SPEAKERS
Nozipho Tshabalala
(Programme Director)
CEO of The Conversation Strategists
Nozipho Tshabalala
CEO of The Conversation Strategists
Nozipho Mbanjwa-Tshabalala is the CEO of the Conversation Strategists, where she moderates global conversations that are designed to have measurable outcomes.
She is known as the go-to moderator for presidential and high-level panel conversations globally.
She has moderated conversations for global bodies including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations, the African Union, governments and multinationals around the world.
With an academic and practice background spanning Economics, Politics and Policy, Development, Business and Strategy, and Social Economics, she is in demand for her unique and insightful ability to facilitate complex conversations with simplicity, depth and breadth.
Her prior work experience has included serving in The Presidency in South Africa, Umlambo Foundation, Tata Africa, and as an award-winning journalist at CNBC Africa.
She currently serves the LRMG Group as the Transformation Executive. Nozipho extends her leadership to various boards including LRMG (Chairperson Designate), Africa Leadership Initiative – South Africa (Non-Executive Director), TEDx Gresham Place (Advisory Board) and the BeyGOOD Global Citizen Fellowship (Advisory Council).
She enjoys the fellowship of the following prestigious institutions: Gordan Institute for Business Science’s Centre for African Management and Markets (CAMM), Young African leadership Initiative (YALI) and is a Tutu fellow. In 2019 she was named as one the Top 100 Most Influential Young Africans and one of the Top 100 Most Influential South Africans.
Andrew Wooler
Chief Executive Officer, Investec Property Fund
Andrew Wooler
Chief Executive Officer – Investec Property Fund Ltd
B Bus Sci (Finance Hons), FCA (ICAEW), PLD (Harvard Business School)
Having joined the Investec Property Fund executive management team in August 2012, Andrew Wooler has been instrumental in growing the Fund from R2bn of local assets to its current portfolio comprising R40 billion of direct and indirect real estate investments located across South Africa and Western Europe and a joint venture in Australia with A$450m of equity assets under management. Andrew fulfilled the role of Chief Financial Officer from August 2015 until 01 December 2018 when he became Joint Chief Executive Officer of the Fund. This position is a culmination of Andrew’s commercial, corporate finance and property industry experience, leveraging his skill as a chartered accountant for the benefit of the Fund through all aspects of M&A opportunities, corporate activity, financial structuring and asset positioning to ensure consistent business growth, efficient capital recycling and industry leading returns. Prior to this, Andrew spent 8 years in London where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, worked in corporate finance and later headed up the team at Caesars Entertainment UK that was responsible for driving profitability and rolling out new business opportunities across the EMEA region.
Barry Hilton
SA Comedian
Barry Hilton
SA Comedian
Every good comedian knows that timing is everything – and with Barry Hilton that goes way beyond the punchline. His act is intelligent, observational, impeccably timed and never crude, sexist or racist. Just enormously funny. This universal appeal, coupled with a rigorous training on the comedy circuit alongside the likes of John Cleese, Billy Connolly and Bob Monkhouse, gives him a professionalism welcomed by any comedy club or corporation – punctual, polite, always topical, and always a strong performer. With a track record of 40 years in comedy, Barry Hilton has raised the world’s laughter level considerably and won over a global fanbase. His delightful knack of finding the ludicrous and the humorous turns daily situations on their head to make us laugh at life.
Barry is a highly sought after MC, host and facilitator for any event. He has been delighting audiences for many years at public, private and corporate events as well as fundraisers and auctions. His gregarious personality makes him a people’s person, happy to engage with the audience before and after his shows. This versatile and dynamic comedy icon works the room with magnetic charm and infectious ease. Barry is known to several generations as a gentleman comic and a master craftsman with flawless timing, an unpredictable hairline and a gaze that doesn’t miss a thing. His genuinely funny bones, his uncanny ability to gauge a crowd, his firm stance on working clean, and his unflinching work ethic make Barry Hilton an institution that has stood the testament of time and continues to impress as he breaks new ground and makes ‘em laugh all over the world.
Chris Campbell
Chief Executive Officer, CESA
Chris Campbell
Chief Executive Officer, CESA
Chris started his career as a Draughtsman some 40 years ago. He obtained a Higher Technician Diploma in Civil Engineering in 1986. 10 years later as Senior Technician in the Consulting Engineering industry, he went on to obtain a BSc. Civil Engineering degree in 1995 at a University in the USA. He has been registered as a Pr. Eng since 1998.
