Judges & Speakers
2022 Catgories and Sponsors of the Export & Import Industry are listed below.
Mr Saul Molobi
Saul Molobi is touted as one of the foremost thought leaders
on Africa’s competitive identity and public diplomacy with expertise in global
marketing (tourism, trade and investment promotion); diplomacy; and cultural
industries. His research areas are the impact of a country’s nation brand on
consumer and investor decision making.
Nerisha Jairaj
With
over 30 years of International Trade, procurement, logistics and market access
experience, Nerisha Jairaj, has led various Country Industries strategically
into expanding into the International arena.
Being in Fashion from 15years old the, entrepreneur built her own brand,
manufactured and promoted it, via her small chain of stores in South Africa.
Ogaufi Mampane
Responsible for Political and Trade Affairs. She served as Assistant
Director: Central Africa at the Department of International Relations
and Cooperation, working with Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and
Principe. She also served as Vice-Consul at the South African Consulate
General in Munich, Germany.
She is the former Chairperson of the Mandela
Washington Fellowship’s Southern African Regional Advisory Board (RAB).
Additionally, she was a representative for South Africa, and played an
oversight role for Eswatini within the RAB. She is certified by the
International Trade Center (ITC), Geneva as a Market Analysis Tools
Trainer and is founder of The Mentee and the YayaSisterhood movement.
Exporter of the Year Award
Mr Quintin Levey
Quintin Levey is a
qualified Chartered Accountant and is a senior manager in the external audit
department at KPMG, where he has worked for the last 22 years.
Quintin has vast
experience in managing teams on a variety of national and multinational company
audits across various industries including Automotive, Non-Profit companies, Fresh Produce,
Industrial, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Construction and Higher Education.
Mr Mpumelelo Prince Matontsi
Mr Matonsi brings to the judging panel his solid and grounded experience
in operational, strategic planning, process and procedures development,
employee performance management, budget management, procurement and
fleet/ asset management.
Objective is to be an operations management- or
corporate service- key resource person within a service-oriented
corporate organization, retail sector, NGO or NPO environments
Angela Russell
Angela Russell has been the CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce in
South Africa since June 2019. Before that, she spent the last 24 years
in the Business to Business, FMCG, and Medical
Device industries.
She has worked in multiple markets, including
the Middle East, India, and Africa across various industries. She has
cross-functional experience in marketing, sales, business development,
commercial and general management having worked for the American
Organisations ConvaTec,
Hollister, Kimberly-Clark, 3M, and Abbott.
Angela is on the Board of Directors of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) and the U.S-South
Africa Business Council (U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
Capital Provider of the Year Award
Mr Herman Bezuidenhout
An all-rounder whose main mandate is to empower people, grow ustainable
businesses and make a difference is how best you can describe him. Mr
Bezuidenhout is an Entrepreneur, Mentor, CEO, Forex, Global Trade,
Banking & Finance Executive with over 40 years of international
banking and executive management experience in challenging and diverse
environments.
He is the founder and CEO of BeztForex (Pty) Ltd, a
foreign exchange, treasury and international banking intermediary
company that specialises in assisting importers, exporters and investors
to improve their competitiveness.
Mr Mandisi Runqu
Mandisi Rungqu is a qualified Chartered Accountant registered with South
African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA). He completed his
articles with Deloitte in Johannesburg and worked within the financial
services team at the firm. During his tenure at Deloitte, he led audit
assignments of companies within the financial services sector ranging
from short and long term insurers, private equity firms and pension fund
administrators.
This provided him with valuable experience of managing
and working within teams, managing tight deadlines and strong business
acumen as an audit covers all the business functions and exposes
auditors to different types of companies.
On completion of his articles at Deloitte in January 2010, he joined
Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) at its head office in Sandton
as a dealmaker, where he has gained extensive experience in development
finance focusing on the agro processing industry. As a dealmaker, he
gained exposure in conducting and leading due diligence teams
interacting directly with IDC Executive Management, deal structuring and
continued client relationship management post approval. The size of
transactions that he worked on while at the abovementioned unit range
between R1 million to R250 million.
