South Africa

Vicus Bouwer left the accounting profession in 2002 and joined Topics working in their real estate division. After the Edcon buy out Vicus joined Mr Price Group as a property manager. He joined Broll in 2013 with a focus on new retail developments in Sub-Saharan Africa. His scope of work involved sourcing of tenants and… read more »

Ilaria Benucci joined the CDC Group in 2013 as Investment Director: Industrial Businesses. She has also led CDC Investments in two East-African commercial banks. Ilaria joined CDC from AIG Private Equity where she was responsible for investments in emerging Europe and Turkey.  Her background is in private equity and financial institutions investing across Europe and… read more »

Eckardt Dauck is a German entrepreneur and impact investor. Eckardt has been involved in real estate investment and development since the mid 1980s. He has introduced green technologies to the region and created sustainable, local value chains to deliver infrastructure and affordable housing. After the successful implementation in Rwanda, Eckardt founded a social enterprise to… read more »

Toby Selman is the CEO and co-founder of Africa Logistics Properties, an integrated property development and investment company that is focused on the industrial warehousing sector across Africa. Toby has 15 years’ experience in building private and public commercial property investment companies, across Russia, Canada and Europe. He was a member of the founding management… read more »

Bronwyn Corbett is the CEO of Mara Delta Property Holdings. She has significant corporate finance and deal making experience and has played an instrumental role in the JSE listing of Delta Property Fund Limited in 2012 where she held the positions of CFO and COO prior to taking up the leadership role at Mara Delta…. read more »

Dr. Chii Akporji is a well-published author, has +20 years’ experience in development finance, played a key role in the start-up of the Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company and is Director: Policy, Corporate Strategy and Business Development. Dr. Akporji served as Advisor to the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, where she assisted… read more »

Marc Wachsberger is the Managing Director and owner of The Capital. He started his career at a corporate finance firm (which was a RMB breakaway company). He later established his own private equity firm, Intamarket Equity & Advisory. After spotting a gap for affordable long term accommodation in the Sandton area, he started up EAH… read more »

Derrick Roper is the CEO of Novare Holdings and Novare Equity Partners. He has over 26 years of experience in the industry. He is a qualified Actuary. Derrik graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in England. Before joining Novare he worked for a… read more »

Timonthy Murungi is currently a Director of Centum Investment at Centum Real Estate. He has over 20 years post-graduation work experience in quantity surveying / commercial management from the United Kingdom and Middle East. Timothy is responsible for the development and commercialization of the Group’s real estate strategy. Prior to joining Centum, he was Director… read more »

Dr Martyn Davies is a Partner and Managing Director of Emerging Markets & Africa at Deloitte. He heads Deloitte Africa’s Automotive sector business, and leads Japan and China Services for the firm. Prior to joining Deloitte, Martyn founded Frontier Advisory, a strategy and corporate finance advisory firm that was subsequently acquired by Deloitte. Martyn completed… read more »

Benjamin Kodisang is the Founder and CEO of ALT Capital Partners, a specialist investment business that focuses only on Private Markets. Prior to that, Benjamin was CEO of Sanlam Alternative Investments; MD of Stanlib Africa; Head: Distribution, Marketing and Strategy of Old Mutual Investment Group (SA) and MD of Old Mutual Property. He holds a… read more »

Sunil Benimadhu is CEO of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) and is a regular speaker on Emerging/African Financial Markets. He is Chairman of Global Finance Mauritius (GFM), the apex body of private Financial Services sector operators. He is on the Board of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), an association of the World’s leading… read more »

Craig McMurray comes from a farming background and began his working career in the forestry industry. During this time, he managed the family timber and sugar cane operations in South Africa, and later timber operations in the DRC, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Preceding that, he was at Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank. In 2004 Craig founded… read more »

Thomas Reilly is a Managing Director: Growthpoint Investec African Properties and Thomas Reilly is also Head: Africa Real Estate at Investec Asset Management.

Josh Panknin is a commercial real estate professional with 10+ years industry experience, including research, acquisitions, financing, bond trading, and full-stack technology development. Josh is adept at detailed research and feasibility studies, acquisitions analysis, structuring debt, mezzanine, and equity financing for commercial real estate, multi-variable sensitivity analysis, preparation of lender presentations and offering memoranda, and… read more »