Over the past he obtained various certificates and diplomas in management and leadership and held Senior positions in the engineering industry as well as in business and engineering institutions locally and internationally.
Briefly to cite a few notable ones:
- Infrastructure Manager for both the Iron Ore and Coal Export Lines of Transnet;
- Executive General Manager in Aveng Infraset responsible for business in South Africa, Zambia a precast concrete manufacturing and supply company with operations in South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland & Mozambique.
- CEO of Consulting Engineers South Africa since 2015 to date.
His engineering institutional involvement over the past 25 years include:
- Past Vice President of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE),
- Past President of the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA),
- Past Vice President of The World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO),
- Chair, FIDIC Directors & Secretaries Advisory Council (DNSAC).
- Board Member of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA).
Claire D’Adorante
Director – Paragon Interface
Claire D’Adorante
Director – Paragon Interface
Claire has 25 years of professional working experience in the interior design industry, working across multiple design environments in corporate workplace, retail, residential, healthcare and education sectors.
She holds a BA Honours Degree from Greenside Design Centre, obtained in 2001. She began her career in commercial interiors, then explored the different world of retail and residential interiors but ultimately returned to her roots in commercial and workplace design. Travelling to Australia in 2007, Claire worked for a large multi-disciplinary practice there for 6 years. This experience helped to grow her personal design style and experience level.
Returning to South Africa in 2012, Claire took on the role of Director at Paragon Interface, going from strength to strength and securing two of the largest fitout projects in the country – namely, the new Head Office for Sasol (67,000m2) and the new Discovery Campus (112,000m2).
Claire is driven by the desire to keep up with global leading trends in both architecture and design, and by the need to push one’s self to look for new and innovative ways to create interior environments that enhance people’s day to day lives and define business cultures. Her special interests are all things art and design; and a love of travel that allows her to experience new and different cultures and expand her thinking.
Eddie Andrews
Executive Deputy Mayor
Eddie Andrews
Executive Deputy Mayor
Elected public representative serving in local government within the City of Cape Town. Able to drive service delivery matters, show initiative, advocate and contribute to policy discussions. Married for 24 years with 3 children. Avid sportsperson, family man and youth mentor. Well respected with integrity and able to work with anyone regardless of background.
Eileen Andrew
Vice President: Client Coverage , MSCI – Real Estate
Eileen Andrew
Vice President: Client Coverage , MSCI – Real Estate
Eileen’s role at MSCI provides her with a unique perspective of real estate investment strategy and portfolio optimisation. Now as vice president at MSCI, Eileen has experience working with both South African and multinational real estate funds, gathered from her 17 years with MSCI (previously IPD) both in South Africa and London. She holds a degree in Mathematics and Human Geography from WITS University. Eileen believes that the numbers tell the real story and that makes for better investment decisions.
Estienne De Klerk
Chief Executive Officer (South Africa), Growthpoint Properties
Estienne De Klerk
Chief Executive Officer (South Africa), Growthpoint Properties
Estienne de Klerk has been involved in banking and listed property for more than 25 years. He is experienced in take-overs, mergers and acquisitions as well as transformation deals and capital raisings. Estienne is a chartered accountant who started his career with the marketing department of Eskom Durban Distribution, followed by roles in banking and property finance with Investec Private Bank. In 2002 he joined Investec Property Group’s property fund management business, which was then building its property funds under management including Metboard Properties Limited and Growthpoint Properties Limited. He was appointed Fund Manager and Executive Director of Metboard, and later went on to become Executive Director and Group Managing Director of Growthpoint before being appointed Chief Executive Officer (SA).
Estienne has always been active in the leadership of the South African property industry and is a well-respected voice for the sector. Estienne is Chairman of the SA REIT Association, of which he is a longstanding member having served on its Exco and as Chairman of its Taxation and Regulatory committee since inception, where he laid the groundwork for the country’s REIT framework. He is a Past President of the South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) and represented the industry in the Property Sector Charter negotiations.
