SAVCA Private Equity Conference 2022 Speakers
The 2022 line-up will feature key thought leaders in Southern Africa that will explore this year's theme.
Andile Khumalo
Founder & CEO:
KhumaloCo
Andile Khumalo
Andile Khumalo is an Entrepreneur and CA (SA) with over 20 years of finance and business experience. He is Founder & CEO of private equity firm KhumaloCo. A Deloitte alumni and former investment banker with Investec, Andile spent 11 years with MSG Afrika as a partner the media & communications group. Andile currently serves as Chairman of group companies Ince, Brave Group, Quizzical Pictures, Immersion Group, I AM AN ENTREPRENEUR and co-founder of the Sanlam Gauge. Andile also serves as Non-Executive Director of JSE-listed Metrofile Group Limited; Swiftnet Limited, and as Chairman of the SANParks Investment Committee.
Alessandro Scalco
Head of Legal:
Ashburton Investments
Alessandro Scalco
Alessandro, who joined Ashburton Investments in 2014, represents Ashburton Investments on a number of industry forums and committees. He has experience in asset management, wealth management and all facets of banking and finance law, including loans (syndicated and bilateral), project finance, preference share funding, note programmes, securitisations and regulatory compliance issues. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Management), LLB (cum laude), LLM (Corporate Law) and Postgraduate Diploma in Pension Law (cum laude) from the University of Witwatersrand and has passed the required exams to be a JSE compliance officer in the equity, bond and derivative markets.
Bame Pule
Founder & CEO:
Africa Lighthouse Capital
Bame Pule
Bame has a private equity track record dating back to 2002 and an investment track record dating back to 1998. Prior to founding Africa Lighthouse Capital, Bame spent over six years working in the private equity team at Actis in South Africa, Nigeria, and Egypt. His investments included deals in industrials and logistics. Before that, Bame began his private equity career at ShoreView Capital in the United States, where his investments were largely in industrials. Prior to that Bame worked at Goldman Sachs in New York, where his clients were largely in financial services and his deals ranged from mergers and acquisitions, to listings, to debt capital raisings. Bame began his investment career at Citigroup in Los Angeles creating public equity portfolios, and he also worked at Credit Suisse in New York making infrastructure investments.
Ben Butcher
Activity Coordinator:
USAID INVEST
Ben Butcher
Ben Butcher is an Activity Coordinator with USAID’s INVEST initiative, managing a portfolio of blended finance, transaction advisory, and capital markets activities projected to leverage more than $75 million of private capital in Southern Africa.
Busani Moyo-Majwabu
Director Business Intelligence, Africa
Control Risks
Busani Moyo-Majwabu
Busani leads Control Risks’ business intelligence practice for sub-Saharan Africa and manages a team of consultants based in offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos, Paris and London. He has over eight years of experience supporting clients gather critical information pertinent to understanding the integrity risks occasioned by entering new markets, evaluating the risks and opportunities arising from mergers and acquisitions and gathering crucial insights into competitor and partner backgrounds, reputations and modus operandi.
Busani has led several complex, multijurisdictional due diligence and business intelligence focused assignments across Africa and has advised clients on a variety of integrity related issues ranging from the assessment of corruption risk in stakeholder engagement strategies to the risks occasioned by a counterparty’s political exposure.
Recent tasks that Busani has worked on include:
- Conducted an investigation into the veracity and salience of an allegation of bribery of a public official by a senior employee of a client’s joint venture business in Ghana. This included in-country interviews with relevant stakeholders including the whistle-blower alleging the bribery and the management of discreet enquiries into the background and reputation of the local partner.
- Supported a large South-East Asian conglomerate, through a comprehensive intelligence gathering exercise, to assess the complex multi-jurisdictional ownership structure of a mining company in South Africa where the identification of the ultimate beneficial owner was a critical factor in its decision to acquire the asset.
- Conducted an integrity due diligence assessment of the potential joint venture partners of a multinational entering the South African oil and gas sector. This included assessing, through targeted intelligence gathering in the South African market, the suitability and probity of the potential partners in light of South Africa’s local content requirements.
- Assisted a client determine the underlying reasons for the detention of a senior employee in a central African state following the client’s decision to end its operations in that country. This included the identification of the decision makers within government who had authorised the employees’s detention, the establishment of a causal link between that action and the clients plans to leave the country and the identification of potential interlocutors who could assist the client in its negotiations with the government.
- Conducted ABC compliance training in Zambia, South Africa and Mozambique with the local offices of a global supplier of construction related vehicles to ensure local implementation of global standards following a review of the company’s existing policies and procedures.
Prior to joining the company, Busani managed a leading transportation and construction company in Zimbabwe and supervised the construction of numerous roads projects in the southern region of the country. Busani has also worked as a legal advisor in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Busani holds a LLB degree from the University of Cape Town and an LLM in Banking and Finance (with distinction) from Queen Mary, University of London.
