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Estate News

THE 2021 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The new Board of Directors was elected at the Annual
General Meeting that took place on 25 November 2020.

Here’s a short profile of each of the Directors.

Ian Hirschfeld: Chairperson
ian works in Johannesburg as the Regulatory director for sub-saharan africa for a multi-
national company. this is his seventh year as a resident in the estate, and as a former, and
re-elected Chair of the ifV hOa, he sees the roles of all the directors as an important part of
building the community of the ifV, one of the best residential estates in Pretoria.

Abel Mawela: Vice-Chairperson and Legal Director
abel’s area of expertise includes finance, accounting and auditing; corporate governance;
insurance; risk management; and compliance. his career spans all segments and operations
of business, both in the private sector and the public sector, including national departments,
provincial legislatures, agencies, public entities and local government. he is a Certified director
with the institute of directors, and an accredited trainer for msCOa, as well as a preferred
trainer for the National treasury and the Chartered institute of Government finance and audit
Risk Officers. abel is also an accredited liquidator with the department of Justice, an associate
insolvency Practitioner and a designated Business Rescue Practitioner with the south african
Restructuring and insolvency Practitioners association NPC.

Jaco Oosthuizen: Security and Digital Infrastructure Director
Jaco is a systems engineer by training and the Chief Operating Officer of an engineering
company based in Johannesburg. in his leisure time, he enjoys mountain biking and
amateur astronomy.
Jaco is responsible for the security and digital infrastructure portfolios of the hOa. the
network coverage of the respective cellular service providers and the fibre to the home
(ftth) projects form part of this portfolio.
as emerging apps are demanding unprecedented access to the internet, many of the
existing technologies that bring these services to the homes in the estate have been
unable to support this demand. ftth, based on a passive, optical network infrastructure,
has made a tremendous difference to the delivery of high speed bandwidth at an
economical price while alleviating the bottleneck experienced when using the previous
access networks. the infrastructure installed in the estate under Jaco’s supervision
provides residents much improved access to high speed data, thereby helping ifV stay
abreast of developments in the it sector.

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