Fana Marivate
Fana holds a BCompt (Hons) degree and Diploma in Computer Auditing and
is a registered Chartered Accountant (SA). His career spans more than 25
years with diverse work experience and encompassed development finance,
fund management, tax consulting, consulting on business incentives,
internal auditing and computer auditing.
He is also the Financial Director at Mitochondria Energy
Systems, which afforded him the opportunity to track and participate in
the most significant developments in the energy industry.
Fana has worked in fund management at the IDC where he managed
third-party donor funds administered by the IDC, as well as on-balance
sheet, ring-fenced, concessionary IDC funds. He also worked as an
Internal Audit Manager at Deloitte – later as Business Development
Manager in the Indirect Tax Division of Deloitte, specialising in
international trade, customs and excise duties, and business incentives;
as a Director at Xhikhovha Advisory, a professional business
consultancy specialising in various aspects of international trade; and
Principal at The Access & Lobby Corp., a professional business
consultancy which specialised in enabling industry to access government
incentives programmers.
In the area of government incentives, in 2002 he secured the first
approval for a tax incentive under the Strategic Industrial Projects
(SIP) programme of the DTIC. This created a R97m additional tax
deduction.
In 2003, he secured the first private-sector approval for a Critical
Infrastructure Programme (CIP) grant for the country’s largest mining
concern – worth R30m.
Fana sits on the Advisory Board of Growth Diagnostics, in collaboration
with the NWU Business School.
Trade Promotions Service Provider of the Year Award
Mr Martin Cameroon
Martin is an independent consultant & quantitative economist
specialising in the field of Quantitative Executive Decision Support
modelling, Economic Impact Analysis & Engineering Management
Decision Support. He has extensive experience in this field – related
specifically to International Trade and Energy Economics & modelling
thereof. He authored various papers on the topic of power (electrical)
network reliability & international trade. He has been conducting
economic impact assessments & other related South African
macro-economic, sectoral & provincial & industrial impact
studies & policy analysis since 1994.
Rose Blachet
Rose’s involvement in the international trade field spans a 38-year
period. An experienced educationalist, she assumed responsibility in the
early 1980s for the then fledgling education and training function at
SAFTO (South African Foreign Trade Organisation) and within a short
period had significantly expanded the range of programmes on offer.
In the mid-1980s, Rose was instrumental in establishing the Dept of
Trade & Industry-funded South African Institute of Export, launching
a multi-tier distance education programme in export management and
taking the SA Institute of Export into the international arena by way of
active participation at international trade-related conferences,
securing international recognition for the Institute’s professional
export qualifications, and engaging in joint research projects with
other specialist training institutes in other countries.
Ms. Catherine Grant Makokera
Catherine is an experienced trade negotiator and trade
policy expert having worked in the public, private and academic sectors at
multilateral and regional levels. She is a Director of Tutwa Consulting Group.
She
was a diplomat for New Zealand for 10 years, posted in New York and Geneva
where she participated in United Nations (human rights and development), World
Trade Organisation and International Labour Organisation negotiations.
2022 SPEAKERS
keynote speaker
Hon. Ebrahim Patel
Minister, Trade Industry and Competition (TBD)
message of support
Honourable Oscar Mabuyane
Premier of the EC
welcome message
Honourable Mlungisi Mvoko
MEC - Department of Economic Development, Environmental Affairs & Tourism
vote of thanks
Counsellor Eugene Johnson
Executive Mayor
Nelson Mandela Bay Metro
Acknowledgement of
Dignitaries
Mr. Ayanda Wakaba
Chief Executive Officer, Eastern Cape Develpment Corporation
Host
Mr Vuyani Jarana
Avisory Board, Growth Diagnostics, in collaboration with the North-West University Business School.
