Board of Directors

I am a senior management executive with strong domestic and international P&L experience. I have a proven track record of driving market share, revenue, and profit growth. I like to focus my efforts on ensuring that the companies that I lead have a clear and executable strategy that is understood by customers and staff alike. Over the years I have worked in a variety of industries and technology companies and have really honed my leadership expertise in the technology, financial services, offshore development, and consulting services sectors. In my role as a Portfolio Leader and President, Financial Services at Volaris I focus on acquiring, strengthening and growing vertical market technology companies to enable them to be clear leaders within their focused industry

Chairperson
Social and Ethics Committee

 

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Member
Audit Committee
Social and Ethics Committee

 

Thando Mhlambiso is Deputy Chairman and Lead Independent Director of AdaptIT. He also serves as a member of the company’s Audit and Risk and of its Social and Ethics Committees.

Thando’s passion is to promote the common good through the economic development of Africa. He is particularly interested in the transformative potential of capital and of technology - both to drive Africa’s development and integration with the rest of the world, and to empower her citizens.

For 30 years, Thando has served as Chairman, Chief Executive and/or partner of investment firms across Africa, and as a corporate lawyer and investment banker in the United States. He has also held senior, non-executive governance roles with public sector, philanthropic and academic institutions.

Most recently, and over a 14-year tenure, Thando served as an Executive and Non-executive director of Allan Gray - Africa’s largest privately-owned investment firm – and he led the firm’s business across five African countries outside South Africa. His career began in 1992 in New York as a corporate finance attorney with the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Thando earned a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University School of Law, an MBA in finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and an AB in biology from Brown University.

Member
Audit Committee

 

Craig is a certified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), having obtained a BCom degree majoring in accounting from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a postgraduate Business Administration Certificate (PDM) from Wits Business School. Craig has been in asset management for 22 years, with five years at Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank (SCMB) Asset Management as a small cap Unit Trust Manager. He is currently a senior professional at Old Mutual Investment Group. Craig was appointed Independent Non-executive Chairman at Adapt IT Holdings Limited in October 2012.

 

Value to the board 
His extensive experience in financial markets and strong financial background enables Craig not only to lead the board in an outstanding manner, but also to provide guidance to members on financial information and aspects to consider especially when acquisitions are being considered.

Chairperson
Audit Committee

 

Member
Social and Ethics Committee

 

Zizipho has over 16 years’ experience in external audit, development finance, financial and risk management in fast-paced organisations. She holds a BCom Accounting from the (former) University of Transkei and a Higher Diploma in Accounting from the University of the Witwatersrand. She completed her articles at Ernst & Young (EY) and later joined various companies such as Kagiso Media, the Industrial Development Corporation and Old Mutual, where she was appointed as CEO of Masisizane Fund until 30 April 2020. She joined Ubank as Chief Entrepreneur Officer in September 2020. Zizipho completed a Global Executive Development Programme with the Gordon Institute of Business Science with distinction in 2018.

 

Value to the board
Zizipho’s background spans entrepreneurial beginnings to becoming the CEO of Old Mutual’s Masisizane Fund, allowing her passion for entrepreneurial development to continue. Her experience and solid financial and business background, together with extensive knowledge on governance and her fresh perspective, is extremely valuable to the board.

Tiffany is a Chartered Accountant who qualified with Deloitte and registered in South Africa (1996-2023), and Australia and New Zealand (2010 to present). She was involved with several major business re-engineering and IT outsourcing projects as a consultant to British Airways in the United Kingdom where she entered the ICT sector. Tiffany joined InfoWave Holdings in 2000 in a consulting capacity and was appointed as Financial Director in April 2002 and Chief Executive Officer in December 2003. Tiffany became the Chief Commercial Officer and Director of Adapt IT Holdings Limited after the merger of InfoWave Holdings and Adapt IT (Pty) Ltd in 2007. She led all of the acquisitions undertaken by Adapt IT as a listed company from 2006 until 2021. She is also Managing Director of a number of international operations of the group, and is based in Perth, Australia. Tiffany was appointed as Adapt IT Holdings Proprietary Limited CEO in September 2021.

Nombali was appointed as CFO and Director of Adapt IT Holdings Limited in 2016. She is a Chartered Accountant who completed articles with EY and thereafter joined Alexander Forbes as an accounting specialist. Nombali then joined ABSA Capital, rising from managing a special purpose vehicle for debt capital market backed corporate finance to originating, structuring and executing corporate loans through the loan capital markets. She then moved to strategic roles at Unilever, initially serving as the Risk and Audit Manager for the Africa region, and subsequently as the Finance Business Partner for the Foods Division prior to joining Adapt IT.

Member
Social and Ethics Committee

 

Tony was appointed as the Chief Strategy Officer of Adapt IT (Pty) Ltd in September 2018. Tony is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of work experience. Prior to Adapt IT, Tony was a Partner at KPMG for 20 years. During this time, he led a country practice (Mozambique), built and led the Management Consulting services group in South Africa and was a member of the KPMG Global Management Consulting Leadership team.
Additionally, he represented high growth markets countries in the KPMG Global Management Consulting Capabilities Steerco, having previously led the Europe, Middle East and Africa Strategy and Operations services line. His experience includes strategy, cost optimisation and multidisciplinary project direction in a broad range of business advisory services across multiple industries. Tony was appointed as Director of Adapt IT Holdings Limited in May 2021. In September 2021 Tony’s role changed from Chief Strategy Officer to Chief Operating Officer.