This year’s summit marks the fourth rendition of the event and will take place on 18 September 2018 at the Birchwood Hotel in Johannesburg. The line-up of speakers also include the likes of: Prof Dan Kgwadi (Vice-Chancellor: NWU), Prof Rolf Stumpf (Chairperson: Stadio Holdings Pty Ltd), Brand Pretorius (former CEO: McCarthy), Duduzile Mkhwanazi (CEO: Project Isizwe), Cllr Bongani Baloyi (Executive Mayor: Midvaal Local Municipality), Dorette Visser (Director: Golden Key International Honour Society, South Africa) and Adele Croucamp (Managing Director: ACConsulting).
More about Phuti Mahanyele
Before accepting the position as executive chairperson of Sigma Capital, Phuti was the CEO of the Shanduka Group, an investment holding company she joined in 2004. Prior to this appointment she was the head of Project Finance: South Africa Business Unit at the Development Bank of Southern Africa.
She also boasts a stint as vice-president at Fieldstone, an international firm (based in New York) specialising in the financing of infrastructure assets, which she joined in 1997. She later transferred to the South African office.
She is passionate about youth development and is, in her personal capacity, involved in several development activities such as mentoring young professionals and offering support to university students. One of the flagship programmes she supports is the Dignity Day Programme which is facilitated by Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. The latter focuses on re-enforcing the values of dignity in young people.
As an academic achiever she is an honorary member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and patron of the Bosele Foundation.
Phuti has received several accolades over the years, including the prestigious Forbes Woman Africa Business Woman of the Year Award, the Platinum Award by Motlekar Holdings, a Distinguished Achievement Award by the Douglass Society and the Leading African Woman in Business of the Year by Africa Investors.
In 2011 Rutgers University conferred on her the Rutgers Vision of Excellence Award and in 2016 she became a member of the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni whilst also being awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award.
The Wall Street Journal counted Phuti among one of the Top 50 Women in the World to watch and she was selected as a Global Young Leader in 2007 by the World Economic Forum. She was furthermore awarded as Top in Project Finance by the Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals (ABSIP).
She holds a BA Economics from Rutgers University, USA, and an MBA from De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. Phuti completed the Kennedy School of Government Executive Education programme: Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century at Harvard University in 2008. She is director of Blue Label Telecoms Limited and is on the board of Comair Limited, Reunert and also the advisory board of Stellenbosch University. She chairs the Bain Academy which supports professionals in corporate Africa.
* For more information on the summit, please contact Charmaine Smith on 071 200 6852 or send an email to csmith@studio55events.co.za
Phuti Mahanyele.
