Executive
Executives
Julia Pope
Chief Financial Officer
Julia Pope
Ivan Leon Saltzman
Executive Director
Ivan Leon Saltzman
As co-founder
of Dis-Chem and a qualified
pharmacist, Ivan has over 40
years of experience in the retail,
pharmaceutical industry. He is
fully committed to the business
and is involved in the daily
operations and decision making
of the Group.
Rui Manuel Morais
Chief Executive Officer
Rui Manuel Morais
Rui has over ten
years of experience in the retail
pharmacy industry and has been
with Dis-Chem for nine years.
Before joining Dis-Chem, he had
various senior managerial roles
at Ernst & Young.
Stanley Goetsch
Executive Director
Stanley Goetsch
Stan is a qualified pharmacist with extensive experience in the retail pharmacy industry.
Non-Executives
Saul Eytan Saltzman
Executive Director
Saul Eytan Saltzman
Saul has 19 years
of experience in the retail,
pharmaceutical industry, all
of which have been at Dis-
Chem. Saul has had numerous
strategic roles in the business,
including heading up the
import division and focusing
on the Group’s private label
strategy.
Dr Anuschka Coovadia
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dr Anuschka Coovadia
Dr Anuschka is
a partner at Usizo Advisory
Solutions, which is an
independent health advisory
consultancy. She was the former
Head of Healthcare for Africa for
KPMG International, a director
on a healthcare investment
development fund – Ayurveda
Investments and a member of
a global task team on Universal
Health Coverage. She has more
than 15 years of experience in
the health and research industry.
Happy Masondo
Independent Non-Executive Director
Happy Masondo
Ms Masondo is a non-executive director of various companies with a master’s degree in law. Her specialities include commercial law with an emphasis in contractual, statutory and regulatory matters. She also brings great experience in the areas of climate change and sustainability.
Alupheli Sithebe
Independent Non-Executive Director
Alupheli Sithebe
Alu is a private
equity investment professional
with extensive experience in
mergers and acquisitions. She
was most recently Principal at
African Phoenix Investments
Limited. She began her career
with EY where she qualified
as a CA(SA) in the Retail and
Consumer Products division. Alu
is currently Managing Director of
her investment holding business
named Kamva Investments.
Katlego Kobue
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Katlego Kobue
Katlego has a BCom from WITS and is currently a Senior Investment Manager in the Royal Bafokeng Holdings’ Strategic Investment team with over 10 years of investment experience. Katlego sits on a number of other Boards and is also an independent chairman of DHL Express SA.
Laurence Michael Nestadt
Chairman
Laurence Michael Nestadt
Larry has a long
and successful global corporate
career. He is the co-founder of
Investec Bank Ltd and has been
instrumental in the creation and
strategic development of several
listed companies.
Joe Mthimunye
Independent Non-Executive Director
Joe Mthimunye
Joe is the cofounder
and executive chairman
of AloeCap, a boutique corporate
finance and investment company.
Before AloeCap he was one of
the founding partners of Gobodo
Inc, the accounting and auditing
practice that is a forerunner to
the newly merged SNG Grant
Thornton.
Dis-Chem is committed to best practice governance as it drives us to continuously improve how we manage our business to create sustainable value. We aim to create an ethical culture where decisions are taken openly and transparently, leading to good performance.
The Board recognises the link between effective governance, sustainable performance and the creation of long term value for all of its stakeholders. The Board is committed to the principles of transparency, integrity, fairness and accountability, and recognises the need to implement good corporate governance principles. The Board therefore seeks to apply the principles as set out in King IV.
Dis-Chem has policies and procedures in place to ensure that all employees are aware of the conduct which aligns our ethos and their rights as employees.
Dis-Chem has policies and procedures in place to ensure that all employees are aware of the conduct which aligns our ethos and their rights as employees.