Dr Anthony Costa
Investment Lead:
RSA Presidency
Dr Anthony Costa
Dr Anthony Costa is the Investment Programme Lead for the President of South Africa’s Investment Mobilisation Programme, based at the Industrial Development Corporation (on secondment from Nedbank). He has served in various roles in Nedbank and the broader Old Mutual Group for over 15 years, including most recently managing the relationship between Old Mutual plc and its subsidiaries in South Africa. Anthony holds BA(Hons) and LLB degrees from Wits, an MBA from GIBS, and a PhD in History from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is an admitted advocate and former member of the Johannesburg Bar.
Christopher Mauss
Member of Management:
Partners Group
Christopher Mauss
Chris Mauss is part of the Private Equity Directs team. He worked on Partners Group's Health & Life investments in Cerba Healthcare in France and served on the Board of Directors of Laboratoires Serb. Chris has 17 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, he was a Managing Director at Dubai International Capital, where he was responsible for some of the firms' European private equity investments. Chris spent 10 years with DIC and was actively involved in the turnaround and recovery of DIC's portfolio. He holds a master's degree from ESCP Europe in Paris, France.
Dinao Lerutla
Co-founder & Managing Partner:
Maia Capital Partners
Dinao Lerutla
Dinao is the managing partner at Maia Capital Partners, an impact private debt fund. Dinao has been in financial services for 18 years, previously employed at leading financial services firms such as Nedbank (credit analyst), Barclays Bank (credit analyst), Ernst & Young (corporate finance analyst), and Royal Bafokeng Holdings (manager, strategic investments) where she managed the financial services, telecoms, and FCMG portfolios.
Dinao has extensive experience in infrastructure development, leading successful public-private transactions in student housing, healthcare, and other infrastructure sectors. She is currently a non-executive director at RH Bophelo.
Edmund Higenbottam
Managing Director:
Verdant Capital
Edmund Higenbottam
Edmund is an investment banker with extensive experience across London, Johannesburg, Lagos and Dubai. Prior to Verdant Capital, Edmund worked at global investment banks including Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. Edmund started his career in 2001 and has worked in Africa since 2008. Edmund has a degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
Elliot Refson
Head of Funds:
Jersey Finance
Elliot Refson
Elliot re-joined Jersey Finance in November 2018 from Crestbridge where he managed their Management Company Services Group. Elliot is focused on defining strategy and execution of marketing Jersey as both a domicile and destination for Hedge and Private Equity Management Companies and Funds. Elliot moved to Jersey in 2006 to establish a Macro strategy Hedge Fund under the Ermitage umbrella for whom he also seeded other Macro / CTA strategy Hedge Funds. Elliot founded the Jersey Hedge Fund Managers Group aimed at linking the growing community of local Managers and is a committee member of the Jersey Funds Association and the BVCA Channel Islands working group.
Elena Manola-Bonthond
CEO:
CERN Pension Fund
Elena Manola-Bonthond
Elena Manola-Bonthond, PhD, MBA, is Chief Investment Officer of the Pension Fund of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The Fund manages approximately 5 billion Swiss francs in assets, both internally and externally. Elena has played an instrumental role in defining and implementing an investment governance framework optimised for dynamic risk management.
Before joining the CERN Pension Fund, Elena worked in CERN's science sector where she was responsible for the safety and risk management system of CERN's flagship installation, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Before that, she worked as a research physicist at CERN.
Elena holds a PhD in particle physics from the University of Savoie, France, and CERN, and an MBA in international management from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Furthermore, she is a CAIA charterholder.
Eric Adams
Senior Investment Advisor:
USAID INVEST
Eric Adams
Eric Adams is a Senior Investment Advisor with USAID’s INVEST Initiative, which engages the private sector in investment landscape assessments, fund structuring, technical assistance and transaction advisory services. Mr. Adam’s work focuses on Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. To date, Mr. Adams has worked in 18 countries on five continents to identify and transact investments and has founded two transaction advisory firms that span the African investment landscape.
Fulu Makwetla
Managing Director:
Third Way Investment Partners
Fulu Makwetla
Fulu is an investment professional and entrepreneur with a passion for developmental investments, diversity advancement and inclusivity. She is awarded the Outstanding female professional by ABSIP in 2021. She is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Third Way Investment Partners, a specialist investment firm focusing on infrastructure investing. She currently serves as a director on the board of SAVCA and various portfolio companies of the Third Way Asset Management Group. She was previously the Investment Manager of the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) – the largest pension fund in Africa, where she served on the Investment Committee of the Pan African Infrastructure Development Fund and represented the GEPF on several advisory boards of Private Equity Funds.
Prior to joining GEPF, Fulu was an Executive and Senior Consultant at RisCura, consulting to Pension Funds, Insurance Companies and Medical schemes in Southern Africa. She was an employer elected trustee of the RisCura Provident Fund. She started her career at RMB Asset Management and has over 18 years industry experience.
