Thomas Fuller Senior Development Manager at Attacq
Thomas Fuller Senior Development Manager at Attacq Thomas started out his working career as a Quantity Surveyor with Davis Langdon during which time he achieved his professional registration with both the South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession and Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors with exposure to the commercial, logistics and major civil and harbour infrastructure projects. After 7 years an opportunity arose to join Investec Bank where he was exposed to property risk management, corporate and property finance, property development and property investment both in both South Africa and the UK. In 2018 he joined Attacq Property Fund as a Senior Development Manager focusing on Waterfall City. His interest lies in green fields development with a strong concentration on green buildings and sustainable development fundamentals, net-zero building performance and reduced carbon construction primarily aimed at achieving the lowest cost of occupation for the tenants, best building performance, strong development yield and growing net operating income.
Mabuse Moja Director of Lena Capital
Mabuse Moja Director of Lena Capital Mabuse holds a BSc Property Studies (Hons) degree and an MSc in Building both from the University of the Witwatersrand. Mabuse has experience across various disciplines within the financial sector ranging from investment management to real estate investment. Mabuse began his career in 2007 with Nedbank Corporate in the Property Finance division as a Candidate Valuer. Thereafter, he joined Investec Bank as an Investment Analyst with a specific focus on listed property. In his time with Investec he worked across the bank’s property and asset management divisions, a role he fulfilled for several years. He later joined the Wealth & Investment division where he took up the role of joint Portfolio Manager of the private client listed property mandate. In 2016, Mabuse participated in the Pivotal Fund’s policy to initiate and implement a broad-based black economic empowerment strategy, based on the sale of assets principles, which resulted in the formation of Setso Property Fund, under the ambit of Statement 102 of the BEE legislation. This a company in which he would take up the position of Executive Director. He is currently a director at advisory company called Lena Capital
Matthew & Timothy Counsell Broll Auctions and Sales
Matthew & Timothy Counsell Broll Auctions and Sales Equipped with the knowledge they had gained in their various roles within the different sectors of the property market, they have since embarked on a journey of considerable growth at Broll Auctions and Sales. They have been involved in successful sale of assets across South Africa to the value in excess of half a billion rand. Since the commencement of their career with Broll they have had a strategy to undertake sales campaigns on a diverse range of asset classes namely; retail, industrial, commercial, residential, filling station, hospitality and agricultural. Their vast footprint extends into many parts of the country. By specializing in all different methods of sale including, Private Treaty, Auction and Tender sales, they have been well equipped to build key relationships and to assist institutional clients, listed property funds and private individuals with their acquisition and disposal requirements.
Hayley Ivins Downes Head of Digital at Lightstone
Hayley Ivins Downes Head of Digital at Lightstone After completing her BA, with honours, in Developmental Studies, Hayley dove headfirst into her career joining Standard Bank Group as a business analyst. She left Standard bank to pivot herself into a more sales focused role within Knowledge Factory where she was an Account Executive. After five years collectively within these companies, she returned to the banking sector (Nedbank), where her foundation in data analysis and GIS lent itself to five years of growth. Hayley left her role as Head of Channel Infrastructure at Nedbank, where she was tasked with the strategic placement of Branches and ATM’s and their subsequent build and furbish, to join the team at Lightstone Property. Through 13 years of Property Market knowledge she emerged leading a sizeable sales team with a revenue target of over R170 Million. In her role, Hayley was accountable for revenues in Financial, Insurance, Government, Commercial and Residential Property areas at Lightstone. She was recently appointed Head of Digital in 2021, where her focus is on building and growing Lightstone as a Marketplace for Real Estate.
John Loos Economist: Commercial Property Finance at FNB
John Loos Economist: Commercial Property Finance at FNB I started my economist career in the National Treasury, in the team that implemented the country’s 1st Medium Term Expenditure Framework in the early days of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s tenure My time at IHS Globalinsight (now IHS-Markit), a major US-based consultancy, was my introduction to macroeconomic analysis. This was invaluable in developing my understanding of how the “bigger economic picture” impacts “down” on the sectors that I would later analyse. At Absa Group (2000-2005), as macroeconomist co-ordinating the Group’s economic forecasting process, I was named Reuters Economist of the Year in 2004. A passion for property cycle analysis, developed during the pre-2008 housing bubble, took me to First National Bank (FNB) in 2006 as a Property Economist. In my time at FNB Home Loans, we developed what was arguably the market leading South African residential market analysis at the time. I moved to FNB Commercial Property Finance late in 2018. I love the “behavioural” side of economics, with human irrationality and cognitive bias being a huge influence on both corporate and household decision making. Another interest is in the drivers of human well-being, a complicated matter often ignored by economic policy makers and households alike, to our detriment. Public speaking and Media/Public relations are enjoyable “hobbies” of mine in my main focus areas of economics, and occasionally in subjects such as “bias in decision making and goal setting”, “well-being economics” and motivational speaking. After growing up on a diet of “ball sports”, including tennis, hockey, squash and golf, I’ve more recently become a “social endurance sport junkie”. This includes the Comrades Ultra-Marathon, the Ironman Ultra-Triathlon, Kilimanjaro, the 2,300km Freedom Challenge Mountain Bike Race Across South Africa and the 2,800km Beit Bridge- Cape Town TransAfrika race. My sporting allegiances lie with Manchester United, and that great SA rugby team, the Blue Bulls.
