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.

Koos Brandt

BA LLB

Appointed as director and chairman in 2004.
Also chairman of Capricorn Investment Holdings Ltd. Chairman of the board of directors of Bank Windhoek Ltd since 1982, and board of directors of Bank Windhoek Holdings Ltd since 1996. Chairman of Sanlam Namibia Holdings (Pty) Limited, holdings company of Sanlam Namibia Ltd.

Matheus Kristof Shikongo

Diploma in Personnel Management & Marketing (In-House Training)

Former Mayor of the City of Windhoek. Deputy Chairman of Welwitschia Nam-mic Insurance Brokers (Pty) Ltd, Sanlam Namibia Holdings (Pty) Ltd and Life Office of Namibia (Namlife). Chairman of Xantium Caterers, NAAHI (Dormant), Energy Liquid, Namibian Marine Resources, Aranos Abattoir and Nutam Off-shore Mining.

Board Member of Capricorn Investment Holdings Ltd, Grinaker- LTA Ltd. Co-opted Board Member of Meatco. Board member of Distillers, Bank Windhoek, Bank Windhoek Holdings. Former Board Membership: CLGF (Commonwealth Local Government Forum), Advisory Council of the then Commercial Bank of Namibia. Nedcor Investment Bank Namibia and Metropolitan Life Namibia and President of NCCI.

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.

Jacob Nghifindaka

Diploma in Advanced Public Administration with Distinction

Appointed as director in 2006.
Currently on the boards of Nam-mic Holding Pty Ltd, Nam-mic Financial Services Holdings (Pty) Ltd, Nam-mic Financial Solutions (Pty) Ltd (Chairman), Nam-mic Payment Solutions (Pty) Ltd, Welwitschia Nammic Insurance Brokers, Sanlam Namibia Limited, Preferred Management Services (Pty) Ltd (Chairman), Effort Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd (Chairman), PrimeHealth Namibia (Pty) Ltd (Chairman), Endombo Investment (Pty) Ltd and Methealth Namibia (Pty) Ltd.

Harald Müseler

CA (Nam/SA); MBA (Stellenbosch), Postgraduate Diploma in Compliance (UJ)

Appointed as non-executive director in 2008 and member of the Audit and Risk Committee.
Independent director and trustee of various Namibian Companies, including a NSX  listed company, and Retirement Funds focusing on corporate governance, risk management and compliance. Director of Sanlam Namibia Trust Management Company, Capricorn Unit Trust Management Company and Capricorn Asset Management (Pty) Ltd and Chairman of its audit committee.

Currently also involved in private business. Former assurance partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Namibia and its predecessor firms from 1985 to 2006 and responsible for risk management at the Namibian firm. In the early stages of his career, before entering the audit profession in 1978, he worked for Sanlam in its actuarial and investment departments at head office for ten years.

Heinie Werth

(Hons B Accountancy, CA (SA), MBA (Stellenbosch), EDP (Manchester)

Director of companies in Sanlam Group
Heinie was appointed Chief Executive officer of Sanlam Developing  Markets in December 2005 after serving as Financial Director of Sanlam Life from April 2002.  Executive director of Sanlam Emerging Markets, non-executive director of Shriram Capital Limited (India), Botswana Insurance Holdings and Sanlam Namibia Holdings.

Former Senior General Manager (IT) of Sanlam Life, Financial Director of Sanlam Employee Benefits and Manager: Corporate Finance of Gencor and Financial Director of Kelgran.

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.

Karen Coetzee

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