Dr Gizelle Willows
Founder:
Nudging Financial Behaviour
Professor:
University of Cape Town
Dr Gizelle Willows
Dr Gizelle Willows is a Professor at the University of Cape Town and Managing Director of Nudging Financial Behaviour. Under the mentorship of Professor Terrance Odean, she was a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business at the University of California (Berkeley). Her expertise lies in behavioural finance, particularly as it relates to personal finance and retirement savings. She is the recipient of multiple best paper awards and leader of the Behavioural Finance and Accounting international research group. Her behavioural and personal finance insights are in high demand as attested by invitations to give key note addresses, be an expert guest on international podcasts, and her widely-read blog, Nudging Financial Behaviour.
Hardin Ratshisusu
Deputy Commissioner:
Competition Commission of South Africa
Hardin Ratshisusu
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rdin Ratshisusu is Deputy Commissioner of the Competition Commission of South Africa appointed by the Minister of Economic Development in 2016, prior to that he held various senior roles at the Competition Commission and in the private sector.
In his role as Deputy Commissioner, he is responsible for oversight over the Commission’s investigative and enforcement activities. He also actively participates in international fora such as the OECD, BRICS, UNCTAD and ACF, and has also occasionally published papers in recognised academic journals.
He holds a BCom (Honours-Economics) from the University of Venda, MCom (Economics) from the University of Witwatersrand and a Master of Business Leadership from the University of South Africa. He has completed the PURC/ World Bank Training Program on Utility Regulation and Strategy with the University of Florida as well as the Senor Executive Program for Africa with the Harvard Business School.
Henry Smith
Partner:
Control Risks
Henry Smith
Henry is head of Control Risks’ business intelligence and due diligence practice in EMEA, which is based in ten cities across the region. Henry is responsible for our delivery of strategic intelligence to inform decisions about acquisitions and growth opportunities, market entry risk management advice, disputes and litigation support, and third-party risk management, most notably on financial crime and reputational risk.
He is an experienced advisor to private market investors and lenders, corporates, and their legal advisors on intelligence gathering, political risk, sanctions and foreign investment screening, and due diligence. He speaks regularly at conferences and to the media on politics, regulatory developments and sanctions issues.
Henry has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of York and a postgraduate degree in Middle Eastern politics from London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Before Control Risks, Henry worked for an advisory company that supported companies entering North Africa. He joined Control Risks as a political risk analyst in our London and then Dubai office. He has an International Risk Management Certificate from the Institute of Risk Management and completed the Oxford Scenarios Programme at Said Business School (University of Oxford), which focuses on the use of scenario planning to inform strategy.
Hugh Hawarden
Head of Infrastructure:
Ashburton Investments
Hugh Hawarden
Hugh joined RMB in 2005 to explore and build the private power and renewable energy business. His deal-making experience has involved many varied energy, water and industrial deals since then, including:
- The establishment of FIRST fund with KfW, a debt fund for small renewable energy projects;
- NCP Alcohol’s distillery expansion project;
- The award winning Kpone IPP, a 345MW CCGT in Ghana;
- Various REIPP Projects, inter alia;
- 5 billion 81MW Kathu Solar PV plant; 5MW Stortemelk small-hydro project; Two 10MW Engie solar PV projects; ZAR1.5 billion 66.6MW Hopefield wind farm project.
- Two large scale loans for Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority’s water transmission projects;
- Arranging of concessionary EIB inward loan for renewable energy projects;
- ECIC-backed debt funding for Ghana Grid Company’s US$23.5 million Smelter II Substation;
- Euler Hermes back loan for Eskom’s Kusile power station.
Hugh’s prior experience involved 10 years in various banks in London doing project and risk management.
Prof. Jamie Anderson
Professor of Leadership & Strategy:
Antwerp Management School
Jamie Anderson
Jamie Anderson is Professor of Leadership & Strategy at Antwerp Management School and Visiting Professor at INSEAD. Named as a “management guru” in the Financial Times, Jamie has also been included on a list of the worlds’ “top 25 management thinkers” by the journal Business Strategy Review. Jamie’s research and teaching focuses on the interconnectedness between creativity, innovation, leadership and change. An accomplished Masters athlete, Jamie has medalled at the European & World level in road cycling and has podiumed in South African events such as the Tour of Good Hope & The Cape Town Cycle Classic.
Janice Johnston
Partner:
Identity Fund Managers
Janice Johnston
Janice has a deep and diverse investment background spanning over 23 years with highly regarded financial institutions in South Africa and London, including 10 years with Prudential Capital (part of Prudential plc). She has significant debt and private equity investment experience across multiples sectors and business stages and is a CFA Charterholder.
Janice is committed to strategic leadership of investments into innovative, growth businesses in key sectors with the potential for significant financial return and social/environmental impact through collaboration, diversity, and inclusion. As lead partner at Identity Fund Managers (part of the Identity Partners Group), she is focused on building a majority women-led private equity fund platform in strategic growth and impact sectors that are under-represented from a diversity perspective which includes the Identity Property Fund.
Previously, Janice was CE of Edge Growth’s Growth Equity portfolio which invests in innovative, high growth companies with the potential for significant financial return and social impact.
