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Our members have vast experience in the empowerment landscape of South Africa, and have been involved in various transactions as equity investors, empowerment advisors and consultants.
The entities and individual represented through Vuwa Investments have various capacities and skills, which contribute to the profile that will provide ongoing benefit to the companies we invest in. In general these abilities can be categorised as follows: |
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Banking, |
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Insurance, |
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Asset management, |
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Health, |
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Property, |
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Private equity, |
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Equity, |
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Risk management, |
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Corporate governance, |
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Infrastructure development, |
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Enterprise development, and Law. |
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| These enable Vuwa Investments to properly engage with businesses and to provide meaningful input on strategy issues as well as day to day operational affairs. |
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| MEET THE EXECUTIVE TEAM |
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Thuto Skweyiya
- Master of Business Administration (Finance), Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA (May 1999) and Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Computer Science) Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, USA (May 1995).
- Has extensive experience in project and corporate finance.
- Her experience includes structuring and execution of transactions across various sectors in sub-Saharan Africa.
- She worked for DBSA’s Private Sector and International Investments Division as a Senior Investment Officer.
- Merchant Banking Manager at Barclays Bank PLC, in Johannesburg.
- Her international experience includes working as a Financial Analyst at IBM Corporation in Atlanta, USA and Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P in Parsippany, USA.
- Directorships include Chobe Real Estate and Tiah Holdings.
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Ken Sosola
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- Master of Commerce (Business Administration & Advanced Costing) Pune University, INDIA (1989) and Bachelor of Business Administration (Management & Accounting) Spicer College, INDIA. (1987) MAP-Wits Business School ; PDP-City University of New York (1993).
- Lecturer: Bethel College - Business Faculty.
- Internship with Kraft Foods, Supply Chain Management.- New York, White Planes, USA.
- General Manager of Premier Group; Food Processing business unit division.
- Experience in the Petroleum retail sector, BP Southern Africa. Business Analyst, Retail Sector Investments & Strategy and Sales Support Management.
- Microsoft: Product Services Marketing Manager.
- Ensemble: Business Consultant: Process Planning and Business Reengineering in supply chain and value proposition.
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Joubert van Wyk, CFA
- Master of Law (Company Law), University of the Witwatersrand, (current).
- Master of Commerce, University of Johannesburg (1998).
- Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) (Financial Management), University of Pretoria (1995).
- Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) (Econometrics), University of Pretoria (1992).
- Bachelor of Economic Science (Mathematical Statistics & Economic Science) University of the Witwatersrand (1991).
- Has eleven (11) years of corporate finance experience.
- His experience includes leading, executing and structuring corporate finance, advisory mandates and transactions relating to acquisitions, listings and privatisations in numerous countries across sub-Saharan Africa.
- He worked for Standard Bank’s Corporate Finance Division as a Director Corporate Finance.
- He was a Director of Commercial Bank of Malawi.
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Yengwayo Ntshona
- Bachelor of Laws, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, (Dec 1995) and B. Proc, Fort Hare University, Alice (April 1993).
- Has extensive corporate and project finance experience.
- He worked for Standard Bank’s Property Finance Division as a property finance manager.
- Worked as a Professional Assistant with Jowell Glyn and Marais Attorneys in Sandton.
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