University of Cape Town

Harvard Managementor

Standard Bank - Kellogg

Director at Thola'Njia Venture Partners

Confidential Fintech Cybersecurity Startup tackling a multi-billion dollar problem

Confidential

Founder

Skills: Finance · Board of Directors · Leadership

PepsiCo - Varun Beverages Ltd

Director

The Jua Fund is an early-stage, Pan-African, Venture Capital Fund that invests the first check into exceptional founders at the pre-seed and seed stage.

We are sector agnostic and back tech and tech-enabled companies with a typical check size of up to $250k. Our portfolio companies then have a direct line to capital to scale from pre-seed, to Seed, to Series A and beyond.

Our goal is to develop the continent through empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs with equity investments, mentorship, and advisory support. We do this by leveraging the Jua Fund Advisory Network, a close-knit community of executives, entrepreneurs, investors, operators, artists, and academics, committed to helping Jua Fund Portfolio companies succeed and scale.

Jua Fund

Founding Partner

Shareholder and Non-Executive Director at Mota-Engil Construction South Africa (MECSA), a subsidiary of Mota-Engil Africa

Mota-Engil Africa is a leading provider of integrated engineering and construction services and a wide range of other utilities across its target markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. The diversified portfolio of services provided by Mota-Engil Africa range from Engineering and Construction (including infrastructure such as roads, railways, bridges and dams, civil construction works and real estate construction and services), Logistics (including ports and other infrastructure management), Environment and Services (including waste management and collection and water treatment and distribution).

Mota-Engil Africa currently operates in ten countries comprising its primary markets of Angola, Malawi and Mozambique as well as its other markets of Cape Verde, Ghana, São Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Mota-Engil Africa is headquartered in Johannesburg and, as at 30 June 2014, the Mota-Engil Africa Group had approximately 14,500 employees. The Mota-Engil Africa Group manages its business and reports its financial results with regard to the following business segments: Angola, Southern African Development Community (“SADC”), West Africa and East Africa.

Mota-Engil

Advisory and consulting to Partners in Performance's resources sector clients

Partners in Performance is a global management consultancy that delivers rapid, sustainable results. PIPers unleash potential, their own and others. 

At PIP, we focus on results and we work alongside our clients to deliver them. We help managers to make change happen and we roll up our sleeves and work with them until it’s locked in. 

We have delivered $5bn EBIT uplift and over $40bn NPV improvements for our clients over the last 3 years and they love us! 

The firm has real scale and a demonstrated track record with reach across Australia, Africa, Nth and Sth America and Eastern Europe. Whilst Sydney is our headquarters we have a truly global footprint.

Partners in Performance

Resources Sector Advisory

Thola'Njia Venture Partners is an entrepreneurial company with two primary goals: incubate great African businesses and assist in the entry of great global businesses into Africa

TNVP partners with established small and large entrepreneurial businesses, providing them with strategic advisory, restructuring and capital raising services.

We source, structure and develop high value projects across sectors and the continent, focussing on resource deals of $10mn - >$2bn in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Thola'Njia

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. We are the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. 

We work with leading organizations across the private, public and social sectors. Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to address problems that no one else can. We have deep functional and industry expertise as well as breadth of geographical reach. We are passionate about taking on immense challenges that matter to our clients and, often, to the world. 

We work with our clients as we do with our colleagues. We build their capabilities and leadership skills at every level and every opportunity. We do this to help build internal support, get to real issues, and reach practical recommendations. We bring out the capabilities of clients to fully participate in the process and lead the ongoing work.

Mhanisi Malaba