TMA-SA March 2007 newsletter

TMA-SA Board of Directors for 2007

2007 TMA-SA Board of Directors in the picture: Gert Holtzhauzen (Chair), Lebo Moshidi, Keith Braatvedt, Zeenath Kajee, Philip Reynolds (Financial Director), Ntombi Langa-Royds (CEO), David Harding (Education & Knowledge), Nicola Meyer, Jan van der Walt (COO and Informatics), Colin Batchelor (Marketing).

 

Six new directors were elected at the AGM on 29 March 2007, and the new board elected its chair and executive directors at a board meeting thereafter.  The 2007 Board of Directors, and the board structure is as follows:

Chair	Gert Holtzhauzen
Position	Executive Director	Non-Executive directors in sub-committees
Chief Executive Officer	Ntombi Langa-Royds
Chief Operating Officer	Jan van der Walt
Secretary	Karl Gribnitz
Financial Director	Philip Reynolds	Matsotso Vuso
Marketing Director	Colin Batchelor	Garrath Rosslee, Nicola Meyer
Operations Director	Dale Pudney	Lebo Moshidi
Education & Knowledge Director	David Harding	Keith Braatvedt, Professor David Burdette
Informatics Director	Jan van der Walt	Zeenath Kajee

2007 AGM and Special meeting

Six new members were elected to the board of TMA-SA at the AGM held on 29 March 2007:

• Keith Braatvedt (Routledge Modise)
• Gert Holtzhauzen (Nedbank)
• Zeenath Kajee (SAFTRUST)
• Nicola Meyer (Sonnenberg Hoffman Galombick)
• Lebo Moshidi
• Matsotso Vuso (Corporate Renewal Solutions).

The Chair submitted his report, and members approved the amended Articles of Association, as well as the 2005 and 2005 Annual Financial Statements.

TMA-SA members at the 2007 AGM and Special Meeting.

Robin Taggart chairing the AGM and special meeting.

TMA-SA's submission to dti on draft business rescue legislation

TMA-SA's comments on business rescue provisions as contained in Chapter 6 of the Companies Bill, 2007 can be downloaded at Business rescue legislation comments.  It addresses general themes about the draft business rescue legislation as a whole, key success factors for business rescue in South Africa, and comments per section of Chapter 6 of the Bill.

Past conferences

A number of TMA-SA members attended the INSOL conference in Cape Town from 17 - 20 March 2007, while others attended the dti's Companies Bill Conference in Pretoria on 19 and 20 March 2007, with the panel discussion on business rescue of particular interest.

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