Geoff Jennett qualified as a Chartered Accountant and had over 20 years of experience in the financial markets before joining the property industry full-time. His career spans a progression of senior and leadership roles with performance-driven companies. Geoff joined Emira in November 2014 becoming Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director in September 2015.

Leon was appointed as financial director and to the board in October 2014 and elected as chief operating officer in February 2021. He is responsible for all aspects of the asset and property management of the business, which includes the general administration of the property portfolio.

Leon Kok is a Chartered Accountant (SA) with an excellent blend of operational experience, sound business acumen and technical accounting knowledge. He joined Redefine in 2014 after a 13-year career at Peermont Global Limited. Prior to this, Leon completed his articles. He remained with KPMG until 2000, after which he moved to Brait SA as Group Financial Manager and then to Emperors Palace as Chief Financial Officer until 2006.

Andrew Wooler is the Chief Executive Officer of Burnstone Group.

Talana Smith is the Investor Relations at Safari Investments.She began her career as the Finance Director and then Mergers and Acquisitions Director of Atterbury. She then joined Attacq as the Company Secretary and Merger and Acquisitions Manager. In 2017, she joined Safari Investments as an Asset Manager, and in 2021 she was appointed as the Transformation, HR and IR Manager.Talana joined the board of Telemasters Limited, a listed company on ALTEX in November 2021. She is an independent director and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. Talana is also the chairperson of the Eleos Charity Organisation.

Gareth is currently the Finance Executive at Liberty Two Degrees, where he is responsible for the finance function, treasury and investor relations. He has been with Liberty Two Degrees since it listed in December 2016 and was part of the team that worked on the initial listing.

He is a CA(SA) and completed his articles at Deloitte, during which time he was appointed as a Partner in the Financial Institutions Services Team. Since departing Deloitte in 2008, he has gained broad experience in the financial services sector and has completed the MBA at Gordon Institute of Business Science. In addition, he attended the SAPOA PDP course in 2019 and currently serves as a member of the SAPOA Audit and Risk Committee.

Gerald Völkel is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience. Prior to being appointed Financial Director and Executive Director of Growthpoint Properties in 2013, he spent 12 years at JD Group Limited where he worked as Group Financial Director and later as Chief Financial Officer.

Gerald began his career in the auditing industry, where he was an Audit Partner of Ernst & Young for four years.

Desirée Nafte joined Hyprop in 2011, and before that, she was a practising attorney.

Nafte entered the commercial property industry in 2001 as a Legal Advisor, specialising in property law as well as landlord and tenant law.

Estienne de Klerk is a qualified Chartered Accountant with 25 years’ experience in the listed property sector. During the 25 years, he has been involved in various corporate action such as take-overs, mergers and acquisitions, transformation deals and capital raises. De Klerk started his career at Eskom Durban Distribution in a marketing role. In 2002, he joined the Investec Property Group’s property fund management business where he was appointed Fund Manager and Executive Director of Metboard. Later on, he became Executive Director and Group Managing Director of Growthpoint before being appointed Chief Executive Officer (SA). Estienne is Chairman of the SA REIT Association and a longstanding member where he served as Chairman of the Taxation and Regulatory Committee since SAREIT’s inception. He is a former President of the South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) and represented the industry in the Property Sector Charter negotiations.

Tracy Wolf is the Chief Legal Officer for Redefine Properties.

Itumeleng Mothibeli is the Managing Director: Southern Africa of the Vukile Property Fund.

Jacques Marais is a Senior Associate at Fasken and works in the Real Estate team in Johannesburg, advising clients on commercial property transactions, renewable energy project developments (infrastructure and development) and all related real estate law matters.

He has a proven track record of being a part of legal teams advising some of the largest commercial and residential property developers and REITs in South Africa over the last few years.

Jacques’ work in the field of law consists of all aspects of real estate work, including conveyancing, property finance, commercial property developments, renewable energy project developments (infrastructure and development), sectional title schemes, retirement villages, mergers and acquisitions.

Pierre Le Roux is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of expertise in the financial services sector, with Commercial Property Finance and Treasury specialisation. He joined Attacq in 2018 as the Funding Officer, with overall responsibility for Attacq’s debt funding and interest rate risk management.

