At 30 June 2017, the Board of Directors comprised 5 Independent non-executive Directors and 2 Executive Directors.
The Independent and Non-Executive Directors bring a wide range of experience and skills to the Board. The Executive Directors are involved in the day-to-day management and are in the full-time salaried employment of the Group. The Board is responsible for providing effective corporate governance. It determines the Company’s purpose, strategy and values and ensures that the Company and its controlled entities are properly managed. It monitors and evaluates the implementation of strategies, policies, management performance criteria and business plans.
The role and function of the Chairman, who is an independent director, and of the Chief Executive Officer, are separate. The Chairman presides over meetings of directors and ensures the smooth functioning of the Board. The management of the Group is carried out by the Chief Executive Officer who also develops and recommends to the Board the long-term vision and strategy for the Group, as well as formulates annual business plans and budgets to support the long-term strategy approved by the Board.
Jean-Claude Béga is presently the Group Head of Financial Services and Business Development at IBL Ltd. He is the Non-Executive Chairman of Mauritian Eagle Insurance Company Limited, DTOS Ltd and of The Bee Equity Partners Ltd. He is also Director of a number of Companies including Alteo Limited, Phoenix Beverages Limited, Lux* Island Resorts Ltd and AfrAsia Bank Limited.
Kishore Sunil Banymandhub is Chairman of Omnicane Ltd. He is Director & Chairman of the Audit Committee of MCB Group Ltd. He is a Director of New Mauritius Hotels and a member of its Corporate Governance Committee. He is also a director of BlueLife Ltd and Fincorp Investment Ltd. He served as President of the Mauritius Employers Federation in 1987. He was Member of the Presidential Commission on Judicial Reform (1996), headed by Lord Mackay of Clashfern. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Mauritius.
Marc Kitten is a Visiting Professor in finance at Imperial College London and a founding partner of Candesic, a strategy consultancy focused on technology and healthcare. He has over 15 years of strategy consulting experience at McKinsey and Candesic, with a 10-year career at Deutsche Bank as a vice president in the Global Markets division in Germany.
Guillaume Ortscheit is the director in charge of ecosystem & partners for SIGFOX in South Africa. He was a senior consultant for ORION Strategic Services and has 20+ years of technical and sales expertise in mobile network operators ecosystems in Africa and mobile based products, IT infrastructure and security. He was previously the Chief Executive Officer of SIM Dynamics.
Sanjana Tharangany Singaravelloo heads Aon’s Global Benefits Africa Unit. She has over 20 years’ experience gained internationally with Old Mutual (Cape Town), Hymans Robertson Actuaries and Consultants (Glasgow), PwC (London and Amsterdam), ABN Amro (Amsterdam) and the UK Pension Regulator (UK). She has been recently appointed as an independent director on the Board of IBL Ltd and is a member of its Audit and Risk Committee.
Ali Jamaloodeen is a seasoned Project Management Practitioner with over 13 years of project leadership experience. He joined Anglo African as one of its first employees in 2007 as General Manager – Programme Management. He was previously the Turnkey Project Manager of Huawei in Mauritius, and Project Consultant in Australia.
Sanjeev Manrakhan was appointed Head of Marketing and International Roaming for Mauritius Telecom’s Mobile division in 1995. He was part of the consulting team of France Telecom Mexico and joined Gemalto in 2000 as Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa looking after various sectors such as telco, banking and ID, before being appointed as Senior Advisor to the President of Huawei SSA in 2008. He founded the Anglo African Group.
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Jean-Claude Béga is presently the Group Head of Financial Services and Business Development at IBL Ltd. He is the Non-Executive Chairman of Mauritian Eagle Insurance Company Limited, DTOS Ltd and of The Bee Equity Partners Ltd. He is also Director of a number of Companies including Alteo Limited, Phoenix Beverages Limited, Lux* Island Resorts Ltd and AfrAsia Bank Limited.
Kishore Sunil Banymandhub is Chairman of Omnicane Ltd. He is Director & Chairman of the Audit Committee of MCB Group Ltd. He is a Director of New Mauritius Hotels and a member of its Corporate Governance Committee. He is also a director of BlueLife Ltd and Fincorp Investment Ltd. He served as President of the Mauritius Employers Federation in 1987. He was Member of the Presidential Commission on Judicial Reform (1996), headed by Lord Mackay of Clashfern. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Mauritius.
Marc Kitten is a Visiting Professor in finance at Imperial College London and a founding partner of Candesic, a strategy consultancy focused on technology and healthcare. He has over 15 years of strategy consulting experience at McKinsey and Candesic, with a 10-year career at Deutsche Bank as a vice president in the Global Markets division in Germany.
Guillaume Ortscheit is the director in charge of ecosystem & partners for SIGFOX in South Africa. He was a senior consultant for ORION Strategic Services and has 20+ years of technical and sales expertise in mobile network operators ecosystems in Africa and mobile based products, IT infrastructure and security. He was previously the Chief Executive Officer of SIM Dynamics.
Sanjana Tharangany Singaravelloo heads Aon’s Global Benefits Africa Unit. She has over 20 years’ experience gained internationally with Old Mutual (Cape Town), Hymans Robertson Actuaries and Consultants (Glasgow), PwC (London and Amsterdam), ABN Amro (Amsterdam) and the UK Pension Regulator (UK). She has been recently appointed as an independent director on the Board of IBL Ltd and is a member of its Audit and Risk Committee.
Ali Jamaloodeen is a seasoned Project Management Practitioner with over 13 years of project leadership experience. He joined Anglo African as one of its first employees in 2007 as General Manager – Programme Management. He was previously the Turnkey Project Manager of Huawei in Mauritius, and Project Consultant in Australia.
Sanjeev Manrakhan was appointed Head of Marketing and International Roaming for Mauritius Telecom’s Mobile division in 1995. He was part of the consulting team of France Telecom Mexico and joined Gemalto in 2000 as Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa looking after various sectors such as telco, banking and ID, before being appointed as Senior Advisor to the President of Huawei SSA in 2008. He founded the Anglo African Group.