About | REDISA

Our Team

History

Achievements

Our Team

CEO

Hermann Erdmann

An entrepreneur and businessman, Hermann Erdmann has extensive experience in the manufacturing and retail sectors having served on a number of industry-related boards.

Erdmann’s interest in environmental sustainability, transformation and empowerment of the previously disadvantaged resulted in the establishment of REDISA, and the development of the first approved Industry Waste Management Plan.

Director

Stacey Davidson

Stacey Davidson joined REDISA in 2010 as a director, after working in various industries including finance. Davidson’s interest in the economic empowerment of previously disadvantaged communities resulted in her volunteering for community-based organisations such as NICRO, CAFDA, and Triple Trust Organisation. It was Davidson’s passion for community development which prompted her to join REDISA.

Stacey’s passion and drive enabled her to start her own business, Melsta Business Solutions in 2003, which specialised in providing data sanitisation and community-based marketing strategies to financial services companies looking to trace members of Pension and Provident funds.

In 2010 she served as director of Jibu Consulting, a business offering consulting services to both the public and private sector. She resigned from both companies to join REDISA NPC.

Non-executive Director

Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk obtained a B.A. Law LLB from the University of Stellenbosch, and practiced law until 1996 before moving into a legal advisor position. Kirk also lectured final year law students at the Public Law Faculty of the University of the Western Cape from 1988 to 1998.

During 2007, together with Sam Robertson, she started her own boutique law firm, Robertson Teuteberg Kirk, specialising in areas such as the National Credit Act, the Consumer Protection Act, the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act and the laws relating to Privacy.

Charlie left RTK to take up her role at REDISA in January, 2012.

Non-executive Director

Busi Mabuza

Busi Mabuza is a business leader whose professional experience is rooted in investment management.

She is the current Chair of the Board of Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, the largest national development finance institution in sub-Saharan Africa.

She also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Ninety One plc and is the Lead Independent Director of Tsogo Sun Gaming Limited.

Busi holds the CD(SA) designation; an MBA from the New York University’s Leonard Stern School of Business and a BA Mathematics and Computer Science from Hunter College, City University of NY.

The REDISA Story

November 2012 REDISA is formed. One week later our first tire is processed.

January 2012

The REDISA Plan is approved

November 2012

First tyre collection from Tiger Wheel and Tyre, collected by Fastrack transporter (Gauteng)

First tyre collection

2013, May

Midrand depot opened in January 2014

Midrand depot opened

2014, Jan

REDISA CEO Hermann Erdmann on a panel discussion at the Global Economic Symposium (GES). The panel focused on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the need for a paradigm shift in creating value from waste.

May 2014

Global Economic Symposium panel discussion

May 2014