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BLUE LABEL INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT 2016
Board Committee participation
Member of Executive Committee
Member of Investment Committee
Member of Social, Ethics and Transformation Committee
Member of Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee
Member of Remuneration and Nomination Committee
Board of Directors
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GARY HARLOW
Independent
Non-Executive Director
BBusSci (Hons) (UCT), FCMA, CGMA,
CA(SA)
Born: 1957
Gary graduated from the University of Cape
Town in 1979, qualifying as a Chartered
Accountant (SA) in 1982, an associate of the
Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants (UK) in 1983 and as a Fellow
Chartered Management Accountant (UK) in
1996. His career was forged in merchant
and investment banking. In the early 1990s
he became an adviser to the African
National Congress in developing black
economic empowerment strategies and in
1992 was instrumental in the creation of
Thebe Investment Corporation, South
Africa’s first broad-based black-owned
company. Gary served as Joint Chief
Executive Officer of Msele Corporate and
Merchant Bank, South Africa’s first
black-controlled merchant bank.
In 1996, Gary was appointed Group Chief
Executive Officer of Unihold Limited, where
he remains Executive Chairman. He led its
transition from an engineering
conglomerate to an international IT and
telecommunications group, followed by a
delisting through a management buyout in
2002. Gary continues to serve on numerous
private and public company boards and is
Chairman of Newpark Reit Limited.
Gary is also chairman and/or director of
various Group subsidiaries.
DEAN SUNTUP
Financial Director
BCom (Wits), Hons (Unisa), CA(SA)
Born: 1977
Dean completed his articles at PwC where
he continued working after qualifying as a
chartered accountant, assisting in the audits
of various large corporations and multi-
national companies. In 2003 he joined BSC
Technologies, a business established by the
Levy brothers, and later became its Financial
Director. In 2005 he transferred to The
Prepaid Company in the role of Financial
Director. Dean is a member of SAICA.
Dean joined the Board on his appointment
as Financial Director in 2013 and is a director
of various other Group companies.