Our Team
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Our Vision
Nictus is an independent diversified investment group that creates above average value for shareholders and other stakeholders through sustainable growth.
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Our Mission
With a culture of EXCELLENCE and through a visionary and dynamic leadership we will achieve our vision through:
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Protecting our independence
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Expanding our business base in South Africa
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Growing a satisfied customer base
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Optimising all resources
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Being innovative and technology driven
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Being the preferred employer
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Core Values
Individual and collective ownership
Teamwork
Respect
Adaptability
Integrity
Transparency
Fanatical discipline
Confident in the quality and value of our resources
Nictus has been successful in change initiatives. The challenge remains to reach a top level of EXCELLENCE throughout the organisation. The philosophy and core focus will be to drive EXCELLENCE in every aspect of the organisation and through this establish Nictus as a leading entity wherever we are present.
Our Professional Team
Nictus places the customer first by continually striving towards Excellence
Gerard Tromp (45)
Executive group managing director and executive management
Committees:
Social and ethics, executive
Gerard R de V Tromp has a BCom Marketing degree, is a chartered accountant (South Africa and Namibia) and completed his accounting articles in 2008. After the completion of his articles, he joined the group in 2009 as the group company secretary, which role he fulfilled until 2012. During 2012, he was appointed as the managing director of the furniture retail segment. During 2014, he was appointed as deputy managing director of the group. On 18 April 2016, he was appointed as managing director of the group.
Eckhart Prozesky (40)
Executive group financial director and executive management
Committee:
Executive
Eckhart H Prozesky is a chartered accountant (South Africa) and completed his accounting articles in 2011. After the completion of his articles, he joined the group in 2012 as the financial manager of the furniture retail segment. On 1 March 2015, he was appointed as the financial director of the group.
Sarita Martin (54)
Independent non-executive chairperson
Committees:
Remuneration and nomination , audit and risk, executive (chairperson)
Sarita Martin has been an independent non-executive director of various entities since 2013. She is currently the chairperson of UsPlus Limited and The Integrated Exchange (previously known as the Equities Express Securities Exchange) and is a member of the board of Resilient REIT Limited, which is listed on the JSE. She serves as a director of JSE-listed entities, unlisted entities and previously, non-profit companies. She was previously a member of the Financial Services Board’s litigation committee as well as the Institute
of Directors’ certification committee and has been declared a fit and proper person by the Financial Services Conduct Authority. She has chaired and been a member of remuneration committees as well as audit, risk, nominations and social and ethics committees.
Sarita is an admitted attorney who holds various qualifications including a BProc LLB and MBA (GIBS) and is an accredited mediator for South Africa and the Centre for Dispute Resolution in the United Kingdom. She holds international designations in Environmental, Social and Governance and Climate as well as coaching. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors South Africa as well as a certified director and an alumna of Competent Boards in Canada.
She is currently on the core faculty of the Institute of Directors South Africa NPC as a governance specialist conducting training, facilitation, board evaluations, coaching and governance advisory services. She has a broad range of skills and experience including, inter alia, directorship, company secretarial, risk, governance, legal, corporate affairs, strategy, sustainability, corporate social investment, communication, human resources, mediation and facilitation.
Sarita was a public defender and prosecutor specialising in criminal law prior to joining the corporate world. She spent much of her corporate career in financial services from 1999 to 2012.
Melanie de Nysschen (47)
Independent non-executive director
Committees:
Remuneration and nomination (chairperson), audit and risk, social and ethics
Melanie L de Nysschen holds a BA and an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and is currently completing an MSc in Sustainable Development at the University of Sussex. She also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Management from Henley Business School and the Associate Chartered Governance designation from the Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa. Her professional qualifications include registration as a Category I and II Key Individual with the Financial Sector Conduct Authority and previous recognition as a JSE-approved Sponsor Executive. She is a member of the Institute of Directors South Africa and is registered as a non-practising advocate with the Legal Practice Council.
She brings over two decades of experience spanning investment banking and public and private capital markets, with a focus on mobilising private capital for high-growth enterprises and emerging market development. Her leadership experience encompasses directing complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, financial structuring, capital mobilisation, governance and regulatory compliance, and strategic advisory to impactful organisations.
She currently serves as an independent non-executive director of Corporate Guarantee (South Africa) (RF) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nictus Limited, as well as on the boards of, among others, ALT Capital Partners Proprietary Limited, Grovest Investment Holdings Proprietary Limited, the Hans Merensky Legacy Foundation, Joburg Ballet NPC and several structured finance vehicles for major financial institutions.
Philippus Tromp (50)
Non-executive director
Committee:
Social and ethics (chairperson)
Philippus J de W Tromp has a BEcon, EDP and SMP and was appointed as a non-executive director of Nictus Limited in 2012. He is currently the group managing director of Nictus Holdings Limited and has served the group for the past 19 years.
Ronnie de Vrye (72)
Independent non-executive director
Committees:
Remuneration and nomination, audit and risk (chairperson)
Cornelius J de Vrye (Ronnie) is a qualified chartered accountant (South Africa) and has extensive experience in corporate banking and financial services. He has served on many boards of companies as an executive and an independent non-executive director. Further to his involvement in financial services, he is engaged as an independent trustee on several retirement funds. In addition to his formal training and education, he has also attended various offshore training programmes and corporate events covering financial services and offshore captives.
Willem Boshoff (40)
Company secretary
Willem H Boshoff is a qualified chartered accountant (Namibia) and completed his accounting articles in 2012. He fulfils the role of nominee group secretary of Veritas Eksekuteurskamer Proprietary Limited.
Creating above average value through sustainable growth