Core Faculty

Enos Banda
Founder and Chairman, Freetel Group of Companies

Enos is a South African entrepreneur and investment banker who is founder and CEO of the Freetel Group of Companies. Freetel focuses on fund management, portfolio investments in a number of key sectors and investment and transaction advise to a select number of sovereign and international clients. Enos has advised in some of the seminal transactions in South Africa, including the first Johnnic BEE transaction, the then groundbreaking partial privatisation of Telkom SA, and the equally groundbreaking project financing of the first toll road from South African to Maputo. He has served as chairman of the South African National Electricity Regulator and Chairman of the Municipal Infrastructure Investment Unit of the SA Government. He was country head for Credit Suisse First Boston (a global investment bank) and later, head of Africa for HSBC Corporate and Investment Bank, after which he established Freetel. He has developed policies in ICT and drafted national laws in telecommunications and municipal finance and BEE. He has practised law in both the United States and in South Africa. He is admitted to the New York law bar, and he is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa. Enos is a member of the Board of MMC Norilsk Nickel and the Chairman of the company’s budget committee, and is a member of the Board of Supergroup and its audit committee. He sits on a limited number of boards of unlisted entities.

Catherine Cameron
Director, Agulhas: Applied Knowledge

Catherine occupies a unique position in the space intersecting the public and private sectors and civil society, working to support sustainability via a range of means including policy development and analysis, problem analysis, managing process, impact assessment, promoting learning and change. She was lucky enough to start her career in sustainability in Botswana in the late 1980s and since then has worked across Anglophone sub Saharan Africa, with a couple of forays into Lusophone African countries too. She has a particular expertise in climate change having been a co-author of the Stern Review on the economics of climate change and has recently focused on the need to improve climate resilience. She is a Director of Agulhas: Applied Knowledge, a consultancy focused on improving sustainability.

Dr Gary Kendall
Southern Africa Deputy Director, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership

Gary has been working with the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership since January 2011, having previously led SustainAbility’s think tank function. He regularly contributes articles – in particular relating to energy security and climate change – and speaks at international conferences and through the media. Gary has advised several leading companies on how to approach and tackle sustainability challenges, including Coca-Cola, Ford, Nestlé, Novo Nordisk, Rio Tinto, A.P. Møller-Maersk and Shell. Previously, Gary spent two years working in WWF’s Global Climate & Energy program, where his main interests were the causes of – and solutions to – the series of environmental perils associated with society’s addiction to hydrocarbon fuels. This followed nine years in the oil industry with Mobil (and later ExxonMobil), spanning diverse roles from Research and Product Development to Sales, Marketing, and Business Development. Working across Europe, the US and Asia offered Gary first-hand insight to the strategic and day-to-day sustainability challenges posed by one of the world’s most problematic sectors.
Gary is the author of the WWF publication “Plugged In: The End of the Oil Age”.

Mary-Jane Morifi
Executive Head Corporate Affairs, Anglo Platinum

Mary-Jane was appointed to her present position and to the Anglo Platinum Management Services Board in November 2007, joining the company from BP International in London, where she was Director of Audit, BP Marketing. In her present role she is responsible for government relations, sustainable development, corporate communications and community engagement and development. She gained a BSoc Sci (Hons) from the University of Cape Town.

Peter Willis
Southern Africa Director, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership

Peter has been working in the field of corporate sustainability strategy and environmental policy in South Africa since 1995. He has run the Southern African office of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership since 2002 and in that role he is the regional chair of The Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme. In the 1980s and early 1990s in the UK he created and ran several small businesses in the field of fine art publishing and marketing. He has degrees in History (Oxford) and Education (London) and moved to Cape Town with his South African-born wife in 1993. He has a long association with TSiBA Education, the innovative free business school in Cape Town and mentors a number of young people in different walks of life.