CEO Today Africa Awards

67 www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today Africa Awards 2018 SOUTH AFRICA MARK DYTOR CEO of AECI FIRM PROFILE AECI is a South African-based company focused on providing products and services to a broad spectrum of customers in the mining, water treatment, plant and animal health, food and beverage, infrastructure and general industrial sectors. It has regional and international businesses in Africa, Europe, South East Asia, North America and Australia. The Group now comprises 17 businesses and has 7 908 employees. The Group’s strategy is to be the supplier of choice in the markets in which it operates and to continue to grow domestically as well as through ongoing expansion of its footprint in terms of the geographies and markets served. In line with this strategy the five growth pillars are Mining Solutions (AEL Mining Services, Experse and Senmin), Water & Process (ImproChem), Plant & Animal Health (Nulandis and newly acquired Schirm), Food & Beverage (Lake Foods and Southern Canned Products), and Chemicals (Chemfit, Chemical Initiatives, ChemSystems, Industrial Oleochemical Products, SANS Technical Fibers and newly acquired Much Asphalt). Also in this pillar are two joint ventures - Crest Chemicals and Specialty Minerals South Africa. AECI was registered as a company in South Africa in 1924 and has been listed on the JSE since 1966. At the end of 2017 its market capitalisation was R12,2 billion. VISION AECI’s vision is to be the supplier of choice for customers in its chosen markets. The focus is on domestic growth as well as ongoing expansion outside South Africa in the Group’s chosen strategic areas of Mining Solutions, Water Solutions, Agrochemicals, and Food Additives and Ingredients. The proactive management of a portfolio of Specialty Chemicals businesses is the Group’s fifth growth pillar. AECI’S MODEL The model in place for AECI is summarised as “Freedom supported by a Framework”, with the framework established by the parent company complementing the businesses’ pursuit of their own innovative product and service excellence. ABOUT MARK DYTOR Mark assumed his role as AECI’s Chief Executive in 2013. He was appointed to AECI’s Executive Committee in 2010 and to its Board in January 2013. Having joined Chemical Services Limited (“Chemserve”) as a sales representative in 1984, and after managing two Chemserve companies, Mark was appointed to Chemserve’s Executive Committee in 1998 and subsequently to its Board. www.aeci.co.za