Team | 4AX

Our Board Members

Eugene Booysen
CEO

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Having worked within the industry for 25-years – and fulfilled several executive and leadership roles across Retail, Corporate and Investment banking, as well as a contracted consultant on innovation and change management – Eugene’s experience spans new business creation and revenue generation to infrastructure and risk management. Eugene is passionate about exponential impact of technology and its ability to create financial inclusion and fairer financial eco-systems. He believes that digitisation drives abundant outcomes for all.

The Exponential impact of technology and its ability to create financial inclusion and fairer financial eco-systems.

- Eugene Booysen, CEO

Mpho Thomas
Chief Financial Officer

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Mpho is CA(SA) with over with 4 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry specifically across the Consumer, Digital, International Interconnect and fibre and Financials services segments

Johnson (“JJ”) Njeke
Independent Chairman

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JJ has a history of service on high level boards and brings experienced leadership to 4AX. JJ, a Chartered Accountant (SA) and former PWC partner, served as the Managing Director of Kagiso Trust Investments from 1992 to 2010. JJ co-founded Kagiso Trust Investments in 1994. He previously served as a member of the Katz Commission of Inquiry into Taxation in South Africa, the General Committee of the JSE Securities Exchange, the Audit Commission - Supervisory Body of the Office of Auditor General and the Audit Committee of National Treasury. He also served as chairman of SAICA, MMI Holdings and ArcelorMittal. JJ recently joined the Board of Clicks Group Limited as Non-Executive Director.

Warren Wheatley
Non-Independent

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Warren Wheatley is the Chief Investment Officer of Lebashe Investment Group along with being one of the founding principals. Coupled with this, he is the founder of TSS Capital (Pty Ltd) and its Chief Executive Officer. Warren is a non-executive director of Aluwani Capital Partners and Broll Property Group.

Warren gained a significant amount of experience whilst he worked as an Investment Banker and Wealth Manager at ABSA Capital. Here, he managed a portfolio of ultra-high net worth families and their investment decisions. Prior to this, Warren was at Alexander Forbes and served in various roles within the institutional consulting and actuarial business. Being head of one of the Consulting and Actuarial Branch in Sandton coupled with his previous experience of being Principal Consultant to a number of high profile corporate clients gave Warren further exposure in the investments arena

Tommy Lo
Non-Independent

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Tommy is a Chartered Accountant (England and Wales) and has been the founder of international organisations such as Intercontinental Trust Ltd, and the accountant firm, Baker Tilly Mauritius. As a Type 1 Investment Dealer with over two decades serving as Director of the stock broking firm CMB, Tommy has extensive experience in many aspects of stockbroking, finance, accounting and taxation

Thabo Simon Mahloele
Non-Independent

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Thabo brings his expertise and experience in financial markets to the 4AX board. He has been in the investment banking industry for more than 10 years in various roles within global markets, most recently as a Senior Manager in Fixed Income at Standard Bank. Prior to this, Thabo worked at Standard Chartered and Nedbank CIB. His responsibilities included selling vanilla and structured products to institutional clients. Thabo has in-depth experience in the fixed income markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Thabo is currently an executive at Vestra Advisory, a corporate advisory firm which provides regulatory, strategic and financial advice to its clients. He has a Bachelor of Business Science in Finance degree from UCT and is currently a CFA Level 3 candidate.

Kabelo Moja
Independent

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Kabelo is currently the CEO of Ascension Capital Partners, a black owned private equity firm. Kabelo Moja is a seasoned deal maker, with significant experience in deal origination and execution. Kabelo is a qualified and admitted attorney of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa. His qualifications include an LLB and Postgraduate Diploma in Tax from the University of the Witwatersrand and a LLM from the University of Pretoria. In his prior roles at the PIC, Kabelo was principally involved in the structuring and implementation of commercial and private equity transactions.

He has extensive experience in corporate restructuring, mergers, corporate finance, a host of debt, equity and mezzanine funding and private equity across a diverse range of industries. Recent projects that Kabelo has been involved in include an equity and debt investment into an ICT business, an urban property development and management business and a broadband services provider.

Theo Vorster
Independent

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Theo holds an undergraduate degree in Law and a postgraduate qualification in Investment Management. Theo’s career history includes the co-founding of Galileo Capital, where he currently serves as a CEO and is a major shareholder. Theo also headed up PSG Online Securities, the stockbroker within the PSG Group. He is a well-known market commentator and well regarded for his knowledge of the marke

Thabo Mokgathla
Independent

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Thabo brings his vast experience in financial markets to the leadership of 4AX. As a Chartered Accountant (SA), some career highlights include CEO of Nutritional Holdings Ltd and consulting for regional Auditor-Generals. He currently serves on a number of boards including Impala Platinum Holdings, Rand Merchant Insurance Holdings and previously served on the boards of various companies within the Royal Bafokeng group and South African Coal Mine Holdings

Our Senior Management

Warren Squires
CEO: 4AX DSCo

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Warren brings 25 years of top tier financial institution experience, including senior leadership roles in corporate and investment banking, and global capital markets. Warren has a deep-seated understanding of optimising organisational efficiency through operational and digital innovation. As CEO, Warren aims to focus the DSCo digital platform at delivering attractive rates and transparent liquidity, combined with a safe and simple loan process for his clients

Hannes van der Merwe
Chief Operating Officer (COO)

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Hannes brings over two decades of operational management experience and technical IT expert knowledge to 4AX. He will be directly responsible for implementing many of the Exchange’s expansion strategies and day-to-day operations. As co-founder and current COO of RainFin, Hannes holds near 10-years of operations management experience specific to trading platforms – and believes that digital advancement will continue to play a critical role in creating and enabling safe, well-regulated and effective marketplaces that will have the potential to fundamentally transform the financial services industry, and therein the economy, of any nation

Mohammed Yakoob
Head of Legal, Compliance and
Issuer Regulation Division

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Mohammed has over 10 years extensive corporate finance experience in advising companies in the listed and unlisted environment. He has been involved in numerous corporate finance transactions (including IPOs, capital raises, M&A) across various industry sectors as well as advising companies on the JSE Listings Requirements, the Companies Act, the Takeover Regulations and the King Code on Corporate Governance. He also completed a secondment as Corporate Finance Officer within the JSE’s Issuer Regulation Division. Mohammed joined 4AX in October 2018, prior to which he was at Standard Bank Corporate & Investment Banking.

Vusi Dladla
Chief Risk Officer

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Vusi has spent over 20 years in risk management covering the management and modelling of credit and market risks. His roles have included risk management of fixed income derivatives at Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank, setting up and managing the counterparty credit risk function at Nedbank and being part of a bankwide task team that was responsible for the drafting of regulations pertaining to market risk, private equity risk, and credit derivatives risk.

Estelle de Jager
Head of Registry

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Estelle has a Legal Degree from the University of Stellenbosch and has 7 years of experience in Transfer and Company Secretarial Services specifically for JSE and 4AX Listed Issuers. Her portfolio includes companies such as Netcare Limited, Purple Group Limited, Wesizwe Platinum Limited and Assupol Holdings Limited.

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