Before joining Attacq, Pierre spent seven years with First National Bank as a Dealmaker in New Business Acquisitions and Commercial Property Finance in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to originating new commercial property finance business, he assisted the FNB African subsidiaries in designing solutions for clients, obtaining approval from the relevant credit committees, and drafting and implementing their commercial property finance risk management policies.

Debbie Theron has a Law Degree from the University of Johannesburg. Debbie joined Attacq in 2014 and has extensive experience in all aspects of property including deal making, asset, investment, and property management. Her career includes time spent at Investec and Growthpoint, gaining invaluable experience in the development and management of several mixed use, retail and commercial precincts including successful deal making at all levels.

Johan Coetzee is Head of the Real Estate Team and a leading Commercial Attorney in Fasken’s Johannesburg office, with recognised expertise in competition law. He also specialises in commercial property transactions and all related real estate law matters.

Johan advises the REIT sector, and his experience includes advising some of the largest commercial property developments and mergers in the REIT sector in South Africa over the last few years.

With more than 30 years of extensive experience as a commercial attorney in the real estate sector, he acts for numerous clients in South Africa. His work in this area consists of all aspects of real estate work, including conveyancing and notarial work, commercial property developments, sectional title schemes, registration of leases, servitudes and mortgage and notarial bonds for lenders in renewable energy projects, property legal, due diligence investigations and clients in the mining and manufacturing industries.

Within competition law, Johan works with clients from a broad range of sectors. He prepares merger notifications to the South African competition authorities, including in the steel, manufacturing, property management services and REIT sectors; provides compliance advice and training to clients; and provides opinions on competition law considerations in the consumer goods, agricultural services and aviation sectors.

Janke Strydom is a Corporate and Commercial Real Estate Partner at Fasken with eight years post qualification experience.Her practice comprises commercial real estate agreements and conveyancing transactions, including bond registrations, transfers, subdivisions, consolidations, township establishment and the opening of sectional title schemes for a range of clients, including REITs, financial institutions and property developers.

Janke’s experience includes advising on complex commercial real estate transactions and corporate and commercial advice concerning sectional title developments, large intra-group restructures, the sale of commercial letting enterprises and real security transactions. These include, amongst other things, the registration of mortgage bonds, notarial bonds, ship and aircraft mortgages and the cancellation and cession of these bonds.

She has broad experience in commercial real estate transactions and corporate law, including drafting sale agreements, co-ownership agreements, shareholder agreements, bespoke MOIs and commercial lease agreements.

Conor McFadden advises both domestic and international clients on direct and indirect taxation matters relating to corporate and business law, including the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, securities, corporate restructurings, cross border transactions, transfer pricing, thin capitalisation, employee share option schemes and State royalties on mineral resource transfers.He is regularly involved in making representations to the National Treasury on draft revenue legislation and applying for Advance Tax Rulings on behalf of clients from the Advance Tax Ruling Unit.Conor also has extensive experience in tax litigation and alternative dispute resolution and deals with the South African Revenue Service on a regular basis. He represents clients with regard to the South African Exchange Control Regulations and assists clients in obtaining exchange control approval from the Financial Surveillance Department on both inward and outward investments.

Conor has also been involved in setting up a number of public benefit organisations (charities) and obtaining tax exempt status for such organizations from the Tax Exemption Unit.

Conor currently serves as Chairperson of the Tax Board in South Africa, Gauteng division, a five year appointment.

Werner De Waal is a Partner at Fasken in the Corporate & Commercial, and Real Estate practice areas.

He advises on M&A transactions, general corporate law, infrastructure projects, joint ventures, partnerships, private equity, corporate restructuring, due diligence, commercial law and real estate transactions. In addition, he acts for sponsors, funders and investors in the energy and infrastructure space.

Ian Vorster completed articles at PKF Johannesburg Inc and qualified as a chartered accountant in 2006. In 2007 he joined the PKF Corporate Division, where he was appointed a partner in 2009. Following the PKF and Grant Thornton Johannesburg merger in 2015 Ian was appointed the Head of the Grant Thornton Corporate Finance Division.

Vorster has extensive experience in due diligence investigations, valuations, fairness opinions – in terms of the Companies Act and the JSE – and Reporting Accountants’ work in respect of companies listed on the JSE.

