Technology-enabled investment

Jan van Rooyen, M.Law

Project Mediation

Lizette Joubert, B.Com, CFP

Head of Marketing

Responsibility
To oversee the incorporated investment and advisory entity in the Netherlands to ensure full compliance with all the compliance and regulatory frameworks of the Netherlands, the US, UK and the rest of the EU.

Previously
Owner of two advisory and intermediary brokerages then sold
Key individual as well as Regional manager at Momentum Consult.

Skills and Experience
Strong marketing and business development capability. Compliance driven. Certified financial planner with significant investment assets under advisement experience. Various awards for business development targets achieved. Serving as a Director of the Nxt Lvl Social Benefit Fund, overseeing the Social investments and compliance in South Africa.

Titiwat Wongcheen

Intern: Digital Law

Responsibility
Responsibility to design our digital legal framework in terms of cyber crime, digital legislation pertaining to all our partners (business partners, deliver partners, investors) on-line in all relevant jurisdictions ensuring that our Fintech solution have this critical component on our radar as we implement the global business strategy. Due to our presence within the EU we have to ensure that our model ticks all the relevant boxes.

Previously
Internship: Researcher at Privacy Company in The Hague

Skills and Experience
Wat comes highly recommended as a brilliant digital law student. Studied a new but relevant study field that is highly applicable to our business model. He prepared himself for a young but highly competitive environment.

Nicolás Gallardo, B.Sc International Business

Digital Marketing & Latam Ops

Responsibility
Nicolas’ responsibility will be to provide input into the venture capital environment and other specific operational readiness projects. He will also provide input from a Latin American perspective to ensure that our model is also aligned to the Latin American realities on the ground. He will also provide input in terms of the German and Dutch start-up ecosystems to ensure/confirm that we provide a truly unique and powerful global solution. Will be appointed in applicable full-time position with rest of the team within 12 weeks.

Previously
Internship: Scale-up Nation as Junior Business analyst
Internship at Raisin GmbH in Germany
Consulting Projects for Mercedes Benz and start-ups

Skills and Experience
Nicolas is a young, dynamic and professional international business student with very applicable theoretical knowledge and practical experience. He has experience in creating marketing videos for Raisin in Germany which explains the product, the whole investment process and the advantages of investing in the product. He facilitated the communication between business and tech by developing visualisations, financial analysis, market research and data analysis. He interfaced with the German and Dutch entrepreneurial eco systems and have a great understanding of what is available and what is being done. He also wrote his thesis paper on scale-ups in the circular economy, an important essay on grassroots innovation and how important that is for the socio-economic development of the developing countries.

Elbe Steenkamp (B.Com HRM)

Human Resource Manager

Responsibility
Assist in developing and implementing the Human Capital Model & Framework during the Operational readiness stages and the following implementation stages. This includes Policies, Payroll Systems, Recruitment & Onboarding, HR Processes & Systems, Organisational Design & HR Strategy.

Previously
Recruitment Consultant at Abacus Recruitment
GIT, HR Consultant and HR Manager at ArcelorMittal South Africa

Skills and Experience
Leading full HR/People enablement function, succession planning, continuous bench strength and talent pipeline, skills development, HR practices, organisational performance tracking against business plan, budgeting, development of career fast track initiatives and alignment with group strategic plans, HR business partnering. Full hire to retire process.

Elias Sonku, General Business Certificate

Intern: Community Project Manager – Ghana

Responsibility
Dropy will be responsible to work with Annamie on the first community project in Ghana. Dropy will be also providing some insight into the African realities. After the operational readiness stage Dropy will be the community project manager on the ground responsible for project facilitation. Dropy will be appointed full-time within 12 weeks with the rest of the team.

Currently
Elias is currently studying towards a BA Psychology, Information Studies, Adult Education at the University of Ghana.

Previously
Internship at Produce Buying Company Ltd.
District Sales Coordinator for Axis Pension Trust
Front Desk Receptionist respectively at Majestic Ville Hotel and Kings Palace Hotel

Skills and Experience
Sales and accounts management. Marketing. Hospitality management. Client acquisition and relationship management. Retirement planning & Pension Advisory.