Kgopotso Mathole Head of Business Development and Research at ABSA
Kgopotso Mathole Head of Business Development and Research at ABSA Kgopotso Mathole is the Head of Business Development and Research for the Absa Commercial Property Finance Business, where he is responsible for Research and Marketing. Prior to this, he held several roles within Banking and the Fast Moving Consumer Goods sector, including Head of Credit Analytics, Basel II Model Manager and Property Valuer; Business Insights Specialist and Market Analyst. Over and above this, Kgopotso founded a start-up entity developing property related software for organisations that have interests in commercial property. Kgopotso holds the professional designations of Professional Associated Valuer (Pr Assoc Val) and a Marketing Practitioner South Africa (MPSA). He also holds the academic qualifications of a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from IMM GSB; an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch Business School; an MSc in Property Studies, a BSc Honours in Construction Management and a BSc in Construction Studies from the University of Cape Town.
Faizal Salajee
Faizal Salajee Faizal Salajee born in Jhb and thereafter immigrated to Kenya in 1996. While in Kenya, he opened an office to supply process equipment to the mining industry in East Africa and also doing some work in Indonesia. Tanzania had relinquished their communist regime and with Benjamin Mkapa as president, tax incentive were offered to various mining companies which gave birth to gold, diamond mines. Faizal thereafter returned to South Africa in the year 2000 and took over an existing Engen filling station in Midrand. He then prospered by acquiring filling stations of other brands and divested into fast food franchises as well. The next big step began by acquiring land and developing filling stations. The first development was a BP site with a Pick and Pay, KFC in Meadowlands Soweto. His modus operandi is to use an entire labour force from the local townships and once the project is completed, employ them within the filling station. The most recent development is a Sasol site in Germiston. Currently he operates various oil company brands throughout Gauteng. Faizal has also over the years been involved in many retail forums. He served on the Engen national dealer Exco and was the chairman of the BP national dealer council. He also sat on the board of the Fuel Retailer Association and would liase with the Department of energy on the fuel margins, promulgation etc.
Brian Sango Strategic Partnerships and Sales Manager at Property Inspect
Brian Sango Strategic Partnerships and Sales Manager at Property Inspect Brian Sango (Your Property Guy) - is the Strategic Partnerships & Sales Manager of Property Inspect which is a Proptech software solution we created to help automate the property inspection process using our robust mobile APP which means for any type of inspection the entire process can be done from a single app. The scheduling, geo-pinning location, taking of photos / videos, voice to text converter, creation of work orders etc.
Thomas van Viegen Managing Director of EARTH.INC
Thomas van Viegen Managing Director of EARTH.INC Thomas is the Managing Director of EARTH.INC, and the NCFA South Africa Focal Point for ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunity, Risk and Exposure). Finding his calling in environmentalism in the late twentieth century he pursued the incremental transition into the broader ESG narrative and sustainable development in the twenty-first. He founded EARTH.INC as a response to the glaring divide between corporate interests, and the underpinning social-ecological systems upon which they depend. He works at the interphase of complex business, environmental and social systems; embedding a deeper understanding of the multiplicity and trans-disciplinary nature of emerging sustainability risk, where disruption and uncertainty characterises the new normal. He has a specific interest in how the relationships between nature, society and the economy manifest as complex adaptive systems; and how embedding resilience thinking can increase the agility of organisations to respond to emergent environmental and social shocks and surprise. Thomas holds a BLArch in Environmental Planning and Design (University of Pretoria), and a PGD in Sustainable Development (Cum Laude) (Stellenbosch University). He is an alumni of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Executive Programme, and holds a verified certificate in Planetary Boundary and Resilience Science from the SDG Academy / Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a member of the advisory board of Sinan Energy, and a member of the SAICA Sustainability Technical Committee (STC). He is a co-author of the Environmental Potential Atlas for South Africa book. He has extensive international project working experience in excess of 24 countries throughout Africa, Small Island Development States, and the Middle East, spanning a career of 28 years. When not contemplating the ‘future of the planet’ he immerses himself in the wildness of nature, armed only with a camera, and leaving only footprints.