Directors

Warren Wheatley

Director

  • 20+ years of experience across Asset Management, Private Equity, Banking and Institutional Capital Markets
  • CA(SA), CFP, Post Graduate Diploma in Corporate Finance, Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning Law, Post Graduate Diploma in Auditing.
  • Founder and former Chief Investment Officer of Lebashe Investment Group
  • Non-Executive Director on the board of Arena Holdings
  • Chairman of the Joint Investment Committee of the Telkom Retirement Fund
  • Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Transnet Retirement Fund

EXPERIENCE

  • Previous Investment Banker and Wealth Manager at ABSA Capital
  • Served in various roles at Alexander Forbes

Akshay Karan

Director

  • ~10 years of experience in Investment Banking and Management Consulting
  • Qualified CA (SA) and CAIA
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting
  • Bachelor of Business Science in Finance with Accounting

EXPERIENCE

  • Ex-Investment Banker (Investec) and top-tier management consultant (BCG).
  • Successfully structed and executed several private equity transactions across Africa.
  • Experience in leveraged finance, principal investing, private equity, financial engineering and strategy.

Nicolas Mugisha

Director

  • ~ 10 years of experience in Management Consulting and Digital Media
  • Nic has a degree in Finance and Accounting as well as a post-graduate diploma in Accounting.

EXPERIENCE

  • Following his studies, he joined the Boston Consulting Group in 2018 where he worked in Strategy and Operational design. He mainly worked in Mining and Healthcare over a period of 4 years
  • Nic has since transitioned to work at BankerX as the head of operations as well as a Director of Sezerano capital which operated in East Africa
  • Within Altvest, Nic works as the head of the strategy and heading up special projects for Altvest

Chrizelle van der Colff

Director

  • 20+ years of experience in Banking, Operations, Marketing and Business Optimization
  • Advanced Diploma in Wealth Management, Financial Markets and Instruments
  • Academy of Financial Markets Certificate in Wealth Management, GIBBS
  • Family Business Consulting and Governance, Nelson Mandela University
  • RE5 Fais accreditation

EXPERIENCE

  • Family Office Banker at ABSA Wealth and Investment Management
  • Facilitation of large-scale transactions in structured credit, wealth and investment management, FX Aviation finance and Investment Banking related transactions
  • Portfolio Risk Management

Tatum Wheatley

Director

  • 10+ years of experience in Media, Marketing and Behavioural Finance
  • Degree in Psychology, Majoring in Industrial Psychology
  • Miss South Africa (2008)
  • 2nd Runner-up Miss World

EXPERIENCE

  • Practiced Industrial Psychology, specialising in Organisational Development and Culture; and change management.
  • Professional modelling career spanning 20-years across five continents.
  • Director of Corporate Relations and Fairmont Zimbali in KZN
  • Public speaker, and consultant in Industrial Psychology