Board of Directors
Gregory Hirschowitz
Director (Non-Executive)
- B Com (Wits)
- B Acc (Wits)
- Registered Persons (Securities)
- CA(SA)
- CFA
- PLD (Harvard Business School, Alumni status)
- 2001: completed accounting articles at Investec Bank and joined Investec Principal Investments “IPI” as a private equity specialist, where he concluded multiple transactions on the buy and sell sides as well as portfolio management over 15 years
- 2016: Part of the management team that led the buyout of the private equity business at Investec Bank whereafter he served as a senior executive at IEP
- Mid 2018: Joined Bud Chemicals & Minerals as the Chief Executive Officer
André Snyman
Managing Director
- B.Sc (Chem) – 1996 University of Stellenbosch
- B.Ed – 1987
University of Stellenbosch - MBA – 1997
Graduate School of Business
University of Stellenbosch - Registered as Feed Production Engineer:
Swiss School of Feed milling,
Uzwill, Switzerland (Buhler Group). - Manufacturing Industry: 23 years’ experience
- Animal Feeds Industry: 20 years’ experience
- Experience in acting as Board member on various
boards and MD in Namibia since 2005
Greg Swartz
Director (Executive)
- Various management positions in the Group, Operations, Production, Logistics.
- MDP (University of Stellenbosch Business School)
- Senior Management
Development Program
(University Stellenbosch
Business School)
Bernard Grové
Director (Executive)
- 1998 – B. Acc (Hons) University of Stellenbosch
- CA (SA), CA (Nam)
- Until 2003: Audit manager – PwC
- Extensive experience in the
manufacturing industry with at
least 8 years spent within
multinationals.
Lara Grieve
Director (Non-Executive)
- B. Bus.Sci (Finance) (UCT)
- PGDA (UCT)
- CA(SA)
- 2011: Investec Corporate Finance – focus on M&A and various listing requirements
- 2014: Coast2Coast Capital – concluded various M&A transactions and later focused on corporate finance and equity capital markets
- 2019: Youth Employment Service – head of Business Development and Strategy where she led a team who created over 28,000 jobs in South Africa in a period of 10 months
- Late 2019: Bud Chemicals & Minerals as the Business Development Executive
Klaus Friedlingsdorf
Operations Director (Executive)
- B.Sc (BCH CHM) – 1990 University of Pretoria
- MBA – 2002
Graduate School of Business
University of Stellenbosch - 10 year experience in Solar Salt
Manufacturing and Processing - 10 year experience in Uranium
Processing and Exploration