Carl Kleynhans, B.Com Accountancy, M-Com Business Management

Chief Financial Officer

Responsibility
Executive Finance responsible for the implementation and management of financial accounting, internal control systems, management reporting for the corporate head office as well as at regional and country levels.

Previously
Worked at various levels in the areas of corporate accounting, management accounting, costing and tax, in entities like Siemens, Kimberly-Clarke, Hoechst Pharmaceuticals, SAIMR, Sealy, Edblo/Slumberland and in his own Professional Accounting practice. He also held executive and board level positions in international, national and private entities.

Skills and Experience
Experience in Africa, Australia, UK and the USA. Finance; general management; venture capital; business optimisation; change management; strategy development and implementation; performance management; business modelling; M&A and business valuations; coaching; accounting; financial management; operational management and executive management

Louis Gouws (B. Eng.)

Solutions Architect

Responsibility
Responsible as Solutions architect designing the entire Real Impact global digital framework including the Global Impact Brain from a computer and electronic engineering perspective.

Previously
Systems engineer at Altron Nexus.
Product manager at Altron Nexus.

Skills and Experience
Investigating, Develop and Deploy new potential products in Cloud, AI, Safe/Smart City and Critical Communications. Coordinating and leading international multi-disciplinary teams from the initialisation to the finalisation of various projects. Specification and design of software for Safe City, IoT and critical communication applications. He has extensive experience in Smart City thought leadership, embedded software and service applications for large IoT projects. Turn-key solution design of various metropolitan area network projects.

Werner Roos, B.Com (Accounting) Hons.

Forensic Audit

Responsibility
Oversee and provide input to the development of a financial system where fraud can be pro-actively minimised by developing a financial system where fraud can be detected quickly and where the executive team and the management teams in regions can identify and respond to fraud whenever and wherever it takes place. He may also support Carl in supporting the portfolio.

Previously
Manager of Forensic services at a major Accounting Firm.
Manager: Business services.
Group financial manager of the SSC Group.
Director of Integrated Commercial compliance.
Founder and Director of Financial Consulting and Advisory Hub.

Skills and Experience
Werner has extensive experience in corporate accounting, Financial reporting, budgets, Taxes, Cash Flows, Asset management, contracts, financial statements and large scale forensic auditing. Werner has been involved with major investigations at the South African Revenue Service and other corporates. His experience in forensic accounting, accounting litigation support, fraud detection and prevention, fraudulent financial reporting, net worth analysis financial misstatements and due diligence audits.

Riel Marais, B.Com (IT), N.Dip (IT), N.Dip (Electrical Engineering)

International Programme Manager

Responsibility
Responsible for managing project management staff working in the community- as well as venture capital projects across all regions. He will be responsible for planning all internal and external project management resources, organising the function, controlling the work-flow, training and development of systems etc.

Previously
Senior Project Consultant at SSG Consulting
Identity Management Specialist at NETCB.COM
Systems Administrator for National Intelligence Agency
Consulting Engineer (Electrical) at Africon Consulting Engineers

Skills and Experience
Project and Program management, Contract Management, project staff management, implementation and training of project management systems, Business Development, Advanced information technology experience, Implementation of Identity management systems, set-up of virtual server environments on Linux, Novell Systems Engineer and Administration, computer hardware and software support, IT training, Electrical consulting Engineering.

George van der Westhuizen, B.Com Insurance Science & ACI Dealing

Treasury & Risk

Responsibility
Development and implementation of a group wide impact investment risk management model, oversee group wide compliance and risk management, oversee the risk and compliance with regards to spread of investments into seed and early stage investments including business loans to seed and early stage businesses

Previously
Sole proprietor at George West Consulting
CEO at Agrarian Group
MD at INTCEB Africa
Partner at Peter Skerrit and Associates
Head Fixed Income Trading at Absa Bank Limited

Skills and Experience
Experience in Africa, Israel. Advanced financial and risk management modelling, portfolio management, VBA programming, MATLAB, international banking, Implementation of risk management, VAR models, valuation models and limits, building valuation models, for clients dealing in money markets, interest rate products, foreign exchange and derivates, development of decision based based simulation models that assist international banks, deal execution, hedge structuring and risk management services to small and medium enterprises

Annami Bruwer

Sustainability

Responsibility
Oversee the system design of tracking and measurement of local community resources. Annami is the project leader on the 130 shovel-ready projects because her organisation have worked with all the traditional leaders and preparing them for investment engagement. She has personal relationships with all the community leaders and she was the person who facilitated the development of all the projects. Real Impact Global contracted with her business to oversee the rural project deployment.

