The Executive Committee is made up of senior executives from member firms and representatives from the community, eThekwini Municipality and important stakeholders. Its composition and mandate are determined by the HCRDA Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI). EXCO members of 2023 are listed below. These members were confirmed at the annual General Council of Member’s on 1 February 2023.

Supply Chain Chair: Matthew Major, Commercial Director

Human Resource Chair: Sandesh Singh, Operations Executive

Infrastructure Chair: Mukesh Ramatar, Plant Manager

Safety Chair: Etienne Olivier, Owner

Environment Chair: Russell Hanger, Managing Director

Nominated representative: Willem van Heerden, Business Unit Head

Nominated representative: Werner Pelser, Logistics Director

Responsibilities

The Executive Committee’s responsibilities are primarily:

• Insights to guide effective strategy

• Oversight of delivery

• Evaluating activity impact

Operations

The HCRDA strategy is delivered through five workstreams. Direct responsibility for each workstream is assigned to a firm representative who sits on the Executive Committee. They meet quarterly with interested members to feed back on progress and solicit inputs as to the Workstream strategy, delivery and impacts.

A subset of Executive Committee members assume Director responsibilities for the HCRDA Not for Profit Company (NPC). The EXCO meets bi-monthly and all members are welcome to attend.

An annual General Council of Members is a further opportunity for the Executive Committee, supported by the CEO, to feed back on progress, solicit inputs from members and review the governance of the entity.