Bertie Lubner –
The Founder of
the Field Band
Foundation –
Another ongoing
successful
initiative
“I’ve been successful in the business sector and I’ve been
successful in the social sector. I’ve been lucky enough to have
been given the opportunity to get the personal satisfaction that
you get from doing everything that I’ve done. Work like this is
a selfish opportunity, it’s the opportunity to know you’ve done
good for other people and that’s the ultimate feeling, there really
is no feeling quite like it.”
3. A member of the National Export Advisory Board, responsible
for developing export strategy for South Africa and to also
encourage FDI into South Africa.
Success in life is never what you can do on your own, it’s what
others can do with you.
6. Member of Task Force, representing Business and
Government for the World Economic Forum.
Bertie’s main reason for his change of focus after 41 years with
the Group, was to expand his long term desires for involvement
and interest in a wider sphere, which had already developed
during his active years at Plate Glass. His priorities were as
follows:
7. Member of the Business Council for Nepad.
1. To make time available to assist his now grown up children
in their various business and lifestyle activities.
2. His concern for the under privileged – both those with
disabilities, as well as those who were victims of Apartheid.
This led him to initiate and become either a Board member or
Chairman of a number of outreach programs, i.e.
4. Board member of the Business Leadership – top 50
companies in South Africa.
5. Vice-Chairman of the South African Olympic Foundation.
8. One of the Vice-Chairmen of the Board of Governors of the
Ben-Gurion University.
9. Recipient of a Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the
Ben-Gurion University in 1987.
10. Recipient of the highest South African Civil Award – O.M.S.S.
11. Bertie recently received a Lifetime Achiever’s Award from
the Ben-Gurion University in Israel.
• Tikkun – a Jewish led community organization to assist the
previously disadvantaged Black Community;
• The Field Band Foundation – an organization which, over
the last few years, has developed 19 college style bands,
bringing not only musical skills, but lifestyle skills to over
2,500 children from the most depraved areas;
• Trustee for the Worcester Home for the Deaf and Blind;
• th Africa, incorporating people with Downs Syndrome and
a number of other communal projects.
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