Trustees

Marthinuz Fabianus joined our team ‘fresh from school’ in 1994. He holds the Certificate Of Proficiency in Employee Benefits conferred by the Insurance Institute of South Africa, the National Diploma (Commerce) from Polytechnic of Namibia and a Diploma in Marketing Management from Cyprus Institute of Marketing Management. On the basis of his people management skills, Marthinuz was promoted to Administration Manager and was subsequently also appointed a director of the company. He has 12 years experience in the pensions field, having worked his way right up from the bottom to fund administration and technical consulting. He is probably one of very few Oshivambo speaking persons who has acquired the skill of communicating the sophisticated concepts of retirement funding in his mother tongue. Marthinuz also served as president of the revived Retirement Funds Institute of Namibia between 2005 and 2006.

Tilman Friedrich is a qualified chartered accountant and one of a few, if not the only, Namibian Certified Financial Planner™, in the pensions field. He served his articles with Deloitte & Touche in Windhoek and qualified as chartered accountant in 1980. He was awarded the G H R Edmunds price in recognition of his study achievements while studying part time through UNISA. He was audit manager at the time of leaving Deloittes to join what is now known as National Housing Enterprise (NHE) in 1982. At NHE he was instrumental in establishing the operational framework for this newly founded housing para-statal where he was eventually promoted to assistant general manager responsible for administration, finance, loans and personnel functions. He left NHE at the end of 1990 to join UPA, initially as financial manager but soon to be promoted to general manager and to the board. He was instrumental in establishing the NamFlex funds and accounting practices for defined contribution funds in Namibia. Tilman is co-founder, shareholder and managing director of our company.

Mark Gustafsson has been in the employee benefits field since 1987 and is known as highly competent and dedicated consultant. After serving for two years in the employee benefits legal services department of SA insurer Southern Life in Cape Town, he joined UPA in 1989 as consultant. He was later promoted to client manager responsible for a portfolio of more than 10 private funds, for the healthcare- legal- and communication unit and for the NamFlex Funds (comprising the first Namibian privately administered Retirement Annuity Fund, Preservation Fund and the umbrella Pension Fund with in excess of 55 Participating Employers). He also served as Principal Officer of the NamFlex Funds and as alternate director of UPA. Mark is co-founder, shareholder and director of our company.

Martin Moeller recently retired from Nedbank Namibia. His position was Senior Manager - Customized Trade Solutions. His primary focus was marketing and proactively growing Nedbank Namibia’s cross border and trade finance facilities. In this position, he honed his skills in governance, compliance and risk mitigation. His fields of expertise include treasury operations, risk awareness guidance, advisory services on investment portfolios, and guiding and informing corporate/business bankers on Reuters sourced market developments, local, regional and global.

Harald Müseler recently retired as Partner in the Assurance Division of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He practiced as an accountant and auditor from 1985 to 30 June 2006. He was involved in providing audit, accounting and business advisory services to clients ranging from middle market entities to large corporations in Namibia, including subsidiaries of South African and other international and SEC related clients. He was also responsible for risk management and independence of the Namibian practice of PwC. He is a past member of the Namibian firm’s Executive and representative on the firm’s Southern African Governing Board, and past Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the firm’s retirement fund.