Brenda started her career as a music teacher (BMUS HED, UP) and taught at Waterkloof Primary School, Pretoria. In 2004 she decided to change her career and joined Colenbrander Inc, Pietermaritzburg as an article clerk. Brenda has been the Financial Manager for PrivateProperty.co.za, Atterbury Property Holdings and Attacq Limited, before being appointed in the role of Head of Investor Relations in 2017. Brenda is a qualified CA (SA) and holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, UCT.

Francois Du Toit is a qualified Actuary and top-rated Investment Analyst across the SA insurance, general financial and property sectors.

He worked in pricing, risk management and managerial roles in life insurance companies. He was the Group Risk Manager for Reinsurance Group of America before joining J.P. Morgan as a Research Analyst in 2008.

Jenna Sprenger joined the Investec Property Fund in 2014 and subsequently formed part of the Fund’s executive management team and later the Board of Directors as CFO. In December 2020 she made a decision to change roles to focus on and manage the Fund’s balance sheet and treasury function across South Africa and Europe. She is also responsible for the roll out of ESG strategy and direction. She has played an integral role in the growth of the business to an asset base of R25bn across multiple geographies including South Africa, Australia, the UK and most significantly the investment into the €1bn Pan-European Logistics platform. Prior to joining the Fund, Jenna was the Financial Manager at Annuity Properties Limited, which she joined shortly after it listed until its sale to Redefine Properties. Post-graduation, Jenna completed her accounting articles and gained experience at KPMG Johannesburg and KPMG New York.

Darren Wilder is currently the CEO at Fairvest Property Holdings Limited and has over 30 years’ experience in all aspects of the property industry. His various portfolios include Asset Management, Property Management, Leasing, Property Development and Management. He worked for Seeff Properties in various positions from 1991 until 1997. In 1997 he was appointed to the board of the then JSE-listed company, Capital Alliance Properties, and was a participant in its management buy-out. Wilder was part of the team that listed Spearhead Property group on the JSE and was appointed COO in 1999. Darren’s work experience also includes National Leasing Director for Madison Properties, Business Development Director of the V&A Waterfront and a Consultant to the Chief Executive Officer of the V&A Waterfront.

Yusuf Mowlana holds a Bachelor of Business Science and is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst. He is currently responsible for all property funds at Prudential Investment Managers. Additionally, Yusuf co-manages the Prudential Equity Fund and the institutional general equity funds for South African and Namibian clients.

Mowlana spent the first five and half years of his investment career at Allan Gray, covering companies across various sectors, before joining Prudential in October 2018. Prior to that, he worked at Deloitte, where he completed his articles.

Pranita Daya is a qualified chartered accountant and obtained her BCom Accounting degree from the University of Witwatersrand and her BCom Honours at the University of Johannesburg.
Pranita completed her 3 years of articles at KPMG in the consumer markets and retail sector, where her biggest clients were the Business Connexion Group, And Beyond Holdings and Yum Restaurants, amongst others. She also holds a JSE Registered Trader certification with the South African Institute of Financial Markets and is currently working towards obtaining her CFA designation having completed CFA Level 1 thus far.

Jackie van Niekerk Jackie has over 14 years’ experience in the property industry and prior to joining Attacq she was the Chief Executive Officer of Pivotal.

At the end of 2016, she successfully concluded the merger between Pivotal and Redefine Properties. Jackie joined Pivotal Property Fund in 2009 and became the youngest and only woman Chief Executive Officer in the property sector at the time, growing the fund to a R12 billion listed development fund.

She established Pivotal’s offshore strategy by successfully concluding the merger of Mara and Delta Africa to create the MaraDelta Africa fund and acquired an equity stake in Echo Property Polska based in Poland.

Van Niekerk joined Attacq in 2017 as Chief Operating Officer Attacq and was appointed to the Attacq board in June 2018

Preevan Moodley is an accomplished professional executive with extensive experience. He began his career in 2000 and gained experience within the financial services, motor, hospitality, agriculture and foods – and related sectors. These has allowed him to develop the skills to utilise a very focused performance driven and people-based approach when dealing with operations within the South African and Rest-of-Africa region.