Joao Rodrigues
Operating Partner:
Ethos Private Equity
Joao Rodrigues
Joao is an operating partner at Ethos Private Equity and supports Ethos’ value creation approach and activity across funds. He joined Ethos in 2014 in Johannesburg, and is currently based in the UK with a focus on Ethos’ investments in North and East Africa. Joao works with investment teams and portfolio companies throughout the investment life cycle - to diligence investments, shape value creation strategies, capacitate management teams and boards, and drive business performance to support optimal exits.
Prior to joining Ethos, Joao worked at McKinsey & Company, primarily in the mining, power and petroleum sectors. He has significant functional experience in operational improvements, corporate turnarounds and capital projects. He previously worked at Lafarge Holcim, TechnoServe and Cape Biotech.
Joao holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from the University of Natal, and an MBA from INSEAD.
Kasief Isaacs
Senior Investment Principal (Private Markets):
Mergence Investment Managers
Kasief Isaacs
With over 17 years of experience in the financial services industry, Kasief joined Mergence in 2015. As Senior Investment Principal he has a specific focus on energy, infrastructure and impact within SA and SADC. He leads the Private Markets investment team which has built up a stellar performance record over the past decade. Before joining Mergence, Kasief led PwC’s renewable energy practice and has advised developers and investors from SA, Spain, Italy, Germany, China and the US on SA’s renewable energy market including participation in the REIPPP programme, project acquisitions, private PPAs and BEE structuring and funding. Kasief is a qualified CA and has a BCom Honours from the University of the Western Cape. He is an experienced conference speaker and media commentator.
Mergence Investment Managers
Mergence Investment Managers is an independent investment management firm with black ownership and diversified public and private market offerings, spanning equity, multi-asset, infrastructure, debt, and private equity funds. We are focused on sub-Saharan markets and led by a pragmatic, sustainable, shared value creation mindset. Founded in 2004 we have R35 billion in assets under management, a strong 18-year track record, and offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Windhoek, and Maseru.
Katherine Gibson
Deputy Commissioner:
Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA)
Katherine Gibson
Katherine Gibson is an economist from Durban with extensive experience in public policy. She is currently part of the Transitional Management Committee of South Africa’s market conduct regulator, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, serving on EXCO until appointment of the permanent Commissioners.
With a background in trade and competition policy, she worked for the National Treasury in the area of financial sector policy for over 12 years. Katherine was responsible for developing the conduct “peak” of South Africa’s twin peaks framework, and has been with the FSCA since its establishment in April 2018.
Katherine lives with a boisterous menagerie and runs in the forests to escape.
Kathryn Fletcher
Director ESG:
Control Risks
Kathryn Fletcher
Kathryn Fletcher is a Director within our Social Risks and Compliance team in Johannesburg, with a Europe, Middle East and Africa remit. She has 15 years’ professional experience in the public and private sectors and has worked on a wide range of social compliance projects for Control Risks. Kathryn specializes in working with local and international clients across all sectors to understand and manage risk exposure to social issues (such as social risks, labour rights and human rights) in their supply chains. She has spoken on many panels and published articles regarding risk management approaches to modern slavery risks.
Prior to joining Control Risks, Kathryn spent three years working for the UK government with a focus on Middle East investigations and legal research. Kathryn has a bachelor’s degree in German and European studies from Queen Mary, University of London, UK, and a master’s degree in international security and global governance from Birkbeck College, University of London. She also holds a certificate in Corporate Sustainability from NYU Stern.
Langa Madonko
Investment Principal:
Summit Africa
Langa Madonko
Langa Madonko is a Co- Founder of Summit Africa a Niche Alternative Investment Manager focused on delivering superior financial returns to investors on a risk adjusted basis whilst achieving meaningful socio-economic impact and Transformation through investment in Private Equity and Social Infrastructure. He is responsible for Investor Relations, Capital Raising and Training. He has over 14yrs experience in Financial Services and Management consulting.
Langa is a Deputy President of the Association of Black Security and Investment Professionals and represents the organisation on the Council of the Financial Sector Transformation Council, he is also a Board Member of the Southern Africa Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and is the Co-Chair of the Transformation and Regulatory Sub Committees. He is Deputy Chair of The Finance Portfolio Committee of the Black Business Council and has been seconded to Nedlac on behalf of the BBC. He is also the President of the Summit Africa Foundation a philanthropic arm of Summit Africa
Lelo Rantloane
Executive Director & Chairman of Investment Committee:
Ata Capital
Lelo Rantloane
Lelo is the founding CEO of Ata Capital, an investment management company managing over R1.5 billion in private equity funds. In February of 2021 he handed over the position of CEO to a successor and remains in the business as Executive Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee.
He began his career with Rand Merchant Bank in various roles as a transactor in the Debt Capital Markets and the Acquisition and Leveraged Finance divisions. While at Rand Merchant Bank, he was appointed Executive Assistant to the CEOs of FirstRand and FirstRand Bank. He also worked for the Makalani Management Company and for Morgan Stanley in London. Following this, he served as Head of Debt Capital Markets and structured debt at Deutsche Bank AG, Johannesburg.
