Dubai , 4 April 2008Born on 26 May 1960 in Port Elizabeth , South Africa , Haroon Lorgat becomes the third ICC Chief Executive Officer after David Richards (1993-2001) and Malcolm Speed (2001-2008).
He attended Woolhope High School , PE , from where he graduated in 1978.
He qualified with a Bachelor of Commerce (B Comm) from Rhodes University , in Eastern Province , where he specialised in accountancy, and then went on to complete a Certificate in Theory of Accounting (CTA) at the same university.
From Rhodes , Mr Lorgat went on to qualify as a chartered accountant with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1985.
He worked for Coopers and Lybrand and IBM Johannesburg in the 1980s before setting up his own accountancy practice, H Lorgat & Co., in 1987.
Since then, Mr Lorgat has been managing partner of M Brey & Associates, Kmmt Brey and Gobodo Inc in the Western Cape , all of which are firms of accountants.
In 2002 he led the successful merger of Gobodo and Ernst & Young Western Cape. He was later appointed Senior Partner of Ernst & Young Western Cape and was a member of EY’s National Executive Committee.
He is currently an executive director of Kapela Investments Holdings, an investment company with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg , and also a non-executive director of Santam Ltd, a South African commercial and corporate insurance company.
He holds several society positions including member of the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants (since 1985), Public Accountants and Auditors’ Board (since 1986) and the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants in SA (since 1991).
As an all-rounder for Eastern Province and Transvaal , he played 76 first-class games between 1977/78 and 1990/91.
A useful left-handed batsman, he scored a total of 2,813 first-class runs registering three centuries and 12 fifties. He also took 191 wickets with his right-arm medium pace.
Mr Lorgat has an impressive track record in the world of cricket administration. He has been chairman of Western Province Professional Cricket and a board member at Western Province Cricket Association.
He has served as a finance committee member for the United Cricket Board of South Africa (1999-2004), he was a member of the ICC Cricket World Cup Finance Committee (2000-2003), has been a board director and treasurer of Cricket South Africa (2003-2004) and a selector (2001-2003).
In 2004, he was appointed as chairman of selectors for Cricket South Africa , a position he held until 2007.
He was married in 1985 and has one son and one daughter.
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