In these times of geopolitical turbulence and economic disruption, resilient businesses with the ability to find opportunities in niche markets can still thrive. Investec is proud of the partnerships we have struck with entrepreneurial firms who have these qualities, as we are to support the SAVCA Industry Awards, which play a pivotal role in acknowledging the businesses that are making a difference.
Andrew Moffat – Joint head: Investec Investment Banking
About
The Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) in partnership with Investec is excited to announce the third in-person SAVCA Industry Awards 2022. These awards will recognise portfolio companies that have thrived from private equity and venture capital investment in the region as well as the value these asset classes provide: mentorship, market access, business development, guidance around corporate governance and so much more. All portfolio companies (headquartered in Southern Africa) currently benefiting from these types of investments are eligible for consideration by our panel of renowned business leaders and captains of industry.
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Congratulations to this year's winners!
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The Awards Process
The Awards Shortlist
START-UPS/VENTURE CAPITAL CATEGORY
Nominee – AURA: Nominated by HAVAIC | Nominee – OneCart: Nominated by Kingson Capital
Aura
OneCart (Pty) Ltd
SMALL/MEDIUM ENTERPRIZES (SME)
Nominee – Alley Roads: Nominated by Vantage Capital | Nominee – Edulife: Nominated by Sanari Capital
Nominee – Sand River Resort: Nominated by Lionshare | Nominee – JACHRIS: Nominated by ATA Capital
Alleyroads
EduLife Group (Pty) Ltd
Sand River Resort
Jachris Hose & Couplings (Pty) Ltd
MID-MARKET COMPANIES
Nominee – Switch Energy Drink: Nominated by RMB Corvest | Nominee – Roos Foods: Nominated by RMB Corvest
Nominee – Synerlytic Group Holding: Nominated by Ethos Private Equity
Alternative Power (Pty) Ltd – Switch Energy Drinks
Roos Foods
Synerlytic Group Holdings (Pty) Ltd
LARGE COMPANIES
Nominee – MetroFibre: Nominated by African Infrastructure Investment Managers
Nominee – Spring Lights Gas: Nominated by ATA Capital | Nominee – Petro Ivoire: Nominated by Vantage Capital
MetroFibre Networx
Spring Lights Gas (Pty) Ltd
Pétro Ivoire
The Judging Process
Review of nominations
Shortlist of finalists selected across the four main categories
Finalists will be interviewed and their operations assessed
Findings will be presented to the judging panel
Winners selected by judging panel and announced at the event
Judging Panel
Craig Beney
CEO:
Helical Capital Partners
Craig Beney
I am a founding partner and CEO of Helical Capital Partners (“HCP”). HCP is an impact focused private equity company advising on equity and debt raising for individual impact related transactions and fund raising for impact investment mandates. HCP also provides reporting and administrated ability for these transactions and funds. HCP previously had a three-year affiliation with Partners Group, a Swiss based and publicly listed private markets with close to US$ 110Bn under management, focused on promoting them to the South African private equity participants for international and local investments.
I was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Phatisa Group (food security and affordable housing) and subsequently Convergence Partners (communications infrastructure) responsible for financial, governance, social and environmental aspects, and investor reporting, I also participated in fund raising for first and subsequent closes of both funds.
I was a board member of SAVCA from 2015 to 2018 and I am currently a standing member of the regulatory, and transformation sub-committees.
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.
Dr. David Makovah
Director:
Tactus Advisory
Dr. David Makovah
Dr David Makovah is founder and CEO of the digital business platform Mr Mak Learning, anda director of Tactus Advisory, a boutique corporate finance firm. He conducts professional training interventions in capital markets, credit, finance, economics, and related areas. The portfolio of clients includes leading South African Business Schools (Graduate School of Business (UCT), Gordon Institute of Business Science (UP) and Wits Business School) and corporates (Liberty, Investec, Standard Bank, Eskom, ECIC, Transnet). He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Rhodes University) and Honours in Accounting Science (UNISA). He is a registered Chartered Accountant and holds a PhD in Project and Infrastructure Finance.
David has extensive experience in both the private and public sectors. This covers companies ranging from small and medium size enterprises to listed blue chip corporates. He began his career by serving articles at KPMG in Parktown Johannesburg. Subsequent to this he joined Nedbank’s Group Risk division focusing on the commercial and corporate sections of the bank including structured finance and public financing.
He has won multiple awards including Executive Education Lecturer of the year 2012/2014/2015 at the Wits Business School, MBA Lecturer of the Year (Part Time) 2015 at GIBS. David is highly regarded in the banking and financial services sector in South Africa and beyond, having conducted engagements in countries including Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Dubai, United Kingdom, Tunisia, Egypt, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and India.
