JUTTA BERNS
Jutta Berns is an industry leader and one of South Africa’s first internationally accredited green building professionals, establishing her company Ecocentric in 2007. She has degrees from the Universities of Bonn (Germany) and Cambridge (UK), and a diverse blue-chip client base. Berns specialises in sustainable and net-zero solutions for large property portfolios. She has several LEED Platinum and 6-Star Green Star projects in her portfolio, is a GBCSA faculty member, a Green Star Assessor and GBCSA TAG member, and winner of the Gauteng Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 Award by the Women’s Property Network and 2019 winner of the Established Green Star Awards by the GBCSA.
ANELISA KEKE
A highly regarded senior professional in both the reward and sustainability disciplines, Anelisa Keke’s executive experience within a listed company gives her a wider perspective on the myriad issues that corporate South Africa faces today. Her skills span sustainability, reward and tax, having worked as a consultant as well as Chief Sustainability Officer for a large REIT. She was the editor of a major thought leadership publication at a global professional services firm and has spoken at multiple conferences and seminars. Keke is an admitted attorney and has an LLB and MComm in Tax, both from University of Cape Town.
MANFRED BRAUNE
Braune currently holds the position of Director: Environmental Sustainability at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where he leads the strategy and implementation of environmental sustainability across all spheres of the university since early 2019. He has also served as a non-executive director of GBCSA in a voluntary role since August 2020. Braune’s background is as a professional engineer, having worked at WSP Group for over 10 years as a consulting engineer, where he then started and led WSP’s green building business for three years and then worked for the GBCSA for 10 years.
MARLOES REININK
Marloes Reinink is owner of Solid Green Consulting. With an academic background in innovation and architecture, she has been working as a sustainable building consultant for more than 15 years in South Africa and Africa. She founded Solid Green in 2010, which is one of the leading sustainability consultancies in Africa and achieved its 100th green building certification in October 2020. Reinink’s passion is advocating for a greener built environment and she recently started GreenED, an online education platform for sustainability in the sector. Reinink is an ambassador for the International Living Future Institute; a Living Future accredited professional; and a facilitator of the SA Collaborative Network for a Living Future.
ILSE SWANEPOEL
Chief Operating Officer at Remote Metering Solutions, Ilse Swanepoel is a sustainability specialist with over 15 years’ experience. She has led ground-breaking projects in Green Star certification, renewable energy, smart metering and resource efficiency. Swanepoel excels in sustainability reporting and disclosure, driving innovation, operational performance and data-driven decision-making in property portfolios.
YOGESH GOOLJAR
Director and partner at PJC+Partners, Yogesh Gooljar combined a background in engineering with his interest in the building sector’s environmental performance, and now practises as a sustainability engineer and independent commissioning authority. He has more than 15 years’ experience covering a wide range of projects in the residential, retail, educational and commercial sectors for both existing and new building developments on the African continent and Indian Ocean Islands. As a Green Star Accredited Professional, Gooljar is involved in a wide range of projects pursuing green building certifications across multiple typologies for new build, existing building performance and net-zero ratings.
BRIAN UNSTED
Brian Unsted is Lead Specialist: Sustainability at Liberty Two Degrees, a business line in the Insurance and Asset Management (IAM) business unit of the Standard Bank Group. With a 30-year track record in the South African real-estate sector, across various roles including asset management and finance, Unsted served as immediate past chair of GBCSA. His focus areas are achieving ambitious Net Zero targets and sustainability reporting.
ANDRÉ HARMS
André Harms is the founder of Ecolution Consulting, a Cape Town-based sustainability and green building consulting firm. He is an electro-mechanical engineer and qualified Renewable Energy Professional with extensive experience in design, project management, commissioning process implementation and auditing sites for sustainability projects. With experience in Net Zero, EDGE, Green Star, LEED, project management and the implementation of the ASHRAE Guideline 0 commissioning process, Harms often performs multiple functions on projects.
BOB VAN BEBBER
Bob van Bebber, a senior director at Boogertman + Partners spearheads the conceptualisation and delivery of many of the practices’ large complex projects. From Soccer City, the main stadium for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, to large mixed-use precincts as well as the largest single tenanted corporate head office in the southern hemisphere for Discovery Health. He was recently recognised by the South African Professional Awards as the winner of the Professional of the Year: Architecture Class Award as well as the Overall Professional of the Year for 2019. Van Bebber’s passion extends into urban design, interior design and education.