He is a director of Remgro Limited, Rain Group Holdings, SLG, Masana Petroleum Solutions, Imbewu Capital Partners, Acrux Resources and Chairman of the Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA)
Lizeka Matshekga
Head of Implementation:
Harith General Partner
Lizeka Matshekga
Lizeka joined Harith in July 2020. Before then, she was a Divisional Executive at the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa. With 24 years of diverse financial services industry experience of which 14 years were spent within the development finance environment. She's a respected leader in the investment industry with proven experience in asset management, treasury, investment banking and development finance.
Board membership:
- Community Investment Ventures Holding Pty
- Southern Jade Resource Pty Ltd
- Kelvin Power
- Socoprim
Lydia Shadrach-Razzino
Executive:
ENSafrica
Lydia Shadrach-Razzino
Lydia Shadrach-Razzino is an Executive at ENSafrica, with specialist expertise in local and cross-border Private Equity and M&A. She has an impressive client list and is recognised by international ranking agencies Chambers Global and Legal 500. She won DealMakers' prestigious Individual Dealmaker of the Year Award in February 2022, with the judges saying that "this year, everything Lydia and her team touched turned to gold", describing her as "a master at solving complex structures and translating them into practical agreements".
Lynette Ntuli
Founding Director and CEO:
Innate Investment Solutions
Lynette Ntuli
Lynette Ntuli is the Founding Director and CEO of Innate Investment Solutions, a professional services firm in the built environment that provides property and infrastructure development services; and enterprise asset management solutions. Ntuli has held senior leadership roles in the commercial, development and investment spheres of the property management and trade and investment sectors, and sits on the boards and working groups of various real estate organisations.
Over a 14-year period, Ntuli has gathered diverse experiences in asset and infrastructure planning, management and development and her exposure to the built environment, and accompanied by her articulation of this insight into high impact social and economic solutions is an asset to work in providing holistic development solutions in Sub Saharan Africa. She holds post graduate property specific qualifications from the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town GSB.
Awards and accolades received include the Fun Fearless Female Award 2008 Cosmopolitan Magazine (Associated Magazines SA - December 2008); “Woman to Watch” Destiny Magazine (Ndalo Media – June 2009); “Under 30 and on Top Feature” O Magazine (The Oprah Magazine – April 2009), the Mail and Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans 2012 Award and she has been featured in the 2012 Power of 40 – Destiny Magazine (November 2012). She has also been named the Glamour magazine Woman of The Year 2014 winner in the business category. She also presents Business Day TV Show (BDTV, Channel 412), SME Funding, in a weekly time slot.
Lynette is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and Founding Curator of a South African hub. In 2018, she was named an Institut Choiseul.
100 Africa Laureate, in recognition of her leadership and work in advancing economic development in Africa, and become an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow (2018) in the flagship fellowship programme of the African Leadership Institute. In 2014, she had been selected as one of the Top 200 Leaders of Tomorrow by the St Gallen Symposium – the world’s premier symposium on leadership, politics and society. Lynette is a 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow in the flagship program of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), a former Advisory Board member of First National Bank (FNB) in the Kwazulu Natal Region, a member of the African Leadership Network and a past Interim Chair of the Commonwealth Alliance of Young Entrepreneurs in Southern Africa (SADC).
Lynette is actively involved at an executive and member level within various gender advocacy, youth lead and industry organisations in South Africa, including the Women's Property Network (WPN), South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA), South African Inst. of Black Property Practitioners (SAIBPP), the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC), International Women’s Forum (IWFSA) and Institute of Directors SA (IODSA). She currently serves as a non-executive director of several listed and unlisted entities including Liberty Two Degrees, a JSE listed REIT and the Durban International Convention Centre.
Louise Naudé
Senior Manager:
Climate Change Portfolio
Presidential Climate Change Commissioner
WWF South Africa
Louise Naudé
Louise Naudé is the Climate Portfolio Senior Manager at WWF South Africa, leading the organisation’s work on an equitable transition towards a flourishing carbon-neutral and climate-resilient economy.
She has spent the last twelve years working on domestic and UNFCCC-facing climate-related policy; technical and exploratory work on issues pertinent to the transition; and low-carbon initiatives in the real economy, with a special focus on the transport sector.
Prior to WWF, Louise spent fifteen years in the textbook publishing industry, the last four as CEO of a company with R455 million revenue (in today’s money), a drop within the Naspers portfolio. Before that, her checkered past includes volunteer and paid work in civil society organisations, teaching, work in advertising and design – all starting with being a computer programmer at Iscor.
Louise holds a B.Sc. with Mathematics and Computer Science as majors. She has lived in Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Tshwane, and Cape Town.
Mardé van Wyk
Private Markets Principal Consultant:
27four Investment Managers:
Mardé van Wyk
Mardé van Wyk has extensive investment experience in Private Equity covering the entire deal value chain and sector exposure spanning across a myriad of investment (direct and fund) positions facilitated from generalist to theme-based strategies. She is regarded as specialist in investment, organisational and process structuring, including investment restructuring – a skillset obtained whilst working with distressed investments at South Africa’s largest asset manager. Her appreciation for innovation and solution engineering has led to her continued involvement in impactful theme-based venture capital project development initiatives with scale and global reach. This experience also comes with a long history of serving on the Board, Advisory Board and various sub-committees of a number of underlying companies and Funds.
