Mary BOMELA
Chief Executive Officer
CA (SA), MBA
Mary joined the MIC in 2010 and previously served as a Non-Executive Director from March 2008 to 2010. Before joining the MIC, Mary was the Chief Financial Officer at Freight Dynamics. Prior to this, she was an executive in the Corporate Services division of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. Mary also held executive positions in the resources, media, utilities and financial services sectors. She serves on the boards of a number of the company’s strategic investments. These include: Primedia, Metrofile Holdings Ltd, and DN Invest (DNI).
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Mary BOMELA
Chief Executive Officer
CA (SA), MBA
Mary joined the MIC in 2010 and previously served as a Non-Executive Director from March 2008 to 2010. Before joining the MIC, Mary was the Chief Financial Officer at Freight Dynamics. Prior to this, she was an executive in the Corporate Services division of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. Mary also held executive positions in the resources, media, utilities and financial services sectors. She serves on the boards of a number of the company’s strategic investments. These include: Primedia, Metrofile Holdings Ltd, and DN Invest (DNI).
Nchaupe KHAOLE
Chief Investment Officer
Bcom (Hons), MBA
Nchaupe joined MIC in 2012 after a stint with the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) as a Senior Investment Officer. Nchaupe has in excess of 15 years’ experience within private equity and corporate finance and has served as a director on the boards of a number of portfolio companies in his previous roles and continues to do so within MIC’s portfolio of companies. Nchaupe’s current role includes leading the MIC investment team and taking responsibility for the investment process (from screening to realisation) at MIC. His previous roles include the following:
- Senior Investment Officer: Development Bank of Southern Africa
- Private Equity and Corporate Finance Executive: Safika Holdings
- Deputy MD: Tandem Capital (a private equity partnership between Safika Holdings and RMB Corvest)
- Board Representation:
- First National Bank (FNB), Peermont Holdings (Pty) Ltd, Universal Industries and DN Invest (DNI).
Cynthia PONGWENI
Chief Financial Officer
CA (SA), CA (Zimbabwe), MBA
Cynthia joined the MIC in 2008. Before joining MIC, Cynthia was an audit partner at Deloitte & Touche.
Cynthia serves on boards of Primedia, Tracker Connect and RMB Divisional Board (member).
She is also an independent non-executive director at Consol Holdings (Pty) Ltd
Oren FUCHS
Group Stakeholder Manager
BA, MSc (DP)
Oren Fuchs is Group Stakeholder Manager for the Mineworkers Investment Company (‘MIC’), which he joined in 2005. He has extensive experience in development and corporate social investment work, communications and stakeholder management, as well as transformation, having worked in both the public and private sectors. He holds a BA degree in Economics and Political Science, an MSc Development Planning from WITS, as well as a post graduate certificate in Finance from GIBS.
Oren started his career in 1992 at Robin Lee Associates, a consultancy working in the development sector, and subsequently moved to the Johannesburg Metropolitan Council where he worked on urban and regional economic planning. After joining the Gauteng Treasury in 1998, he was appointed to manage setting up Blue IQ, a strategic economic infrastructure agency for the province, in 1999. In his capacity as General Manager, Financial Viability, he was responsible for the programme management of the Newtown, Constitution Hill and Innovation Hub initiatives, as well as heading up the marketing portfolio. In 2002 Oren joined the SABC on a contract basis as Corporate Strategy Manager, where he was involved in a number of strategic initiatives such as regional television licenses and outsourcing of certain technologies within the corporation.
Oren also represents MIC’s interests on various investee boards, trusts and foundations, including MIC Capital Partners, Yebo Yethu, FirstRand Empowerment Foundation, and the Peermont trusts, as well as heading up the marketing, communications and corporate social responsibility portfolios.
Zamampondo NQADOLO
Investment Manager
BCom (Hons) CA (SA)
Zamampondo Nqadolo is currently an investment manager at Mineworkers Investment Company (Pty) Ltd and contributes to the growth and diversification of the company’s portfolio across various sectors and industries. She has 10 years’ experience spanning across private equity, asset management and audit She is responsible for deal origination, deal execution and post-transaction portfolio management. She serves as a non-executive director on Digital Ecosystems (Subsidiary of DNI Group) and African Marine Solutions (AMSOL). She previously served on the board of Switch Mobile (Subsidiary of DNI Group) and was a board observer on Ster Kinekor Theatres. She is a qualified chartered accountant having completed her articles at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in 2016. She holds BCom (Hons) and BCom degree from University of Johannesburg.
Zaheer ABDULLA
Senior Investment Manager
B.Sc Ac Sci (Hons)
Zaheer is a seasoned investment professional having spent many years originating, managing and growing businesses in South Africa. He holds various non-executive board directorship on listed and unlisted boards, and has been actively involved in driving companies strategy and performance.
Zaheer started his career at Macquarie First South as an investment banker and moved into private equity with the Mineworkers Investment Company. He serves on the boards of many of MIC’s strategic investments which include Tracker, Vox and Multiknit. He previously served on the board of General Electric Southern Africa Technologies, Metrofile Holdings and Nimble Advisory.
Lebohang STOROM
Group Financial Manager
(CA) SA, MBA, MSc(Tax)
Lebohang was previously the the Group Financial Manager: Technical and Reporting & Finance Enterprise Resource Planning and Implementation Lead at AdCorp. He is a Chartered Accountant who also has a Masters of Commerce in Taxation and an MBA.
Lebohang serves on the board of Metrofile Holdings as an alternative Director.
Tebogo MOGADIME
Investment Manager
BCom; BCompt (Hons); CIMA Adv Dip MA
Tebogo is an experienced finance professional with a demonstrated history of success in banking, professional services, other financial services, and telecommunications. She has over 10 years’ experience in various strategic and advisory roles, including leveraged finance, pre- and post-transaction management. Tebogo has successfully led management consulting and corporate transaction teams in previous years, and is a founder of Millemo Group, a strategy and consulting company.
Tebogo holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Financial Accounting from UCT; a Bachelor of Accounting Sciences Honours in Management Accounting from Unisa; and an Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting from CIMA.
Tshepo Radebe
Investment Analyst
BSc(AccSci), CFA Level I
Tshepo Radebe is an Investment Analyst at Mineworkers Investment Company (Pty) Ltd. As a professional his financial services experience includes banking, financial markets, and corporate finance advisory. Within advisory he has worked on a diverse range of transactions including M&A, balance sheet restructures, capital raises and BEE transactions.
He holds a Bachelor of Science Honours degree in Actuarial Science from the University of the Witwatersrand and has completed CFA Level I.