WikiMzansi is South Africa's free online information resource profiling the continent's prominent leaders. 
WikiMzansi is South Africa's free online information resource profiling the continent's prominent leaders.
View professional biographies of prominent African celebrities, politicians, corporate and business leaders.
Simon Ardonceau joined the JLL Sub-Saharan Africa Strategic Consulting team in 2016 to develop the substantial potential for customised real estate consulting advice across the continent. He currently has strategic input in a wide range of assignments, and has been involved on several high profile and complex developments across Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the… read more »
Fuseina Abu is Managing Director of Goldkey, and has overall responsibility for acquisitions, project delivery, marketing, sales and leasing, finance and administration. Her career spans over 15 years in real estate. Prior to joining Goldkey, as Finance Director of Skanska UK Development, she was responsible for driving the company’s financial and real-estate strategy and led… read more »
Joel Duke Ramaphoi is an accomplished banking and finance professional, and currently the Executive Director, Investor Attraction at the Special Economic Zones Authority of Botswana. He holds MBA – Business Finance, and BA – Economics (single major), University of Botswana. He posses a unique combination of skills and qualifications required for delivery of desired results… read more »
Tom Mundy heads JLL’s Sub-Saharan Africa research and market intelligence group based in Johannesburg,South Africa. Previously, Tom was a director in JLL’s EMEA Capital Markets research and strategy team in London. Prior to joining JLL, Tom served as chief strategist for Russia’s largest private bank and prior to that, was an equity strategist for Renaissance… read more »
Kelly Kalumba has over twenty years’ notable experience working with Louis Karol Architects in South Africa, where he is Senior Partner working and managing a large number of projects across most African and European countries. Currently, he is also the president of the Zambia Institute of Architects and Founder/CEO of Green Code Architects in Lusaka…. read more »
Michael Okyere Baafi, the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA) holds a B.Ed in Psychology and an MBA in Marketing and Corporate Strategy from University of Cape Coast (UCC) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST). He is also at the final stages of completing an MSc degree in Risk… read more »
Kecia Rust is the Executive Director and founder of the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa. She is a housing policy specialist and has provided strategic support to government in South Africa for the past 20 years. Over the span of her career, she has focused on affordable housing finance, residential property assets and… read more »
Ivan Cornet is co-founder and managing partner of Latitude Five where he is in charge of real estate. Ivan assists international and local investors active in West Africa, providing market intelligence and identifying off markets opportunities, as well as structuring commercial and financial transactions. Ivan Cornet holds a business law degree and a Master in… read more »
Adam Nisbet joined the company in 2019 and holds a BSc. Honours in Quantity Surveying and is a Certified Associate in Project Management. Adam joins Grit from Collins Property Projects (a division of JSE-listed Tradehold Limited) where he held the position of Development Director responsible for all of the group’s development and refurbishment projects in… read more »
Hakeem Ogunniran is the Managing Director of UACN Property Development Co Plc. He is a Lawyer, Chartered Secretary and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and holds an LL.B, LL.M and MBA from the University of Lagos. Hakeem Ogunniran joined UACN Plc as Manager, Legal Services and later worked in several functional areas such… read more »
Rusmir Musić is the Global Business Development Lead for IFC’s EDGE Green Buildings Market Transformation Program. Rusmir joined IFC in 2011 where he initially worked as Strategy Officer for the Climate Business Department and was part of the team that synthesized IFC’s Climate Implementation Plan. Rusmir hails from Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he left at… read more »
Fadzai Nyamasve is an experienced Strategy and Business Growth Director in the Infrastructure and Resources consulting industries. She started her career as an electrical engineer in Australia and has led with notable success multiple disciplinary project teams in end-to-end infrastructure projects and transactions across multiple geographies Including civil infrastructure; mining and metallurgy, rail, ports, water… read more »
Nesi Chetty started his investments career with RMB in 2002 where he was a member of the consumer industrial team and also assumed non-consumer research responsibilities. Nesi was previous head of Financials at RMB Asset Managers, responsible for banks and life assurance. He also managed the award winning RMB Financials Fund. In 2010, Nesi was… read more »
Dolapo Omidire is the Founder and Team Lead at Estate Intel. He spent over 2 years at Broll in Nigeria as the Lead Research Analyst working on market and feasibility studies for international and local institutional real estate investors. Dolapo also spent over a year at AXA Mansard Investments as an Alternative Investment Analyst. Dolapo… read more »
Craig Smith holds a MSc in Real Estate Finance & Investments from the University of Reading as well as a Bcom (Hons) in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management and a BSc (Hons) in Property Studies from the University of Cape Town (UCT). He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and MRICS designations. Craig began… read more »