Dale Capital Group

Directorate

Norman Noland Executive Chairman

Norman Noland is an entrepreneur and businessman with extensive experience in the international financial services sector and as a leader and an investor in both the public and private markets.  Prior to 1995 Norman was employed for 15 years in the Standard Bank Group and before that held senior positions in smaller South African Banks and Building Societies.   He started his career at the Old Mutual.

Since leaving Standard Bank in 1995 he has been involved in acquiring and establishing a number of businesses, both locally and internationally in the financial services, IT, property and leisure sectors.  In 2005 the board of Sekunjalo asked Norman to take up the position of Deputy-CEO with responsibility for overseeing the operations and growth strategy of a group with an NAV of c.US$150m.

His international experience includes directorships of companies in South Africa, Mauritius, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man.

Jacobus Cornelis Pauw Non-Executive Director

Jacobus Cornelis Pauw founded the Fintrust Group in 1977, primarily as an insurance and investment brokerage firm. During the early ’80’s Fintrust turned its interest to property investments, which culminated in 1989 in a 50/50% partnership with Syfrets [which later became Nedcor Investment Bank], part of the Old Mutual group, to establish the SYFIN group.
He served as CEO for several years, later as Chairman of the Syfin Group of Companies. Amongst other, Syfin initiated the R1, 5 billion + N1 City regional multi-use property project in the Cape Peninsula. Syfin is still in existence today, however under different ownership and management.
Since the middle 90’s, Fintrust also became an angel investor on a private equity basis in a number of ICT companies and Jacques served on various boards, mostly in the S.I.T. [Security, Identification and Tracking] markets. Fintrust sold its property interests in Syfin in 2000 to explore international project-funding opportunities until 2005 when it began to concentrate its investment participation, in addition to financial services and ICT products, into cleantech opportunities, minerals beneficiation and intellectual property commercialization.

Sanjeeven Ramasawmy Finance Director

Sanjeeven Ramasawmy joined the board of Dale in June 2009 as Finance Director
bringing his accounting and auditing experience to the Group.Born in 1981 in Mauritius, Sanjeeven started his career in December 2003 as an Accounts Officer with the Sugar Investment Trust in Mauritius. In April 2005, he was promoted to Finance Accountant of the Sugar Investment Trust, a group holding investments in the sugar milling, power generation, leisure, property development and banking sectors. In June 2006, Sanjeeven took up the position of team Leader at Horwath (Mauritius), a member of Horwath International, where he became involved with the audit of offshore companies and cross-border audits in the following sectors: Investment management and holdings Fund investment and fund management Investment advisory services Insurance brokering services Information technology Leisure and tourism Shipping Derivative trading Mineral surveying
Sanjeeven is fluent in English and French.

Kee Chong Li Kwong Wing Non-executive Director

K.C. Li is the former Chairman of Mauritius International Trust Company (MITCO) and has held key positions in the Government of Mauritius for the modernisation and liberalisation of the monetary and financial services sector. After a brilliant career in public services, he started MITCO in 1993 just as Mauritius entered into the world of offshore finance. He holds a Masters of Law (LL.M) in International Tax Law, St Thomas University School of Law, Florida, USA, a Masters degree in International Taxation (MIT) from Regent University School of Law, Virginia, USA, a B.Sc (Econ) from the London School of Economics and a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Planning from the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Holland.

During his public career, K.C. was Adviser to the Minister of Finance for eight years, Chief Executive Officer of the National Mutual Fund, Chairman of the State Investment Corporation Management Ltd and Chairman of the Stock Exchange Commission.

Nigel McGowan Non-executive Director

Nigel McGowan qualified as a chartered accountant in 1991 with Deloitte & Touche, London. After working in senior management roles in the audit and corporate finance departments he returned to the Isle of Man to join Deloitte’s local office in 1995.

From 1998 to 2001 Nigel worked in senior management positions with the Isle of Man Assurance Group, culminating in the role of Chief Financial Officer. Between 2001 and 2005 Nigel worked for Simcocks Advocates in the Isle of Man with responsibility for financial control and also the establishment and development of the Simcocks Group of companies including the licensed corporate service provider, Simcocks Trust in the Isle of Man and Mauritius. Since 2005 Nigel has been a self employed business consultant and holds a number of executive and non-executive directorships including a number of private property companies with investments in residential and commercial property in the Isle of Man and a non-exec director of an AIM listed property investment company. Nigel is a former chairman of the Isle of Man Society of Chartered Accountants.

Dr. Jürg P. (Giorgio) Blum Non-Executive Director

Giorgio worked for 5 years as a Trust Officer at Rothschild Bank AG in Zürich. After his studies overseas, he joined Credit Suisse (Germany) as Assistant Vice President, responsible for Asset Management and the development of the Austrian onshore market.

Later Giorgio moved to Switzerland and headed the tax optimized portfolio management at Bank Hofmann, also responsible for the German Private Banking Market (Acquisition and Asset Management).

In 1999, Giorgio changed to Union Bancaire Privee as a Director in the field of Private Banking (then fourth largest Private Bank in Switzerland), he was also a member of the strategic committee of the Bank. His specialty is asset management and tax “optimized” investment solutions.Giorgio is currently the Managing Director and Partner of SEED Asset Management AG, he holds an MBA, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from the United States International University in San Diego, California U.S.A.