Our executive leadership

The Executive Committee of Deloitte Southern Africa manages the firm in the region. Grant Gelink is the chief executive and Allen Swiegers is the chief operating officer.

Our Executive leadership

Grant Gelink 
Chief Executive
CA (SA)

Grant Gelink was appointed chief executive of Deloitte Southern Africa on 1 June 2006. He has served the firm for over 25 years, during which time he has been the lead client service partner for the Public Sector. Grant has also fulfilled the position of partner-in-charge of the Pretoria office and service line leader for Management Solutions, Deloitte & Touche Active Era, Human Capital Corporation and Deloitte Consulting. His global responsibilities include being a member of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Board and a member of the Global Risk Committee. 

Grant is also the chairman of the African Children’s Feeding Scheme.

Lwazi Bam 
CEO-elect
CA (SA)

Lwazi Bam was appointed as CEO-elect on 1 June 2011, and will take office as chief executive of Deloitte Southern Africa on 1 June 2012, following the retirement of Grant Gelink.  Lwazi is the firm’s Strategy leader as well as the head of Corporate Finance. Lwazi has been with the firm for 18 years and has served in several roles, including as a member of the Deloitte Board and heading up the Advisory unit in Corporate Finance.

Lwazi has advised on a number of Mergers and Acquisitions transactions. His portfolio of experience covers buy-side and sell-side advisory, capital raising, management buy-outs, valuations and due diligence services.

Lwazi is a former member of the Securities Regulation Panel (SRP) and is a past president of the Association of Black Accountants of Southern Africa (ABASA).

Allen Swiegers 
Chief Operating Officer
CA (SA)

Allen Swiegers was appointed COO of Deloitte Southern Africa on 1 June 2006. He chairs the firm’s Talent Board is a member of the Deloitte & Touche Global Talent Council. He has served the firm for 27 years. 

Allen was the partner-in-charge of the Pretoria office from 2000 to 2006 and served as a Board member for two of those years before joining the Executive Committee in 2005.

Allen is the executive sponsor of the Deloitte Way.

Christoffel Chris Beukman 
Chief Financial Officer
CA (SA)

As the firm’s CFO, Chris Beukman is responsible for Partner/Director Affairs as well as the financial affairs of the firm. Chris is also the firm’s Board secretary.

He has served 37 years with the firm. Chris was a group leader in Johannesburg Assurance from 1993 to 2001. He has been responsible for the management and direction of engagements for large multinational corporations in South Africa in accounting, advisory, auditing and due diligence services with extensive experience in the utilities and construction sectors.

Chris was a member of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Resources Group and was responsible for co-ordination of the group’s activities in Africa.

Geoff Pinnock 
B Acc (Wits), CA (SA), Post Graduate Diploma in Banking Law (UJ)

Geoff Pinnock has served over 27 years with the firm and has held various senior management and leadership positions in Johannesburg Audit and the national Financial Institutions Services Team (FIST). He was appointed as the National leader of the Audit Service Line in August 2005.

Geoff has significant experience in serving large crown jewel and multi-national clients as LCSP. He is currently Advisory partner to FirstRand Bank Limited, African Bank Investments Limited, Mercantile Bank Limited and Brait S.A.

Dave Kennedy   
B Com (Hon), H.Dip Tax

Having served 21 years with the firm, Dave Kennedy has extensive experience in indirect taxes, which led to him to spending a number of years in the Australian firm leading the team responsible for the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST). During this implementation, Dave was also responsible for driving the Deloitte brand and Indirect Tax into the Asia Pacific region. Within the South African firm, Dave has also led the national Indirect Tax practice as well as the Strategic Tax Services Group focusing on the development of innovative new products and services.

Dave has serviced major national and global clients such as Massmart, Sasol, Barlows, Dimension Data, Spoornet, FRB, Murray & Roberts, Telstra (Australia), Woolworths (Australia), National Australian Bank (Australia) and Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore). He is also co-author of the Australian GST handbook produced during his time in Australia.

Dave has executive responsibility for Agility and the regional offices in South Africa. In 2008, Dave was appointed the service line leader for Risk Advisory.

Louis Geeringh 
M Com, CA (SA)

During his 21 years with the firm, Louis Geeringh has been the leader of the firm’s Foreign Investment Group and Regional Executive of the Africa Board of Deloitte. In his role he chaired the Emerging Business chapter of the World Economic Forum and was responsible for the establishment of Deloitte offices in Angola and Mozambique.

Louis founded the South African firm’s Strategic Business Development unit in 1997, which was tasked with making strategic investments for the firm as it extended its services to a broader professional services firm. As a result of the success of the local initiative, Louis was appointed as executive director of the global firm’s Service Innovation Board in 1999 and served in this capacity also on the global firm’s Audit & Advisory businesses’ Directorate.

Since 2001, Louis has been servicing a number of large multinational clients in the area of growth strategy and innovation process. Louis is regarded as a thought leader on radical innovation by the global business and technology think-tank, FutureWorld. He frequently speaks around the world on this topic and has authored a number of publications that highlight the causal links between total shareholder returns, revenue growth and innovation.

Louis was appointed as the managing director of Deloitte Consulting in Southern Africa in 2006.

Nazrien Kader 
B Acc, H Dip Accounting, H Dip Taxation Law, CA (SA)

Nazrien Kader has been with Deloitte for 15 years as a tax practitioner and was appointed to the Deloitte partnership in 2001. She is a specialist in corporate income tax and consults to a portfolio of corporate listed-to-medium sized clients in the financial services industry on a wide range of income tax issues.

Nazrien was business unit leader of Taxation Services in KwaZulu-Natal, prior to taking up the national role of lead director of the Financial Services Tax team for Deloitte, based in Johannesburg. In addition to her new role as service line leader responsible for Taxation Services, she is also the leader of the Financial Services Tax team.

Nazrien holds many positions both within and outside of Deloitte and is intimately involved with the Chartered Accountancy profession in South Africa. Her most prominent roles include being a member of the Income Tax Court of South Africa; a former KwaZulu-Natal representative on the Board of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA); the former chairman of the SAICA Eastern Region Taxation Committee; a former member of Council of the SAICA Eastern Region and past-president; a member of the SAICA Disciplinary Panel and an ambassador for the Association for Black Securities & Investment Professionals (ABSIP) Women in Focus.

Nazrien has presented at a number of external corporate tax seminars on a wide range of tax topics, including an international seminar on the topic of transfer pricing tax in the financial services industry. She is also often quoted in the South African tax media.

Justine Mazzocco  
CA (SA)

Justine Mazzocco has been with Deloitte for 25 years, and has been a partner for 12 years. She is the business unit leader for Internal Audit Services nationally and represents Group Human Resources & Development on the firm's executive committee. She is also the senior vice president of the Institute of Internal Auditors in South Africa. She is a member of the King III task committee for the Internal Audit workstream.

She serves a diverse client base in both the public and private sector. Some of her clients, both past and present, include: Johnnic Group, South African Breweries, South African National Parks, University of Johannesburg, National Treasury, Financial Services Board and Transkei Sun International Limited.