Fatema Khan

Chairman

Accounting Expert

Fatema Khan was born in Lobatse, and completed her primary, secondary and tertiary education in Botswana. She is a chartered accountant by profession and is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK), the Botswana Institute of Accountants and the Institute of Managers (UK).

She started her accounting career with Price Waterhouse as an auditor and from there moved on to various positions in accountancy and management in different domains. Whilst employed as the group financial controller of Pan African Computer Services, she teamed up with the service manager Ralph Wheeler to initiate a management buy out that resulted in the formation of Information Technology Intergrators (Pty) Ltd.

Fatema was the Public Relations Director of the ACCA Botswana Branch and was instrumental in setting up the branch and first newsletter, she is an alternate director on the board of Enterprise Botswana and participated in setting up EB, planning, selection and recruitment of staff, held the position of Treasurer of the Al-Muslimah Ladies group and is actively involved in various charitable organizations in Botswana.

Currently her main occupation is the Managing Director of ITi, but she still is active in other businesses ranging from retailing to investment groups. She is the Chairperson of a Motswana Woman’s investment company.

Batsho Groth

Director

Human Resource Expert

With 14 years experience in the mining, parastatal, insurance and financial services sectors, Batsho has gained extensive skills in corporate and organisational culture building, personnel management, organisational development, strategic marketing remuneration strategies and industrial relations.

Batsho has worked predominantly in Botswana but has also worked in the United States and United Kingdom. This brings an in depth understandng of the local Botswana business and organisational cultural environment, plus an appreciation of international best practice principles. The past eight and a half years was spent in one of Botswana’s top public listed companies, Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited where she was Assistant General Manager, Support Services responsible for the strategic imple-mentation of human resources in Botswana Insurance Fund Management and Botswana Life, and corporate communications in Botswana Life.

At BHL, Batsho was Chairperson of the HIV/AIDS Task force responsible for company’s response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the work place. She has implemented performance management systems in several of the organisations that she has worked in including

BIFM and Botswana Life.

Batsho has been involved in the successful reengineering of a major corporation and a public listed company, including managing and

Emeldah Moloi Mathe

Director

Financial Expert

Emeldah was Managing Director of Botswana Savings Bank. In the 12 years she has headed the institution, she has seen it emerge from a Government Department to a fully-fledged public corporation providing financial intermediation through varied products and services. Emeldah is a member and Vice President of the Board of the World Savings Bank Institute - worldwide association of savings Banks. She represents the African region. She is also Vice Chairperson of Women’s Finance House Botswana (WFHB) - a micro finance NGO providng micro credit and finance for women. WFHB provides business and management skills traning and promotes a culture of saving amongst its members.

Emeldah has some 24 years experience working in the public service of the Government of Botswana in various capacities. She has worked for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (as Coordinator of Rural Development). She has also been Botswana Ambassador to the European Economic Commision, covering France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Emeldah’s strengths and contrbutions lie in her proven leadership and extensive network with a cross-section of the Botswana society
(government and private sector).

Ralph Wheeler

Director

Technical Expert

Ralph Wheeler was born in 1964 in Wales, U.K. He emigrated with his family to South Africa in 1976. Since his main hobby was in the then emerging electronics field, it seemed natural that he took up employment with Olivetti as a trainee technician in the electronic workshops in Fordsburg RSA. Two years later, he joined SA Computer Resale Brokers, a dealer in IBM 3270 environment and was tasked to establish an electronic circuit board repair facility for the company. During his time at SACRB, Ralph gained invaluable technical and managerial experience and left the company having achieved the establishment of a fully fledged repair facility, complete with trained engineers.

In 1986, Ralph found the situation in South Africa inconsistent with his life values and emigrated for the second time to Botswana, seeking a more open society. He joined what was then probably one of the first computer companies in Botswana, Apal Computers, as Workshop Manager. It is probably here that his fondness for the Apple branded equipment was born. Apal computers was subsequently sold to Data Processing and became a fully fledged division, headed by Ralph. It was during his time at Data Processing that Ralph met Mukesh Chauhan. Mukesh went on to spend time in the USA, where he teamed up with Phillip Noyce to establish an Apple Distribution company for Sub Saharan Africa. In due course, Ralph and Mukesh teamed up to start the well known company AppleCentre, which grew from strength to strength.

Around the same time, Ralph also headed up the service division of Electroflex, a locally based U.P.S dealer and it was here that he revisited 

Stemming from the successes of AppleCentre, other companies joined the group namely P.C Centre and Media Magic. Ralph was a shareholder of two of these companies where he met Fatema Khan, who was the financial controller at the time. They found that they shared similar ideals and business principles and it was therefore natural to form a business alliance which gave rise to the MBO that resulted in what is the present day ITi. ITi is currently the largest 3rd party I.T. desktop services provider in Botswana and is considered by most to be an outstanding commercial success, and it is possible that this is as a result of its founding members solid commercial and social principles.

Mukesh Chauhan

Director

Business Expert

Mukesh Chauhan was born in 1958 in Luanshya, Zambia. He graduated in 1980 from the University of Zambia with a Honours Degree in Bachelor Of Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunications). After graduation, he was recruited by Schlumberger Inc., the largest wire-line operators in the oil industry. In his 3 years stint with Schlumberger, Mukesh worked in Milan (Italy), Pau (France), Bergen (Norway) and did did training at Schlumberger's British Training Centre (BTC) in Livingston (Scotland).
On 9th Jan 1983 (on his birthday), Mukesh arrived in Gaborone on an assignment for a Zambian Computer reseller, Data Processing (Pty) Limited (DPL), who had just opened a Gaborone branch.