Prof Hamanth Kasan
Director, Utility Partnerships, ROCKBlue
Prof Hamanth Kasan
Director, Utility Partnerships, ROCKBlue
Prof Hamanth Kasan has acquired a unique blend of education namely, science, engineering, management, leadership, corporate governance and coaching. He has over 30 years of experience in both academic and utility sectors focused on water and sanitation. He has held many local, continental and global leadership positions over the years including Vice President of International Water Association (IWA) and President of the African Water Association (AFWA). Currently he is Board member of AFWA, Chair of Strategic Capacity Building Committee of AFWA, Distinguished Fellow of IWA, Senior Fellow of Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) and Member of International Programme Committee of Singapore International Water Week (SIWW). He is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Water and Wastewater Research at Durban University of Technology which he founded over 25 years ago. After 22 years as General Manager at Rand Water, Africa’s largest water utility, he is currently Director of Utility Partnerships Division at ROCKBlue which is enhancing utility performance in 5 African countries serving in excess of 20 million consumers with water and sanitation. He also serves as Independent Advisor, consultant, coach/mentor and Non-Executive Director of Boards.
Helen Nicolson
Chief Excitement Officer, The Networking Company
Helen Nicolson
Chief Excitement Officer, The Networking Company
Helen Nicholson is a specialist in the area of Mindful Resilience.
She has been pioneering this work for the past 18 years, and has trained over 16 000 people in what TIME Magazine calls “the biggest performance game changer”. She is the founder of The Networking Company, has bought up 26-year-old identical twin girls as a single mother and ran the New York Marathon in 2011.
She understands performance demands, and has personally experienced both the productivity and resilience benefits of mindfulness. Her book
“Mindfulness: How to stay sane in an insane world” released in 2022 is a best-seller..She lived in the Middle East for 5 years and was interviewed by GIBS as one of South Africa’s top female entrepreneurs.
Jan van Schalkwyk
Executive in the Auditor-General’s Office
Jan van Schalkwyk
Executive in the Auditor-General’s Office
Jan started his career as a chartered accountant at Deloitte in 1991.Jan’s interest in accounting and auditing was always well balanced with a passion for people development and transformation. This finally led him to a move to the Auditor-General, South Africa (AGSA) in 1997, playing a major part in the organisation’s efforts to professionalise.
In 2015, he was appointed as the Executive in the Auditor-General’s Office, where he takes responsibility for the coordination of the Auditor-General’s engagement with the rest of the organization, as well as the Auditor-General’s international and local stakeholder programs. He also remains quite involved in the INTOSAI community, most notably in the INTOSAI Capacity Building Committee.
Janine Palm
Social Executive, Attacq Limited
Janine Palm
Social Executive, Attacq Limited
Janine holds a B.Com Honours degree in Industrial Psychology and a Masters qualification in Corporate Strategy.
She has over 18 years of Human Capital and Transformation related experience within the professional services industry. Her experience includes leading large teams and managing all HC related functions including recruitment, learning & development, performance management, remuneration, wellness, employee engagement, social Impact, diversity & inclusion, ethics and B-BBEE. Janine transitioned into the property industry in 2021 by taking on the role of Social Executive for Attacq Ltd. She is currently responsible for leading their Human Capital, Transformation and Office Management teams. Outside of her professional career, she is a proud Mom to two boys and gets great joy from being the Events Planner in her family and friends’ group.
JP Landman
Political / Economic Analyst
JP Landman
Political / Economic Analyst
JP Landman is a self-employed analyst on political-economic trends. He focuses on trends in politics, economics and demography. He has been a consultant to Nedbank Private Wealth since 2000.
In 2006 he was appointed as a member of then Pres Mbeki’s Economic Advisory Panel; in 2015 he was appointed by the President as a member of the National Planning Commission; and he is a non-executive director of the JSE listed food company Libstar.
In 2013 he was elected a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars in Washington DC and he spent four months in the US.
He has a BA LLB from Stellenbosch University (1978), studied Economics at Harvard (1998 and again in 2005), and obtained a MPhil in Future Studies (cum laude) from Stellenbosch (2003). In 2009 he completed a course at Oxford University Continuing Education on the economies of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India & China).
