ANDRE JACOBUS LAMPRECHT (56)
Chief executive officer B Com, LLB, PED-IMD
André served in a number of student leadership positions in the 1970s, inter alia, as
the President of the National Union of South African Students in 1976. He practiced
as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa prior to being invited to join
Barloworld in 1981. From 1983 he played a leading role in steering the group through
the political transition into a post-apartheid South Africa. He was appointed to the
board of Barlow Rand (subsequently Barloworld) and subsidiary boards in 1993. In
2003 he was appointed CEO of the coatings division and retired from the Barloworld
board in 2007. He has served on numerous public bodies and is inter alia a past
chairman of Business South Africa and a past president of the AHI and its board of
trustees. He is a non-executive director of Pretoria Portland Cement Company Limited
(PPC), the National Business Initiative (NBI), and the Business Trust. He is a member
of the retirement funds advisory committee of the Minister of Finance and serves on
the Council of Business Unity SA (BUSA) and the Millennium Labour Council.







