Board of directors
The Board’s primary role is to create value and protect the interests of the Group’s shareholders. The Board is accountable to shareholders for the Group performance and its activities. Communication with shareholders is achieved through the Annual Report, Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) and local media where necessary. In addition, all Group announcements and corporate information is available to investors on the Group’s website.
Graham Paul Johnson – Chairman
Graham Paul Johnson is an independent non-executive director, was appointed Chairman of the Board effective 20 July 2020. He is sterling leader with vast knowledge of the hotel industry and an expert in property development and project management.
He is the Managing Director of GPJ Projects (Private) Limited, a project management consultancy firm. Previously, he was an Executive Director of Zimbabwe Sun Limited, now African Sun Limited, where he held several portfolios including those of Operations and Marketing Director. Graham holds a Bachelor of Science in Quantity Surveying from the University of Cape Town and he did an Advanced Management programme with Oxford University and Property Development programme with the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.
Justin Dowa – Managing Director
Justin is both a Chartered Surveyor and a Chartered Builder with broad experience in property investment. A former Chief Executive Officer for Mashonaland Holdings Limited and Dawn Properties Limited, he started his career at Knight Frank Zimbabwe before moving to CB Richard Ellis where he rose to become Partner. Justin has considerable overseas work experience having spent a number of years in Australia working for large organizations including Shell Australia Limited and Brookfield Multiplex Limited. A seasoned professional, Justin holds various qualifications including an MBA in Construction and Real Estate from the University of Reading, a post-graduate Diploma in Surveying from the College of Estate Management, a post-graduate Diploma in Project Management from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Zimbabwe. He also holds memberships of the Australian Property Institute, the Zimbabwe Valuers’ Council and the Real Estate Institute of Zimbabwe.
In the recent past he has been Managing Director for Dawn Property Consultancy, a subsidiary of Dawn Properties Limited.
Ndangariro Mutizwa – Chief Finance Officer
Ndangariro is a Deloitte trained Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder. He has over 13 years of experience in international financial reporting, taxation planning, administration and leadership, investments target screening, capital raise, deal structuring and strategy formulation and implementation. His experience spans across the following industries; insurance, property, hospitality, and manufacturing. Prior to joining Dawn Properties Limited, he was the Chief Finance Officer of Mashonaland Holdings Limited, and he also held senior roles at Masawara PLC in the finance and investments departments.
Murisi Mukonoweshuro – Non-Executive Director
Murisi has served as Non-Executive Director at Dawn Properties Ltd since January 1, 2013. He also serves as Chairman of the Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics Committee of the Company. He is a Chartered Accountant (“CAZ”) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountancy of Zimbabwe. Through various assignments in audit, advisory services, banking and investment management, he has gained over 20 years’ experience in strategy, investment management, business acquisitions and financial management..
Brett Childs – Non-Executive Director
Brett Childs, a Chartered Accountant originally from Zimbabwe, has 30 years’ experience in change management, capital raising, IPOs, corporate actions and investment strategy. Brett spent 15 years in London, where he helped to build a successful venture capital business, listing assets on the London Stock Exchange and Helsinki Stock Exchange (HEX).
Brett has been based in Mauritius for the last 17 years and has managed or been a director of a number of private and public investment businesses, largely with a pan-African focus including Brainworks Limited, where he is Chief Executive Officer of this JSE listed company which is also the ultimate major shareholder of Dawn Properties Limited. Brett has been approved by various regulatory authorities including the Bank of Mauritius, Financial Services Commission (British Virgin Islands), Malta Financial Services Authority, Financial Services Board (South Africa), Solicitors Regulatory Authority (UK) and Financial Services Commission (Mauritius), to be a Director of companies they license.
Peter Saungweme – Non-Executive Director
Peter is a Chartered Accountant (Zimbabwe). He holds Bachelor of Accounting Sciences Honours and Bachelor of Accounting Sciences degrees from the University of South Africa (UNISA), Certificate of Theory in Accounting (CTA) and an Advanced Diploma in Auditing. He possesses strong financial management background skills having been the Finance Director at Dawn Properties Limited, Financial Controller of Ecobank Zimbabwe Limited and Chief Finance Officer at Cell Holdings (Private) Limited – a holding company with subsidiaries and associates with interests in short term and medical insurance.
