Valuations Masterclass 2024
27 August 2024
Facilitators
Heleen Goussard
Heleen Goussard
With almost 20 years’ experience, Heleen heads up the alternative investment team at RisCura – a market leader in investment solutions in emerging markets such as Africa and China, with $200 billion in assets under management. Under her leadership, the previous core independent valuations service offering has been successfully expanded to include a wide range of alternative investment services that cover asset classes such as private equity, infrastructure and private debt.
She heads up RisCura’s Private Equity Manager Development Programme and Fund of Fund investments. Heleen is an expert on alternative investments and her knowledge and experience is often called on by industry bodies for comment on key industry papers. In addition, her thought leadership articles are often published by well-known media outlets. She is a regular speaker at prominent industry events where she provides insight into the industry and RisCura’s research. She previously worked as a corporate finance partner at PKF Inc. Heleen has a CA (SA), is a CFA charterholder and has a master’s degree in finance, focused on valuation from UCT.
Cami Mbulawa
Cami Mbulawa

With over 14 years’ experience, Cami heads up the alternative investment team at RisCura. She provides unlisted investment services for clients across all alternative asset classes such as private equity, infrastructure, and private debt. As a director of RisCura Fundamentals (Pty) Ltd she is also the training officer overseeing RisCura’s Chartered Accountant training programme, which has produced five chartered accounts specialising in private equity.
Cami’s passion for business led her to gaining invaluable corporate governance and risk management expertise. This is evident in her appointments as independent non-executive director in the asset management, printing, enterprise development and state-owned entity space. These include ministerial appointments on the University of the Western Cape council and the Takeover Regulation Panel (TRP) where she is the chair of the Audit and Risk committee. She sits on the boards of Africa Check and Aeon Asset Management. She is the chairman of Tyhini, an enterprise development fund.
Cami was the executive director at Grassroots Capital, responsible for growing and monitoring the Agri-finance company loan book. She has also worked at BP Southern Africa and Investec Asset Management. She is a CA(SA) and completed her articles at KPMG. Cami is a chartered director (SA) with the Institute of Directors South Africa (IoDSA).
Nihal Jhavary
Nihal Jhavary
Nihal is responsible for reviewing and preparing valuation of unlisted assets to ensure their technical quality. He also helps with research across the private equity landscape as well as ESG investments. Nihal joined RisCura in 2022 from Deloitte & Touche having completed his chartered accounting articles in 2021 as a senior financial analyst. Nihal assists in ensuring the reports prepared for clients are accurate and provide valuable information that helps them with their investment reporting and decision making.
Genevieve Chetty
Genevieve Chetty
Genevieve is responsible for reviewing and preparing valuations of private equity investments. She plays a vital role in ensuring that the reports prepared for clients are accurate and provide valuable information. Genevieve completed her CA(SA) traineeship at Ernst and Young Cape Town in 2022, where she gained significant exposure to the financial services industry. Additionally, Genevieve is passionate about the profession and is actively involved in the recruitment for the CA(SA) training programme at RisCura
Alexander Pagel
Alexander Pagel
Alexander joined RisCura in 2023, after qualifying as a chartered accountant at EY in Cape Town. Aside from preparing and reviewing independent valuations to clients in Africa, Alexander leads the team's efforts to implement industry best practices throughout the valuation process. Alexander manages our valuation and report templates, enhancing the team's ability to meet our clients' timelines and deliver insightful analysis