David holds a PhD in Project and Infrastructure Finance that focused on holistic measures for the more effective execution of infrastructure and project finance initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa.He is a passionate proponent of Africa’s potential through people, an avid reader and traveller, and a novice and very limited golfer.
Catherine Townsend
Head of Ecosystems and Partnership:
RMB
Catherine Townsend
Catherine has widespread experience in the high growth venture ecosystem across all aspects of the growth cycle. Specifically, as companies refine their business models, professionalize and evolve as market leaders. Catherine is passionate about scaling businesses through access to capital, talent and networks and feeds off the passion, energy and dedication of entrepreneurs.
Catherine joined RMB in 2019 to build the newly formed Growth Capital Solutions offering to provide advisory, structuring, and funding solutions to high-growth companies to leapfrog these companies to a point where they could become substantial enterprises and market leaders within their sectors.
Prior to joining RMB, Catherine lead the South African chapter of Endeavor South Africa for 7 years, working closely with South Africa’s best founders and the broader entrepreneurial community to establish private sector partnerships, the Harvest Venture Fund and key industry awards which recognise a new generation of South African scale-ups.
Outside of work, Catherine is a proverbial “slayer of dragons and monsters” to two boys, has represented South Africa at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, and holds a BSc and Postgraduate Diploma in Enterprise Development from Rhodes University. In 2013, she became the first South African to graduate a Kauffman Fellow (class 18) and has completed leadership programmes at GE Ventures, Stanford and Harvard Universities.
Andrew Moffat
Joint Head of Investment Banking:
Investec
Andrew Moffat
Andrew joined Investec Bank Limited in 2014 and is Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division, managing the Financial Sponsor and JSE Listed Corporates financing teams.
He has over 20 years of experience across M&A, coverage and financing (corporate, structured and leveraged). His experience includes working for Standard Bank, Mettle, Rothschild and the Barclays Group, concluding over 100 M&A and financing transactions in a variety of sectors, involving private companies, listed companies and parastatal entities.
Ketso Gordhan
CEO:
SA SME Fund
Ketso Gordhan
Ketso has operated for many years in the private equity and impact investing space. His positions and roles have included Head of Private Equity at FirstRand for almost a decade; managing a personal impact investment portfolio with a focus on education in SA and Rwanda; serving as Africa advisor to the Omidyar Network; and Head of Africa for the Commonwealth Development Corporation where he led the Africa investment strategy for the UK government’s development finance arm.
In addition to this expertise, Ketso was the first post-apartheid Director General in the Ministry of Transport; the City Manager for the City of Johannesburg during 1999-2000; and an advisor to the Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency in 2009-2010. In the latter role, he sought to develop and institute performance outcome metrics and targets for all government ministries.
Ketso has served on numerous private sector, foundation and non-profit boards of directors. He was an advisor to the World Bank Urban Sector on Municipal Restructuring, is an Aspen Global Leadership Fellow (a member of the Aspen Institute’s African Leadership Initiative), and in 2000, was elected a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for Tomorrow.
Ketso also has a long and illustrious history as an anti-apartheid activist and leader, in both the United Democratic Front and in the ANC.
Anne Keppler
Regional Director Southern Africa:
DEG
Anne Keppler
Anne Keppler oversees DEG’s investment activities and portfolio in Southern Africa as Regional Director. She is based in Johannesburg and together with the team is responsible for the assessment, structuring and management of funding for corporates, funds, financial institutions as well as project finance structures in Southern Africa.
She has been working as Vice President for DEGs Private Equity team previously as well as for DEGs Financial Institutions team in structuring debt and equity transactions. Before joining DEG in 2005, Anne worked as credit analyst for financial institutions at WestLB in Germany.
Shainal Sukha
Managing Director:
Sukha and Associates (Pty) Ltd
Shainal Sukha
Shainal Sukha is founder of Sukha and Associates (“S&A”) - a boutique and independent asset consulting firm based in Cape Town, which consults to over R 67 billion of assets. S&A is the first black-owned asset consulting firm in South Africa to be a signatory to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing. S&A’s thought leadership in Responsible Investing has been acknowledged through the Batseta Imbasa Yegolide award for “Responsible Investment Consultant of the Year” as well as an award from ABSIP on their transformation initiatives in 2021.
With an Actuarial Science background and over 18 years of investment consulting experience, Shainal has developed a strong track record in delivering top quartile returns for his clients while generating a positive ESG impact. He is a promoter of “dual consulting”, a good governance initiative, which some SA retirement funds have implemented. Shainal regularly features at industry events for S&A’s use of alternative asset classes and their work in Responsible Investing and Impact Investing. He also serves on the Investment Committee of the Actuarial Society of South Africa and the NBI / WWF Just Transition Committee.
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