Keillen Ndlovu
Independent Property Analyst
Keillen Ndlovu
Independent Property Analyst
Keillen Ndlovu has excelled in various markets, including local and developed economies, with several top-performance awards. Having commenced his property career at Standard Bank Properties in 2004, he moved to STANLIB, where he eventually assumed leadership responsibilities and managed property funds catering to retail and institutional clients. A key figure in the ascent of one the largest and most successful local and global property unit trusts in South Africa, he played an instrumental role in driving total assets under management to almost R30 billion during the height of the property market. He recently concluded his tenure at STANLIB at the end of 2021 and now operates independently, leveraging his knowledge and experience to make a substantial impact as a thought leader.
Laurence Gary Rapp
Chief Executive, Vukile Property Fund
Laurence Gary Rapp
Chief Executive, Vukile Property Fund
Mr Laurence Rapp, Chairman and Non-Executive Proprietary Director of Castellana Properties Socimi. Mr. Rapp, graduated with Honors from the Universality of the Witwatersrand as well as having attended Wharton University’s Business Executive Development Program. For the past 12 years, Mr Rapp has being the Chief Executive Officer of Vukile Property Fund Limited, Castellana’s majority shareholder. He has extensive experience in the financial services environment, spanning investment banking, private equity, retail banking and insurance and asset management. He was previously director of Standard Bank, having headed the Insurance and Asset Management division and, prior to that, heading Strategic Investment and Alliances. Additionally, he is the former President of the South African REIT Association
Lerato Semenya
Managing Director, Chromatic Consulting
Lerato Semenya
Managing Director, Chromatic Consulting
Lerato is a dynamic, passionate leader and speaker with a talent for telling stories that inspire action. She is a credible voice in strategy development, decision making and establishing governance boundaries. Communication, and advocacy is her passion, developed and honed through her 17-year corporate career which has spanned across the Mining, Financial Services, Oil and Gas, and IT industries. Chromatic Consulting is in its 4th year of operation.
Lerato intuitively sees the opportunities from constantly evaluating the influence of technology for the management of workplaces, to ensure that trend evaluation is always done in conjunction with the business imperatives and strategic drivers, bringing them together in a coherent whole.
She is passionate about creating safe, inclusive spaces where employees (especially women and members of the LGBTI+ community) can contribute meaningfully to the development of our economy. She achieves this vision through facilitating dialogue, empowerment and training (skills development) and creating change at the systemic level of corporate entities, so they can drive the changes that advocacy has been evangelising for years. Her Diversity and Inclusion work through Chromatic Consulting, seeks to create networks of change.
She is also the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Kuehne + Nagel Inzuzo Trust, which invests in the education and entrepreneurial development of young South African women
Melinda Isaacs
Development Executive, Liberty Two Degrees
Melinda Isaacs
Development Executive, Liberty Two Degrees
Passionate about Real Estate and influencing project execution, Melinda Isaacs is a seasoned Development Manager and a Member of the Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors, a registered member of the South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession and is an accredited professional with the Green Building Council of South Africa. With extensive experience in retail and hospitality projects and as a Development Executive at Liberty Two Degrees (L2D), Melinda has a proven track record spanning 16 years in development initiatives in some of South Africa’s leading shopping centres, including Sandton City.
With environmental risks remaining at the forefront of global risks, Melinda leads the implementation of L2D’s various development initiatives in the company’s journey to deliver its Net Zero commitments. Melinda believes in the role that real estate plays in creating the future environments for communities to thrive in and enjoys providing strategic direction that drives projects and processes more effectively, with a focus on delivering excellence.
Firmly establishing herself in the property development space, Melinda has also spearheaded precinct and master planning strategies across the L2D portfolio and made significant contributions to various projects in property development including; the repositioning of Sandton City with the addition of the Southeast Extension and refurbishment of the mall, the reconfiguration of the Stuttafords space within the L2D portfolio, the mall reconfiguration and introduction of the Diamond Walk.
As a registered professional Melinda is passionate about contributing to the industry as a mentor and has trained numerous other women, some of whom have also grown to various senior management roles in the industry. Seeing woman grow and having contributed to their development is inspiring for her and she believes being a leader is about serving the people you lead, giving back to the industry and the people you work with also allows you to grow.