Peter has vast external audit background in the banking, insurance, tourism and power generation sectors having worked as an Audit Manager for both KPMG Zimbabwe and KPMG Namibia for a combined period of 5 years.
Peter is currently the Chief Finance Officer for Brainworks Limited and also sits on the board of directors of African Sun Limited.
Elizabeth Rabvukwa – Non-Executive Director
Elizabeth has more than 15years experience as an executive, and she is currently the Managing Director of Zimnat Financial Services (Private) Limited and an Executive Director of Zimnat Asset Management (Private) Limited. Prior to joining Zimnat Financial Services (Private) Limited, she held various senior executive roles at Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Zimnat Life Assurance Limited where she gained vast experience in strategy formulation and execution, business transformation, managing start ups, mergers and acquisitions, property development and property management. Elizabeth is a non-executive director on various boards across different sectors spanning from health, financial services and parastatals. She is currently the Chairperson of the Finance and Audit Committee of Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe. Elizabeth is a Chartered Accountant and also holds a Masters in Business Leadership from UNISA SBL and an Executive Leadership program from GIBS.
Lloyd Mhishi – Non-Executive Director
Lloyd Mhishi is the Founder and current Senior Partner of the law firm; Mhishi Nkomo Legal Practice based in Harare. Lloyd has practiced law at several well established Zimbabwean law firms since 1993. Although he has experience in general practice, Lloyd has a special interest in Property Law, Real Estate and Conveyancing including registration of transfers and mortgage bonds with the Deeds Office. He has extensive experience in financial transactions involving financing agreements for international funders having registered security in their favour binding local institutional debtors. He also has experience in commercial and corporate law practice, banking and financial services work. Individually and as part of teams, Lloyd has advised on significant transactions including on competition laws, reconstruction and restructuring, schemes of arrangement, privatisations, unbundling, mergers and acquisitions and listings relating to a number of companies listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.
Lloyd is, and has been a Director and Member of several public and private corporations and Councils including, FBC Building Society, Council for Legal Education, Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council, Standards Association of Zimbabwe General Council, ZECO Limited, Estate Agents Council, Firstel Cellular (Private) Limited, Ecobank Zimbabwe Limited, MHMK Infratek (Private) Limited and a Trustee on a number of Charitable and Family Trusts established in Zimbabwe. He is a past President of the Law Society of Zimbabwe having been a Councillor for more than a decade. He has also been a Lecturer and was Departmental Chairman in the Procedural Law Department of the University of Zimbabwe for more than fifteen years. Lloyd has been appointed to several Constitutional Commissions and is currently a Commissioner on the Judicial Services Commission. Lloyd wrote and published a book entitled “The Law & Practice of Conveyancing in Zimbabwe” (Legal Resources Foundation, August, 2005). Apart from being a holder of a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Degree, he is also a holder of a Masters Degree in Business Administration with specialization in Finance.
Constantine Chikosi – Non-Executive Director
In a career spanning 20 years with the World Bank Group, Constantine held various operational, strategy and management roles delivering development solutions for the Bank’s client countries through analytical work, high level policy dialogue with governments and advising its Board on internal corporate strategy and forward looking initiatives. He oversaw a threefold growth of the World Bank’s investment portfolio in Southeast Asia and a 40 per cent improvement in its performance as chair of committees that shaped the Bank’s operational strategy and investment portfolios in Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand.
Constantine led the opening of the World Bank’s offices in Malaysia and Mauritius where he assisted the government in developing policy responses to the 2008 global financial crisis and streamlining the country’s business regulation to reduce the cost of regulatory compliance. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat in London as Chief Economics Officer and as business development executive for a global mining company. Currently, Constantine serves on the boards of Strand Hanson Ltd, a London-based investment bank, Mauritius Commercial Bank Group Ltd and BAT Zimbabwe Ltd, among other corporate engagements.
Constantine holds a law degree from the University of Zimbabwe, is a Chartered Management Accountant (UK), an MSc in Economics from the University of Surrey (UK) and a graduate of INSEAD Business School (France).
