Investec for Corporates

I head up a team that focuses on specialised lending, structured products and treasury activities for corporates and institutions. We strive to build trusted, long-term relationships and provide holistic, forward-looking views in order to identify ways to help clients achieve their business imperatives.

I head up the combined Investment Banking and Principal Investment business of Investec Specialist Bank, a role I've held since 1 December 2018.

I head up a team that consists of both the sales and trading functions for interest rates, foreign exchange, commodities, and money markets. The team is primarily involved in the management of our client's treasury requirements from a short-term operational aspect as well as that of a longer-term, strategic nature.

From an operational component (the sales role) we look at all physical foreign exchange and money market requirements and with the structuring role, cover requirements around all derivative activities, especially those of foreign exchange, commodity, and interest rate.

The client base spans corporates, commercial clients, parastatals, government bodies, high net-worth individuals, institutions, and property companies. The team aims to mitigate our client’s risks to these underlying asset classes.

The interest rate and foreign exchange trading desks also form part of Treasury Sales and Structuring. Through these desks, we market make in a variety of different currency pairs, bonds, and fixed income derivative instruments.

I lead a cluster of specialist lending businesses that have very distinct and targeted niche market segments in South Africa and across the continent.

Our cluster includes Power & Infrastructure Finance, Aviation Finance, Fund Finance, and an Africa-focused group that provides Corporate Lending, Institutional Trade Finance, and Export & Agency Finance on the continent.

In addition to a range of lending products we also have a Fund Initiatives team with a mandate to leverage our specialist skills in these sectors to make equity investments and develop platforms to manage third-party funds.

I am the Joint Head of Investment Banking and look after a team of professionals who are focused on building a total client solution business. We provide a full spectrum of products including term financing, revolving credit facilities, preference share finance, acquisition finance, expansion capital, debt advisory, and underwriting, arranging and syndication of facilities for large listed companies. Our aim is to grow strong relationships with our clients in order to bring innovative and relevant solutions to the table. Fostering a collaborative environment that draws from our local experience and global reach. This dynamic keeps us and our clients growing and developing consistently.

As Head of Corporate Client Coverage my focus is on the following:

• New business strategy formulation and execution
• Sourcing and mobilising of resources and requisite skills, attaining executive buy-in and support to enable successful strategy execution;
• Origination of new corporate client relationships, implementation of full-scope corporate client banking requirements including structured finance, global markets, and advisory transactions with experience that spans across the African continent and the Middle East;

In addition to being an exco member of the CIB division, I also head up the overall Technology, Media, and Telecoms sector acquisition team for the bank.
 

I have close to 20 years of investment banking experience across all corporate advisory aspects including mergers & acquisitions, debt and equity capital markets, across a wide range of sectors, both locally and internationally.

Before joining Investec, I worked at Goldman Sachs, Renaissance Capital and Nedbank Capital.

My sector experience includes, inter alia, retail, consumer, financial services, general industrials, telecommunications and metals & mining.