Our people

Fred Robertson serves as Executive Chairman of Brimstone Investment Corporation Ltd, a company which he co-founded in 1995. His Non-Executive chairmanships include Lion of Africa Insurance Company Limited, Lion of Africa Life Assurance Company Limited, and Sea Harvest Limited. He also serves as co-deputy chair of Remgro Limited, and as director on the boards of Aon Re Africa, Swiss Re Life and Health Africa, and Stonehage Flemming Financial Services. 

His trusteeships and patronages include: Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of the Western Cape Foundation; Trustee of the Fred J Robertson Foundation and The District Six Museum Foundation; Patron to the South African Academy for Young Leaders. In 2014, he received the CNBC AFRICA All Africa Business Leadership Awards (AABLA) Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Two years later he conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy by the University of the Western Cape. He received the Kaapstad Sakekamer Die Burger Sakeleier 2016 Award. In 2018 he received the Business Personality of the Year Award from the Black Management Forum Western Cape.

Mustaq Brey serves as Chief Executive Officer of Brimstone Investment Corporation Ltd, a company which he co-founded in 1995. A qualified Chartered Accountant by profession, Mustaq currently serves as the chairman of the Oceana Group Ltd, Life Healthcare Ltd and International Frontier Technologies SOC Ltd. He also serves on the boards of AON Re SA (Pty) Ltd, Lion of Africa Insurance Company Ltd, and House of Monatic (Pty) Ltd. He serves on and chairs various board committees including the audit committee of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation. He is a trustee of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation. He has an unwavering passion for uplifting communities and this is the golden thread that connects his business and personal life. He is the founder of the Saabri & Ashrafi Relief Fund.

Geoff is a qualified Chartered Accountant and was a Partner at Deloitte & Touche for 15 years during which time he was responsible for a number of South African listed companies. He was also a member of the Deloitte South Africa Board. Geoff currently serves on the board of Brimstone Legacy Fund and is a non-executive director of Quantum Foods Holdings Limited.

Iqbal Khan (CA) SA, qualified over 25 years ago and spent some time in the professional environment in both small and large accounting firms, culminating in a role as partner in the Cape Town office of Ernst and Young. He has been at Brimstone since 2007 in various roles and is currently Chief Operating Officer. His experience includes a diverse range of industries and he also spent two years in the same role at Old Mutual Investment Group. Iqbal has served on a number of boards notably The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors and Cricket South Africa in an independent non-executive capacity. He also chaired the audit committee of the University of Western Cape. He currently serves as an executive director at Brimstone and a non executive director at a number of the subsidiaries and associates.

Tiloshani completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of the Western Cape in 1995 and 1997, respectively. Subsequent thereto she attended the School for Legal Practice at the University of Cape Town. She joined Brimstone Investment Corporation Limited in 2001. Her dedication and commitment resulted in her becoming Brimstone’s Compliance Officer in 2004 and in 2010 she was appointed as Company Secretary. She is responsible for the legal review of agreements and monitoring of Brimstone’s continued contractual obligations and group-wide governance and compliance. Tiloshani was appointed as an Executive Director of Brimstone in 2018. She also serves as Company Secretary to Lion of Africa Insurance Company Limited and Non-executive director of Sea Harvest Group Limited and Obsidian (Pty) Limited, a medical devices company.

Date appointed to the board: 07 March, 2006

Qualifications: BEcon

Directorships:

Sun International Ltd; Strate Ltd; Savings and Investments Association of South Africa (ASISA); Serves on directorate of Market Abuse; Financial markets Advisory Board; Financial Sector Charter Council and BUSA Council.

Date appointed to the board: 15 September, 1997

Qualifications: BComm (Hons)

Directorships:

Amahlathi Logistics, Khayamnandi Investments, Sharp Move Trading (Pty) Ltd, Southern Ambitions and Onyx Financial Services.

Date appointed to the board: 01 November, 1995

Qualifications: BSc(QS); MAQS; AAArb

Directorships:

Stonefountain Properties (Pty) Ltd; Perthpark Properties (Pty) Ltd; Attfund Ltd; BTKM Inc and Proman Project Management Services (Pty) Ltd.

Date appointed to the board: 01 November, 1995

Directorships:

Foodprop Property Group (Pty) Ltd; Suburban Cigarette Distributors (Pty) Ltd; Investbrands CC; Al Amien Foods CC and is a member of the board of Red Cross Childrens’ Hospital. 

A founder member of the Foodworld Group Limited. He is an executive committee member of the Western Cape Traders’ Association, Director of Al Amien Foods CC and a board member of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital.

Date appointed to the board: 05 November, 2013

Qualifications: NDip (Building Survey), BSc (QS), BCom, PGDA, CA(SA)

Directorships:

The Prescient Foundation, KWV Holdings , Fairvest Property Holdings , Inkari Basadi Investments and Prescient Limited.

Keneilwe started her career as a Quantity Surveyor with Grinaker Building, Dawson & Frazer and CP De Leeuw Quantity Surveyors. After a period of six years in the construction industry, she went back to study to become a Chartered Accountant. On completion of her articles at KPMG working in the financial services and tax divisions, she took up the position of development executive at Spearhead properties.

Thereafter, she joined Coronation Fund Managers as a Fixed Interest credit analyst and a member of the Coronation Credit Committee.

Date appointed to the board: 11 November 2021

Qualifications: BA (Political Science); Master of Public Administration

Logan has extensive professional experience in executive management and leadership accomplishments in public and international affairs. He has strong diplomatic skills and an affinity for building consensus among diverse individuals. Good on strategy and impact evaluation and business execution with more than 20 years of experience driving growth, business sustainability and operational efficiency in public institutions and organisations.

His previous appointments include senior positions at National Treasury of South Africa and South African Revenue Service (SARS). He is currently Executive Secretary of the African Tax Administration Forum.

Date appointed to the board: 2 December 2021

Qualifications: BComm (Accounting); MPhil (cum laude); CFA

Mduduzi is an investment professional with over 20 years of investment and general management experience including senior roles as CIO and CEO at leading investment houses He built his career mostly within start-up companies where he was not just the portfolio manager but also the marketer, and product developer. He started his career as an equities dealer at Gensec. He was the Chief Investment Officer at Argon Asset Management and is currently a partner at Crede Capital Partners. Mduduzi also serves as an independent trustee and chairman of the investment committee of the ISASA Pension Scheme and Provident Fund.