DPL offered him a contract as a technician and he worked for them for 5 years in various roles and responsibility from Technical Manager, Marketing and Sales Manager to General Manager. Mukesh left DPL to pursue his own business interest around the middle of 1988. He joined his current business partner Mr. Philip Noyce in a Pan African Computer Services (PACS) that continues to be a distributor for Apple Computers for the region Africa South, East and Central . In 1991, with Ralph Wheeler, Mukesh started AppleCentre a dedicated Apple Reseller. After a couple of years, he opened another computer dealership called PC Centre to offer IBM compatibles for the Botswana market. AppleCentre and PC Centre grew to be two of the most successful and respected computer resellers in the market. In 1995, Mukesh negotiated with Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) to buy Botswana Furniture Manufacturers (BFM) and Mukwa Interiors. In 2000, Mukesh also purchased the assets of another BDC liquidation company Office Furniture Manufacturers (OFM). Today between BFM, OFM, Mukwa and other associated companies, the group employs over 200 people.

In June 1999, the group bought the distribution rights for Gestetner Photocopier and Fax products, and today Media Magic is a very successful dealer with wide range of office automation products.

In August 2000, Mukesh facillitated the creation of an independent service provider company, Information Technology Integrators (ITi) which is a unique company in many ways. It is one of the few examples of a truly Vision 2016 company that was created from a MBO of the service entities of AppleCentre, PC Centre and Media Magic. It is a majority citizen owned company and in less than 3 years, it has grown to be the largest I.T. desktop services provider in Botswana

Club Ten

Shareholder

Club Ten’s Primary objective s to promote a culture of savings and investment amongst Batswana and to empower women to play an active role in the economic development of the country. The Club’s aim is to profitably invest the assets accumulated through members’ savings; to assume a leadershp role in the education and benefit of members in financial management; and to engage in strategic partnership for the promotion of Batswana women in business ventures, locally and globally.

Club Ten was founded by a group of ten women in March 1995 with a view to mobilising savings amongst members. With a core competency representing fluency in a wide range of professional and business skills, the group began its partnership by making monthly contributions towards a savings account. This has been sustained throughout and has formed the basis for a diversified investment base in money and capital market instuments. In 1997, members of Club Ten society, regstered a company Club Ten (Pty) Ltd, whose objects embrace:

• promotion and encouragement of a sustained culture of saving;

• contribution to the empowerment of women;

• encouragement of thrift, saving and planning among members of the society and shareholders of the company;

• establishment of networks with the public and private sector in order

• participation in fundraising activities aimed at asssting children’s causes and the welfare of the disadvantaged in the society.

Club Ten has, since its fomation, developed a strong culture of saving. Members make equal monthly contributions to the societ. The average anual savings have remained at P100 000 since the Club’s inception. Members hold monthly meetings to take stock of the value and level of savings, to evaluate the various portfolios the funds are invested and to assess performance. December and January are rest months, during which no contributions are made. In order to direct decisions, members form committees, where necessary, to address specific and specialised requirements of the Club.

Committees have been established to address formulation and implementation of investment strategies, negotiations for business partnerships, organisation of fundraising activities, etc.

Loapi Holdings

Shareholder

Terence Dambe
Chairman
Partner in legal firm Minchin & Kelly. Has practiced as an attorney for over 10 years.

Victor Senye
General Manager of Botswana Development Corporation. Previous experience includes running the BDC Property Division.

Thuli Johnson
General Manager of National Development Bank (NDB). Previously employed as a Manager at ULC (Pty) Ltd. His work experience included employment with Botswana Insurance Fund Management and the Botswana Development Corporation.

Dr Andrew Hall
A dentist, who has established a reputable and growing dental clinic in Gaborone. A member of the Botswana Medical and Dental Association.

Kenneth Molosi
Billing manager of Vista Cellular in Gaborone. He holds a Masters Degree in information technology firld and advises Loapi on aspects dealing with IT.

Batsho P Groth
Employed by Botswana Life Insurance Ltd as Divisional Manager, Support Services responsible for Human Resources, Public Relations and Office Administrations. She has been previously employed in the Human Resources and Training Divisions of various companies including Debswana Diamond Company, Water Utilities Corporation and First National Bank of Botswana.

Kabelo Matthews
Is a qualified Chartered Electrical Engineer who previously was employed by the Consulting firm Steward Scott International. In April 2000, he recently left the employment of Stewart Scott to set up his own independent consulting engineering firm with other Batswana.

Moatlhodi Marumo
A practicing attorney being a partner in the legal firm Monthe Marumo and Co. Vice Chaiman of the Botswana Law Society. His achievements include a temporary appointment as a Judge of the Industrial Court of Botswana.

Laura Samotshoso
Financial Management Analyst currently employed by the United States Agency for International Development. Her previous employment includes working in the Management Systems Department of the Bank of Botswana and Technology Information Department of
the Botswana Technology Centre.

Neo Daniel Moroka
Managing director of the International petroleum company BP in Zambia. He is the former President of BOCCIM and has sat on the Boards of Bank of Botswana, Debswana Diamond Company, Botswana Meat Commission and currently sits on the board of Medrescue Botswana. His previous experience includes being the managing director of BP Botswana and a Senior Manager at Barclays Bank of Botswana.

Kganenelo Monthe

Organogram

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