Gerrit van Heerde

Bcom (Hons) Actuarial Science, Fellow of the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries

Director of various companies in the Sanlam Group.
Joined Sanlam in 1993 and has worked across the company in various roles and served on the boards of a number of Sanlam subsidiaries. Executive Director of Sanlam Emerging Markets and Non-Executive Director of Sanlam Namibia Holdings.

Danie Claassen

CA (SA), BComm (Hons) Tax

Appointed as director in 2004.
Director of Sanlam Namibia Holdings (Pty) Limited, holdings company of Sanlam Namibia Ltd. Chairman: Audit, Actuarial, Investment and Risk Committee. Currently Head: Group Tax Services of the Sanlam Group.

Tega Shimi ya Shimi

BComm (Acc); MDP

Appointed as director in 2007.
Currently Chief Executive Officer: Sanlam Investment Management Namibia. Joined Sanlam Group in 2001. Director of Sanlam Investment Management Namibia, Sanlam Life Namibia, Logical Networks (Pty) Ltd and several Sanlam Namibia owned property companies. Currently serving as Chairman of the Investment Managers Association of Namibia (IMAN).

Tertius Stears

CIMA; BComm (Hons) Management Accounting

Appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Sanlam Namibia Ltd and Sanlam Namibia Holdings (Pty) Limited in 2006. Joined Sanlam Namibia Ltd in 1995. Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Karen Coetzee

LLB (Unisa); H.Dip Tax (Unisa)