IFCA Technologies has told shareholders that it has appointed two new non-executive directors.
The company on Friday issued a statement announcing the appointment of Zacharias Johannes van Niekerk and Mark Palmer as independent non-executive directors with immediate effect.
Van Niekerk has a B Com in business economics from the North West University and a Masters in business leadership from Unisa. He has experience in business re-engineering, capital raising and the structuring of companies.
Van Niekerk also has experience in structuring and managing investment portfolios for medium-sized and listed entities, the use of structured investment products in funding structures, and in risk and succession planning.
Palmer has a B Com and an MBA from Edinburgh University Business School, as well as various diplomas in strategy and systems thinking. He was involved in 31 property development projects between 1984 and 1995, before relocating overseas where he acted as a consultant to the NHS, in South and Greater London, and to Integrated Healthcare, in the Southern US.
On his return to SA, in 1998, Palmer acquired and managed a commercial interiors company and, in July 2001, established Group Indigo Consulting, a training and consulting company specialising in public sector financial training, valuation modelling, and asset-based finance services for various banks and financing institutions, as well as finance and insurance training for various motoring corporations.
Palmer is still CEO of Group Indigo Investments and is also CEO of Altius Waste Management, an environmental and waste management consulting company.
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