Leadership and Committee Membership

Marcel Golding

Chairperson Non-Executive Director

Marcel has over 25 years of experience working in various industries in South Africa. He served as a member of parliament from 1994 to 1997 and thereafter left to co-found Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited (“HCI”) serving as the Executive Chairman of HCI between 1997 and 2014. Marcel has served on numerous boards, including being the Chief Executive Officer of ETV from 1999 to 2014. His current directorships include Tsogo Sun Holdings Limited, Geomer Investments Proprietary Limited, Rex Trueform Clothing Company Limited, African & Overseas Enterprises Limited and Vunani Limited.

John Macey

Lead Independent Director

John studied at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He completed articles with Deloitte and Touche, after which he was a financial director of a manufacturing company for five years. He was a tenured member of the academic staff in the Department of Accounting, UCT, for nine years. Since 2009, he has been involved in the private equity and investment banking industry, having structured investments in the textiles and hospitality industries.

Andrew Hannington

Independent Non-Executive Director

Andrew who is a chartered accountant (CA(SA)), was previously the CEO of Grant Thornton Johannesburg and prior to that, the CEO and National Chairperson of PKF Inc. Andrew was a key driver in the merger of Grant Thornton Johannesburg and PKF Inc. He was a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, Senior Partners Committee and the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors. During his career he acted as the reporting accountant on a number of JSE listings. Andrew is a member of the Board of Directors of Sandown Capital Limited.  Andrew is also an independent non-executive director of the Extract Group Limited.

Shelley Thomas

Independent Non-Executive Director

Shelley has over 20 years of experience, sitting on boards and committees in both the public and private sectors. She completed her articles through Kessel Feinstein in 1991. Shelley was previously head of Forensic, Compliance, and Governance at Protect-A -Partner International and was Financial Director at Ubambo Investment Holding Ltd. Shelley previously sat on the National Lotteries Board for 11 years, where she provided regulatory oversight of the first and second lottery licences.

Wayne Van Der Vent

Independent Non-Executive Director

Wayne has been in the property industry for nearly 30 years. He has overseen the development of a number of properties, primarily township-based retail. Wayne joined the Public Investment Corporation in 2005 and grew their property portfolio to R80 billion, overseeing significant acquisitions including that of the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.

Wayne has served on various boards including Pareto Limited, SA Corporate Real Estate Limited and CBS Property Portfolio Limited, serving as the Chairman of various investment committees as well as serving as the Chairman of Airports Company of South Africa.

Wayne is currently involved in several ventures including an online trading portal and property rental site, Quoin Online.

Robert Franco

Non-Executive Director

Robert is a founder of Kloof Capital S.A. Proprietary Limited (“Kloof Capital”), a private investment company, established in 2013. Kloof Capital has significant real estate investment experience gained through Kloof Capital’s real estate allocation across various sectors, being residential, commercial, retail and industrial, as well as cross border geographies.

Pienaar Welleman

Chief Executive Officer

Pienaar Welleman, has been acting Chief Financial Officer and an integral member of Texton’s Executive Management since December 2019. Pienaar’s knowledge of the business and close work with funders and stakeholders, strengthens the leadership of Texton during this time. Pienaar was appointed interim Chief Executive Officer effective 1 July 2020.

Pinny Hack

Chief Financial Officer

Mr Pinchas (“Pinny”) Hack has been appointed as an Executive Finance Director and the Chief Financial Officer of Texton.

Pinny, who obtained a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town and is a qualified CA(SA), was involved with the listing and international expansion of Stor-Age Property REIT Limited (“Stor-Age”). He has been with Stor-Age for eight and a half years and currently serves as the company’s Head of Finance and Treasury. Prior to his current role, Pinny was an audit manager at KPMG and was involved in the audit of numerous listed property companies.

James Armstrong

UK Property Director

James joined Texton in April 2018 to asset manage the UK portfolio. James is RICS qualified with a Real Estate degree from Reading University. James has gained diverse cross sector property experience in both UK and Europe over a 25 year career to date. He originally worked at agency firms (Cushman and CBRE) and has since held senior positions at a UK AIM listed company (Dawnay Day Carpathian plc) and a UK FTSE 100 REIT (Hammerson plc).