Board of Directors

Mike has an Honours degree in Commerce, a Master’s degree in Law and is a Chartered Accountant. He has extensive experience serving on a number of Boards of multinationals.  These include AVI Limited, MTN South Africa and ViniMark Holdings.Mike previously served as the CEO and later the Chairman of One Digital Media, which became a major network provider in the South African digital media retail market. Mike was appointed to the Spur Corporation board on 15 November 2018.

Shirley is an acclaimed human resources practitioner who has held senior positions in the corporate and public sectors. She holds a PhD from Harvard University and was formerly the head of human resources at Woolworths Holdings, Standard Bank South Africa, Nedbank Group and the South African Revenue Service. She currently provides consulting and advisory services in human resources, transformation, leadership and education. She is an extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria’s Department of Human Resource Management, and is a past president of the Institute for People Management South Africa. Currently Shirley serves on the boards of Sanlam, MTN South Africa, Shoprite Holdings, Afrocentric and AdvTech.

Cora is a Chartered Accountant with significant board experience. Her current directorships include Sphere Holdings, Tiger Brands and she serves as an Independent Trustee on various retirement funds in the Allan Gray stable. Cora has extensive investment management and private equity experience, having previously served as Chief Executive: Institutional Business of Sanlam Investment Management, Managing Director of Sanlam Investment Management and Chief Executive Officer of Sanlam Private Equity.

Dineo held various audit and finance positions at the Industrial Development Corporation, Eskom Holdings Ltd and SizweNtsaluba VSP. She served as the group financial director of Thebe Investment Corporation (including as a director of several of that company’s subsidiaries, associates and investee companies) for several years and is currently managing executive for financial planning and analysis at Vodacom. Dineo is a member of the group’s audit committee.

Mntungwa has established and managed various companies including Briske Performance Solutions and Motebong Tourism Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd. He has served on the boards of Gray Security Services Ltd and the UCS Group Ltd. He was appointed to the Spur Corporation board in 2010 and appointed as lead independent director on 1 March 2011. He is also a member of the group’s audit, remuneration, nominations and transformation committees and is chairman of the nominations committee.

Pierre joined the group in 1982 as a junior restaurant manager. He held several senior management positions before being appointed as director of Spur Steak Ranches and Spur Holdings in 1992. Pierre was appointed as managing director/chief executive officer in 1996.

Pierre is responsible for the group’s overall strategy and operations. He is also the group’s chief risk officer, the chairman of the risk, transformation, human resources productivity, IT steering and treasury committees and a member of the social, ethics and environmental sustainability committee.

Mark joined Spur Corporation in 1990 as an operations manager and was promoted to regional operations manager in 1995. He was appointed to the board in 1999 and appointed as chief operating officer in 2012. Mark is responsible for developing and implementing the local group strategy.

Phillip qualified as a Chartered Accountant (SA) in 2002 and served as group accountant at Clicks Group before joining Spur Corporation in 2007. Phillip served as the Company’s group finance executive, reporting to the financial director, since 2008, before being appointed as CFO and to the board on 1 April 2018. Phillip is responsible for the finance, administrative, legal and compliance functions of the group, and fulfils a supervisory function for information technology.