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GLOBAL advisory and fund services firm Maitland has appointed André Pottas head of corporate clients (operations) and Maureen Erasmus a nonexecutive director.
Pottas is a chartered accountant and has 21 years of international experience covering financial services, debt origination, securitisation and project and infrastructure finance.
He joins Maitland from Deloitte, where he had been a partner since 2003, initially in the financial services division and then in corporate finance, where he was corporate finance advisory leader for Africa and infrastructure and capital projects advisory leader for Africa.
Erasmus has had a career of more than 30 years in management consultancy, investment banking and wealth management. She led corporate growth strategies while a partner at AT Kearney and lead strategy adviser at Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. She is based in London, where she is senior partner: financial services at top-tier global management consultancy Bain & Company. She has a BCom from the University of Cape Town. ANDREW Latimer has been appointed head of market for Avios in South Africa, where he will oversee the development of the Avios Travel Rewards Programme both domestically and in Southern Africa.
He has an MBA and a BCom (in which he majored in industrial psychology and business economics).
Before his new role, Latimer was the commercial executive for MassBuild, a division of Massmart and the Walmart Group.
He has previously held positions at First Rand group and South African Breweries. MARIUS Olivier has been appointed head of commercial business at internet service provider XDSL.
Olivier brings nearly 30 years’ experience at Telkom to XDSL. He was involved in a number of areas within Telkom, including finance, technical demand forecasting, commercial business, wholesale business and marketing and sales.
“The move to XDSL has provided me with an exciting opportunity to work with an innovative, dynamic organisation that is just as passionate about information communication technology as I am,” he said.