Previously
Managing Director of Meritus international

Skills and Experience
Extensive experience in the coordination of projects within the African continent since 1997. Includes the alignment and implementation of systems and procedures in order to support the sustainability of range of projects. Coordinate, and enhance socio- economic development economical mobilisation with reputable funding, educational alignment, efficient service delivery, sustainable job creation and ultimately food security. She understands diversity and challenges as well as wealth, of both people and natural resources as assets at grass-root level. Her involvement in projects enabled good relational networking and referencing in West, East and Southern Africa. She’s a hands on person and therefore takes responsibility for the operational implementation and management of projects, positioning and establishing them in the market place.

Gert Roodt

Research & Development

Responsibility
Gert will be involved to help us design an integrated, applicable research and development capability to ensure that we deliver empirical results in all spheres of our impact model.

Previously
Lecture/researcher and Senior Researcher at University of Orange FS
Associate Professor and Professor at RAU then Centre Head, Centre for Work Performance at RAU
Now: University of Johannesburg, Vice Dean: Research
Professor: Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at University of Johannesburg.

Skills and Experience
He is a licensed psychologist and a registered personnel practitioner. He is author/co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and about 60 conference proceeding papers; 15 technical reports; and co-editor/co-author of 17 books; author/co-author of about 70 book chapters; and several articles in non-research-based journals. He is also presenter/co-presenter of approximately 135 peer-reviewed papers at national and international academic conferences. He was the former head of the Centre for Work Performance in the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management. He is a former chair of the Society for Industrial Psychology (1995-97). He is rated by the NRF as a category C2 researcher. He serves on review/editorial boards of nine local and international scholarly journals.

Johann Breytenbach, M.Sc

Environment & Biodiversity

Responsibility
Johan will be responsible for integrating well-research and applied methodologies for environmentally sustainable, biodiverse project evaluation and selection methodology. Real Impact global will also officially contract with Johan’s current business to facilitate large scale environmental, economic sustainable projects.

Currently
Director of own companies, will join operational readiness team

Skills and Experience
More than 30 years experience in various economically enabling environment and community projects. Highly experienced in community engagement and sustainability. Highly experienced in sustainability project development supporting ecological sustainability for communities. Spent years in research and the operationalisation of projects in various countries. He has been involved with major community integration projects and established peace as a result.

Hennie Du Plooy

Shared Service

Responsibility
Responsible for the capacity development strategy with a very strong focus on on-boarding, and support for Real Impact Global operations across various client channels, potentially also sales team development for investee company sales teams.

Previously
Director of Capability@work
Learning and development consultant for SA Breweries
Sales Manager for SA Breweries
Learning and development specialist for SA breweries
Distribution Manager for SA Breweries
Sales Representative/Account manager for SA Breweries

Skills and Experience
Experience in various countries in Africa, managerial, sales, marketing, logistics and capability building experience, development and execution of multiple training solutions in sales, logistics and leadership space to support business goals and improve individual employee performance, developed capability strategy for the sales force aligned to business strategy, development of learning pathways with competence and assessment criteria per sales role, consult stakeholders and role out of learning solutions, sales territory analysis, planning and management with all opportunities, sales force resourcing and sales plans, coordinating of sales and distribution training plan and budget, facilitation of workplace assessor training and feedback of competence development process, managed distribution teams, human resources and staff and fleets.

Dr. Dirk Krüger, PhD

Project Management Officer

Responsibility
Responsibility is to establish an advanced programme management governance office in Netherlands, and regional project governance in Santiago, South Africa and Singapore.

