Trevor S. Norwitz, Chairman and President
Kofi Appenteng, Director
David P. Meachin, Director
Craig Mullett, Treasurer
Trevor Norwitz
Trevor S. Norwitz
Trevor Norwitz serves as Chairman of the Board and President of the University of Cape Town Fund, Inc.. Mr. Norwitz is a partner at the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, where he specializes in corporate law and governance and has advised on some of the largest global mergers and acquisitions transactions. He also teaches at Columbia University School of Law, serves on several Bar committees and was an advisor to the South African government on its recent company law reform.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Mr. Norwitz received his Bachelor of Business Science degree with First Class Honors from the University of Cape Town in 1986. On a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, he read law at Keble College, graduating with First Class Honors in 1989, and then completed an LLM at Columbia University in 1990.
In addition to the UCT Fund, Mr. Norwitz is also a director of a Friends of Ikamva Labantu, Friends of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation and Advancing Human Rights.
Trevor and his wife Shannon (Lieberman who was a 1988 UCT Occupational Therapy School graduate), live in Westchester County and have two teenage sons Raphael and Herschel.
Kofi Appenteng
Kofi Appenteng
Mr. Appenteng, a partner at The West Africa Fund and Constant Capital, serves on the Board of the University of Cape Town Fund, Inc.. Previously, Mr. Appenteng was a partner at Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP. He joined Thacher Proffitt in 1991 and became a partner in 1994. He had a general corporate practice there and was a member of the Corporate and Financial Institutions Practice Group. Before joining Thacher Proffitt, he was an associate at Webster & Sheffield.
Mr. Appenteng is chair of the Africa-America Institute, the Community Service Society of New York, and the International Center for Transitional Justice. He serves on the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees as Chair of the Board’s Management and Governance Committee and a member of the Executive; Finance; Nominating; and Democracy, Rights and Justice committees.
In addition, Mr. Appenteng is Trustee Emeritus of Wesleyan University and serves on the boards of the Instituto de Empresa Fund, and the World Scout Fund USA.
Born in Ghana, Mr. Appenteng attended preparatory and public schools in England. He came to the United States in 1977 to attend Wesleyan University and earned his law degree from the Columbia University School of Law.
David Meachin
David J. P. Meachin
Mr. Meachin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cross Border Enterprises, LLC serves on the Board of the University of Cape Town Fund, Inc.. Based in New York, Mr. Meachin founded Cross Border Enterprises in 1991. Prior to this, Mr. Meachin was Managing Director, Investment Banking Division, Merrill Lynch & Company in New York from 1981 to 1991; Vice President and General Manager of International Corporate Finance in New York and London, Salomon Brothers; Second Vice President in New York and Tokyo, Smith Barney and Co. From 1966 to 1969, he was employed as a Project Engineer for Humphreys and Glasgow Ltd., a London-based international chemical plant contracting firm.??Mr. Meachin has served on public SEC-reporting company boards for 16 years, during which time he has been a Member of the Executive Committee of the Board, Chairman of the Audit Committee, and Member of the Compensation and Governance Committees.
Lyondell Chemical Company, the NYSE listed Fortune 100 Company of which he served as a board member, was sold in a going private transaction. Mr. Meachin has also served as a Director of Millennium Chemicals Inc. (NYSE), The Ground Round Inc. (NASDAQ), Metha Energy Solutions Inc. (OTC), and The Spartek Emerging Opportunities of India Fund.??Mr. Meachin serves as Director and past Chairman of the British American Educational Foundation. In addition, he serves as an Advisory Board Member of Structured Credit International Corp. (SCIC), an Advisory Board Member of the South African Chamber of Commerce America (SACCA), and is a member of The Economic Club of New York.??Mr. Meachin holds a MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. He has graduate qualifications from Cambridge University and the French Petroleum Institute, Paris (Total Oil Company Postgraduate Scholar). Mr. Meachin holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town, and BS Physical Science (First Class) from the University of Natal in South Africa. David Meachin is a frequent speaker and forum participant on issues of corporate governance, private equity and investment banking.
Craig Mullett
Craig Mullett
Mr. Mullett serves on the Board as Treasurer of the University of Cape Town Fund, Inc. He is the Founder and President of Branison Group LLC, a corporate finance firm based in Connecticut. He is also an active angel investor in the USA and advised the formation and structuring of the first angel group on the African continent. This group (“AngelHub”) has now started operations in South Africa (in Cape Town and Johannesburg ). Mr. Mullett has previously held positions at Amphenol Corporation, Wooltru Group & Deloitte (where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant), as well as directorships on several public, private and non-profit boards.
Mr. Mullett holds an MBA from the Netherlands Business School at Nyenrode University (where his thesis was on private equity in South Africa), and received a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree from the University of Cape Town in 1990. In addition, Mr. Mullett attended the International Leadership Academy of the United Nations in Jordan and was a Rotary Business Exchange Scholar to Malawi and Finland.
Born in Cape Town, Mr. Mullett maintains strong links to Africa. He enjoys the New England seasons of his current hometown of Guilford, Connecticut, and biking, hiking and traveling with his wife and two daughters.
Staff
Holly Lawrence
U.S. Regional Director managing the Fund’s U.S. fundraising and development, operations, marketing communications and alumni relations activities.
