BAKER M.J. MASEKO
Chairman
Obtained his Junior Degree in Law from the University of the Western Cape and completing his Senior Degree in Law with UNISA. He previously was Executive Deputy Chairperson and co-founder of Azaguys Advertising and Marketing, responsible for strategy and business development in the mass market. BMJ Maseko was also joint Agency Head and joint Head of Strategy for the Aftican National Congress, National Election Campaign 1999. He is the founder and Chairman of New Credit Managers (Pty) Ltd, which provides credit management solutions and debt recovery system to the public and private sector. He further acts as Chairmen of Lesira Trading (Pty) Ltd, Lesira Teq (Pty) Ltd (Manufacturing and Facilities Supplier to Municipalities), Ashante Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd (Investments in Exploration and Mining of Diamond and Coal Resources), BMJ Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd (Multi Disciplinary Investments Holdings Company) and Nala Globe Tranportation Solutions (Pty) Ltd (Transport and Fleet Management). He Is a liquidator/trustee duly appointed by the Master of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He further serves as a Councilor on the Council of debt Collectors and is a Board Member of the Association of Debt Recovery Agencies.
CORNE RICHARDS
Managing Director
Obtained his Law degree from the university of Pretoria. Had his first stint of employment with ABSA Bank’s Legal and Risk Management Department for five years. He proceeded to join John Craig’s Legal Department, where he became instrumental in the formation of MISAB Collection Agency. He became the first Managing Director of MISAB, specializing in collections within the retail business market. He subsequently joined the NICS group in 2001 and is its current Director responsible for Operations.
TIAAN JONK
Executive Director: Finance
Graduated from Rand Afrikaans University with a B.Comm and University of South Africa with a B.Compt Hons majoring in Accounts, Tax, Auditing and Cost Accounting. Completed 5 years articles with the now KPMG. Spent 10 years in distribution, manufacturing and marketing, developing entrepreneurial skills, building brands and customer loyalty. Joined the NICS Group in 2003.
TLHOLO APHANE
Executive Director: Human Resources & Administration
She obtained her BCom (Administration) from the University of the North. She proceeded to enhance her skills by further completing the following Diplomas with different institutions: Elementary Business English, Personal Productivity, Human Resource Management and Business Presentation Skills. She started her working career at Get Ahead Foundation in Pretoria as a Human Resources Officer and subsequently as a Manager for five years before proceeding to join Grand Finance in 1997 as Branch Manager. She later proceeded to Blue Dot Properties as Co-ordinator – Risk and Arrears in 2001 and subsequently Blue Dot Finance as Risk and Group Collections Manager.
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
STRANGER GREEN
Managing Executive: Special Projects
He obtained his Higher Education Diploma at the University of Western Cape. He worked for Gray Security Company in Bloemfontein, he later was transferred to Johannesburg where he served as an Admin Manager within the Administration and Finance Department. He subsequently joined the New Integrated Credit Solutions in 2001 where he served as an Area Manager for the Central Region. He later was promoted to a position of an Executive Manager of Special Projects where he currently serves. He possesses expertise in managing client relationships between the company and a range of clients such as John Craig, ABSA, Matlosana, Mangaung, Bela-Bela, MEGA, Lekwa- Teemane, Thulamela Local Municipalities, etc.
CALEB MAKAKABA
Managing Executive: Operations
He obtained his BAEd degree at Vista University and started his career with Living Pine SA (Pty) Ltd specializing in the Quality Control of the final line. He moved to Sales House Credit Office in Pretoria 1998 with the focus on collections as a Consultant. He later moved to MISAB & Associates in 1999 as a Consultant where his specialty was collections and he was elected as a team leader in 2002. He was subsequently been employed by New Integrated Credit Solutions as an Area Manager specializing in Collections with the special focus of overseeing junior managers. He later was promoted to a position of an Executive Manager of Operations, where he currently serves.
JOE M. MAHLANGU
Managing Executive: Sales & Marketing
He has a National Diploma in Travel and Tourism acquired from the Technicon of South Africa and has completed his ND: Business Administration and Management. He completed a diploma in Marketing with the Rosebank College in 2007. He is currently doing a BCom in Marketing Management with UNISA. He worked for a number of years as a support officer for one of the leading IT companies in SA, Called Procon Fischer, assisting the Municipalities/ Traffic and Licensing Departments nationally with management, training and auditing services. He joined NICS in 2006 and is accountable for the marketing duties which includes keeping in touch with changing circumstances that may necessitate changes to marketing strategies and analyse problems objectively and apply variable techniques to their solutions.
WALTER D.T LEKOLA
Admin Manager
Obtained his National Diploma in Public Management and Administration from the Tshwane University of Technology. He is presently studying BTech (Business Administration) through TSA. He started his career as a bank teller for Permanent Building Society before proceeding to John Craig Credit Office as a Credit Management Officer in 1994. He was later promoted to Senior Debt Collector in the Great North Region in 1996. He joined MISAB & Associates in 1998 as the Senior Admin Clerk and is currently the Admin Manager of NICS, overseeing all administration related services. He possesses a critical understanding of the administrative and legal collection processes.
JOHAN STEYN
IT Manager
He started his working career in 2001 at Lexpro Systems as a Systems Developer, accountable for the development and upgrades of various functions for systems used by Debt Collection Organizations operating on C/C++. In 2004 when he left Lexpro, he was a Software Development Team Leader. He since then joined NICS as the Systems Developer. He possesses a 6 years development experience in a Debt Collection environment. He was promoted to being an IT Manager in 2006. He also has acquired qualifications through short courses such as: Visual Basic, C# .Net, MS SQL 2005 and MySql. He has three IT specialists working under him.
CHARMAINE OPPERMAN
Legal Manager
As the Manageress within the Legal Department, she has 20 + years worth of experience in Legal procedures which include; experience as Secretary / Snr. Legal Typist to Senior Attorney in Litigation and Debt Collection. She has seven legal consultants operating under her.
TEAM OF CONSULTANTS
All the NICS’ consultants have been with the company for no less than three (3) years. They possess a critical understanding and experience regarding debt recovery services. Each one of them has serviced over ten (10) clients in the past years. They are capable to handle about 1300 calls per month individually (which makes it 65 calls per day each consultant).
Managing Executive: Special Projects
