ARDEN CAPITAL LIMITED - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Lead Independent Non - Executive Director
Mrs Mtasa obtained a BACC (Hons) degree from the University of Zimbabwe in 1987 and is a registered Chartered Accountant (Zimbabwe). In 2009 she received an Executive Management Development Certificate from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Mrs Mtasa has over 20 years' experience in corporate management and she has held leadership positions in the hospitality, service and manufacturing sectors, the most notable of which include her tenure as the CFO and CEO of the Rainbow Tourism Group Limited. She is currently the Managing Director of TelOne Private Limited in Zimbabwe and she holds a number of non-executive directorships including: FBC Holdings (2012-current), Interfresh Limited (2007-2013), Women' University in Africa (2012-2018). She is also the Chairperson for the West Indian Ocean Cable Company (2014- current); Zimbabwe Open University (2017-current) and Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (2015-2017).
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Member of the Board
George Bennett has over 30 years' experience in finance and management, and has been a partner and director with a number of leading financial institutions including Fergusson Bros, Simpson Mckie, and HSBC Securities (Private) Limited.
In 2003 George became CEO of Shanta Gold Limited, an exploration company based in Tanzania which he successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005. Shanta is still a gold producer today. In 2006 George acquired and restructured MdM Engineering Group Limited ("MdM"), an engineering company building mineral process plants and mining infrastructure all over Africa. In 2008 George listed MdM on the London Stock Exchange, which over the next 8 years generated over US$57 million of pre-tax profits for its shareholders. In March 2014, George successfully negotiated and managed the sale of MdM Engineering to Amec Foster Wheeler Inc. and has now teamed up with Simon Village at Argentum Energy Inc. where he has taken the role of managing director.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Member of the Board
Mr Mohammad Naeem Sadagur holds a Bachelor of Accounting and finance degree from the University of Mauritius. He has over six years of experience in the global business sector in Mauritius and is currently working as Client Service Manager at Adansonia Management Services Limited. He is also the Money Laundering Reporting Officer of the Adansonia group of companies. In addition to his current role, he also serves as director on other boards and fulfils the compliance function for a number of entities.
In 2014, he started his career at Maitland (Mauritius) Limited, where he performed the role of Client Accountant. After spending around one and a half year with Maitland (Mauritius) Limited, he joined Adansonia Management Services Limited in 2016, as a Senior Client Accountant and has since continued developing his career with Adansonia.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Non - Executive Director
Richard Muirimi has significant experience in Pension and Employee Benefits Services. In 1995 he founded, and is currently the managing director of Comarton Consultants (Private) Limited. Comarton is a leading pension fund administrator in Zimbabwe, administering at least 40 pension funds. Richard was the non-executive chairman of Kingdom Financial Holdings Limited ("KFHL") on its formation in 1995 until he resigned from the board in 2005. During that period as Chairman of KFHL, he guided KFHL through the initial capitalisation through private placement, the IPO of KFHL on the ZSE, the establishment of subsidiaries in asset management, merchant banking, commercial banking and stock broking and regional expansion. Richard was previously the chairman of the Zimbabwe Association of Pension Funds from April 2002 to February 2004. He was the deputy chairman of the Insurance and Pensions Commission from November 2005 to December 2012.
He has also previously held senior positions in Zimnat Life Assurance Company (1995 - 1998) and AON/Minet Insurance Brokers (1982 - 1995). Richard is a member of a number of Boards across the country including Zimbabwe Asset Management Corporation (Private) Limited (ZAMCO), a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. In 1987 Richard graduated as a fellow of the Executive Development Program from the University of Zimbabwe.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chairman of the Board
Simon Village, a resident of the United Kingdom, is the founding director of Argentum Limited, a company with substantial relationships across Africa, and a proven record of accomplishments in business development and corporate finance services to emerging corporates in Southern, Central and Eastern Africa. Simon has served on the boards of numerous international companies, and has led a number of successful global initiatives, the foremost of these being the development of a series of commodity-backed funds, which his team listed in 13 countries, and which revolutionised the gold market, attracting some US$100 billion of new investment into that sector.
Simon also led the financing and development of a number of resource companies, where Simon served as a director, including raising some US$500 million required for building the first gold mine in the DRC since that country's independence. Prior to this, Simon was a Managing Director with HSBC Bank in London, having worked his way up through HSBC Bank as a top-ranked financial analyst to head of research for their emerging markets business, before being appointed as managing director of the securities business in South Africa. Prior to that Simon worked for De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited in Southern Africa. Simon holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree in Mining Engineering from the Camborne School of Mines in the United Kingdom.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Member of the Board
Mr Nyarota obtained a BA Economics and Statistics (National University of Lesotho), M Math Statistics and M Math Actuarial Science (both from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada). He has over 35 years of extensive work experience in the Zimbabwean financial, banking, insurance and investment sectors with additional experience in macroeconomic and financial research and analysis. He was with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for a total of 20 years, 14 of which he was Director, Economic Research and Policy. He was also employed by Trade and Investment Bank as a senior official in Project Finance and as an Executive Director at Barbican Holdings and as an actuarial assistant at Southern Life Association, Southampton Assurance and Old Mutual. Mr Nyarota is heavily involved in macroeconomic research within the SADC region and is a past Chairman of the Macroeconomic Sub-Committee and the Research Review Panel of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Committee of Central Bank Governors (CCBG). Mr Nyarota has also worked with other regional and international institutions which include the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI), the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the African Development Bank (AfDB). He is currently the Managing Consultant of Tsoka Capital (Pvt) Ltd