Our Board
NON-Executive Directors
JA Copelyn
BA (Hons), BProc
Non-executive Chairman
Date appointed: 24 February 2011*
Board Committees: HR and Remuneration Committee
Major external positions, directorships or associations:
Executive director and Chief Executive Officer of Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited (“HCI”), the major shareholder of the company; Non-executive director and Chairperson of Deneb Investments Limited, eMedia Holdings Limited and Tsogo Sun Hotels Limited.
Key skills and experience:
Johnny co-founded HCI and has served as the Chief Executive Officer of HCI since 1997. Prior to this he qualified as an attorney, served as a member of Parliament and as the General Secretary of the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union. In addition to the abovementioned directorships and positions, Johnny holds various other directorships on boards within the HCI group .
* JA Copelyn was appointed to the board of the holding company of the group on 13 August 2003, prior to the reverse listing of the group into Gold Reef.
Y Shaik
BA (Law), BProc
Non-executive Director
Date appointed: 15 June 2011
Board Committees: HR and Remuneration Committee (Chairperson); Social and Ethics Committee
Major external positions, directorships or associations:
Executive director of Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited (“HCI”), the major shareholder of the Company, Non-executive director of Deneb Investments Limited and eMedia Holdings Limited, and the Chairperson of Hosken Passenger Logistics and Rail Limited.
Key skills and experience:
Yunis is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He has served as an Acting Judge in the Labour Court and as a senior commissioner to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, KwaZulu-Natal. Yunis is a former Deputy General Secretary of the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union. In addition to the abovementioned directorships and positions, he holds various other directorships on boards within the HCI group.