Makole Mupita
Co-Founder:
Mahlako Financial Services;
Fund Principal:
Mahlako Energy Fund
Makole Mupita
Makole has over 22 years of experience in private equity, ESG investing, asset management, and infrastructure and development finance. Makole spearheads the Mahlako Financial Services Energy Fund, applying innovative solutions to investing and building sustainable energy businesses across the renewable energy, gas, and energy services subsectors. A leading figure and voice in the energy and financial services sector, she applies her pioneering spirit and exceptional experience to delivering value on behalf of discerning investment partners. She has led and been involved in landmark infrastructure deals that have shaped the South African infrastructure landscape. She has participated in the successful refinancing of various infrastructure projects as well as executing notable Public Private Partnership transactions.
Michael Railton
Principal:
Kearney
Michael Railton
Michael is a Principal in our global Transactions and Transformations practice where he leads commercial, operational and ESG due diligence projects as well as shaping and delivering post acquisition strategic value creation programs.
With 13+ years of consulting and industry experience he has built a solid track record in advising leading private equity funds on commercial, operational and ESG topics primarily in consumer goods, financial services, industrials sectors.
Michael is championing Kearney’s push into integrated operational and ESG due diligence work having already carried out work on some of the largest deals in recent months including the carve out of Ekaterra tea from Unilever and the recent acquisition of Dainese by Carlyle.
He is also a key driver of our diligence to transformation proposition which entails the shaping of post acquisition transformations during diligence to accelerate value realization post close.
Michael completed a Business Science degree at UCT with distinction and then went on to study his MBA at Oxford University with distinction as a Saïd Foundation Scholar and Co-chair of the Oxford Africa Business Network.
Nathaniel Nyika
Chief Investment Officer:
Norsad Capital
Nathaniel Nyika
Nathaniel Nyika is the Chief Investment Officer at Norsad Capital, a Botswana domiciled regional private credit impact investor. His 20 year financial career spans, Private Credit, Private Equity, Investment Banking, Corporate banking Hedge Fund Management and Strategy Consulting, all with a focus on sub Saharan Africa and various sectors. He is a qualified Engineer with practice in Mining and Electricity utility. He holds a Masters in Business Administration (cum laude) from the University of Witwatersrand, Wits Business School and a B.Sc. Electronic and Power Engineering (Hons) degree. He loves a good round of golf, though that barely happens.
Peter Attard Montalto
Director & Head of Capital Markets Research:
Intellidex Pty Ltd
Peter Attard Montalto
Peter Attard Montalto
Peter has been analysing South Africa for 16 years and is a well-known, respected commentator and analyst of its economy, politics, policy and markets. He has a broad experience covering other emerging markets over his career including eastern Europe and the middle east. He has dealt with a broad range of asset managers and corporate clients and now also advises and consults for governments, organised business and multilateral finance institutions.
Peter is an expert in the political economy of reform and infrastructure (including energy and climate) as well as capital market development and is an advisor to a large number of financiers, investors and bidders in energy and infrastructure. Peter heads macro, political, infrastructure and just energy transition workstreams at South African headquartered consultancy Intellidex.
Peter was previously Head of Emerging Europe Middle East and Africa Economics at Japanese Bank Nomura and before that was at Lehman Brothers. He studied economics and mathematics at St John’s College at the University of Cambridge.
Peter Rowse
Director:
Metier
Peter Rowse
Peter is a director of Metier, a principal of the Capital Growth Funds and CFA® charterholder. He joined Metier in 2010, developing his investment skills since across a wide range of sectors and investment themes.
Peter has taken on a variety of investments roles in the education, healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, industrial services, non-banking financial services and consumer retail sectors. Peter acts as a director on the boards and subcommittees of fund portfolio companies and plays a growing coverage role for Metier across Sub-Saharan Africa. He is responsible for Metier and various portfolio company’s B-BBEE structuring and impact monitoring processes. Peter is involved in the full range of private equity management processes at Metier and his responsibilities extend to managing investment research, valuation and technical analysis standards across the portfolio of investments.
Shawn Duthie
Senior Consultant Business Intelligence:
Control Risks
Shawn Duthie
Shawn is a senior consultant for Control Risks' business intelligence practice in sub-Saharan Africa. He has over seven years' experience helping clients to mitigate risks and find opportunities in various sectors throughout sub-Saharan Africa, previously managing his own boutique intelligence firm in Cape Town and as a senior analyst for a mid-sized Africa-focused risk consultancy. Shawn was previously a political studies lecturer at the University of Cape Town, where he also obtained a Masters in international relations. Shawn also holds a bachelors of political science from the University of London and an honours degree in criminology from the University of Toronto.
