Nov 03 2008
Mackay on Philip Morris board
Behind every successful man stands 100s who say they were at university with him. I wasn’t at university with him, but played in the same squash team with him at a Johannesburg club between 1987 and 1990, when he was already managing director of South African Breweries. I remember Graham Mackay as a very competitive guy, with a lot of ball sense.
He obviously has a lot of business sense too. He’s been CEO of SABMiller, the world’s second biggest beer brewer, for a while. Now he’s also a member of the board of the world’s biggest cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris International.
He accepted the invitation to join already in January. Back then he said he’d take up the position “later in 2008″.
