Board of Directors

Jan Abraham Claassen
Nationality: RSA
Age: 57
Position: GroupManaging Director
Years with Letshego: 6
Residence: Gaborone, Botswana
Shareholding: 209,354 shares

Mr Claassen has been Managing Director of Letshego Holdings Limited since July 2003. Prior to joining Letshego, he spent 7 years at First National Bank of Namibia as Deputy Managing Director. He spent the first twenty years of his career at First National Bank of South Africa in Johannesburg and has also worked in Malawi for two years on secondment from the FNB Group.

Mr Claassen holds a BCom, LLB and has completed an Advanced Executive Programme with UNISA.

In his time as Managing Director of Letshego, the group has grown from having one company in Botswana employing 30 people with four branches, to the current group comprising seven operating subsidiaries with over 350 employees, in six countries with a branch network exceeding 100 branches in number.