John Houghton has had many years’ experience of project and construction management in the chemical, mineral, paper and petro-chemical fields worldwide.

John studied mechanical and civil engineering at Westminster Technical College in the United Kingdom, during this time he was part of a design team working on hydro- electric schemes and motorway designs.  He has worked with a variety of engineering companies and managed construction projects in the Wales, Scotland, Belgium, Venezuela and South Africa. He has been in Executive Director Positions with consulting engineers and construction companies and was involved in the establishment of joint ventures to construct the turnkey portions of Moss gas.

Mr. Houghton joined Anglo American Corporation of South Africa in 1989, working in various projects in Africa and Europe, heading up their dimension stone activities world-wide. He was Managing Director of Genrec Natal and Director of Projects at EMS, a division of Murray and Roberts; and he has been Chairman of Impala Granite, Kudu Granite, Stone & Allied and Deutsche Stein Industries, and Chief Operating Officer of Zimco Industries.

In 1996, Mr. Houghton set up as an independent business consultant. His clients included Anglo American Corporation, Minaco Stone, for whom he acted as executive chairman, Marlin Corporation, Business Against Crime and First National Bank. He established the Tedcor Group in the same year.

Prior to his appointment as Financial Director in 2001, Terry Davidson was a consultant to Tedcor from 1998 to 2000.

A qualified chartered accountant, Mr. Davidson has more than 40 years' experience in the field. His expertise extends to all aspects of financial and business administration, strategy and operations.

His background includes experience as CEO of the Cobra Group and CEO of Standard Engineering Limited. He was a partner in a firm of chartered accountants specialising in carrying out forensic investigations on behalf of major commercial enterprises, as well as work for the office of Serious Economic Offences and the Commercial Crime division of the South African Police.

Victor Nemukula joined Tedcor in April 2007 with wide ranging responsibilities within the company. He has extensive experience in marketing management, Business Development and advertising. He has gained a considerable knowledge in waste management through his extensive consultation with local municipalities throughout South Africa.

Victor Nemukula began his career at Independent Newspaper Gauteng in 1995. He then went on to work for Hunt Lascaris in 1997 where he worked on various account including SFW, MTN, Nu Metro and Standard Bank. In 1998 he joined MTN SA as an Assistant Marketing Manager for Service Provider and New Business. He was appointed Acting Marketing Manager for Service Provider and New Business in December 1998 until his appointment as an Advertising Manager for Corporate and SME in March 1999. This is the position he held until he left in August 2001 to join Headspace Solution as Marketing Director. He thereafter joint JJ Mining as a Marketing Director in 2003 until he left to head Marketing Department for Electronic Communications Security Pty Ltd (COMSEC), a state-owned entity within the Ministry of Intelligence. He left COMSEC to join Tedcor in 2007.

He studied for a BA degree at the University of Venda from 1989 to 1992 and then for a BA Honours degree at the University of the Western Cape which he completed in 1993. He then studied marketing management though Wits Technikon on a part-time basis between 1996 and 1997. He then enrolled for a diploma in Advertising with the AAA School of advertising in 1998. In 1999 he did a short course in Project Management through Damelin. He is currently completing a Masters degree in Business Leadership (MBL) through the University of South Africa.