{"id":57299,"date":"2014-05-12T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=57299"},"modified":"2014-05-12T14:55:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:55:43","slug":"former-fnb-and-vodacom-ceos-join-invenfin-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/57299\/former-fnb-and-vodacom-ceos-join-invenfin-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FNB and Vodacom CEOs join Invenfin board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former FNB and Vodacom CEOs, Michael Jordaan and Pieter Uys, have\u00a0 joined the Invenfin board as non-executive directors.<\/p>\n<p>Invenfin is the venture capital division of listed investment holding company, Remgro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both Michael and Pieter are highly successful businessmen who have made major contributions to our economy.\u00a0 Each is a visionary when it comes to business strategy, innovation, and building world-class companies,&#8221; said Stuart Gast, executive director at Invenfin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17077\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Pieter-Uys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17077\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17077\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Pieter-Uys.jpg\" alt=\"Pieter Uys\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Pieter-Uys.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Pieter-Uys-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pieter Uys<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jordaan is credited with leading a variety of major innovations during his tenure at FNB including engaging with customers on social media and driving the adoption of mobile banking through the distribution of innovative tech products such as tablets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA vibrant entrepreneurial sector is essential for the South African economy and a VC fund like Invenfin is an important player in this ecosystem\u201d, said Jordaan, adding that \u201cthrough our investment in businesses and providing strategic support, hopefully Invenfin can add to the list of homegrown, internationally-recognised success stories\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Africa has many smart entrepreneurs, and has produced some of the world\u2019s greatest innovations. It is a privilege to be part of the Invenfin team, and support companies that will be the next South African success stories\u201d said Uys.<\/p>\n<p>Jordaan was recently appointed chairman of Wines of South Africa (WOSA), and was last year appointed as the chairman on South African mobile social platform, <a title=\"Mxit\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2619-MXit\">Mxit<\/a>\u2018s board.<\/p>\n<p>Jordaan also set up a private investment vehicle, MonteGray Capital, in\u00a0Stellenbosch, investing in disruptive technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Uys joined the board at <a title=\"Seacom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1983-Seacom\">Seacom<\/a> at the end of 2013, as a director. He joined up with <a title=\"Remgro\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2431-Remgro\">Remgro<\/a> in 2013, after his four year stint at the top of Vodacom\u2019s management chain.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Remgro, Michael Jordaan and Pieter Uys<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Remgro in R2.34 billion media buy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/50323\/remgro-in-r2-34-billion-media-buy\/\"><strong>Remgro in R2.34 billion media buy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Pieter Uys joins Seacom board\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/49841\/pieter-uys-joins-seacom-board\/\"><span class=\"item-title\">Pieter Uys joins Seacom board<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Michael Jordaan heads up wine organisation, WOSA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/57161\/michael-jordaan-heads-up-wine-organisation-wosa\/\"><strong>Michael Jordaan heads up wine organisation, WOSA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Michael Jordaan bets on new tech investments\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/52448\/michael-jordaans-tech-investments\/\"><strong>Michael Jordaan bets on new tech investments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Michael Jordaan\u2019s new investment firm \u2013 MonteGray Capital\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/48791\/michael-jordaans-new-investment-firm-montegray-capital\/\"><strong>Michael Jordaan\u2019s new investment firm \u2013 MonteGray Capital<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former FNB and Vodacom CEOs, Michael Jordaan and Pieter Uys, have  joined the Invenfin board as non-executive directors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,26,1639,1573,87,2591,39,27],"class_list":["post-57299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-fnb","tag-headline","tag-michael-jordaan","tag-mxit","tag-pieter-uys","tag-remgro","tag-seacom","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57307,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57299\/revisions\/57307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}