in 1999, a position which he held for 4 years. Gerhard was responsible for managing all contracts, mainly road building contracts in South Africa as well as contracts in Botswana, Mozambique and Ethiopia. In 2003 Gerhard started his own company, Gem Earthworks. Here, he and his team managed contracts in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Eastern Cape, as well as a plant fleet which consisted of specialised road building equipment like recycling machines, crushers, graders and rollers. In addition, Gerhard was also involved with two projects for a Kuwaitan company, MA Kharaffi, in The Gambia and Tanzania. The value of the contracts were US50M and US60M respectively. Sanyati Holdings acquired Gem Earthworks in 2007 and and this business has subsequently been incorporated in Sanyati North. Gerhard is currently driving the Group's geographical diversification strategy into the rest of Africa as well as creating new opportunities for Sanyati North in partnership with Ian Ferguson. | |
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Gerhard van Schalkwyk BEng (Civil) |
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Managing Director: Sanyati North and Sanyati Piling & Geotechnical |
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Mike graduated with a National Diploma in 1984 from the Durban University of Technology and, after in-service training with the Natal Roads Department, was appointed as resident engineer at the Winterton construction unit for a period of four years. After serving a period of time with Basil Read where he gained largely in international experience, Mike was offered a management position with Afriscan Construction (Pty) the pre-founder of Sanyati Construction, and took appointment in 2003. Mike was appointed Civils Director in 2005 and thereafter Managing Director of the Coastal Division in 2007. | |
Mike O’Reilly |
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| Managing Director: Sanyati Coastal |
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In 1987, after graduating from the University of Pretoria, Jannie completed his military training at the School of Engineers as an Instructor. He then moved to the Free State Provinical Administration as a Construction Engineer in 1990 where he remained for 2 years. At the end of 1992, Jannie moved to Louw Muller and Partners. Jannie started Meyker Construction in March 1996, specialising in "not the run of the mill" civil engineering projects like design and build, working in difficult and remote locations and completing fast-track projects. Since then Jannie has been involved in a variety of projects including the building of roads and bridges and bridge rehabilitation around South Africa as well as civil works for the telecommunication infrastructure in Mozambique and in the Comores. At the end of 2007, Meyker was bought out by Sanyati and Jannie is now Managing Director of Sanyati Central. | |
Jannie Gutter |
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| Managing Director: Sanyati Central |
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Moses obtained a diploma in HR Development and Training from Executive Education Training College in Johannesburg in 1986. He has completed numerous courses relating to Skills Development and Industrial Relations as well as a course in Financial Management for non-financial managers and a specialist programme in construction management. Moses entered the construction industry in 1982, starting off as a soils laboratory assistant, then became a survey assistant before ending up as the Training Officer where he trained in a range of construction skills. From training, he developed into an Industrial Relations Practitioner where he was extensively involved in the full spectrum of Human Resources management and interacted with trade unions between 1988 and 1994 where he worked in the metal and sugar industries as a specialist I.R practitioner. In 1995, Moses was employed back in the construction industry as a Training Manager and in 1997 was promoted to Human Resources Director. Moses now project manages the company’s emerging contractor development projects. | |
Moses Sangweni |
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| Business Development (Coastal) |
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