MICHAEL JORDAAN, TOP BUSINESS PERSONALITY, TO CHAIR WOSA
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Michael Jordaan (46), venture capitalist and former CEO of First National Bank (FNB), has been appointed chairman of Wines of South Africa (WOSA). Hailed as one of South Africa's most visionary and progressive business leaders, the one-time CNBC Africa Business Leader of the Year for Southern Africa, is succeeding Johann Krige.
It was with Jordaan at the helm that FNB was ranked the world's most innovative bank by the BAI-Finacle Global Banking Innovation Awards in Washington in 2012. His entrepreneurial strengths, strong customer focus and imaginative use of technology acted a catalyst for other bankers to update their traditional business models.
A boutique wine producer committed to environmental sustainability, he and his wife, Rose, own a 40 hectare farm called Bartinney, on the Helshoogte Pass outside Stellenbosch. It has been accorded Biodiversity & Wine Initiative (BWI) champion status for the rehabilitation of the land to its indigenous habitat. Bartinney has also been recognised for its contribution to energy efficiency in the Nedbank Green Awards. Apart from the winery, the couple runs a trendy and very popular wine and champagne bar in Stellenbosch.
Jordaan, who is now the head of a private company that invests in disruptive technologies designed to kick-start new markets, is also chairman of Mxit, providing strategic leadership to this mobile messaging company that is now also playing a key role in support of primary health care services to the poor. A non-executive director of the JSE Limited, he holds a doctorate in banking supervision from the University of Stellenbosch. He worked in banking in Germany during the early 1990s before beginning his banking career in South Africa.
Krige, who is CEO and co-owner of Kanonkop Estate and is retiring after five years as WOSA chairman, said: "South African wine exporters can only be enriched by exposure to Michael. Here is someone who is arguably South Africa's leading banker and who could be working at the most senior level in business anywhere in the world but has chosen to remain in this country, contributing his strategic, marketing and media skills with an unusual combination of imaginative flair and rigorous analysis.
"WOSA can benefit substantially from his entrepreneurial passion, while his strategic, disruptive business philosophy could well unlock the true value of South African wines internationally.
"His creative thinking and capacity to see opportunity could not come at a better time as the country seeks to broaden its reach and establish itself in new markets."
DATE MAY 9, 2014
ISSUED BY DKC (DE KOCK COMMUNICATIONS)
ON BEHALF OF WOSA
QUERIES SIOBHAN THOMPSON, WOSA CEO, (021) 8833 820 or 082 828 0348
ANDRÉ MORGENTHAL, COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, WOSA (021) 8833860, 082 658 3883
TESSA DE KOCK/MARLISE POTGIETER, DKC (021) 422 2690, 082 579 2358
VOORSTE SAKELEIER MICHAEL JORDAAN WORD VOORSITTER VAN WOSA
Michael Jordaan (46), ’n waagkapitalis en voormalige uitvoerende hoof van Eerste Nasionale Bank (ENB), is as voorsitter van Wines of South Africa (WOSA) aangestel. Hy is as een van die mees visioenêre en progressiewe sakeleiers in Suid-Afrika geloof en is voorheen as die CNBC-Sakeleier van die Jaar vir Afrika aangewys. Hy volg Johann Krige op.
By BAI-Finacle se Globale Toekennings vir Innoverende bankwese is ENB met Jordaan aan die hoof in 2012 in Washington as die mees vernuwende bank ter wêreld aangewys. Sy ondernemerskap, sterk klem op klante en verbeeldingryke benutting van tegnologie was ’n katalisator wat ander bankiers aangespoor het om hul tradisionele sakemodelle weer te bekyk.
Jordaan produseer boetiekwyne, en is tot omgewingsvolhoudbaarheid verbind. Hy en sy vrou, Rose, besit die plaas Bartinney van 40 ha langs die Helshoogtepas buite Stellenbosch, Dié plaas het kampioenstatus van die Biodoversiteit- & Wyn-inisiatief (BWI) ontvang vir sy welslae met die herstel van inheemse plantegroei op sy grond. Bartinney het in die Nedbank-groentoekennings ook vir sy bydrae tot energiedoeltreffendheid erkenning gekry. Benewens die wynmakery bedryf die egpaar ’n byderwetse en baie gewilde wyn-en-sjampanjekroeg in Stellenbosch.
Jordaan is tans die hoof van ’n private maatskappy wat beleggings in ontwrigtende tegnologie maak, met die doel om nuwe markte van meet af te skep. Hy is ook die voorsitter van Mxit, en bied strategiese leierskap aan dié maatskappy vir selfoonboodskappe wat tans ook ’n baie groot rol speel om primêre gesondheidsorgdienste vir armes te steun. Hy is ’n nie-uitvoerende direkteur van die JSE Beperk, en het ’n doktoraat in bankwese-oorsig aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch behaal. Hy het in die vroeë-negentigerjare in Duitsland in die bankbedryf gewerk en sy loopbaan daarna in Suid-Afrika voortgesit.
Johann Krige, die uitvoerende hoof en mede-eienaar van die Kanonkop-landgoed, tree ná vyf jaar as voorsitter van WOSA uit. Hy sê Suid-Afrikaanse wynuitvoerders kan slegs baat by blootstelling aan Michael Jordaan. “Hy is bes moontlik die voorste bankier in Suid-Afrika, en kan op enige plek ter wêreld op die mees senior vlak in enige onderneming werk, maar hy verkies om in Suid-Afrika te bly en hier met sy strategiese, bemarking- en mediavaardighede asook met sy uitsonderlike kombinasie van verbeeldingryke flair en streng analise, ’n bydrae te maak.
“WOSA kan beslis uit sy passie vir ondernemerskap voordeel trek, en sy strategiese, ontwrigtende sakefilosofie kan bes moontlik die werklike waarde van Suid-Afrika se wyne oral ter wêreld ontsluit.
“Sy skeppende denke en vermoë om geleenthede raak te sien, sal uiters goed te pas kom in ? tyd waarin Suid-Afrika sy reikwydte wil vergroot en homself in nuwe markte wil.”
DATUM 9 MEI 2014
UITGEREIK DEUR DKC (DE KOCK KOMMUNIKASIE)
NAMENS WOSA
NAVRAE SIOBHAN THOMPSON, WOSA SE UITVOERENDE HOOF 021 883 3820 of 082 828 0348
ANDRÉ MORGENTHAL, WOSA SE KOMMUNIKASIE BESTUURDER 021 883 3869 of 082 658 3883
TESSA DE KOCK/MARLISE POTGIETER, DKC 021 422-2690 of 082 579 2358