Hendrik Johan Karel Ferreira (Piet) (56)

BCompt (Hons), CA(SA)

Piet is executive director: corporate advisory services, focusing on mergers, acquisitions and general advisory and secretarial services and was first appointed to the Steinhoff International board in 2005.

He commenced his career in corporate finance in 1986 and worked at several investment banks before joining Steinhoff International in January 2002 after which he was appointed as an alternate director in December 2005. During his career with South African merchant banks, he was involved with various corporate finance transactions, including the group's initial public offering on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in 1998. Piet has extensive corporate finance experience and expertise in the field of mergers and acquisitions, rights offers, company restructures and general corporate finance. Piet is also a serving member of the issuer services advisory committee of the JSE. Piet became an executive director of Steinhoff International and Steinhoff Investment Holdings Limited with effect from May 2009.