Recent examples of cases Shawn has worked on include:
- Enhanced due diligence into a South Africa-based BEE energy company for a large Asian multinational company
- Investigation into potential tender fraud at a provincial department for a large multinational IT company
- Public record and source-based enquiries for a due diligence into a BEE company in South Africa
- Due diligence investigation in Mozambique into a logistics company and its relationship with a politically-exposed advisor
- Investigation and litigation support in Guinea-Bissau regarding corrupt practices in the shipping industry
Sihle Gumede
Principal & Executive Director:
Sanari Capital
Sihle Gumede
Sihle is a principal and executive director at Sanari Capital, a private equity firm investing in growth companies emanating from Africa (mainly South Africa), with specialisation in founder-run, owner managed and family-owned businesses.
Sihle began her career as a trainee accountant at PwC, she spent 6 months in the PwC New York office as part of a secondment program after finishing her articles, where she worked on SEC audits in the insurance sector.
Sihle worked in the Corporate Finance division at Investec Bank where she was involved in a number of Mergers & Acquisition transactions, capital raisings and BEE transactions across difference sectors.
After leaving Investec she joined Convergence Partners, a private equity firm that focuses on ICT infrastructure development and accelerated communications access in Sub-Saharan Africa, where she was part of the deal team that was responsible for new project development, deal execution and post investment monitoring. She was involved in transactions spanning the Sub-Saharan region, including Nigeria, Malawi, Kenya, Cameroon. Sihle also sat on various boards of the portfolio companies during her time with the fund.
Prior to joining Sanari, Sihle spent almost 2 years as an independent business consultant assisting businesses with financial strategies and fundraising readiness.
Sihle holds a BCom Honours degree from the University of Natal. She is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).
Sindi Mabaso-Koyana
Chairperson:
AWCA Investment Holdings
Sindi Mabaso-Koyana
Sindi is the founder of The African Women Chartered Accountants. She later led the formation of the commercial arm, AWCA Investment Holdings (AIH) which she currently chairs. She is the Managing Partner of AIH Capital the Private Equity firm of AIH, which is a proud member of SAVCA.
She has served on a number of large and listed companies where she has chaired the Audit & Risk Committees, Social & Ethics Committees and Remuneration Committees. Her current boards include MTN Group, Bidvest Group, Sun International Limited, Sugar Association of South Africa amongst others. She is a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, Member of International Women’s Forum
Stuart Bradley
Managing Partner:
Phatisa
Stuart Bradley
Stuart’s private equity career began in 1996 with CDC Group plc and thereafter with Aureos Capital and Phatisa Group, of which he is a founder and Managing Partner. Stuart has successfully raised over US$ 1 billion for private equity funds in Africa. Previously, he was Managing Partner of Aureos Southern Africa and General Manager of Takura Ventures in Zimbabwe. Stuart has served on the board of SAVCA and was a member of the EMPEA Frontier Markets Council.
Tatjana Schoenmaker
Olympic Medallist
Tatjana Schoenmaker
Having made steady progress in recent years, world record holder Tatjana Schoenmaker has transformed herself into South Africa’s top women’s swimmer. After raking in multiple medals as a teenager at the 2015 African Games, she went on to reach the podium again at the 2017 World Student Games. Reaffirming her talent in the 2018 season, at the age of 20, the breaststroke specialist became the first SA woman in eight years to earn a medal in the pool at the Commonwealth Games by securing the 100m and 200m titles at the 2018 spectacle on Australia’s Gold Coast. She also narrowly missed out on the bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke final, breaking the African records over all three distances. Displaying further potential in the 25-metre pool, Schoenmaker went on to shine again later in the 2018 campaign, breaking the long-standing national 50m and 100m breaststroke records at the SA Short-Course Championships in Durban.
The following year she took another big step forward in her blooming career, wrapping up another impressive double at the World Student Games in Naples. After setting an African record in the 100m semifinals, touching the wall in 1:06:32, she went on to win gold in both the 100m and 200m breaststroke finals. Later that season Schoenmaker made history by becoming the first South African woman to earn a medal at the biennial Fina World Championships in Gwangju. She clocked an African record of 2:21.79 in the 200m semifinals, and after lining up among the favourites she stormed to a memorable silver medal. Schoenmaker also put up a fight in the 100m final at the global championships, taking sixth position against a strong field.
While the 2020 season was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, she returned to action later in the year and closed out the shortened campaign by breaking the 50m, 100m and 200m records at the SA Short Course Championships in Pietermaritzburg.
With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics postponed by a year, Schoenmaker confirmed her place as a medal contender by again shattering her African long-course records over all three breaststroke distances at the 2021 SA Championships in Gqeberha, just three months before the Games.
Living up to the hype, she went on to secure two of the SA team’s three medals at the multi-sport showpiece, and the squad’s only two medals in the pool. After breaking her own African record in the heats, she grabbed the silver medal in the 100m final. In the 200m event, she was even more impressive, shattering the world record in the final to win gold.
