Johann M Pieterse

Johan served his articles with Brink, Roos & Du Toit (now PWC) and became Managing Partner of their Bellville office in 1983. He joined the Pepkor Group in 1985 and served as Financial Director of Pepkor from 1988 to 1990. Johann headed up the turnaround of Van Schaiks from 1993 to 1995, and Teljoy from 1995 to 1997. When Teljoy was sold to Vodacom in January 2001, he was appointed as Managing Director of the newly formed Vodacom Service Provider Company with responsibility to merge Teljoy, Vodac and GSM Cellular into one company. After successful merger, he retired from Vodacom in August 2001. He is currently Chairman of Strategy Partners, a turnaround specialist company.