Angus joined AVI as an Executive Director in 1997 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of National Brands Limited in 1998 and Group Chief Executive Officer of AVI Limited in 1999. He is currently Chairman of AVI Limited and Aveng Limited and a director of Liberty Holdings Limited.

Adriaan started his career as a financial analyst with Xerox Corporation, after which he spent ten years with Richardson Vicks Proctor and Gamble in Belgium, South Africa, Sweden and Austria. He thereafter spent 17 years with the Sara Lee Corporation, the last five years of which he was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management of Sara Lee International. Adriaan was appointed to the AVI board in November 2007.

Gavin completed his articles with KPMG in 1987. He went on to hold the position of Technical Partner at the firm before joining Coronation Holdings Ltd in 2001 as Chief Operating Officer. Coronation Holdings, and its successor company Coronation Investments and Trading, of which he is an executive director, operate in the financial markets. Gavin was appointed to the AVI Board during March 2007 where he also serves as a member of the audit committee and Chairman of the remuneration committee. He also serves on a number of other boards.

James was co-founder and joint Managing Director of Otterbea International (Pty) Limited from 1989 to 1994. In 1994 he was appointed as a director and member of the executive committee of Anglovaal Ltd. He was appointed to the Board of Aveng Ltd in 1999 and also served as a member of the audit and risk committee until 2008. He has also served as a director of Control Instruments Group Limited and Wesbank.

Kim joined Unilever (UK) in 1979 and spent the next 25 years working for the Unilever Group. He was Managing Director and Chairman of the Unilever Food business in South Africa from 1996 to 2004. Kim was appointed to the AVI Board in March 2009.

Mike is the CEO of One Digital Media. He was previously the Group CEO of TBWA, which included South African's top-ranked creative advertising agency TBWA Hunt Lascaris, Chairman of several other communication companies in the TBWA group, and Executive Director of FCB Worldwide, an advertising agency group based in New York. Mike was appointed to the AVI Board on 1 March 2010 and serves as a member of the audit committee.

Andy holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School, a Masters Degree in Education and Masters in Art from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Transkei. She is currently the Chairman of Interwaste Holdings and of Chuma Holdings, Vice-Chairman of the Jewellery Council of South Africa and serves on the boards of Aquarius Platinum SA, Sentula Mining and Imara Capital SA. Andy previously held senior positions in strategy and finance in the USA, UK and South Africa. She has worked in several fields including services, mining and banking. Andy was appointed to the AVI Board on 15 July 2010 and serves as a member of the remuneration committee.

Abe is Group Executive: Human Resources, Nedbank Group Limited. Previously he was Executive Head: Human Resources, Anglo Platinum Limited. Executive Director: Human Resources, Iscor Limited. In addition Abe has held senior Human Resources and Business related positions in various South Africa companies i.e. General Electric SA ( Pty) Ltd, Gemini Consulting etc

Neo is a Chartered Accountant and was previously a partner in the audit division of Deloitte, where she was the first female partner in the Cape Town office. Neo is also a member of the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors Education Committee and Monitoring Committee, and a non-executive director of Foodbank, a public benefit organization.

Barry is an executive with experience in the production and marketing of consumer beverages. Until December 2010 he held the position of President of SABMiller Latin America as well as being a member of the executive committee of SABMiller. He held a number of other positions within SABMiller since 1984.

Donnee has some twenty years experience in brand management, consumer marketing, management consulting and general management focused in the FMCG industry. She joined NBL in May 2000, and has spent time as Category Director of the Coffee & Creamer and Tea categories. In November 2006 she was appointed Managing Director of the Retail Beverages business unit. Prior to joining the AVI Group she spent 3 years as a Senior / Managing Consultant with Gemini Consulting with a specific focus on mass merchandising, channel marketing and sales effectiveness in various consumer segments, and six years with Cadbury Schweppes, both in SA and the UK.

Gaynor who joined the Group after completing her articles with KPMG in 1993, has intermittently had 19 years’ experience within the Group, most recently as the Finance Director of Snackworks, She has had extensive financial exposure to the IT , FMCG and Customer Services spheres of the business over this period, having worked in the Tea, Coffee, Creamer, Oil , Salt business culminating in her appointment as Managing Director of Snackworks in March 2012.

Ron's early career was in engineering at Sasol and at Air Liquide, where he started gaining commercial experience. After a spell as Business Development Manager at AECI, he served as Personal Assistant to the Executive Chairman of SAPPI until 1994, when he joined East African Packaging Industries as Managing Director. In 2004 Ron joined Oserian, part of the Mavuno Group of Companies, as Managing Director until 2007 when he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Mavuno Group. Ron was appointed CEO of I&J in November 2009.

Robert joined Yardley in 1984 as an Assistant Product Manager. He was appointed Sales Director in 1992 and then Managing Director of Indigo in 1996. In September 2005, Robert was appointed Divisional Director: Semi-Durable Brands and subsequently Managing Director of Spitz in 2008.

Susan began her career in Durban working as a Product Manager for Bakers Limited before entering the cosmetic industry. She has spent the last 21 years marketing brands such as Revlon, Max Factor, Sally Hansen and Justine. In 1993 she became Marketing Director for Avroy Shlain Cosmetics and in 2000 joined Indigo Cosmetics, where she held the position of Marketing and Sales Director. In September 2005, Susan was appointed Managing Director of Indigo Cosmetics

Paul Hanlon has spent the last 20 years developing capabilities within coffee manufacturing and cultivating relationships and insights in the ‘away-from-home’ or foodservice market. He has been a constant player in building and sustaining AVI’s leadership position within the coffee industry over the past two decades. Prior to being appointed MD of Ciro Beverage Solutions in 2012, Paul was Operations Executive with distribution, manufacturing, technical, training and sales falling under his stewardship.

Catherine spent 10 years in advertising and communications in the United Kingdom where she was a Board Account Director of Leo Burnett London until 1998. On her return to South Africa she consulted to, amongst others, Consol Limited, and from 2000 has held various positions in the AVI group. She was appointed Group Marketing Executive in 2008.

Gordon has a strong business and IT background. His experience includes General IT Management, IT Outsourcing Management, Strategic Consulting and Sales. He has owned and managed a number of businesses in the IT and Motor industries, and has also worked for corporations such as De Beers, IBM South Africa and Sun Microsystems. He was appointed Director: IT Shared Services at AVI in December 2009.

Tania joined the AVI Group in 1995, spending 5 years in the various operations implementing factory performance measurement systems. Tania then headed the IT Training and Change Management service where she gained relevant experience in HR-related systems. Appointed into her current role during 2007, Tania is responsible for Group recruitment, payroll, HR administration, and HR systems and processes, and also oversees HR Management for the other group Shared Services.

Prior to joining the AVI group, Keith spent 3 years as Group Financial Manager in the personnel recruitment group PAG Ltd and 10 years at First National Bank in various roles from commercial banking to international finance. Keith joined Willards Foods, a division of the Utico/BAT group, in September 1992 as Management Accountant. Willards was shortly thereafter sold to National Brands Ltd (NBL). He was appointed to the NBL board as Executive Director Finance in October 2002, which extended to include responsibilities for NBL International and local subsidiaries from 2004. In November 2006 he was appointed to head up the Finance Shared Service centre for the AVI Group.

David spent 13 years with Unilever, the last 5 years in the role of Sales and Distribution Director for their foods business. He joined I&J in 1999, being responsible for the Sales and Distribution division, which resulted in the forming of Vector Logistics as a stand-alone business unit reporting to AVI, and Rainbow farms post the sale of the business. He rejoined AVI in March 2007 to head up Logistics Shared Services.