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Herman

Herman Marais ( B Comm LLB ) [hermanm@agrivie.com]

  • Managing Director
  • Former Deloitte partner;
  • Director of SP-aktif Investments, alternative investment boutique
  • Director of companies
  • Twenty years of business building and investment experience;
Izak

Izak Strauss (B Acc (Hons) CA (SA)) [izaks@agrivie.com]

  • Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer
  • Director of SP-aktif Investments, alternative investment boutique
  • Director of companies
  • Former Partner, PWC
  • Former agribusiness entrepreneur
  • Twenty five years of investment and transaction services experience
Mohammad

Prof ASM Karaan MScAgric, PhD(Agric)(Stell) [mohammadk@agrivie.com]

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

David Douglas (B.Econ; ACMA; PMD (Harvard))

[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
Avril

Avril Stassen (B Acc (Hons), B Comm (Hons), ACMA, CA(SA), CFA)

[avrils@agrivie.com]

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

Rudi van Niekerk (BComm, MBA, CFA)

[rudivn@agrivie.com]

  • Investment Advisor
  • 6 years agribusiness experience
  • Multi-sectoral transaction experience in food and agribusiness
Lynette

Ellora Ghosh (BA(FA), MBA) [ellorag@agrivie.com]

  • Investment Advisor
  • Business advisor to companies in Manhattan, NYC
  • Entrepreneurial business founding partner, Hong Kong
  • CMBS and CDO structuring experience at Deloitte, NYC
Lynette

Lynette Thomas (B.Comm (Hons) ACMA)

[lynettet@agrivie.com]

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