Michael Arbuthnot
CEO, Catalyst Fund Managers
Michael Arbuthnot
CEO | Catalyst Fund Managers
Mike joined Catalyst Fund Managers in July 2015. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant CA (SA) and MBA graduate from IE Business school in Spain. Mike started his career in Operations in 2008 at Orbis Investment Advisory Limited in Bermuda and subsequently transferred to the London office where he was employed as Head of Global Transfer Agency. Prior to that, Mike spent a year at Deloitte and three years at KPMG in Cape Town. Mike subsequently joined RECM in December 2010 as Head of Operations and Finance. Recently Mike has been instrumental in putting together the Fezeka Graduate Programme for Women in Asset Management which he sees as a big step in helping transform the industry into a more client outcomes focussed industry.
Mweishö Nene
Senior Analyst – Real Estate
Mweishö Nene
Senior Analyst – Real Estate
Mweishö joined SBG Securities in 2017 from First National Bank where he worked as a pricing and profitability manager specialising in the programming of credit pricing models and assessing cash flow risk. Mweishö now co-covers the South African listed real estate sector at SBGS, and has claimed national number 1 ranking in the Financial Mail top analyst award in 2020, 2021 and 2022. He holds a BSc from the University of Johannesburg majoring in mathematics and economics, studied further to attain a BSc (Hons) in mathematics and in 2019 completed his MCom in financial economics.
Nicola Weimar
Chief Economist – Nedbank Group Ltd
Nicola Weimar
Chief Economist – Nedbank Group Ltd
Nicky is Nedbank’s Chief Economist. A position she’s held since February 2020. She has been the Senior Economist since 2000. Nicky received her Masters in Economics from the University of Stellenbosch in 1994 and soon advised government on economic procedures and policies in her capacity as an economist in the Central Economic Advisory Service, which has since been integrated into the President’s Office.
Her experience in the banking, securities and brokering industries has given her a broader knowledge of a wide range of fields within economics, including sector analysis, fixed investment trends, as well as the relationship between real economic trends and developments in the financial markets. At Nedbank, Nicky focuses on trends in the overall economy, looking at cycles in the economic growth, inflation and interest rates. She gives talks regularly throughout the country to all sorts of audiences, including business forums, property groups, large corporate firms and government entities.
Naeem Tilly
Head of Research and Portfolio Manager at Sesfikile Capital
Naeem Tilly
Head of Research and Portfolio Manager at Sesfikile Capital
Naeem is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a CFA charter holder with 15 years of experience in the listed property sector. After obtaining a Bachelor of Accountancy degree at the University of Witwatersrand, Naeem began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Before joining Sesfikile, Naeem was an executive director and senior listed property analyst at Avior Capital Markets, where he was awarded the Financial Mail’s top-rated analyst award for three consecutive years by industry peers.
Peter Clark
Founder & Managing Partner, ReDimension Capital
Peter Clark
Founder & Managing Partner, ReDimension Capital
Peter is the Founder and Managing Partner of REdimension Capital, a pioneering investment firm focused on reshaping the future of the built environment. REdimension invests in innovative technologies that have the power to improve the way properties are experienced, managed and developed. REdimension has partnered with forward-thinking capital partners to build an eco-system of mutual value, accelerating technology adoption and driving sustainability.
Previously, Peter was Head of Property Investments for Ninety One, where he was responsible for managing a range of funds, both in South Africa and globally, in excess of $1bn. Peter is a CFA charter holder and has an honours degree from the University of Cape Town and a Masters degree from the University of Cambridge. He also serves on the Africa Proptech Forum advisory board and the SAPOA Proptech committee
Peter Levett
Joint Chief Executive, iShack Ventures
Peter Levett
Joint Chief Executive, iShack Ventures
Peter Levett has more than 30 years experience in the property, investment, corporate finance and financial services industries. His current position is Joint Chief Executive of IShack Ventures, a technology venture builder with focus on the property sector but also has experience in the fintech and edutech field. The property technology focus is on Smartbuilding, and sales and tenancy focused iprop solutions through Instant Property.
His most recent executive role is Chief Executive Officer of Old Mutual Property where he served as CEO for 12 years and director for 20 years. Prior roles include Associate at Goldman Sachs M&A in London, Head of Old Mutual Corporate Finance and Chief Operating Officer of the Old Mutual Investment Group. Peter has a number of qualifications including qualifying as a chartered accountant, qualified MBA, and Harvard Property Executive Graduate. He also has been represented on, or is on, a number of Boards and Investment Committees in South Africa and internationally including SA Property Owners Association (previous President), SA Corporate Real Estate Fund, various Old Mutual investment committees and Head of Old Mutual Credit Committee.