Previously
Director of PROMA Consulting
Project and Programme Management Consulting for Eskom Enterprises and Eskom recovery team
General Management, Financial Manager for Africure
Financial Management for the Secretary of Defence and for the South African Airforce

Skills and Experience
Academic mentoring and coaching, financial accounting, financial analysis, financial control, financial forecasting, financial governance, financial planning, business analysis, business process design and review, governance, Human Resource management, organisational development and design, training and development, Program Management governance, project management, project portfolio management

Lizette Abbott, LLB & B.Sc Mech eng.

Legal & Compliance

Responsibility
Responsible for establishing and maintaining the Real Impact Global legal framework relating to all partners, also general legal advice including intellectual property, government incentives and grants in Netherlands, EU and host governments, tax implications, contracts with all stakeholders, compliance with regulatory requirements in each jurisdiction, etc.

Previously
Senior Tax and Legal Manager for PWC
Intellectual Property Attorney for Smit & van Wyk Inc.
Tax Manager – Advisor and Legal analyst for Deloitte & Touche
Patent attorney at DM Kirch Inc.

Skills and Experience
Head of tax and government grants and incentives, incentive programmes, engagement contracts, risk management and independent compliance verifications, assessment and identification of capital projects, including R&D activities and energy efficiency projects, compliance of engagements to relevant policies, legislation, rules, regulations and government guidelines, interpretation and commentary on amendments to relevant policies, legislation, rules, regulations and government guidelines, revenue service queries in respect of motivations, legal opinions, training internal and external teams in intellectual property, technical consultations, intellectual property audits and assessments, patent applications internationally, patent enforcement, registered design international, registered design enforcement.

Ella Du Toit, B.A.

Government and Diplomatic Relations

Responsibility
Responsible for the government and investor relations in the Netherlands and in Europe. Must also facilitate the relationship with the Netherlands in order to obtain diplomatic support from the Netherlands, the EU and garner support for our global impact investment strategy.

Previously
Manager: Corporate Affairs and Finance for the South African Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in Netherlands (The Hague) (2000-2012)

Skills and Experience
Organised and delivered range of diplomatic level delegations and negotiations including Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela and Cyril Ramaphosa. Protocol affairs and supervisor for trade missions to the Netherlands. Organising business luncheons for South African and Dutch governments. Organised various functions for former President Nelson Mandela, Trade and Tourism. Served on a number of advisory boards such as Yente-Sanec business desk advisory board, function mentoring for reconciliation function at the United Nations Head Office for Mrs. Kofi Annan in the Bronx, New York. Invited as guest speaker at Zambian business forum, Rabobank, Utrecht in conjunction with Zambian Ambassador in Brussels, minister of trade and investment of Zambia, Accenta Seminar in Belgium regarding the role of Sanec in bilateral trade between SA and Benelux, doing business in different cultures in SA.

Michael Olivier, M.Eng. Industrial (Enterprise Eng.)

Operational Efficiency

Responsibility
Responsible for taking the operational model of Real Impact Global to the next level ensuring a high level of operational efficiency and continuous improvement. Also establishing a technical services division who will support VC and Community project teams and divisions.

Previously
Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting
Business Development Manager at innoViZION
Project Manager at Omnia
TPM Manager at DHL Supply Chains
Founding Member at Neologic Solutions
Business Consultant for Arthur Anderson

Skills and Experience
Experience in Africa across multiple industries, advanced technology skills in CAST Aurora, PLATO OPTIMA, Nimbus Control and Celoxis project management, advanced experience in continuous improvement, centralising logistics and supply chains, development of supply chain centre of excellence, implementation of ERP systems, advanced business process management, Supply chain target operating model design including demand planning, procurement, transport management, inventory optimisation, order management and warehousing.

