LEADERSHIP
Joe Letswalo
TAF CHAIRPERSON
Ms Mabatho Seeiso
TAF DIRECTOR
Mabatho serves as an independent trustee or chairperson on several boards of management of pension funds. She also serves as a non-executive director on some companies. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Southern African Pension Fund Investment Forum and a member of the Institute of Directors Southern Africa.
Mabatho’s past work experience includes working in sales, industrial and international trade development, new business development in the oil industry and management consulting. She joined the Financial Services Industry at the beginning of 2001 in private equity as an Assistant Portfolio Manager for Infrastructure Investments at Old Mutual Asset Management.
Through her work she aims to contribute to enriching leadership diversity. She has spent the past 15 years learning undergoing her own self development and learning from some of the best teachers in the field. Qualifications: Honours (Economics and Marketing) University of Wales, Aberystwyth College, honours (Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management) University of Cape Town and an MBA from Hull University. (10.16)
Mr Karthi Pillay
TAF DIRECTOR
Karthi Pillay is an established and well respected professional in the pension fund industry in Southern Africa, with particular expertise in the new frontier practice of responsible investing and corporate governance and serves as a Specialist in Retirement Fund Governance:
He is responsible for Compliance, Stakeholder Management and Transformation for the Telkom Retirement Fund. He also serves on Advisory Boards on behalf of the Telkom Retirement Fund.
In addition he has served as the 1st Deputy President of the Communication Workers Union (1996 – 2010), as well as represented CWU/COSATU at NEDLAC with particular focus on the ICT Sector and dealt with ICT Sector Job Summit and BEE Charters. He was a member of the Cosatu Trustee Forum which dealt with Pension Fund Reform.
Karthi who holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree and a Bachelor of Technology Management Degree serves as a Steering Committee Member of Sustainable Returns – an initiative of Responsible Investing in South Africa, a participant in King 1V Sectoral Working Group sessions and also served as Deputy Chair of the Telkom Retirement Fund and Member of the Joint Investment Committee.