Age: 61

Appointed to the Board: 2024

Qualification: BCom, B. Acc, CA(SA)

Over 23 years’ experience in the infrastructure, manufacturing, energy and banking industries

Mr O’Flaherty is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA) and began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. in 1986, having served as an audit partner for 6 years in the Energy and Mining sector. Since 2001, he has served in both CFO and CEO roles in JSE listed companies (Group Five Limited and ArcelorMittal South Africa Limited), the public sector (Eskom Holdings Limited) and in large multinational private companies.

Mr O’Flaherty has a remarkable track record across multiple emerging markets coupled with in-depth experience in turnarounds, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and programme and project management. Prior to joining Ernst & Young Inc., he had the overall responsibility for the $1bn separation of ABSA Bank Limited from Barclays Plc.

Mr O’Flaherty is a commercially focused leader and has gained extensive experience across the manufacturing, mining, infrastructure, energy, trading, and financial services industries. He has also served as a non-executive director of JSE listed companies.

Age: 49

Appointed to Metair: 2025

Qualification: CA (SA), B. Com (Wits), Bachelor of Accounting (Wits)

Alastair has extensive private equity and corporate finance experience. After working for Deloitte in both Johannesburg and London, in 2004 he joined Anglo American Corporate Finance where was he involved on several high-profile transactions. In 2007, he joined the Brait Investment Team where he represented Brait on the boards of both UK and SA based portfolio companies.

Since 2018, he has been investing and partnering with several SA based entrepreneurs across a range of industries.