| MR MATLALA Mr Matlala has been in the property industry for 19 years, he is the Director of Matreal Property Services in Johannesburg. He serves as the President of South African Institute for Black Property Practitioners (SAIBPP), is the Head of Policy at Black Business Council (BBC), is a member of the Services SETA Real Estate Chamber and is a board member of the Property Sector Charter Council. He assembled, together with partners, Standard Bank and Safika, a R350 million property portfolio which is now owned by Dipula Property Fund, a JSE listed company. His current company- Matreal Property Services is currently involved in a mixed use development in Mozambique. Mr Matlala’s past and current directorships include, N3 Toll Road Concession Company, Ubambo Investment Company, Matreal Property Services, Inani Realty Property fund, Asakhe Realty Property Fund and Lighthouse Security |
| CLIR JAMES NXUMALO Mayor Councillor James Nxumalo has overcome numerous obstacles to be where he is today. Born on a farm in New Hanover where both his parents worked as farm labourers, his passion for politics was shaped at a young age. His broad smile, charisma and personality have made him popular and won him friends and admirers in opposition parties. As provincial chairman of the South African Communist Party (SACP), he is cultured in championing the rights of the working class. Due to only his mother working, the family took a tough decision that all the children except for the last two were to leave school and work on the farm to augment family income. As one of the two youngest, Nxumalo was allowed to continue his education. He started his education at Ingqaza Lower Primary School, walking some 10kms to get to school each day. He also attended Bhekamatshe Community Primary School, Imbaliyezwe Lower Primary School, then moved to Fredville Higher Primary School and finally completed his matric at Siphesihle High School at Intshanga. It was during these daily walks to school when he was enlightened about the conditions under which they were forced to live on the farm. After that he realised that their lives were shaped by apartheid and its laws. During this time whilst at high school he got involved in politics and worked in the structures of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the 1980’s. In 1990, he joined the ANC Youth League, the ANC and the South
African Communist Party. During that year he was employed as a labourer at a chicken factory and because the working conditions were deplorable, he organised workers to join trade unions as well as the ANC and SACP. Cllr Nxumalo, has been described by many as the perfect man for the job with his experience in local government.
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| DR KOLA AKINSOMI Dr. Kola Akinsomi is a Senior Lecturer in Real Estate Finance & Investments and Program Coordinator for the Undergraduate Real Estate Program at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; he is a Consulting Partner at Ayo Akinsomi & Partners, Nigeria, and a real estate consultancy firm with over 30 years of service. Kola graduated with a PhD in Real Estate Finance at the National University of Singapore, a Master of Science in Real Estate at the National University of Singapore and a Bachelor’s Degree from The Oxford Centre for Real Estate Management, Oxford Brookes University, England. Kola is a researcher and practitioner with extensive knowledge and experience in real estate finance and investments, real estate research, valuation and management. Kola's research interests include real estate portfolio management, real estate capital markets, real estate investment trust (REITS) and Emerging Real Estate Markets. Kola has international exposure and experience and has lived and worked in Africa, Asia and Europe with the National University of Singapore, Newman & Goh and AAS & Partners. He has also presented his research work in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Europe. He has published in reputable international economic journals such as Empirical Economics and real estate journals such as Journal of Property Research, Journal of Property Investment & Finance and Journal of Real Estate Literature in the areas of Real Estate Finance & Investments. He is an editorial board member on the premier African real estate journal- "The Journal of African Real Estate Research".
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| MS NOKUZOLA NKOWANE Is a senior operations-management manager with expertise in optimizing organizational processes, performance measurement systems, terminal capacity monitoring and infrastructure/asset utilization to maximize business results in port operations. She is skilled in Operations Management, Real Estate and Facilities Management, Commercial, General Port Management, Stakeholder Management in Maritime and other business environments.
With good knowledge of Port operations, property and facilities management, customer relationship management and general management.
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| PATRICK T. KATABUA Patrick T.
Katabua has a B.Sc Building Sciences from Wits University, and has completed a
M.Sc Building (Wits) focusing on property finance, investment and management.
He has also done short courses such as “The Business of Africa Programme” at
the Global Institute of Business Sciences (RSA), in conjunction with Strathmore
Business School (Kenya) and Lagos Business School (Nigeria). He has a great passion for real estate, and was elected as the president of the African Real Estate Society (AfRES) in 2014, which is a Pan-African body focused on promoting a deeper understanding of the Real Estate Sector across the African continent through research, education and networking opportunities. Patrick is currently Regional Transaction Manager (Africa and Middle East) for Cushman and Wakefield. Mandate includes Real Estate acquisitions, disposals and portfolio restructure on behalf of clients. Prior to assuming this position, he was a dealmaker of a core team at First National Bank: Commercial Property Finance Africa (CPFA), and previously at Standard Bank Corporate and Investment Banking, as Manager for Central Africa in the Property Finance Division. In both these latter positions, the mandate was to source “bankable transactions” in Africa, satisfying the client’s requirements whilst protecting the bank’s interest. The hunting mandate included not only deal origination, but also structuring and packaging transactions to make them more bankable from a credit and risk perspective.
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| DR MOSES KUSILUKA Dr Moses Kusiluka (PhD, M.Sc. LM. BSc.
