After qualifying with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, Iain spent three years in a newly-established vehicle finance division of the McCarthy Motor Group in Durban.

Iain’s career in the liquor industry began in 1993 when he moved to Zimbabwe to establish a bottling and distribution business operating under license to Edward Snell & Co. In 1997 he joined Edward Snell & Co. South Africa as General Manager of the Johannesburg branch.

In 2002 Iain joined the Board and relocated to Cape Town in 2005 when he was appointed as Managing Director, a position he held for 16 years.

Iain was appointed as Chairman in May 2021.

Karin started her career in 2001 at British American Tobacco, holding various cross-functional roles within Brand Marketing, Sales & Commercial Management and Business Strategy across South Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and the rest of Africa. From there, she moved onto the Distell business in 2015 as Group Head of Capability developing and globally rolling out an end-to-end Marketing Academy encompassing all levels within the organisation.

Karin joined Edward Snell & Co. in March 2017 as Head of Marketing and was appointed to the Board as Marketing Director at the end of that same year. She holds a Bachelors of Commerce at the University of Stellenbosch, a post graduate diploma in Market Research at the University of Georgia and an M.Phil post graduate degree in Futures Studies at the University of Stellenbosch.

Karin was appointed Managing Director in May of 2021.

Effective 1 March 2024, Juliette Bourne has been appointed Head of Human Resources at Edward Snell & Co. She joined the company in February 2023 as interim Human Resource Manager and has subsequently reorganized the function to deliver against a best practice strategic people agenda. Her decades-long HR career started in Financial Services and to date has fulfilled various senior leadership positions in Blue Chip companies including Allan Gray, British American Tobacco and Pernod Ricard Sub Saharan Africa.

She prides herself in her ability to spearhead culture change having been instrumental in the development of the strategic human resource operating model within Allan Gray as well as the development and implementation of various people practices within Pernod Ricard South Africa.

Juliette holds a BTech Degree from CPUT, and has completed a Senior Management Development Programme and a Post Graduate Diploma in Leadership Development from Stellenbosch Business School.

Bayanda Cwazibe has an Industrial Engineering degree from the University of Johannesburg, a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and a top-rated Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Gordon’s Institute of Business Science (GIBS). Additionally, he has significant experience in the operations space, having worked at various positions for world-class manufacturing companies that include IBM, Danone SA and Heineken South Africa.

In his ever-expanding career, Bayanda has developed into an operations specialist, a leader and an innovator with rich experience in plant optimisation initiatives. Since joining the company in September 2017, Bayanda was responsible for consolidating our local production operations in Isando, which blends and bottles Edward Snell & Co.’s locally produced products. In addition to developing and significantly upskilling the Production Team, Bayanda has also overseen our facility’s extremely successful capital upgrade in Johannesburg.

Bayanda was appointed to Head of Supply Chain in March 2021.

Chris previously worked in the banking sector for JP Morgan and UBS in London after finishing his articles at Deloitte & Touch.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Rhodes University and Honours Bachelor of Accounting Science from Unisa.

He was admitted to the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1997 and is a member of The Association of Corporate Treasurers, London.

Chris joined Edward Snell & Co. in 2001 and was appointed interim Financial Director in October 2019 and to the Board of Directors in July 2020.

After completing his BComm Marketing degree at the University of Pretoria Andries began working at Edward Snell & Co. in 2006, and stayed with the company for 3 years moving through various field representative and management positions across the regions for the company.

After leaving the company at the end of 2008 Andries took on a number of roles that saw him progress from Sales Manager in On Premise, Off Premise, Main Market and then on to Sales Executive in South African Breweries (SAB) excelling in each role and receiving multiple sales awards during his tenure.

Andries returned to Edward Snell & Co. in the capacity of National Sales Manager in 2013 overseeing the commercial structure and execution for the company. Andries was appointed to the board of directors as Sales Director for the company in 2014 and has held the position to date.

After completing his B. Comm Accounting degree at Wits University, Brett started his career in internal audit and finance with Toyota South Africa, before moving on to General Electric, where he led various business units in a commercial role including heading up African Business Development for GE Security. During his last two years at GE, he took up the challenge of leading the supply chain and operations for the group.

Brett joined Edward Snell & Co. in 2009 as the General Manager for the Inland region, where he was responsible for all commercial and operational functions, including the national DC, Call Centre and Debtors operations. Brett was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2014 and in 2018 he was appointed into the role of Inland & Group Logistics Director. In September 2022, Brett took up the role of Export & Group Logistics Director, responsible for both the company’s Export Business Division, as well as all Group logistical operations.

Brett holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degree from Wits and a Master’s in Business Leadership (MBL) from Unisa’s School of Business Leadership.