Trading Places
CLIFFE Dekker Hofmeyr is to get a new director in its finance and banking practice: Stephen Boikanyo.
The new appointee has a broad range of experience in banking and finance, including general banking advice to international and local clients in relation to general acquisition finance and asset-based finance transactions.
His other areas of expertise include aviation finance and general commercial aviation transactions.
Boikanyo began his career as a candidate attorney in 2001 at Deneys Reitz (renamed Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa), Stephen Boikanyo where he was appointed as a director in 2007. He spent a year on secondment to London — from July 2006 — where he was employed in the corporate and capital markets department of Clifford Chance. MICHAEL Ferendinos is to head up the enterprise risk business unit at Aon South Africa, which provides comprehensive business, household and motor insurance broking and employee benefits products.
Ferendinos joins the team from the Institute of Risk Management South Africa — the only professional body for risk managers in Southern Africa — where he served as the chief risk adviser for the industry and as the chairman of the risk intelligence committee.
He has experience in enterprise risk management which, Aon Michael Ferendinos said, would enhance its capabilities in the areas of enterprise risk consulting, risk intelligence and an enterprise risk management training academy. BONGUMUSA Makhathini is to become the head of legal and external affairs for British American Tobacco Southern African Area, which includes all the company’s operations in Angola, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Makhathini joins BAT from South African Breweries, where he was executive director of corporate affairs and transformation.
He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and has a general management programme qualification. Makhathini also has a master’s degree in commerce in business management and economics from the University of Bongumusa Makhathini Johannesburg, an honours degree in geography and an education degree from the University of Zululand.
CEO Soraya Benchikh said: “We are pleased to welcome him to BAT.” USB Executive Development, the private management and executive education company of Stellenbosch University, has appointed Dr Tienie Ehlers as chief learning officer.
He will be responsible for maintaining and growing the integrated function of academic learning, design and business development at USB-ED, as well as the strategic delivery of its executive leadership and management programmes.
After 11 years at Unisa, where he was a professor and head of strategic management, Ehlers moved to SABMiller in 2004. Tienie Ehlers
He was appointed to the SAB human resources executive team as organisational development projects manager in 2009, becoming human resources development manager for the brewer in 2010.