Top 100 CEOs: Five in their sixties still running companies they started
By Alec Hogg
Our Top 100 CEO table has been a hit. Publishing online means data can be organised to suit so you're able to order bosses of the JSE's most valuable businesses by company, ages and service. Family-controlled Trencor's Neil Jowell is the grandpa of the Top 100 at 81. But a surprise for me was that in an age when we're told 60 is the new 40, only 16 on the list are in their sixties.
That's soon to be 15 with Truworth's Michael Mark stepping down after 23 years in the saddle. Of the others on the list who in their sixties, five are running the businesses they founded: Brian Joffe, Whitey Basson, Stephen Koseff, John Copelyn and Asher Bohbot. Their average length of service is a touch over two decades. Bit of a spanner for those who encourage CEOs to leave after five or so years.
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