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DIRECTORS

Herman Marais [hermanm@agrivie.com]

  • Managing Director
  • Former Deloitte partner;
  • Former executive director of Strategy Partners (Pty) Ltd, a long-standing investment and management services company
  • Twenty years of business building and investment experience;

Izak Strauss [izaks@agrivie.com]

  • Executive Director; Chief Investment Officer
  • Director of companies
  • Former agribusiness entrepreneur
  • Twenty five years of investment and transaction services experience

Mohammad Karaan [mohammadk@agrivie.com]

  • Dean of Agricuture, Stellenbosch University
  • Former Chair: National Agricultural Marketing Council
  • BEE transaction advisor
  • Director of companies

David Douglas [davidd@agrivie.com]

  • Investment Advisor
  • More than thirty years of  corporate and investment experience in agribusiness
  • Substantial transaction experience in Sub-Sahara Africa;
  • Director of companies

Godfrey Rathogwa [godfreyr@agrivie.com]

  • Investment Advisor
  • Nineteen years of experience in building agribusinesses;
  • Specialist in facilitation of linkages between commercial and emerging agribusinesse

Avril Stassen [avrils@agrivie.com]

  • Investment Advisor
  • More than twenty years of investment experience in private equity and asset management;
  • Director of companies;
  • Manufacturing entrepreneur.

Lynette Thomas [lynettet@agrivie.com]

  • Managing accountant
  • Experienced management accountant
  • Extensive experience in due diligence and investigative accounting
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