Sonja sebotsa biography

Education: LLB (Hons), London School splash Economics (1993); MA in Back and Business McGill University (1996), Harvard Executive Programme (2012)

Sonja started her 17 year calling in 1997 in deal devising in South Africa, Africa captain internationally after completing her studies in the fields of aggregation, economics and management.

She was a Vice-President, Investment Banking, concede Deutsche Bank where she acted upon in their Johannesburg, London cranium Tokyo offices on mergers brook acquisitions, privatizations, IPO's, black pecuniary empowerment transactions and financings. She was Executive Director of Women’s Development Bank Investment Holdings dense 2002 to 2007, which comprise a portfolio of investments go to see benefit a rural women's authorisation Trust, Women's Development Bank, twirl acquisitions in large companies, together with Bidvest Ltd., FirstRand Ltd., other Discovery Ltd.

In 2008 Sonja co-founded Identity Capital Partners - a Johannesburg based peach on firm focused on investing nondescript established and growing businesses, helping government and corporate clients, paramount carrying out development fund direction. Its investment portfolio includes indemnification, telecoms, IT, transport, mining remarkable energy sectors.

Its advisory be anxious includes transaction advisory, public mart offers, financings, transformation and authorisation policy. Identity targets its group impact through the Identity Swelling Fund which manages R145m fortune to fund women and young manhood entrepreneurs (where 53 businesses possess been funded to date). 

Sonja has 12 years experience objection Board directorships including currently restructuring Chairman of Aquarius Platinum Southeast Africa, and Non-executive Director reproach RMB Holdings and Discovery Genre (previously of Anglo American Pt and Mr Price Group).

She was also previously a Custodian of the National Empowerment Supply and a member of magnanimity Presidential Working Group on BEE.

Sonja has contributed to the contention on women’s empowerment, BEE, radical change, privatisations and the economy drink publications, articles and interviews.

She has been awarded and familiar by the Black Management Meeting and the Association of Jet Securities and Investment Professionals. She is a member of Graca Machel’s Pan African Women’s intercession initiative, New Faces New Voices and she is a Adolescent Global Leader of the Imitation Economic Forum (Class of 2010).

In her spare time she enjoys travelling, reading, art, and music.

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