Nazeem Ebrahim has a B.Soc.Sci. and a B. Proc and in 1996 was admitted as an Attorney to the High Court of South Africa. He has been involved with the Board of Oasis Group Holdings in an advisory capacity since its inception in 1997.

Nazeem’s professional experience includes over twenty years of business and professional legal practice. He is an official member of the Industry Supervision Standing Committee of the Association of Collective Investments of South Africa. He has served on the Board of the Institute of Retirement Funds, the Association of Collective Investment Schemes, and the Investment Managers Association of South Africa. Ebrahim completed formal qualifications from the Graduate School of Business Administration of the University of Witwatersrand which qualifies him to serve as a Director on the ALT X Board of the JSE.

Howard is a real estate transactor at Fortress REIT Limited, Lighthouse Capital and Resilient REIT Limited. He has extensive property sector knowledge where he has been involved in the sourcing, securing and executing of 340 million euros worth of physical real estate transactions across Europe. Penny has experience in the deal structuring, listing, capital raising and corporate finance initiatives.

Howard is a top-rated analyst and equity sales at RMB Morgan Stanley and Macquarie.

Amelia Beattie holds a BCom and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS). She has 21 years’ experience in the property sector.

Amelia has been the Chief Executive at Liberty Two Degrees since the company’s listing in December 2016. Prior, she worked at Old Mutual Property in various positions, including Chief Operations Officer and later in 2012, she joined STANLIB to establish the institution’s Direct Property Investment business.

Beattie was the President of the South African Association (SAPOA) from 2014 to 2015, former Chair of Women’s Property Network (WPN) and served as a trustee for the education trusts of WPN and SAPOA until 2018.

Henry Kuhn is a qualified chartered accountant who after being involved in a number of property company audits during his articles pursued his passion for property in joining the Atterbury Property Group. Since then, he joined the Attacq Limited group assisting the company with the listing in 2013 as well as conversion to a REIT in 2018. He is currently performing the role of Group Financial Manager for the Attacq Group.

Morné is a qualified Industrial Engineer spent the first ten years of his career in property finance, deal structuring and corporate finance at Rand Merchant Bank.

In 2008 he joined Atterbury and later became Chief Operating Officer of Attacq in 2009. Morné was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Attacq in 2011 and served in this position until December 2017. Before joining Hyprop in 2019, Wilken was Chief Executive Officer at MAS Real Estate.

Andrea Taverna-Turisan has a BSc Honours in Mathematics and Management. In 2006 he established his own property development company and built up a substantial portfolio of modern logistics assets for his own account over the eight years. These assets became an important component of the Equites portfolio on listing.

Taverna-Turisan has extensive development expertise of which some was gained while he worked in the UK.

Rob Hawton joined Vukile in May 2015 and is currently the Financial Director of Southern Africa. Prior to joining Vukile, Rob spent eight years as the Head of Finance and Support for the Real Estate Investment Division within the Corporate and Investment Bank of the Standard Bank Group. Prior to that, Rob held various finance positions within Investec Bank, Barclays Africa, Tourvest Retail Travel and Credit Suisse (London).

Rob holds a BCom Honours in Accounting and a Master’s degree in Financial Management. Hawton is a Chartered Accountant and completed his articles with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Raj Nana completed his bachelor’s degree in Accounting at the University of Witwatersrand and served his articles with the FirstRand group.

During his career in investment banking, Raj was employed at RMB and Barclays Africa Group Limited where he worked in the sectors of property finance, corporate debt and acquisition and leveraged finance.

Prior to joining Attacq in April 2014, Raj was a leveraged finance transactor. Raj joined Attacq’s Executive Committee on the 1st April 2016 and was appointed as the Attacq Group, Chief Financial Officer, in June 2018.

Monica Muller completed her articles at Deloitte where after she qualified as a chartered accountant. While working at Deloitte, she was then appointed Manager in the audit division in 2010 and was later promoted to Senior Manager in 2012.

She joined Resilient in October 2013 as a Financial Manager and was appointed as the CFO in March 2020.

Pinny Hack obtained a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town and is a qualified chartered accountant. He was involved with the listing and international expansion of Stor-Age Property REIT where he served as the company’s Head of Finance and Treasury for eight years.

Prior to his current role, Pinny was an audit manager at KPMG and was involved in the audit of numerous listed property companies.