Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Fanus Nothnagel – Chief Executive Officer

Fanus Nothnagel

With a background in finance, marketing and management, supported by a B.Comm (Accounts), Post Graduate Diploma in Management Accounting, and ACMA (London), Fanus joined Coca-Cola Sabco as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in April 2007 from his position as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Massmart and Chairman of the Makro board.

Fanus started his career in accounting at Lever Brothers in 1985 where he was promoted to Planning Manager in 1989 before joining South African Breweries (SAB) as Financial Manager. After moving up to Financial Manager: South Central Division at SAB, he was promoted to Financial Director for SC Johnson & Son’s South African operations in 1993. During his 10 years with SC Johnson & Son, he held various high-profile positions such as International Marketing Associate (Racine, Wisconsin, USA), and Managing Director for South Africa, the most recent of which was General Manager for Sub Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2003.

In 2003, Fanus took up a leadership opportunity with the Massmart team as Managing Director of Massdiscounters. Two years later, in May of 2005, he was appointed member of the Massmart board and subsequently became the Chief Operating Officer of Massmart. Fanus joined Coca-Cola Sabco two years later in 2007 in his capacity as Chief Executive Officer.

Jacques Vermeulen – Group Chief Financial Officer

Jacques Vermeulen

A qualified Chartered Accountant (SA) and Chartered Management Accountant (London), Jacques joined Coca-Cola Sabco as Group Financial Accountant in 1995 after completing his articles with Price Waterhouse Coopers and Trevor Wait and Partners.

Since joining the Company, Jacques has held various operational and corporate finance roles. In 1998 he moved to the South African business as Regional Financial Manager and was promoted to Country Financial Manager in Coca-Cola Fortune a year later. He was appointed Group Financial Manager for Coca-Cola Sabco in 2004, a position that he held for three years before moving to the role of Group Chief Financial Officer in 2007. In his current role as Chief Financial Officer, Jacques presides over group information systems, group procurement, treasury, taxation and business developments (mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance), operational finance and group governance.

He was also appointed as executive director to the Coca-Cola Sabco main board in January 2008 and serves as Director on various operating subsidiary boards in the 12 countries Coca-Cola Sabco operates in.

Phil Roux – Chief Operating Officer (Southern Division)

Phil Roux

Phil joined the Coca-Cola Sabco team as the Division Director Southern Africa in January of 2009 from his most recent position as Executive Director of Tiger Brands Limited.

After a year in the Graduate Development Programme at Dairy Maid Ice Cream, Phil kicked off his career in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry as Product Manager for Retail Prepared Fish at Irvin & Johnson in 1989. Over almost 11 years, he assumed various leadership positions in the Company, the most recent of which was General Manager: Trade Marketing.

In February of 2000, Phil joined the Tiger Brands group as Business Category Director for the Grocery Division and in October of that year also fulfilled the Customer Director function for the Division. He quickly established himself in the Company and received various promotions over eight years, including Customer Director for Tiger Food Brands in 2001, Group Category and Customer Director for Premier Foods in 2003, and Director of Tiger Consumer Brands Limited in August of 2003. He held this position for five years and in August of 2008 advanced to Executive Director of Tiger Brands Limited and was appointed to the Main Board.

As Division Director Southern Africa at Coca-Cola Sabco, Phil presides over operations in South Africa and Namibia.

Cathy Albertyn – Human Resources Director

Cathy Albertyn

Cathy started her career at Coca-Cola Sabco in 1992 as Head Office Personnel Manager with a BA Industrial Psychology and Sociology degree as well as a BA Honours Industrial Sociology and Group Dynamics.

Four years later in 1996, she moved to the role of Region HR Manager for Coca-Cola Fortune’s Southern Region and in 2003 took up the position as Group HR Services Manager.

In October of 2006 she was appointed as Group Manager: Human Resources, and subsequently moved to the role of Human Resources Director in July 2007, a role which she currently occupies. In her role as Human Resources Director, Cathy presides over Human Resources practices and strategies across the Group.

Cathy was appointed to the Board of Coca-Cola Fortune in January 2008.

Daryl Wilson – Group Supply Chain Director

Daryl Wilson

Prior to joining Coca-Cola SABCO Daryl worked in the manufacturing sector of various dairy and related product companies and during this time completed various technical training qualifications which culminated more recently in the completion of his MBA.

Since joining the company in 1992 Daryl has held various technical positions starting as the production manager in our George factory and thereafter moved to Port Elizabeth as Operations Manager. In 1999 he was promoted to Country Demand Fulfillment Manager and held this position for just over 4 years. Daryl then moved to Tanzania for 10 months as Deputy General Manager and then in 2006 was promoted and moved to Kenya as Managing Director and remained there for three and a half years. During his time in Kenya he sat on the Nairobi Bottlers board as well as a number of other boards of subsidiary and related companies.

In July 2009 he moved back to PE to head Supply Chain as Group Supply Chain Director. In his current role Daryl looks after manufacturing, asset care, quality, distribution, warehousing, logistics and fleet and cooler maintenance.

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