Juan du Toit, B.Com Hons HRM, B.Com Hons. Labour & Industrial Relations, B.Com Industrial Psychology

Human Capital

Responsibility
Responsible for the entire Human Capital function ensuring full people enablement to deliver strategy

Previously
Group HR Executive Mybucks Group
Member of Group Exco – Listed Frankfurt Stock Exchange
HR Executive for Aveng G-LTA Corporate Civil Engineering division
Chief HR Officer at Renico

Skills and Experience
Experience in Africa and Europe, EXCO member representing People enablement function, aligning HR structure, vision and goals to business needs and growth, Strategising and implementation of transformation, talent management and formal mentorship programmes, leading full HR/People enablement function, executive wellness management for senior management, succession planning, continuous bench strength and talent pipeline, established training centres, skills development, HR practices, organisational performance tracking against business plan, budgeting, development of career fast track initiatives and alignment with group strategic plans, HR business partnering.

Tim Kendrick

Risk Management Programming

Responsibility
Assisted with securing A-Round capital as well as the anchor investor for the Sustainability Themed Bond. Tim will also be responsible for identifying and contracting our international banking partner and crafting the banking services required for our international operations. He is also responsible for facilitating risk management programming to ensure that all risks are identified and mitigated during the implementation process over the first 18 months.

Previously
Professional facilitator of capital to purpose driven projects. Highly solutions driven and the ability to create integrated funding solutions that match the business model. Also facilitating a risk management programme.

Skills and Experience
Advanced skill set which was a major gap in the operational readiness team.

Hennie Strauss, CA, CFA

Finance and Shared Services

Responsibility
Support the development of our financial systems, develop and implement financial shared services in the Netherlands, Latin America, Africa and Asia

Previously
Senior Vice President – Operations Regional Head (Middle East) for Citi Bank
Vice President – Citi Business Services Head (Africa)
Vice President – Strategic Planning Officer
Experience in private equity in Australia

Skills and Experience
Experience in Africa, Australia and Europe; 5 Languages; communication skills; organisational and managerial skills; people management skills; global banking experience; projects in financial modelling, GAAP and US reporting; process optimisation, operational risk management within complex matrix organisation; process transformation; multi-site transaction consolidation through centralised processing of finance and accounting transactions; HR processing: accounts payable, staff expense processing and procurement

Dr. Marius Joubert, PhD

Managing Director

Responsibility
Strategy development and implementation, Vision implementation, Governance

Previously:
Managing Director at Louis Allen Africa
Experience in Africa, Middle East, South East Asia and Latin America in multiple industries
Management, leadership and organisational development
Invested in number of businesses and sold interests

Skills and Experience:
Strategy development and implementation, Management-, Leadership, – and Organisational development, business optimisation, Venture capital, entrepreneurial, business development, change management, impact investment, employee engagement, international business, emerging markets, corporate development

Maria Boshoff

NGO/NPO engagement and onboarding

Responsibility
Responsible for overseeing the relationships with all NGO partners who are involved with community projects in line with our impact investment mandate. Overseeing team of community project managers in NGO’s to ensure that the NGO’s/NPO’s deliver in line with our contracted deliverables.

Previously
Managing Director Glenrand MIB (Mozambique)
Project manager for Sasol Gas Pipeline, Protech, Afroscope projects and Regional Project Manager for Petra Diamonds in Angola
Office and Development Manager for WK Construction
Client Liaison Manager for Alexander Forbes (Mozambique)

Skills and Experience
Experience in Africa, 6 Languages, fluent in all the languages in African and Latin American regions, projects where she created 25000 jobs, infrastructure development, workforce preparation, programmes in human development strategies and recruitment, sustainability monitoring, set-up training facilities, procurement, rehabilitation of military hospitals in Mozambique, budgets, negotiation of agricultural land for formulation of co-ops and incubator type farming, Risk and contracts management, project performance, joint venture facilitation, diplomatic interface, health and safety, community and government negotiations of concessions in Angola, site management, establish policy and procedures.

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Our Executive- and Project Team

Dr. Marius Joubert

Carl Kleynhans

Dr. Dirk Krueger

George van der Westhuizen

Ella du Toit

Juan du Toit

Hennie du Plooy

Riel Marais

Lizette Joubert

Lizette Abbott

Maria Boshoff

Johann Breytenbach

Werner Roos

Annami Bruwer

Gert Roodt

Nicolas Gallardo

Titiwat Wongcheen

Elias Sonku

Louis Gouws

Elbe Steenkamp

Jan van Rooyen

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