Full Name: Frederick Botha

Position: Group CEO of JSE-listed Insimbi Refractory & Alloy Supplies

Main Activity of the Company: Nonferrous metals

Date and Place of Birth: April 30, 1964, Johannesburg

Education: CA(SA)

First Job: Auditor at what is now PwC Cape Town

Size of First Pay Packet: R500 a month

First Job with Present Group: Group commercial director

Value of Assets under Your Control: R800-million

Number of People under Your Leadership: About 300

Management Style: Quite relaxed – I am not a ‘hierarchy’ person and become involved and interact at all levels

Personal Best Achievement: Being appointed group CEO

Professional Best Achievement: Becoming a chartered accountant

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: No specific person, but definitely my wife and children

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: Myself

Person You Would Most Like to Meet: Sir Richard Branson

Businessperson Who Has Impressed You Most: Sir Richard Branson

Philosophy of Life: The harder I work, the luckier I get

Biggest Ever Opportunity: Management buyout of current group, in 2003

Biggest Ever Disappointment: Our share price not following our financial achievements

Hope for the Future: Further expansion of our group through acquisition to ‘exit’ the small-cap space

Favourite Reading: Any crime or spy novel and nature magazines

Favourite TV Programme: Homeland

Favourite Food/Drink: Sauvignon Blanc

Favourite Music: Rock

Favourite Sport: Mountain biking

Favourite Website: Probably news24.com

Hobbies: Walking, wakeboarding

Car: Toyota Landcruiser VX 200

Pets: A Rottweiler

Miscellaneous Dislikes: Smoking, laziness, inefficiency, poor time management

Favourite Other South African Company: Steinhoff (okay, that’s a joke), Bidvest

Favourite Foreign Company: Tesla

Married: To Hayley Botha, since January 5, 1995

Children: Brittany, 19; twins Alexander and Cameron, 15

Clubs: None