Leadership

Guided by our CEO, Khudusela Pitje, our team brings a wealth of knowledge, innovative thinking, and tireless dedication to upholding our values. Our leaders are not just administrators but pioneers continually learning, evolving, and driving us towards a promising future.

The Board

Khudusela Pitje CA (SA)

Chief Executive Officer

CA(SA), Founder of New GX 21 financial and investment experience. EY Entrepreneur awards finalist and winner.
Khudu considers himself a ‘forever student,’ eager to both build on his academic foundations in accounting and stay in tune with the latest proven investment principles. Born into a family of entrepreneurs and guided by his late father HM Pitje from an early age, Khudu started his entrepreneurship journey at the age of Seventeen with a hair salon in Grahamstown whilst still in high school. After completing his Matric with a B aggregate but unable to secure a bursary, he started working for Lindsay Saker in 1994 whilst studying part time for his B.Compt. He then worked for McDonalds head office and managed to complete his CTA the same year.

Khudu was part of the team that enabled the expansion of the AlanDick Group, a provider of network optimisation tools and In-building Solutions in the telecommunication sector, into the South African market in 2005. Khudu also successfully negotiated the acquisition of a minority equity interest by Coal of Africa Limited in an early stage mining project. He is one of the founding partners at DFA. He is a strategic thinker involved in a number of successful start up initiatives and strategic acquisitions at CIVH and New GX. Khudu sits on a number of boards, both corporate and not-for-profit, linked to New GX group of companies.