Our board
Steering Aleyo Capital’s course
Mr. Mutle Mogase (over 30 years banking and private equity experience, SAVCA, African Bank, MFRC) is a co-founder and executive chair of Maia Capital. He is also co-founder and former Executive Chairman of Vantage Capital Group, one of the pioneers of mezzanine debt in South Africa, founded in 2001.
He has both sell side and buy side experience in the fund management business having also been chairman of the Post Office Pension Fund Investment Committee and has recently been appointed to the Investment Committee of the Sentinel Retirement Fund. Mr. Mogase is past chairman of the Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) previous board member of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA). He was also peviously on the advisory board of JP Morgan South Africa
He was also intimately involved in the negotiations and development of the Financial Sector Charter and if the Founding President of ABSIP.Mr. Mogase also sits on various company and NGO boards.
Ms. Tiny Kgatlwane (over 30 years treasury, banking and investment management experience) is currently an Executive Director at Kgare Insurance Brokers. She was previously the CEO at BIFM for 5 years and prior to that the Principal Officer/CEO of the Debswana Pension Fund. Tiny has also had an illustrious career in banking having previously been the Country Head of Treasury for Barclays Bank Botswana and Standard Chartered Uganda. She began her career as a Project Officer at the Botswana Development Corporation. Mrs Kgatlwane brings to the Aleyo Board, decades of experience as a business leader in financial services including pension funds, banking, treasury, insurance and asset management.
Tiny is Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Management) from University of Botswana and a CIMA charter holder. Previous non-executive directorships include Khumo Property Asset Management, JTTM (Railpark Mall), Botswana Privatisation Asset Holding, Feune (Airport Junction Mall), Aflife Zambia, Competition Authority Commission, Turnstar Holdings, BOMAID, Botswana Red Cross, Botswana Tourism Organisation, Sechaba Breweries Holdings Limited and the Sanlam Core Real Estate Fund.
Bafana is a co-founder and Managing Director of the firm. With over 16 years of experience, he is the former Chief Investment Officer for the country’s largest development finance institution, Botswana Development Corporation. He has previously worked for Vantage Capital as a senior investment team member in JHB where he was involved in the funding and structuring of mezzanine transactions on the R2bn Africa-focused Fund II, responsible for RSA, Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia deals.
Bafana has also worked for VPB in Botswana and Namibia a Senior Associate executing private equity transactions in Botswana and Namibia. At VPB he was also one of the founding members of the VPB Namibia Growth Fund, instrumental in the fundraising and initial set up of the fund. He began his career as an investment analyst with one of the local asset managers. Bafana earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics and Finance) and an MBA from University of Cape Town. He also holds a Post-graduate Diploma in Business from University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science.
Bafana has served on a number of boards in the beverages, hospitality, FMCG, Property, ICT and Agro-processing. He currently serves on the boards of Botswana Telecommunication Limited, Metropolitan Life Botswana, Rainbow Schools, FMRE and Transport Holdings.
