
Lindsay Peter Ralphs
Chief executive
Age: 61
Qualifications: BCom, BAcc, CA(SA)
Appointed: 10 May 1992
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Lindsay was appointed a director of Bidvest on 10 May 1992. He is a director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries, chairman of the Bidvest operational divisions and chairman of Bidvest Namibia. During his Bidvest career he has been Group operations director, managing director of Bidvest Steiner and was responsible for forming the Bidvest Services division in 1994. In February 2011, Lindsay was appointed CEO of Bidvest South Africa and in May 2016 was appointed chief executive of Bidvest Limited after the unbundling of the Bidvest foodservice division. Lindsay is a non-executive director of Adcock Ingram Holdings.

Nompumelelo (Mpumi) Thembekile Madisa
Executive director
Age: 38
Qualifications: Masters in Finance and Investment, BComm Honours in Economics and BSc in Economics and Mathematics
Appointed: 4 December 2013
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Mpumi was previously chief director in the Gauteng provincial government. During her time at Bidvest, she has held various senior management and executive board director positions such as general manager business development, divisional director business development, corporate affairs director and sales and marketing director. She is a director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries.
Appointed as non-executive director of the Adcock board of directors on 23 November 2017.

Mark John Steyn
Group financial director
Age: 47
Qualifications: BCom, DipAcc, CA(SA)
Appointed: 1 March 2018
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Mark joined Bidvest in May 1997 and has held various financial positions within Bidvest Freight. Since 2012, Mark held the position of chief financial officer of Bidvest Freight. Mark was appointed to the Bidvest Group board as group chief financial officer on 1 March 2018. Mark now also serves on all the South African divisional boards and audit committees.

Gillian Claire McMahon
Executive director
Age: 45
Qualifications: BCom Honours Business Economics and Industrial Psychology, MCom Industrial Psychology
Appointed: 27 May 2015
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Gillian previously held various operational roles in customer service, operations, training and human resources. During her time at Bidvest, Gillian has held various senior management roles including commercial director of Bidtravel and is the current Group transformation executive. Gillian is a director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries.

Anthony William Dawe
Executive director
Age: 52
Qualifications: CA(SA)
Appointed: 28 June 2006
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Director of numerous Bidvest subsidiaries, Anthony has many years’ experience in the freight industry with most of those years focused in the South African port environment. Prior to this, Anthony’s finance experience was in London and for one of the large accounting firms in South Africa.