PHIL LILIENTHAL, Founder and President, Global Camps Africa
Phil grew up in New York City and, following his graduation from University of Virginia Law School, went, with his wife, Lynn, to Ethiopia as a Peace Corps volunteer. He as a lawyer; she as a social worker. While there, Phil had the opportunity of starting Ethiopia's first residential camp. This was a defining moment in his belief that camp could be a vehicle for youth empowerment throughout the world.

ROSS RICHARDSON - Treasurer
Managing Director, Highveld Mushrooms
Consultant - The REL Consultancy Group (1992 - 1997)
University of Cape Town, B. Bus. Sc, Human Resources Management/Personnel/ Administration, General

LEBOGANG (LEBO) M. SIKWEBU - Secretary
Hollard Insurance Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) Specialist managing Hollard ESD Programme which aims to support and develop more black-owned suppliers within the current supply chain.

DAVID MILLER
For the past 23 years, David and his wife have been the Owners/Directors of Camp Starlight, a private summer camp located in Starlight, Pennsylvania. David truly believes that camp friends are forever and the opportunity to change and impact the lives of campers and counselors is a lifelong dream. The experience of volunteering with his daughter as a vochelli at Camp Sizanani in March of 2017 was life-changing. He has continued to be involved with Global Camps Africa since the day he left camp, and has returned to South Africa twice to volunteer at Camp Sizanani.

PROF. NONTEMBEKO JOYCE BILA - Non-executive Director

Dr Nontombeko Bila is a Mental Health and Disability lecturer at the University of Pretoria. Previously, she has worked at WITS University as a Social work Supervisor, Acting Social Work Manager (Childrens Home) - Department of Social Development and, Chief Social Worker at Malamulele District. She supports in Monitoring and Evaluation, Training Opportunities, and Programme Manual review.

SUSAN GOODMAN – CA(SA)

 Appointed in 2020. Currently works for Mary Oppenheimer Daughters (Pty) Ltd as their Financial Manager, she has had similar roles at  SOLGAR, MERCK SA (PTY) LTD, PPC LTD, DISPENSING PRODUCTS, BMW SOUTH AFRICA (Pty) LTD, DG ACCOUNTING BUREAU, COCA-COLA SOUTHERN AFRICA to mention a few.

MPUMI MAESELA

Mpumi Maesela joined Camp Sizanani Life Skills in 2017 as Country Director, overseeing the Southern Africa operations of the organization. Before CSLS, she founded Servicios Empresaviales Holdings (SE Holdings) in 2015.  SE Holdings provides non-financial support and facilitates financial support to women-owned businesses in Agriculture and Textile sectors in Southern Africa. She was responsible for structuring the support and/or transactions to ensure value add for women business owners and sustainable value over time. She worked at WDB Investment Holdings from 2007 till 2015. She worked alongside the management team on several key transactions such as the FirstRand Empowerment Trust refinancing and the Discovery refinancing and Bidvest collar transactions, Assupol transaction, Anglo Inyosi transaction, and PPP project with Group 5, WBHO and TFMC.