Vacant Chapter Chairperson KwaZulu Natal

Soula Proxenos

She is an independent non-executive director of African Finance Corporation (AFC), First Housing Finance (FHF), FINCA, and Norsad.  She has extensive experience chairing and as a member of risk, human resource, governance, nomination, and audit committee.

In addition to her commercial board roles Soula Proxenos is adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business and School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) teaching graduate students public private partnerships, infrastructure, project finance and negotiation.  She is an advisor and IC member with WDB Investment Holdings.

Ms. Proxenos received an M. B. A. from the University of Stellenbosch, in South Africa.

Julien Wormser

Julien Wormser works in the HVAC industry as a Business & Strategy Analyst at Carrier, in the Lyon area, France. Previously Julien has worked in various industries : business consulting, oil, train and public works. He has studied at USB in 2003 as an exchange student.

Germaine Johnson

Germaine Johnson is currently a consultant within the healthcare industry and provides services to hospitals across the African continent. His experience across the Medical device industry and hospital environment has supported many hospitals to achieve their healthcare goals to deliver optimal services. Germaine Completed his MBA fulltime in 2018, where he served as the class representative and continued his service as an alumni committee member after his graduation. In his Role as Chairman, he wants to facilitate the work of the Alumni association in developing longstanding and fruitful relationships with all its members globally.

Theunis van der Linde

Theunis is an experienced and seasoned business and operations leader and has range of experiences that traverse both being the client, and being the advisor. Having held senior roles in the mining industry, he uses his first hand problem solving experiences to understand, develop and follow through with tailored solutions. Over time he has developed a keen interest, ability and skill set to asses organizational performance. This helps him to identify improvement opportunities and create the value proposition; prior to designing the implementation strategy along with identifying the required capabilities to deliver a successful outcome.

He believes that grit and resilience keep teams true to their objectives, on course and successful in delivering results.

JG Bester

JG Bester is a real estate developer in the Middle East and currently resides in Saudi Arabia. He serves on the board as a non-executive director of i7 Capital Pty Ltd, a Venture Capital firm in South Africa. He has served on the alumni committee since January 2021.

JG holds a bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, PGDip in Business Administration, and an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch Business School.

JG has a passion for startups, collaboration, and teamwork.