Mr. Davies is currently the Minister of Trade and Industry in , after fulfilling the role of Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry since 2005. He is a researcher for the ANC and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Furthermore he is a professor at the University of the Western Cape and Co- Director for the Centre for Southern African Studies. Rob Davies holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the .

Rob Davies

Danie Fölscher is the Chief Executive Officer of the firm’s Western Cape business and is a member of the PwC National Executive Committee. In his role as Western Cape CEO, he focuses on the development and delivery of service excellence to clients of the firm.

B Com LLB, BCompt Hons, CA (SA), B Com Hons (Taxation).

Member of the PwC South Africa EXCO.

Danie Fölscher

José Rezende has 24 years of experience in auditing and consult- ing services, with 12 years being a partner at PricewaterhouseCoo- pers in Brasil. He leads the segment of Agribusiness at PwC Brazil and South America, including the PwC Agribusiness Service Cen- ter based in Ribeirão Preto-SP. José has recently completed his Master’s degree in Agroenergy by FGV / Embrapa / ESALQ. He is a member of ABAG (Brazilian Association of Agribusiness) and the IAMA (International Agribusiness Management Association) and farmer.

Jose Rezende

Tom is the lead Partner of the Advisory group based in Cape Town. As a qualified chartered accountant, systems auditor and internal auditor, he has been extensively involved in various auditing and consulting engagements in the Western Cape, South Africa and internationally. Tom has 18 years of IT, systems and process auditing, data management and risk management experience on a broad spectrum. Tom is also a seasoned strategic facilitator and has facilitated strategic planning workshops to clients across a range of industries. Tom is also a qualified Cape Wine Master. He regularly lectures and presents wine tasting for the Cape Wine Academies and is involved in judging and tasting panels. Tom Blok Dr. Cluver, a qualified neurosurgeon, has been an Entrepreneur in the fruit and wine industries since 1989. Today he serves as direc- tor on the following boards: De Rust Estate (Pty) Ltd (family farm), Capespan Group Holdings, AFP (Associated Fruit Processors), Agricol Ltd, APL Cartons, Fyffes Plc, WOSA (Wines of South Af- rica), Company of Wine People, PC Wines (Pty) Ltd, University of Stellenbosch, SA Wine Council, Slowine (Pty) Ltd, Green Mountain Eco Route (Pty) Ltd, Pomonos (Pty) Ltd.

Dr Paul Cluver

Suzanne Ackerman-Berman is the Transformation Director at Pick n Pay, as well as a member of the chairman’s executive commit- tee, and Alternate Director on Subsidary Board. Suzanne over- sees and implements transformation within the Pick n Pay group by employing the tenets of the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice, as established by the South African government’s affirmative action program. Outside of Pick n Pay, Suzanne is a Trustee of the IKamva Labantu community develop- ment project , A Guardian of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Trustee of the Global Food Network, Commissioner on the National Poverty Hearings, and other community initiatives. Suzanne won Suzanne Ackerman-Berman the 2007 Inyathelo Philanthropy Award for outstanding contribution to philanthropy in South Africa, together with other members of her family. She has recently been awarded the Melvin Jones Fellow- ship Award by Lions International for contributions to Humanitarian causes.

Kobie has gained 30 years experience in the audit profession of which 24 years were spent as a partner at PwC. He is the na- tional leader of the Agri Industry Group and partner in charge of the Worcester office. He has been involved with the transfer of co-operative societies into public companies and due diligence exercises, and he manages the annual benchmarking project for agri businesses within PwC. He acts as assurance partner for both public and private companies.

Kobie Bekker Stanley is Deputy CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers Southern Africa and serves on the firm’s executive committee. He serves as client relationship partner on several key clients of the firm and leads the Government and Public Sector services industry group. He represents Southern Africa on the PwC Communities Board. He is listed in the Who’s Who of Southern Africa and the Finan- cial Mail’s Little Black Book. He is Chairman of Business Skills for South Africa Foundation, a non profit organisation that has trained over 18000 entrepreneurs from disadvantages communities on business skills. He is the consulting editor for Developing Africa Magazine and a board member of the Nepad Business Founda- Stanley Subramoney tion. He serves on the board of trustees for Business Unity South Africa (BUSA).

Peter emigrated from High School Science and Geography teach- ing into applied climatology at UCT in 2000. His PhD research topic was the distribution, uptake and general usefulness of information emanating from seasonal forecasts for the various user sectors within the South African milieu. He is currently working with maize and wheat farmers in order to better understand the decision- making processes vis-à-vis climate forecasts. He is also working on a WRC funded project assessing the availability and usefulness of weather and climate information for water resource managers. Climate change impacts and adaptation options are areas which he finds very challenging. Prof Peter Johnston

Dr. Karaan is the dean of the faculty of AgriSciences at Stellen- bosch University. He lists agribusiness management, supply chain management, rural development, emerging agriculture, urban agriculture, agricultural marketing and economic empowerment and transformation as his fields of specialisation. He writes actively and has already published seven articles in academic journals, five chapters in books and 20 reports. He has presented 16 pa- pers, of which five were at international congresses. Mohammad is well-known in business circles: He is a director of nine companies, including KaapAgri, Agricol Seeds, Melsetter Group, Bester Feeds and Grain Exchange and Klein Karoo International. He also acts Prof Mohammad Karaan as a consultant for institutions such as KaapAgri, the Development Bank, the Department of Agriculture and the World Bank. Antonie is currently the CEO of Zeder Investments Ltd, a subdivi- sion of the PSG Group. His previous position was as managing director of KLK Landbou Beperk, an agricultural company based in the Northern Cape with 8 subsidiaries where he was responsible for 750 employees and an annual turnover of R1 billion. This com- pany had three main focus areas: retail, livestock and petroleum.

