Mr John Doidge is an admitted attorney who has specialised in the law and practice of trusts and has 30 years’ experience in this field.
He is a former General Manager of Syfrets Trust, where he spent 15 years.
Mr Doidge was responsible for establishing Maitland Trust in South Africa in the late nineties and he started what is now GMG Trust Company (SA) Proprietary Limited in 2003.
Mr Doidge has been involved in securitisation in South Africa since 2001 and has extensive experience in a wide variety of structured finance matters and is a former Chairman of the Association of Trust Companies in South Africa and founding member of the South African Securitisation Forum.
Over the last ten years Mr Doidge has served on a number of boards, many of which have listed notes or investment products. The listed notes pertain to securitisation and the listed investments pertain to directorships of Satrix and DB X-Tracker Funds. He is currently the chairman of Alexander Forbes Preference Share Investments Limited, a company listed on the JSE.
Mr Doidge was appointed to the Board on 1 June 2013.