Belinda Vacher
Belinda holds a Certificate in Business Accounting (CIMA), BSc (Hons) (Finance), MBA (University of Mauritius), Financing the Entrepreneurial Business Programme (London Business School, UK) and Strategy Execution for Business Leaders (Insead, France). Prior joining Grit, Belinda started her career at Rogers Group in 2006, one of Mauritius’ most prominent conglomerate as an investment trainee. She […]
Nawfal Bendefa
Nawfal Bendefa is the founder of REIM Partners, a real estate asset manager with more than €300 million AUM in commercial real estate Morocco. Nawfal has over twenty years of experience in development, asset management, fund management and fundraising. His career in real estate began in lodging in the US and UK in various roles. […]
Lenore Cairncross
Lenore is the African regional program manager for EDGE, the green building certification solution that is an innovation of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group. Prior to joining IFC she was leading the implementation of green building initiatives for a housing impact fund at Old Mutual Alternative Investments for close to four years. […]
Warren van der Merwe
Warren is Managing Partner at Vantage Capital. He joined Vantage in 2007 as Chief Financial Officer, before moving into a Chief Operating Officer role and then into his current position as Managing Partner. Warren is a qualified Chartered Accountant who served a year of academic articles at the University of Witwatersrand and then completed his […]
Sheila Nyachieo
Sheila Moraa is keen to explore unchartered waters taking up new visions and making them realities through sound and strategic development. Passionate about promoting sustainable development in the built environment and utilizing opportunities in the green space to further grow this in the local context by attracting affordable blended finance for various projects. Currently as […]
Debra Erb
Debra Erb is Managing Director of Housing Programs for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, a U.S. government corporation focused on supporting U.S. investment in developing markets. In this capacity, she is responsible for program development, investor development and marketing, as well as credit structuring and analysis for housing and other real estate sector projects. Ms. […]
Louisa Waddingham
Louisa Waddingham joined Reall in February 2020 as Head of Operations in Africa. Prior to that she worked for the British Council for 32 years in progressively more demanding roles including international postings in Botswana, Malawi, Nigeria, Oman, Sierra Leone, Slovakia and Zimbabwe. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Management (2009) and […]
Funke Okubadejo
Funke is a Director in the real estate team at Actis, based in Lagos. Funke joined the firm in 2007 where she is responsible for origination, execution and portfolio management in West Africa. Funke has over 15 years’ experience in private equity with the last 5 years focused on investing in Commercial Real Estate. Funke […]
Greg Pearson
A graduate of Kingston University, London, Greg Pearson studied Business Management and Project Management and is registered with the Chartered Management Institute. His experience includes development management, cost planning, procurement, time management and traditional project management of major engineering and building projects. His market sector knowledge includes office, retail, leisure, education and healthcare schemes and […]
Tola Akinhanmi
Tola is an investment banker and has had various roles within corporate and investment banking with specializations in Real Estate Finance and Project & Structured Finance. He has over 15 years of in-country and regional work experience (including Nigeria, Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire) which spans across various asset classes (with an estimated portfolio size over […]