SPDC's Board of Directors is responsible for setting the direction of the SPDC through the establishment of strategies, key policies and the approval of financial objectives and targets. It monitors the implementation of strategies and policies through a structured approach to reporting by executive management and recognizes its responsibility for the management of relationships with its various stakeholders.  The Board also monitors compliance with policies and achievement of objectives.

Supplier Park Development Company (Pty) Ltd operates as a commercial entity and is fully owned by Blue IQ Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd.

FHOLISANI SYDNEY MUFAMADI is a lifelong opponent of apartheid and prominent labour organiser, he played a key role in the launch and maiden leadership of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU in 1985), represented the African National Congress (ANC) at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) in which the constitutional framework for the new South Africa was negotiated, helped draft the National Peace Accord of 1991, and has held prominent positions and played pivotal roles in both the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the ANC.

At the advent of South Africa’s non-racial democracy in 1994, FHOLISANI SYDNEY MUFAMADI won a place in history as one of the two youngest members of cabinet at the age of 35, having commenced his political activism in his teens. He was appointed the foundation Minister for Safety and Security in the post-apartheid republic. Subsequently (1999-2008), he was twice appointed Minister for Provincial and Local Government.

Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi's credentials and reputation have been established on his success in constitutional procedures, electoral structures, fair elections, efficient local government, and conflict resolution. He is also known for his international expertise. His MSc thesis was on the subject of US foreign policy towards Africa under Presidents Clinton and (George W) Bush, and he has sustained a strong interest in East Asian economic models, some of this being reflected in his PhD thesis - which also gives a comprehensive account of foreign direct investment in South Africa, as well as the investment codes of a great number of African jurisdictions.

AWARDS AND ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2009: Obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from SOAS at the University of London,

specializing in the Political Economy of the Automotive Industry in several East Asian Countries and South Africa

2008: Appointed Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Arts: Political and Governmental Studies, of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. This appointment entails occasional lecturing responsibilities.

2004: Awarded a Doctor of Science Degree (Honoris Causa), by the Igbinedion University Okada, Nigeria

2004: Obtained Master of Science Degree in State, Society and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (UoL), United Kingdom

Published a Doctoral Thesis titled: “Crossing the River by Groping for Stones: Statist Fostering of the Automotive Industry in China, South Africa and Thailand, 1994-2008.”

Ms Amanda Nair completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984, majoring in Psychology & Industrial Sociology at the University of Natal and a Masters in Town and Regional Planning also at the University of Natal.

Ms Nair has spent most of her career in government, in a career spanning more than 20 years, she acknowledges that she has had the privilege of working on some of this country’s most profiled and significant projects including the Gautrain.

She is the Chief Executive Officer of Blue IQ Investment Holdings and a Board Member of the SPDC Board of Directors.

Mr. Jameel Chand is the Chief Operating Officer of Blue IQ Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd. Mr Chand was previously the Head: Group Marketing & Communications within Blue IQ. He was appointed as Board Member of the Supplier Park Development Company (Pty) Ltd in July 2009.

Abel Mawela holds a B.Com (Unisa), B Com. Hons (Unisa) and a MBA (De Montforte) Founder and Managing Director of Molodi Consulting. Mr Mawela occupied various senior finance management positions in both the private and public sector and has extensive board participation experience, particularly in the area of Audit Committees.Abel has occupied various cost accounting and management accounting positions in the private sector and has gained extensive local government experience through occupying various senior positions within the government sector, culminating as the first CFO of Ekurhuleni Metro.

His work experience includes, analysing and reviewing various costing and valuation models aimed at formulating the Regional Electricity Models. He has chaired the Audit Committee and the Finance Committee of a Water Board and actively participated in various road safety strategy formulation and the implementation of campaigns that led to the start of reduction of road crash fatalities in 2008/9. He consults for various municipalities and public sector institutions on improved audit outcomes. Mr Mawela is the founder and Managing Director of a professional consulting firm. He is an active member of the Black Management Forum.

Ms Welile Maleka, is the CEO [Acting] of Supplier Park Development Company (Pty) Ltd which manages the Automotive Supplier Park at Rosslyn. Ms Maleka is also the COO of Geda (Guateng Economic Development Agency). She was previously employed at Metropolitan as Corporate Cluster Key accounts Head before joining GEDA.

Mr. Younaid Waja has served as Senior Tax Manager at Arthur Anderson & Co; Tutor in Accounting at University of Witwatersrand and Senior Auditor at Deloitte Haskins & Sells.  He is currently a private Tax and Business Consultant and Chairman and CEO of APF Chartered Accountants Inc. 

Mr Waja is a Board Member of the SPDC Board of Directors as well as a Non-Executive Director of the BIQ Board of Directors.