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19 March 2009

Stefan (Joss) Joselowitz
	Chief Executive Officer Stefan Joselowitz has been successful in several senior management positions over a career spanning 20 years. Specifically, these include Sales Director and later CEO of Shurlok (Pty) ltd. Joss and his team built Shurlok into the dominant vehicle security company in South Africa. He also successfully developed a European sales and distribution channel for Electromactic (Pty) Ltd. In 1995, Joss put together a funding consortium and launched Matrix Vehicle Tracking.
Richard Bruyns
	Chairman Richard Bruyns directorship experience spans many industries and achievements. During the past 20 years, Richard has lead companies of 500 – 12,000 employees with annual sales ranging from R 500 million to R 20 billion in the IT, manufacturing, construction, hospitality and consumer goods industries. His experience includes turning one of Africa’s largest operators and managers of high end bush lodges from large losses to strong profitability and culminating with ‘best hotel in Africa and the Middle East, and 2nd best small hotel in the world 2005 for two of the group’s lodges.Richard is an SA Chartered Accountant and completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard University in Boston.
Riette Botha
	Managing Director – Matrix Vehicle Tracking Riëtte practiced as an accountant with various companies, before joining Matrix Vehicle Tracking in 1999. Her career at Matrix Vehicle Tracking has seen her through a variety of positions such as Financial Manager, Financial Director, Chief Operating Officer. She now does an excellent job as Managing Director of MiX Telematics Africa.
Terry Buzer
	Executive Director Terry Buzer was appointed to the board of Control Instruments in 1987, he joined Control Instruments in 1981, becoming Managing Director in 1984. Terry has been involved in all aspects of Control Instruments’ evolution, initially focusing on operational performance and productivity issues and additionally, in the last 10 years, on strategic direction, business start-ups, acquisitions and mergers. Terry now heads up MiX Telematics Europe and is based in the UK.
Steven Evans
	Group Financial Director Steven has vast financial expertise and business knowledge in various sectors including the retail, travel and IT sectors. Steven a CA (SA), completed his articles with Price Waterhouse in 1996. He was then employed by Van Leer Manufacturing and later Massdiscounters, a division of Massmart Limited. He joined Tourvest in 1999 where he filled various financial functions and moved to the Seekers Travel Group, a division of Tourvest, in January 2001 as the Financial Director. He was then appointed to Financial and IT Director for Tourvest Retail Travel and in 2005 became Financial Director of the Outbound Division.
Charles Tasker
	Managing Director – MiX Telematics International In 1986 Charles Tasker founded DataPro which was acquired by Control Instruments in 1996. In 1997 Charles joined CI as managing director of their fleet management business which became MiX Telematics in 2008. He currents performs the role of MD for the MiX Telematics International group operating from Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Robin Frew
	Non-Executive Director Robin Frew is an investor and non-executive director in various operating businesses including Radiospoor Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd, Hymax SA (Pty) Ltd, Wizzit Payments (Pty) Ltd, Thynk Capital (Pty) Ltd and Thynk Property Fund (Pty) Ltd. Robin’s previous experience includes 15 years with the Radiospoor group, a supplier of cellular and other mobile services, and was the CEO of Radiospoor while it was listed on the JSE between 1997 and 2000. He has been involved with TeliMatrix since inception.
Afzal Patel
	Managing Director – Kagiso Ventures Ltd and non-executive director of Matrix Vehicle Tracking (Pty) Ltd. Afzal Patel is the Managing Director of Kagsio Ventures Limited. Afzal obtained a BCom degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1990 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1994 having served his articles with Deloitte & Touche. Afzal was previously a director of Fusion Capital Corporate Finance, a division of Fusion Capital, a company listed on the JSE Securities Exchange. He was involved in a diverse range of corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions activities, particularly in the field of Black Economic Empowerment. He joined Kagiso Group in 2001, and is a director of a vast number of the investee companies in the Kagiso Ventures portfolio.
Tony Welton
	Non-Executive Director Anthony ("Tony") Welton, a CA(SA), MBL (Unisa) brings a wealth of financial and operational expertise to the Group, having been the Financial Director of large, listed companies. He was Financial Director of both Kohler Limited and Malbak Limited from 1992 to 1999 and 1999 to 2004, respectively. Welton then became a financial consultant for FRM - a business recovery specialist. He uses his invaluable experience on the TeliMatrix board as Non-executive Director and in chairing TeliMatrix’s Audit and Risk Committee. He will no doubt further strengthen the company’s skilled board.
Richard Friedman
Non-Executive Director Richard Friedman joined Control Instruments as a director of a subsidiary company in 1981. He became managing director of Control Instruments (Pty) Ltd in 1985 and managing director of Control Instruments in 1986, listing Control Instruments in 1987.