Senior Management

       
 

 

  

 

Corporate

Koos Bekker

Group CEO

Koos Bekker led the founding team of M-Net in 1985, serving as chief executive of the MIH group until 1997. He was also a founding director of MTN. He is a director of Media24, MIH B.V., MIH (Mauritius) Limited, MIH Holdings, MultiChoice South Africa Holdings and other companies in the wider group. He also serves on the local organising committee for the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup and the Council of Stellenbosch University. He has been chief executive of Naspers since 1997.
Steve Pacak

Group CFO

Steve Pacak was reappointed to the board as financial director on 1 April 2009 after a three-month sabbatical. Steve began his career with the Naspers group as group financial manager of M-Net in 1988 and held various executive positions in the MIH group. Steve was the chief financial officer of MIH Holdings (MIHH) from November 1993 to January 1998. He is a director of Media24, MIH B.V., MIH (Mauritius) Limited, MIH Holdings, MultiChoice South Africa Holdings and other companies within the wider Naspers group. Steve was appointed an executive director of Naspers in 1998.
Antonie Roux

CEO of MIH and of Naspers Internet Operations

Antonie Roux joined the Naspers group in 1979 and was a founding member of M-Net in 1985. In 1997, Mr. Roux was appointed chief executive officer of M-Web South Africa and in 2002 as chief executive officer of the Naspers internet operations. Effective 1 April 2011, he was appointed as chief executive officer of the MIH group.
Cobus Stofberg

Senior Executive MIH

Cobus Stofberg began his affiliation with the Naspers group in 1985. He has held a variety of positions within the MIH group of companies, including that of chief executive officer, from which he stepped down on 1 April 2011. He continues to be involved as senior executive and corporate advisor to the MIH group on a full-time basis.
Basil (Vasili) Sgourdos

CFO MIH

Basil is a qualified South African Chartered Accountant having worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers from 1989 to 1994 whereafter he then joined the group initially as the Finance Manager of South African Operations division in Multichoice, then as Chief Financial Officer of our investment in Thai listed United Broadcasting Corporation Pcl. where he remained for 10 years, followed by 2 years in Amsterdam as General Manager of Pay TV business development globally before taking on his current role as Group Chief Financial Officer of MIH from January 2009.
Mark Sorour

Group CIO: Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance

Mark Sorour is a qualified Chartered Accountant who previously held various positions in the audit and corporate finance divisions of PricewaterhouseCoopers. After qualifying he spent 5 years as an investment banker. In 1994 he joined MIH, the international division of the Naspers group, where he headed up business development throughout Africa, the Middle East, Thailand, China, Europe, USA and Asia. This included being relocated to Hong Kong and the Netherlands as corporate finance and acquisitions general manager. With the restructure of the Naspers group in 2002, Mark returned with his family to Cape Town as Chief Investment Officer, heading up the corporate finance and M&A function for the Naspers and MIH groups.
André Coetzee

Group Counsel

Andre Coetzee has been a legal advisor to the MIH group and associated companies since 1985. Before joining the Naspers group, Dr. Coetzee was a partner at Mallinicks Attorneys from 1984 to 1999. In June 1999 he became the MIH group’s general counsel.