Antonie Jacobs

Frans is a PwC director and has responsibility for advisory assign- ments on agricultural clients in Southern Africa. He has gained valuable experience in the following areas: formulation of BEE analyses for clients from various industries within the agricultural sector; facilitating the implementation of BEE strategies, includ- ing pricing, structuring and negotiating a transaction; investigate funding possibilities; assisting with business plans; and liaising with legal advisors to finalise contractual agreements; assistance with business plans and project oversight for land reform projects; high level involvement on the accelerated land acquisition strategy (PLAS) of the South African Government; high level involvement Frans van Wyk with government to access grant funding, on behalf of previously disadvantaged individuals; involvement in setting up various enter- prise development entities of which the beneficiaries are previously disadvantaged individuals; facilitating strategic planning sessions with private companies and family-owned business; and involve- ment in planning and management of bulk water supply schemes in rural areas. Frans is also a part-time livestock farmer.

Niel is a senior manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services. Since shifting in 2006 from the audit practice within PwC to advisory services, he has been involved in the following: formulation of BEE analyses for clients from various industries within the agricultural sector; conducting large-scale BEE benchmarking exercises in the agricultural sector; facilitating the implementation of BEE strategies, including pricing, structuring and negotiating a transaction, investigate funding possibilities, assisting with business plans, and liaising with legal advisors to finalise contractual agreements; assistance with business plans and strategic planning for land reform projects, working with LRAD and Niel du Plessis CASP funding; and implementation and monitoring of governance principles including King III implementations. Niel is also a director and the secretary of an agricultural empowerment group and he is a part-time farmer in the wine, olive, vegetable and table grape industries. John has been the CEO of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa since 2007 and is ultimately responsible for the strate- gic positioning of this voluntary association of agribusinesses with a combined turnover in excess of R100 billion in the food value chain. Prior to this appointment he acted as the general manager for Grain SA. He’s key affiliations are to Agri SA, BUSA and NE- PAD Business Foundation. John holds a PhD from the University of the Free State. He has been the author of several reports and articles in magazines and scientific journals, as well as spokesper- son at national and international congresses focusing on science and agriculture. Dr John Purchase

Herman is a retired partner of PwC acting as an accounting and auditing technical consultant to the firm. He was an audit engage- ment partner on listed and other corporate clients with specific focus on agricultural cooperatives for 25 years. He also served as the national technical director of one of the predecessor firms of PwC and before joining as a partner, he was a senior lecturer in accounting at the University of Stellenbosch.

Herman Bosman

Chris has been a Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1999. He heads up the Western Cape Risk Advisory Services practice and is the South African firm’s Oil and Gas industry leader. Chris has 19 years experience of providing assurance and advisory services to both local and multinational organisations across a range of industries in the following areas: Internal Audit Services; governance and risk management consulting; information security assessments; process analysis and improvement; Sarbanes- Oxley attestation reviews; project management and project quality assurance; process integration/migration; and systems selection and implementation. Chris Bredenhann Steve has been a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Advisory Division in Cape Town since July 1999 where he is responsible for delivering risk management, internal audit and corporate gover- nance services to clients. He spent just over one year working in the Toronto office in the area of IT internal audit. Steve has exten- sive experience in risk management, internal audit and systems security and controls audits. Steve is also regional leader for risk management and internal audit services. His client base includes large primarily public sector clients and private sector clients in the financial services industry.

Steve Roberts

Petrus is an Associate Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Sustainable Business Solutions practice. He has 14 years’ experience in the field of sustainable development, including sustainability reporting advisory and assurance; environmental and social related performance assessments; environmental management systems implementation; ISO 14001 certification auditing; environmental due diligence auditing in the mining, manufacturing and services sectors; and environmental controls and liabilities assessment as part of the financial audit. He has worked widely across the southern African region, including South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. Other international countries worked in are Brazil Chile and Germany. Petrus Gildenhuys

Leon has over 15 years of professional experience in providing tax advice to domestic and multinational companies in national and international transactions. He also is lead tax partner in PwC for several national and locally based multinational clients and has extensive involvement in corporate reorganisations. He has worked on numerous mergers and acquisition transactions. He is the lead tax partner for financial services clients (short-term and long-term insurance companies) in the Western Cape and provides tax services to a number of listed clients. Leon holds a LLB, an MBA, and a doctorate in Taxation from Stellenbosch University. He is an admitted attorney of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa. Leon Swanepoel