Frank Berkeley (55) – Chairman Independent non-executive

B Comm, B Acc, CA(SA)
Frank is the chairman of the board and the nomination committee. He was appointed to the board in March 2011 and was elected as chairman in May 2011. Frank is the managing executive of Property Finance, Nedbank Corporate. He is a director of Attfund Limited, Acucap and Sycom Property Fund Managers Limited.

Gerald Nelson (56) – Chief Executive Officer

BSc Building (WITS)
Gerald is the chief executive officer of Hospitality and was appointed to the board prior to the listing of the Fund in 2006. He conceptualised and was actively involved with the set-up of the Fund. Prior to 2006, Gerald was the managing director of Sycom Property Fund Managers Limited and a past chairman of the Association of Property Unit Trusts. He has more than 30 years’ experience in activities relatd to property with specific expertise in development, asset management as weell as listed and directly held investment property vehicles, with a specific focus on the hotel and leisure industry for the past six years.

Andrew Rogers (42) – Deputy Chief Executive Officer

N-Dip – Hotel Management (Cape Town Technikon)
Andrew has more than 20 years’ operational hospitality and tourism experience. Prior to joining Hospitality in January 2007 as chief operating officer, he was a director of operations with Southern Sun Hotels. During his career Andrew has been with the City Lodge Group and Cullinan Hotel Group. Andrew was appointed deputy chief executive officer of Hospitality in February 2009.

Ridwaan Asmal (39) – Executive, Financial Director

B Comm (Accounting) (WITS)
Ridwaan is the financial director of Hospitality. He has more than 18 years’ experience in the South African property and was employed by the property asset management company of Freestone Property Holdings Limited prior to joining Hospitality in 2006, where he was responsible for financial reporting, financial operations of the listed property fund and facilitation of acquisitions and disposals.

Kamil Abdul-Karrim (52) – Independent non-executive

BCompt, PDM-PPDA (WITS), MBA (Bond University)
Kamil was appointed a director of Hospitality prior to the listing of the Fund in 2006. He is the chairman of the investment committee and also serves on the audit committee. Kamil is currently the managing director of Pam Golding Tourism and Hospitality Consulting (Pty) Limited.

Youseph Aminzadeh (45) – Non-executive

BA (Webster), MBA (Trinity)
Youseph is the prior deputy chief executive officer and currently a non-executive director of Hospitality. He was appointed to the board prior to the listing of the Fund in 2006. Youseph assisted in the original assembly of the Fund and was the managing director of Horwath Tourism & Leisure Consulting (Pty) Limited. He has authored articles on various aspects of the tourism and hospitality sectors and has served on various industry committees and forums.

Linda de Beer (42) – Independent non-executive

BAcc, BAcc Hons, Masters Tax, CA(SA)
Linda is an independent financial reporting and corporate governance advisor and part time professor in financial accounting at the University of te Witwatersrand. She serves as the Chairperson of the Consultative Advisory Group (CAG) of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) and is an independent director on the boards of Afgri Holdings Limited and Royal Bafokeng Platinum Limited. Her memberships of committees include: King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, the Issuers’ Services Advisory Committee of the JSE Limited and the Committee for Auditing Standards of the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors in South Africa. Linda was appointed a director of Hospitality and a member of the audit committee on 17 August 2011.

Zuko Kubukeli (38) – Independent non-executive

PhD (Human Biology) (UCT), BSc (Medicine) (UCT), BSc (Biochemistry and Microbiology) (UCT)
Zuko was a regional property manager of Atlas Property Services (Pty) Limited, the management company of listed PLS, Atlas Properties Limited, prior to which he was an executive director of Brait Specialised Funds. Zuko is the executive director – strategy and acquisitions, of Pan-African Capital Holdins (Pty) Limited and a principal of two private equity funds, Pan-African Private Equity Fund One and Inspired Evolution Fund. He was appointed to the board of Hospitality in June 2008.

Brenda Madumise (47) – Independent non-executive

B.Proc (LLB) (WITS), MBA (Bond University), Graduate Diploma in International Trade Law (WITS)
Brenda chairs the BEE and remuneration committees and has been a director of Hospitality since 2006. She is an admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa and serves on various boards, including Randgold and Exploration Company Limited, Transaction Capital and the International Marketing Council of South Africa. She is also the chairperson of the Iziko Museums, the Railway Safety Regulator, CATHSSETA and Vice President of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA).

William Midgley (53) – Non-executive

BA LLB (UCT) Admitted attorney, notary and conveyancer
William is a director of DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Attorneys (CDH), specialising in commercial, commercial property and JSE-related legal work. He was a director at Edward Nathan from 1991 to 2006 and advised withe the listing of Hospitality in 2006. He joined Pangbourne Properties Limited (now part of Capital Property Fund) as an executive director in 2006 until resigning at the end of 2007, following a board reconstitution. William joined the Hospitality board in January 2008 and lso practised as a director of Mkhabela Huntley Adekeye Inc, Attorneys, until joining CDH.

Willy Ross (66) – Independent non-executive

CTA, CA(SA)
Willy was appointed a director of Hospitality in April 2007. He is the chairman of Hospitality’s audit committee and has more than 32 years’ merchant and investment banking experience. He was, until his retirement, responsible for the Project and Structured Finance and Private Equity departments of Nedcor Investment Bank Limited as well as its Risk and Compliance functions. Post-retirement Willy has accepted directorships on a number of listed and unlisted companies including Kagiso Media Limited, Vunani Limited and Capital Property Fund (Chairman).