Pieter Geldenhuys
Futurist & Director, Institute for Technology Strategy & Innovation
Phill Mashabane
Principal & Owner, Mashabane Rose Architects
Phill Mashabane
Principal & Owner, Mashabane Rose Architects
In 1995 Phill Mashabane co-founded Mashabane Rose Associates, a dynamic South African architectural and design studio.
With over 30 years in the industry and many awards under his belt, Phill Mashabane has acquired expertise in the fields of Master planning; Urban Design and Development Planning; Architecture; Museum design; Storyline Development and Exhibit Design; Interior Architecture; and Heritage and Conservation.
Phill Mashabane has contributed to a broad variety of prestigious projects over a thirty-year career. He has managed projects in the Residential, Commercial, Retail, Mining, Medical, Public Buildings, and Education sectors throughout South Africa and Africa.
Phill Mashabane has been an external examiner in a number of tertiary institutions in South Africa and in the African continent covering amongst others areas of Professional Practice. In 2016, Phill was recognized for the contribution he made to the South African Professional Services Industry and was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement award for excellence in the field of Architecture. In 2019 Phill successfully completed Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and Leadership, and What You Can Learn from the World of Diplomacy.
Portia Tau-Sekati
Chief Executive Officer, Property Sector Charter Counc
Portia Tau-Sekati
Chief Executive Officer, Property Sector Charter Counc
Leads and drives the transformation of the property Sector, has an extensive knowledge and an specialist in Transformation as driven by the South African legislation framework of Broad Based Economic Empowerment Act (BBBEE).
And Convenes all South African Sector Councils. Assisted and supported many sector councils in various requirement to enable sector councils to successfully set up deliver against their mandate.
Portia has extensive knowledge and experience in dealing and lobbying government, driving stakeholder management, influence collaboration and ultimately that foster good partnerships.
She was part of the team that developed Management Development Programme (MDP) curriculum on BBBEE curriculum on behalf DTIC.
She had written and champion numerous South African legislation and policies specifically on sustainable inclusive economic strategies for government, State owned Enterprise and Private Sector.
Drives the consolidated South African Property Sector Research.
She is a trustee and Advisor to: World Women Leading change, Current member of the infrastructure committee of the BRICS women Business Alliance the South Africa. Current member of Advisory Board of University of Johannesburg (UJ) Sustainable Material & Construction Technologies (SMaCT) Research Centre. And served and continue to serve in other developmental structures and organisations.
She has won many awards and achievements throughout her career, continues to address many platforms on various topics and aspects on the property sector and strategies on inclusive growth in the country in general.
Cllr Pieter Teixeira
Executive Mayor of Midvaal Local Municipality
Cllr Pieter Teixeira
Executive Mayor of Midvaal Local Municipality
Peter Teixeira joined the Democratic Alliance in 2014. During his time as a ward councillor, he served in three mayoral committee (MMC) posts and became the DA’s constituency leader in Midvaal.
He started his schooling at Meyerton Primary School in Meyerton, thereafter he moved to Riverside School. He later went to varsity where he graduated in sport management science.
In September 2021 Teixeira was elected as the mayoral candidate for DA and won the local government elections with an increased majority of 63%. He was sworn in as the mayor of Midvaal Local Municipality on 15 November 2021.
Dr. Puleng Makhoalibe
Chief Executive Officer, Alchemy
Dr. Puleng Makhoalibe
Chief Executive Officer, Alchemy
Dr. Puleng has a passion for creativity, design thinking and innovation. She has more than twenty years of experience working in the private sector, government and in higher educational institutions globally.
She has an unusual ability to connect at a deeper level with her audience and usher them into a “clear think” atmosphere where the imagination and creativity meet and possibilities are born. She is a speaker, facilitator and a published author. Her academic background entails a BSc in Computer Science and Statistics, an MBA and a PhD in Business Management from University of Cape Town and she is an alumnus of Singularity University (Executive Programme on exponential technologies).
