Board

Brian Roberts

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
CEO of RMH Property

Brian has over 25 years’ experience in the commercial and industrial property industry, since starting his career at Syfrets in 1997. Since then, he has headed up structured property finance at Nedcor Investment Bank Limited and represented Nedbank as a non-executive Director on the board of Sycom Property Fund. He left the bank to join Zenprop Property Holdings (Pty) Ltd as Managing Director from 2004 to 2007, was the Regional Executive in charge of the Gauteng Region of Nedbank Corporate Property Finance and then joined Genesis Properties (Pty) Ltd in May 2010. Brian now heads up RMH Property as CEO.

Rian Reyneke

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Joint Group CEO and Co-founder of Ithemba

After starting his career in finance, Rian transitioned into real estate – building the Ithemba Group into one of the leading affordable rental housing providers in South Africa. In addition to being CEO of Ithemba Group, Rian is also the cofounder of Circlevest Securitisation and executive director of Ithemba Group Investments – a property investment company that holds investments in companies worth over R2bn.

Rian is a board member of the Johannesburg Property Owners and Managers Association (JPOMA) and has held board positions on various inner-city improvement districts.

Amish Nerrandes

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Head of Unlisted Equities at Futuregrowth

Amrish is a qualified Chartered Accountant with more than nine years of private equity experience.

He is head of Unlisted Equity Transactions at Futuregrowth Asset Management, overseeing the origination and exiting of investments across a wide range of industries. He also serves on various portfolio company boards.

Lucille Louw

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MD of Atterbury Asset Managers

Lucille Louw is one of the longest serving executives of the Atterbury Property Group and is responsible for the asset management of the group’s existing portfolio. Atterbury currently has R43bn worth of assets under management in South Africa, Europe and Mauritius.

Her career spans over 20 years in the industry and she continues to be actively involved in the creation of new ventures in the industry.

Paul Jackson

INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
CEO of TUHF

Paul Jackson is the founding CEO of TUHF (Trust for Urban Housing Finance) where he has overseen the financing of over R4bn of innercity affordable residential property and established himself as the foremost expert in financing South African urban rejuvenation.

Paul has a wealth of experience in development finance holds board directorships on the Johannesburg Social Housing Company and Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa. Paul was also a National Rowing Coach, attending four Olympic Games.

He coached the Olympic Gold winning Coxless Fours at London Olympics in 2012.

Gustav Holtzhausen

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Joint group CEO and co-founder of Ithemba

Gustav is a co-founder and shareholder of the Ithemba Property Group which co-owns and manages property to the value of over R3 billion and employ over 500 staff. Ithemba co-founded the Divercity Urban Property Fund whose core focus is to develop well-located and amenity-rich affordable rental housing precincts close to where its occupants work. Gustav is the Joint Group CEO focusing on Operations and Property Management.

With over 25 years’ experience in the property and hospitality industry, he brings a wealth of property management, development and hospitality skills to the group. Gustav holds a Master’s degree in Commerce and is a keen runner and mountain biker.

Gustav an is a board member of the Johannesburg Property Owners and Managers Association (JPOMA) and holds board positions on various innercity improvement districts.

Blaize Carlin

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Principal: Nedbank Property Partners

Blaize is a real estate-focused investment banker, with 17 years’ experience in real estate, property finance and investing. He is a Principal in Nedbank’s Property Partners team, where he has worked on a variety of property investments in the retail, hospitality and commercial property sectors, as well as unlisted property funds.

Ilaria Benucci

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Head of Construction and Real Estate at CDC

Ilaria Benucci joined CDC Group in 2013 and is currently Head of Construction and Real Estate (“CRE”). In this role, Ilaria is responsible for CDC’s equity investments in Africa and South Asia in the CRE sector. Current portfolio includes logistics, hotels, mixed use developments and residential.

Ilaria joined CDC from AIG Global Real Estate where she was responsible for investments in emerging Europe, Russia and Turkey. Before AIG, she spent over 10 years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where she was leading the Property and Tourism team.

Mutle Mogase

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Founder of Maia Capital

Mutle is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in the financial and investment markets. Having started his career in internal audit, financial management and banking, he co-founded a private equity firm in 1998. The firm evolved into Vantage Capital in 1999 and raised its first private equity fund. In 2006, Vantage Capital launched the first independent mezzanine fund in South Africa, which was to become Africa’s largest, independent mezzanine funds manager.

In 2019 he co-founded Maia Capital Debt Impact Fund and is currently in the process of raising the fund. Over his 35-year career, he’s held several directorships and appointments in regulated businesses.