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BLUE LABEL INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT 2016
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MARK LEVY
Joint Chief Executive Officer
BCompt (Unisa)
Born: 1971
Mark graduated with a BCompt degree
from Unisa in 1993. After some years as a
commodities trader, he decided to pursue a
goal of becoming an entrepreneur, which
skill and strength he has applied over the
past several years in spearheading Blue
Label’s impressive organic and acquisitive
growth and expansion in international
markets. His business achievements are
frequently recognised. Together with his
brother Brett, Mark received the Absa
Jewish Business Achiever Non-Listed
Company Award (2007). He was nominated
as an Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur SA
finalist for 2007. In 2010 Mark was voted
Top IT Personality of the year by ITWeb and
was a finalist in the Top Young Entrepreneur
category of the African Access National
Business Awards. In 2011 he shared with
Brett the Top Entrepreneur accolade in the
African Access National Business Awards.
Mark joined the Board on its establishment
in 2007 and is a director of various local and
global Group companies.
BRETT LEVY
Joint Chief Executive Officer
Born: 1975
Brett has an impressive entrepreneurial
history having founded and operated many
small businesses in the early 1990s. He has
been involved across a wide range of
industries, including the distribution of
fast-moving consumer goods and insurance
replacements for electronic goods. Brett’s
business achievements have earned him a
number of prestigious nominations,
accolades and awards. These include the
Absa Bank Jewish Entrepreneur of the Year
Award (2003) and the Absa Jewish Business
Achiever Non-Listed Company Award
(2007), which he won jointly with his
brother Mark. Brett was nominated as an
Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur SA
Finalist for 2007. In 2010 he received the
Liberty Life Award for a Remarkable Success
Story in the David Awards and was a finalist
in the Top Young Entrepreneur category of
the African Access National Business
Awards. In 2011 he shared with Mark the
Top Entrepreneur accolade in the African
Access National Business Awards.
Brett joined the Board on its establishment
in 2007 and is a director of various local and
global Group companies.
LAURENCE (LARRY) NESTADT
Independent
Non-Executive Chairman
Born: 1950
Larry has over 40 years’ experience in his
long and successful corporate career, both in
South Africa and internationally. Larry is a
co-founder and former executive director of
Investec Bank Limited. He assisted in the
creation and strategic development of a
number of listed companies such as Capital
Alliance Holdings Limited, Super Group
Limited, Hosken Consolidated Investments
Limited, SIB Holdings Limited and Global
Capital Limited. He is the past chairman on
each of the boards of these companies.
Larry has also served on the board of
directors of Softline Limited, JCI Limited and
Abacus Technologies Holdings Limited. He
was a former director of a number of
non-listed companies, internationally and
locally, viz, Stenham Limited (UK) and
Prefsure Life Limited (Aus). Currently, Larry
holds various directorships and is executive
chairman of Global Capital Proprietary
Limited, and chairman of Melrose Motor
Investments, MoreCorp Group Proprietary
Limited, SellDirect Marketing Proprietary
Limited and National Airways Corporation
Proprietary Limited.
Larry joined the Board on its establishment
in 2007. As a respected senior member of
the South African business community, his
strategic vision, guidance and experience
contribute significantly to the Board and its
deliberations.
Chairman of
Executive Committee
Investment Committee
Social, Ethics and Transformation Committee
Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee
Nomination Committee
Remuneration Committee
Board of Directors