LMV) is the Commissioner for Lands for Tanzania. Prior to becoming Commissioner
for Lands he was a lecturer and the head of the Department of Real Estate
Finance and Investment at Ardhi University and; prior to joining Ardhi
University, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 3 years. Dr Kusiluka is
currently a board member of the following institutions: International Real
Estate Society (IRES), African Real Estate Society (AfRES), Tanzania Economic
Processing Zone Authority (EPZA), IREBS Foundation of African Real
Estate Research of Germany (AfRER), and Tanzania Institution of Valuers and
Estate Agents (TIVEA). Dr Kusiluka is also a chairman of Tanzania National Land
Allocation Committee and a member of the technical committee of Tanzania
National Investment Council (NISC).
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| PAUL SEROTE He is head of Property Management Trading Entity and sits in the board of GWI Africa (Pty) Ltd and has experience as an Audit Committee Member at Department of International Relations and Cooperation. He was a Non-executive Director for National Regulator for Compulsory Specification and Chief Executive Officer for Motheo Chartered Accountants.
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| RAVI PILLAY Academic Profile
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| MS NONZUKISO SIYOTULA Zukie is the Executive Head: Thebe Oil and Gas. She serves on the board of Shell SA, Safripol, Combined Motor Holdings, Compass Group, Thebe Unico and Thebe Energy. She has served on public and private sector boards, as well as non-profit organisations and professional bodies including Altech Netstar, Vodacom SA, ABSIP, AWCA and SAICA. She has diverse professional experience in areas such as finance, corporate governance, strategy, restructuring, investment management, business development, sales and distribution. Prior to joining Thebe, Zukie held various senior positions Barclays Africa Group including CFO for Wealth Management and COO for Africa Finance. Before this, she was the Head of Franchise & Umbono Distribution at Old Mutual Retail Mass, looking after alternative distribution channels. She was also a Strategic Investment Manager at Royal Bafokeng Holdings and held various roles at South African Breweries. Zukie is a chartered accountant (SA) and a Chartered Management Accountant (UK), who was ranked top student in South Africa on completion. She holds a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from Witwatersrand University and an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science. She also completed an executive program with both Harvard and Insead, and is currently completing a leadership program with Oxford University. She is also a founding member of the African Leadership Network (ALN), an invitation only network of dynamic African leaders whose aim is to power Africa’s prosperity as well as Graca Machel’s New Faces New Voices Network (NVNF) which aims to spur on change in business and finance by harnessing the potential of women in Africa. In her career she has won a number of business awards in recognition of her achievements. She won the Top Emerging Talent Award at the 2009 ABSIP Financial Services Awards and was featured in Top 40 women under 40 by Destiny Magazine in November 2010. She was also named as one of the 2011 Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans and won the Corporate Category Award in the Business Woman Association 2011 Regional Achiever Awards. She was awarded the prestigious Fortune Most Powerful Women Global Mentoring Exchange Program in New York and the Vital Voices Global Ambassadors Program and is part of their Global Leadership Network. She was also awarded the prestigious International Women’s Forum Leadership Fellowship 2013/14and was recently awarded the AFLI Tutu Fellowship.
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| TIM MODISE
When it comes to radio and television, there is very little that Tim Modise has not done or seen since he began his career in broadcasting in 1980. Tim started as a programme assistant for the then Radio 702 and has not looked back ever since. In 1982, he joined Radio Bop as a presenter of a popular music show. However, it was at Metro FM that Tim carved out a niche for himself as one of South Africa’s respected current affairs talk-show hosts, an achievement that earned him a local and international following and numerous awards. Since then, Tim has held a number of senior positions in both the private and public sectors, including being Chief Communications and Marketing Officer for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Local Organising Committee. Tim returned to radio after years of absence to host POWER Breakfast from 6am to 9am, Monday to Friday.
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| VICTOR MOROAMAHLAKO KGOMOESWANA I am currently a freelance conference speaker, programme director, workshop facilitator and consultant on African business development. Conferences and events I facilitated in 2013 include the annual conference of the Black Management Forum, the Annual Audit Committee Conference by Nkonki Inc., the National Treasury’s Financial Management Improvement III workshop for municipalities in the North West, as well as the congratulatory dinners held by the Association of Black Investment & Securities Professionals for Jacko Maree and one by the African Women Chartered Accountants for the CEO of the National Empowerment Fund. I also organised and led a trade conference on regional economic integration in East Africa with the Rwanda Development Board and the South African High Commission in Kigali.
Until September 2013, I was Business Development Executive for PPC Ltd, a cement manufacturing company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. My role within the company was mainly looking for investment opportunities across the African continent. I originated mergers and acquisitions transactions through discussions with governments, investors, company owners to establish good relations. I represented the company, which I joined in May 2012, at different conferences and trade missions across Africa and co-ordinated multidisciplinary teams in deal-structuring.
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| MS NTULI Ms Ntuli is the founding director and Chief Executive
Officer of property, asset and infrastructuredevelopment and solutions firm; Innate Investment
Solutions (Pty) Ltd. Ms Ntuli has previously held positions in various senior leadership roles in the
commercial and retail property sector and in the business development and investment promotion arena.
Passionate about youth development and leadership, Ms
Ntuli is a Founding Director and Chairman of IgniteSA.com.
Ms Ntuli is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Top 200
Leaders of Tomorrow by the St Gallen Symposium, a 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow and an
Advisory Board member of First National Bank (FNB) in the Kwazulu Natal Region.
Ms Ntuli is actively involved at an executive and member
level within various organisations including the Business Women’s Association, International Women’s
Forum (IWFSA), Women’s Property Network (WPN), Institute of Directors SA (IODSA), South African
Property Owners Association (SAPOA) the South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC) and the South African Institute of Black
Property Practitioners (SAIBPP)
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