Rt Hon Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

Company Chairman

Lynda is Chairman of Pasco Risk Management. Lynda was Minister of State for Overseas Development at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office between 1986 and 1997, holding responsibility for Africa and the Commonwealth. She was made a Life Peer in 1992.

Lynda held the positions of Advisory and Non-Executive Director of Unilever between 1998 and 2007. She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Group Five (Pty) and a member of the international advisory board of Lafarge et Cie. Lynda has also advised the World Bank for over 10 years and was Chairman of Board of the Medicines for Malaria Venture MMV between 2006 and 2011.

She is an Executive Trustee of the Global Leadership Foundation (GLF) and Trustee of the Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF), as well as being a patron of several charities. Lynda is also co-ordinator of the Honorary International Investment Council of President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria and a member of similar bodies in Uganda and Tanzania.

George Nicholls

Chief Executive

George is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pasco Risk Holdings (Proprietary) Limited. George holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Bristol and a Master's degree from Herriot-Watt University. George has extensive experience in advising clients upon emerging market political risk, security and investigative matters throughout Africa, BRICS and the Middle East.

George has extensive experience in both managing and conducting forensic investigations for government agencies, NGOs and blue chip companies and has conducted investigations for clients in more than 20 countries throughout Africa, Europe and the Middle East. George has trained the law enforcement agencies of several African governments in forensic investigations, computer forensic investigations, investigative interview techniques, asset tracing and asset recovery, back ground screening and due diligence.

David Middleton

Director of Operations

David is an Executive Director of Pasco Risk Holdings (Proprietary) Limited. David holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Oxford. He has extensive knowledge and experience of international affairs, particularly in Africa, the Middle East, the Far East and Europe, after a long career in the Foreign and Commonwealth office and postings in Zambia, Jordan, Japan and Germany.

David is responsible for Pasco's global operations and is a subject matter expert on emerging market political risk. David brings extensive experience to Pasco, which will particularly benefit clients who operate or undertake transactions in emerging markets.

Cindy Nicholls

Executive Director

Cindy is an Executive Director of Pasco Risk Holdings (Proprietary) Limited. Cindy is an 'Institute of Directors' Certified Director and has experience in finance and forensic investigations. Cindy has assisted Police forces on behalf of clients with several forensic investigations and criminal complaints, including being appointed as an Inspector for the Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB), an inspector for Medical Aid schemes, and with statutory compliance and FICA responsibilities. Cindy currently serves as Financial Director for the Pasco group of companies.

Mluleki Majola

Non Executive Director

Mluleki Majola is a Chartered Accountant and a non executive director of Pasco Risk Holdings (Proprietary) Limited. Mluleki completed his articles with the South Africa Breweries where he qualified and moved to Royal Bafokeng Holdings where he became an investment manager responsible for managing and concluding some of RBH's recent deals such as Impala Platinum, Praxima Payroll Solutions (Pty) Ltd and Mining Oil and Gas Services (Pty).

Mluleki brings on board vast experience in deal making as well as experience in investor relations management. Mluleki possesses excellent financial and analytical skills and has served on the board of Pasco for four years.

Refiloe Nkadimeng

Non Executive Director

Refiloe obtained her Bcom accounting degree and Higher diploma in accounting at Wits University. She served her articles at SizweNtsaluba from 2003 and completed her articles 2006. She was involved in the audit of a range of companies including Medical aid schemes, insurance companies, banks and lending houses, public entities and collective funds audits. She was appointed an audit manager in 2006. She left SizweNtsaluba to join Royal Bafokeng Holdings in 2007. She is responsible for group reporting, tax compliance, system implementations, training and monthly reporting and preparation of annual financial statements.

She is currently serving on the board of directors at Pasco Risk, Pearl Edu Vision and various other boards. She is an audit member at M Tech Industrial, MB Technologies and Eris Property Group.

She is also involved in various community projects which help to expose learners to different career opportunities.