Ms Carol Weaving brings to Reed Exhibitions, a diverse working background in the business tourism and events industry. Over 28 years, CarolÕs career has expanded through many sectors within the industry, and her knowledge and expertise spans across exhibition management, events, conferences as well as venue and facility management. After growing up in the United Kingdom and pursuing her dream of living in South Africa, Carol became Director of the AA at the Kyalami Racetrack which equipped her with the skillset she would soon need to start her own company, International Exhibition Consultants. Carol later sold majority share of this company to Dutch exhibition company RAI, and then proceeded to head up RAI in South Africa. As the South African economy grew and expanded over her time at RAI, she realised a need to team up with an empowerment partner and proceeded to facilitate a buy-out or RAI shares to the Thebe Tourism group in 2004, a subsidiary of South AfricaÕs first Black Empowerment Company, the Thebe Investment Corporation. In November 2013 Reed Exhibitions, the worldÕs largest and most respected exhibition company and part of the RELX Group, signed a joint venture agreement with the Thebe Tourism Group and Carol to acquire a majority share in Thebe Exhibitions & Projects Group (TEPG). TEPG was renamed Thebe Reed Exhibitions and was owned 60% by Reed Exhibitions, 30% by Thebe Tourism Group, with Carol Weaving retaining 10% as Managing Director. Three years later and a desire for accelerated growth Reed bought out ThebeÕs shares and now Thebe Reed is called Reed Exhibitions. Our BEE level remains unchanged and we remain committed to transformation.