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Company Directors

The MiX Telematics Group, which includes MiX Telematics Africa, Europe, North America, International, United Arab Emirates and Australia, is governed by a board of directors, each bringing their unique skills contributing to our vision of being the global leader in mobile resource management

Stefan (Joss) Joselowitz
Stefan Joselowitz

Chief Executive Officer

Stefan Joselowitz has been successful in several senior management positions over a career spanning 20 years. Specifically, these include Sales Director and later CEO of Shurlok (Pty) Ltd.

 

Joss and his team built Shurlok into the dominant vehicle security company in South Africa.

He also successfully developed a European sales and distribution channel for Electromactic (Pty) Ltd. In 1995, Joss put together a funding consortium and launched Matrix Vehicle Tracking.


Richard Bruyns
Richard Bruyns

Chairman

Richard Bruyns' directorship experience spans many industries and achievements. During the past 20 years, Richard has led companies of 500 – 12,000 employees with annual sales ranging from R 500 million to R 20 billion in the IT, manufacturing, construction, hospitality and consumer goods industries. His experience includes turning one of Africa’s largest operators and managers of high end bush lodges from large losses to strong profitability.

 

Richard is an SA Chartered Accountant and completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard University in Boston.


Riëtte Botha
Riette Botha

Managing Director – MiX Telematics Africa

Riëtte practiced as an accountant with various companies, before joining Matrix Vehicle Tracking in 1999.

Her career at Matrix Vehicle Tracking has seen her through a variety of positions such as Financial Manager, Financial Director, Chief Operating Officer.

 

She now does an excellent job as Managing Director of MiX Telematics Africa.


Terry Buzer
Terry Buzer

Managing Director - MiX Telematics Europe

Terry Buzer was appointed to the board of Control Instruments Group in 1987.  He joined Control Instruments in 1981, becoming managing director of Control Instrument (Pty) Ltd in 1984.


Terry was involved in all aspect of Control Instruments’ evolution, including its investment in Matrix (now MiX Telematics Africa) and the start up and growth of OmniBridge (now MiX Telematics International); the two core companies on which MiX Telematics was founded.


Terry is currently on secondment to the UK where he is responsible for our UK and European operations.


Charles Tasker
Charles Tasker

Managing Director – MiX Telematics International

In 1986 Charles Tasker founded DataPro which was acquired by Control Instruments in 1996. In 1997 Charles joined CI as managing director of their fleet management business which became CI OmnBridge which was acquired by TeliMatrix in 2007.

 

Charles is the Managing Director of MiX Telematics International - responsible for global sales, R&D and marketing. Charles is based in Stellenbosch, South Africa.


Megan Pydigadu
Megan

Group Financial Director

 

Megan Pydigadu is a CA(SA)  and completed her articles with Deloitte & Touche in 1999. She stayed on for a further two years as an audit manager.  She has experience working for global groups having  worked for both De Beers and Bateman Engineering  in the head office function.


Howard Scott

Howard

Executive Director

Howard has been involved with the MiX Group in various roles since its inception. He served as a non- executive director from 1997 until 2003 and as Financial Director in 2007 until February 2008. Since his resignation as the Financial Director, he has been consulting to the group.

 

Howard has undertaken to relocate from Australia to the USA to fulfil a fulltime role in the area of strategy, mergers and acquisitions. Howard is a registered accountant who trained in computer auditing with Arthur Young & Co, spent time as the group accountant at Investec Bank and was the Financial Director of the Radiospoor group for 12 years. He also served as a non-executive director for a JSE DCM  listed software house


Tony Welton
Tony Welton

Non-executive director

Anthony ("Tony") Welton, a CA(SA), MBL (Unisa) brings a wealth of financial and operational expertise to the Group, having been the Financial Director of large, listed companies.

 

He was Financial Director of both Kohler Limited and Malbak Limited from 1992 to 1999 and 1999 to 2004, respectively. Tony then became a financial consultant for FRM - a business recovery specialist.

He uses his invaluable experience on the MiX Telematics board as Non-executive Director and in chairing MiX Telematics’ Audit and Risk Committee. He will no doubt further strengthen the company’s skilled board.


Robin Frew
Robin Frew

Non-Executive Director

Robin Frew is an investor and non-executive director in various operating businesses including Radiospoor Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd, Hymax SA (Pty) Ltd, Wizzit Payments (Pty) Ltd, Thynk Capital (Pty) Ltd and Thynk Property Fund (Pty) Ltd.

 

Robin’s previous experience includes 15 years with the Radiospoor group, a supplier of cellular and other mobile services, and was the CEO of Radiospoor while it was listed on the JSE between 1997 and 2000.

He has been involved with TeliMatrix since inception.


Afzal Patel
Afzal Patel Non-executive director and Managing Director of Kagiso Ventures Ltd

Afzal Patel is the Managing Director of Kagsio Ventures Limited. Afzal obtained a BCom degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1990 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1994 having served his articles with Deloitte & Touche. Afzal was previously a director of Fusion Capital Corporate Finance, a division of Fusion Capital, a company listed on the JSE Securities Exchange. He was involved in a diverse range of corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions activities, particularly in the field of Black Economic Empowerment. He joined Kagiso Group in 2001, and is a director of a vast number of the investee companies in the Kagiso Ventures portfolio.


Richard Friedman

Non-Executive Director

Richard Friedman joined Control Instruments as a director of a subsidiary company in 1981. He became managing director of Control Instruments (Pty) Ltd in 1985 and managing director of Control Instruments in 1986, listing Control Instruments in 1987.

 


Hubert Brody

Hubert

Non-executive Director

Hubert is Chief Executive and chairman of the executive board of Imperial Holdings, the diversified mobility group with an annual turnover of over R53 billion and assets of R34 billion.


Hubert is a chartered accountant.  He studied at the University of Stellenbosch and qualified as a CA in 1998.  He previously worked in the Property, IT and banking industries, and before being transferred to Imperial Holdings in 2003, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Imperial Bank.


Hubert is married with two young children and lives in Johannesburg.


Fundiswa Roji

Fundi

Non-executive Director

Fundiswa Roji, previously an alternate board member to Afzal Patel has been appointed as a non-executive director of the company.  Fundiswa, a CA (SA), is an Executive Director of Kagiso Ventures Limited. She was also previously the Chairperson of Matrix Vehicle Tracking (Pty) Ltd (now MiX Telematics Africa), a wholly owned subsidiary of MiX Telematics prior to its listing. Fundi qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2000 having served her articles with Ernst & Young. She joined Kagiso Group in 2001, and is a director of several investee companies in the Kagiso Group. She also sits on the board of Focus on Youth, an NGO focusing on youth development.

 

She is a member of the African Women Chartered Accountants (AWCA), an organisation which encourages and supports the advancement of black women in the accountancy profession.