ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE OF LESTER JOHN COELEN

Date of Birth:
16 January 1943

Educated:
MaristBrothersCollege – St Henry’s (Durban). Matriculated 1960
Was head prefect.

Tertiary Education:
Chartered Accountant (SA) – qualified 1965
M B A – CranfieldSchool of Business – UK – 1968.

Personal Status:
Married to Jennifer with four children and thirteen grandchildren.

Business Career:
1961 (February) to 1966 (October)
Alex Aiken and Carter. Initially as an Articled Clerk and finally Audit Manager

1966 (November) to 1969 (December)
Canadian Pacific Railway Company – Initially as an Internal Auditor and finally as Area
Manager (Eastern Canada) – Container Operations for the shipping subsidiary

1970 (February) to 1971 (February)
Safmarine – involved in containerisation program of SA trade.

1971 (May) to 1973 (October)
IL Back & Co Ltd – Chief Accountant

1974 (January) to 1981 (June)
Clifford Harris (Pty) Ltd  – Company Secretary and Admin Director.

1981 (July) to 2004 (January)
Initially as Financial Director of the DCF Property Group of Companies and then of Atlas Properties Ltd when it acquired the DCF Group management company and certain of its properties.

2004 (February) to 2005 (February)
Member of Executive Committee of Atlas Properties

2005 (February) to 2007 (August)
Director of Atlas Properties Ltd. Resigned when Atlas acquired by Acucap

Currently Director of Lemanco Management (Pty) Ltd and Ledevco Development (Pty) Ltd and involved with Ian Raubenheimer in developing various property projects.

Other:

Mountaineering – Been involved since 1963 and since 1974 a member of the Mountain Search and Rescue team, locally and nationally. Currently Honorary Treasurer of local club. Have just retired after 40 years of being a member of the central Committee of the federal body of the Mountain Club of SA.

Conservation – Currently a Trustee of WWF-SA and serve as a member of its Investment Committee Trustee of the Lower Breede River Conservancy Trust and am it’s Treasurer.

Was actively involved in the formation of the Table Mountain National Park – appointed to the various government committees set up to establish the park; served 2 terms on the park committee. Was a founding Trustee of the Table Mountain Fund and served as a Trustee for 11 years.

General  – Trustee of a number of other trusts of my family and that of friends.