Fishing doyen Neville was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company in February 2022. Neville was appointed managing director of Oceana Lobster and Calamari Fishing in 2005 and assumed the position of managing director of Blue Continent Products from 1 February 2011. Prior to that he worked in various marketing and sales positions at Adcock Ingram before moving to Federal Marine and then Oceana as marketing director of the Oceana Fishing Division. He obtained his marketing qualifications with the Institute of Marketing Management in Johannesburg.

Zaf is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and holds an MBL from UNISA School of Business Leadership; BCom (Hons) from UNISA and BCom from University of Natal. Zaf took up his role as Oceana’s CFO and Executive Director of the Oceana Board effective from 1 February 2023. He has a proven track-record across multiple industries and more than 25 years of finance and business experience across multinational and listed companies as well as worldwide brands including telecommunications, food franchise, retail, financial services, real estate and property, food, medical devices, hospitality, mining equipment and fast-moving consumer goods.

Before Oceana, Zodwa was the CEO of the Vaping Products Association of SA. Before that, she was Board Member, Legal, Corporate Security and Corporate Affairs Executive Director for HEINEKEN SA. Zodwa is an admitted attorney of the High Court of SA with international experience in litigation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate and commercial law. She served her articles at Edward Nathan Sonnenberg Africa and worked there before moving to Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, America’s 3rd ranked law firm. Zodwa has a BJuris and LLB from UWC and is registered LLM (Environmental Law) student at WITS. She’s completed Master’s Degree course work with the University of Stellenbosch. And she graduated Cum Laude in a Gibs Leadership Development Programme.

Bronwynne was appointed as Chief People Officer on 1 July 2020. She joins Oceana from Masscash, a division of Massmart, where she held the position of Human Resources Director for nine years. Prior to this she was consultant for Accenture SA and MAC Group Consulting. She was, earlier in her career, an Associate lecturer at Wits University, and has spent some time in the UK in an HR role. On her return to SA she joined Massmart Holdings as the Group Human Capital Manager.
She has an active interest and passion for organisational development and effectiveness.
Bronwynne obtained her Masters’ Degree in Commerce from Wits University.

Trevor completed his articles with Deloitte (Pietermaritzburg) in 1995 and stayed on as manager before leaving to pursue a 2 year working holiday experience in London which included an 8 month contract at Imperial Chemical Industries Plc (ICI) head office. He returned to South Africa in 1999 and started his career at Oceana at BCP in May 1999. He has held various executive roles within the Group including the finance director of BCP and the Lobster, Squid and Fries division. Trevor transferred to Oceana Group in 2013 as Business Development Manager and was integrally involved in the Lusitania, Foodcorp and Daybrook acquisitions, culminating in a 7 month assignment as acting Daybrook CFO in New Orleans to assist with the transition before appointing a permanent US based CFO. He returned to Oceana in 2015 to take up the position of Head of Corporate Reporting and Business Development. Trevor is currently the Business Development Executive for the Group with oversight over mergers & acquisitions, investor relations and other corporate activity.

Jayesh is an admitted attorney and an experienced director with over 20 years’ senior management experience in the fishing and food industry. He joined Oceana in 2002, and has extensive and a diverse experience at a senior and executive level working across commercial and legal portfolios of the group including group compliance, risk and insurance.
His experience included a senior level role in New Business Development in Lucky Star as well as an executive level role as Managing Director for Oceana Lobster, Squid and French Fries.
Pre his appointment to his current role, Jayesh has held the role of Executive Director of the Groups’ Wild Caught Seafood business, Blue Continent Products, heading up the Hake operations.