Terry Wyer
Senior Vice President; Investment Programs:
Heifer Impact Capital
Terry Wyer
Before joining Heifer International, Terry held multiple senior level international development and investment roles in both the public and private sector. With over 25 years of international experience, Terry has focused on public and private sector engagement and development initiatives to catalyze the potential of the private sector as a driver of sustainable and inclusive economic growth. He is well versed in delivering capital through private sector engagement, working with donors and financial sector partners such as the World Bank, IFC and EBRD. Terry’s expertise includes fund and investment vehicle development, capital raising, financial institutional capacity building and investment facilitation through multiple channels.
Timothy Maurice Webster
Author
Timothy Maurice Webster
Timothy Maurice Webster is the Author of four brand leadership books, one leadership memoir and consults & speaks on the science of Human & Brand Behavior. His research and focus is based on three influence pillars; Brain Potential - Behavioral Science and Brand Influence. Timothy has worked in Africa and emerging markets for the past decade.
Timothy’s education is in Business Management, Branding, Psychology and Applied Neuroscience from Brookstone College in the US and Massachusetts Institute of Technology- MIT. His insights inspire dialogue and critical thinking about brain and brand behavior- inspiring stakeholders to consider broader and more strategic problem solving for their personal and organizational brands. His research is particularly influential in the following Professional Leadership Domains- Executive leadership, Brand Influence & Gender Equality. His clients are those who seek to influence and expand themselves, their organizations and society.
Global Podcast and brand strategy partner to US based KDM & Associates and the Innovation in Agriculture and Energy Opportunity Zone Summit. Sharing behavioral insights, content and client centric strategy, for more. He’s passionate about mentoring, sport, art and laughs from his soul.
Todd Micklethwaite
Head of Strategy & Impact:
Sanlam Investments (Alternatives)
Todd Micklethwaite
Todd oversees the business strategy and impact of Sanlam Investments' Alternatives business, across private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure. Todd helps institutional investors to direct their capital to where it can not only contribute meet their financial objectives, but where it can also have a meaningful and sustainable long-term impact on people and planet.
Todd has over 20 years' experience within financial services, with prior experience including the role of investment consultant at Aon in the UK as well as actuarial analyst at Alexander Forbes in South Africa.
Vuyo Ntoi
Co-Managing Director:
AIIM
Vuyo Ntoi
Vuyo was appointed Co-Managing Director in August 2020. Vuyo has more than two decades of investment experience and has been involved in private infrastructure investing in Africa since 2003.
Prior to moving into the Co-Managing Director role, Vuyo was the Co-Portfolio Manager of the IDEAS Managed Fund, which primarily focuses on infrastructure investment and development assets in the SADC region, where he was primarily responsible for the post-acquisition management of the fund’s more than 30 investments, in addition to overall fund management.
Vuyo, who joined AIIM in 2003, was initially involved in the build-up of the South Africa Infrastructure Fund’s (“SAIF”) holdings in South African toll roads, including additional stakes in TRAC, N3TC and Bakwena. In addition, Vuyo was involved in the early refinancing of these toll road assets. Vuyo also played a leading role in AIIM’s pioneer investment outside South Africa, the Lekki Concession Company. More recently, Vuyo led the investment of AIIM Fund’s into Cenpower IPP power project Tema Ghana and Albatros Energy Mali power station, the first IPP in Mali.
Vuyo holds several directorships, including positions on the boards of some of AIIM’s portfolio companies. He is also a Trustee of the Africa Infrastructure Developers Association (AFiDA).Vuyo is a Director on the AIIM Board and is a member of the Executive Committee, while also serving as a member of the Investment Committees of all AIIM’s managed funds.
Prior to joining AIIM, Vuyo was an investment analyst and strategist in the Research and Investment Management team at ipac South Africa, an investment management and consulting company that was then within the Brait Group.
Vuyo holds a B.Com Honours degree from the University of Cape Town, an M.Sc from the University of Oxford and MBA from IESE Business School. He has also completed Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and is part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
William (Bill) J. Kelly
President & CEO:
CAIA
William (Bill) J. Kelly
William (Bill) J. Kelly is the President & CEO of the CAIA Association. Bill has been a frequent industry speaker, writer, and commentator on alternative investment topics around the world since taking the leadership role at the CAIA Association in January, 2014. Previously, Bill was the CEO of Boston Partners and one of seven founding partners of the predecessor firm, Boston Partners Asset Management which, prior to a majority interest being sold to Robeco Group in Rotterdam in 2002, was an employee-owned firm. Bill’s career in the institutional asset management space spans over 30 years where he gained extensive managerial experience through successive CFO, COO and CEO roles.
In addition to his current role, Bill is a tireless advocate for shareholder protection and investor education and is currently the Chairman and lead independent director for the Boston Partners Trust Company. He has previously served as an independent director and audit committee chair for ’40 Act Mutual Funds and other financial services firms. He is also currently an Advisory Board Member of the Certified Investment Fund Director Institute which strives to bring the highest levels of professionalism and governance to independent fund directors around the world. A member of the board of the CAIA Association, Bill also represents CAIA in similar capacities via their global partnerships with other associations and global regulators. Bill began his career as an accountant with PwC and is a designated Audit Committee Financial Expert in accordance with SEC rules.