Puleng is a Henley Uk certified coach, passionate speaker, educator, panellist, author, facilitator, and an innovation and design thinking consultant.
Renske Coetzee
Chief People Officer, Redefine
Renske Coetzee
Chief People Officer, Redefine
Redefine’s Chief People Officer Renske Coetzee is a qualified industrial psychologist with 25 years business and human resources experience who has led the human resources and people management functions of companies across various industries, including retail and telecommunication, before joining Redefine Properties. Renske is responsible for setting and implementing the human capital strategy, optimising human capital performance in line with strategic and operational business goals, as well as setting and managing corporate human resources policies, procedures and guidelines for the group and its various subsidiaries.
Ryan Reddy
Head of Information Systems, Redefine Properties
Ryan Reddy
Head of Information Systems, Redefine Properties
I studied a BComm in Finance, Economic and Management. After graduating I joined Investec Private Bank and spent 14 years working in technology. I was privileged to work with thought leaders and tech experts across many disciplines. I have a passion for people and building high performing teams. I believe digital can be a catalyst for extraordinary change. Redefine’s digital transformation vision excited me and I decided to move industries in order to make an impact. I currently lead the digital transformation journey at Redefine Properties
Stefano Migliore
CEO, WeWork
Stefano Migliore
CEO, WeWork
Stefano Migliore is a multifaceted lawyer and businessman. He has worked with and managed various global organizations in multiple sectors and industries. Together with his partners in Sisebenza, he has launched OfficeHub, an online aggregator of South African workspaces, and recently acquired the WeWork franchise for Africa, which he currently leads as CEO. Stefano has a passion for the new world of flexible work and serviced workspaces.
At his core, Stefano is an adventurer, family-man and problem solver who is invigorated by novel challenges. He enjoys writing about his experiences, both in business and in his personal life, in various publications.
Thuli Mpuntshe
National Chair, Women’s Property Network (WPN)
Thuli Mpuntshe
National Chair, Women’s Property Network (WPN)
Thuli’s current professional role is that of Senior Manager looking after the Indirectly Held Property Investments within the Unlisted Properties Division of the Public Investment Corporation (PIC). She has more than 13 years’ worth of experience within the property industry, and has held various different positions in this time. She also manages the PIC’s Direct Property Investments portfolio in an acting capacity as Senior Manager.
Significant aspects of her roles include the development and implementation of investment strategies that unlock value for clients to ensure the achievement of optimum returns on investments, and the effective structuring and execution of debt and equity finance transactions with specific emphasis on commercial property, as well portfolio management.
Thuli’s education background is in Financial Management and Financial Information Systems, her qualifications were obtained from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and University of South Africa, respectively. She is currently studying towards a Post Graduate Diploma though the Gordon Institute of Business Science, this is part of a broader MBA programme.
Thuli holds directorate roles in two well-established unlisted commercial property companies. She is the National Chairperson of the Women’s Property Network, the organisation’s objective is to contribute positively towards diversity and inclusion of women at all levels of participation within the Property Sector.
Trevor Naicker
Energy Efficiency Programme Manager
Integrated Demand Management (IDM) CoE
Trevor Naicker
Energy Efficiency Programme Manager
Integrated Demand Management (IDM) CoE
Eskom – Distribution
Trevor Naicker has been working with ESKOM EEDSM portfolio since 2008. Involved in the project management of large residential, Industrial and Commercial energy efficient and demand side management projects. Part of the solution development team in the design of the EEDSM incentive models. Currently, programme managing the Energy Efficiency Incentive programme. Qualifications include, CEM, CMVP, ND Electrical Eng and BCom Honours Degree
Xolisa Philip
Ex- Communication Officer at BUSA & Freelance Writer
Xolisa Philip
Ex- Communication Officer at BUSA & Freelance Writer
Xolisa Phillip is a print business journalist, columnist, and conference speaker. Phillip reports on South African companies and the country’s political economy for Pan-African and South African publications. She also pens a fortnightly column for Business Maverick writing about topics ranging from the state of SOEs, the fiscus, and the business sector to governance and the policy climate. Phillip is a former news editor at a South African daily business newspaper, and has worked in some of the country’s leading newsrooms as a subeditor and a reporter. She is also a former communications manager at an apex business organisation.
