Infrastructure Team

The Infrastructure Team consists of:

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  Sean Friend

  Portfolio Manager: IDEAS Managed Fund

  Current Responsibility

  As Portfolio Manager, Sean has overall responsibility for the origination, acquisition and management of assets for the IDEAS Managed Fund.

  Previous Experience

  Sean transferred to OMIGSA Infrastructure and Developmental Assets team in January 2006 from Old Mutual Properties where he worked in property project finance for two years.

  Prior to joining the Old Mutual group, Sean worked for seven years at the listed property financial services and investment firm, Lyons.

  

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  Kingdom Mugadza

  Asset Manager

  Current Responsibility

  Kingdom joined the IDEAS Fund in February 2010 as an Asset Manager. He is responsible for investments in telecoms, energy and transport.

  Previous Experience

  Prior to joining Old Mutual, Kingdom served four years with Vodacom and at the time of his departure he was Head of Group Corporate Finance.

  Kingdom started his career with JPMorgan Corporate Finance where he covered telecoms and financial institutions and general industries investment banking.

  

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  Tom Plaistowe

  Senior Executive

  Current Responsibility

  Tom is currently responsible for the appraisal, analysis, and portfolio management of infrastructure and development assets for the Old Mutual Group.

  He is Chairman of the Africa Infrastructure Investment Fund Managers, a company that is jointly owned by OMIGSA and Macquarie Bank and which manages the South African Infrastructure Fund, the Africa Infrastructure Investment Fund and jointly with Kagiso, the Kagiso Infrastructure Empowerment Fund. He is a Director of Setsing Financial Services and the Community Growth Management Company both asset management companies.

  He is Chairman of the N3 Toll Concession Company and a Director of Bakwena Platinum Corridor Concession Company, Railway Systems of Zambia, New Limpopo Bridge and Rainprop.

  Previous Experience

  Tom has six-years' experience as a consulting civil and structural engineer and 21-years' investment experience with the Old Mutual Group – including eight years investment experience in sub-Saharan African countries including Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana.

  

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  Jurie Swart

  Head: Infrastructure and Development Impact Funds

  Current Responsibility

  Jurie was appointed as the Head of Infrastructure and Development Impact Funds in 2007. The division includes: the AIIM infrastructure asset management joint venture with Macquarie Bank, which manages the SAIF, AIIF and KEIF Funds; the IDEAS Fund; the FSC Targeted Investments Fund, and the International Infrastructure Fund.

  Since the beginning of 2001, Jurie has been involved in various roles in the Infrastructure and Development Impact Funds division of the Alternative Investments boutique. This includes the analysis, assessment and execution of infrastructure and development property projects; ongoing asset management of investments; portfolio management of the IDEAS Fund, and board representation on various investee company boards.

  Previous Experience

  Jurie joined OMIGSA as an Equity Analyst in September 1999 before joining the Infrastructure team.

  After completing an accounting conversion course at UCT, he served articles with KPMG on various audits, tax advisory work and secondment to major clients on corporate finance assignments.

  Jurie started his working career at Murray and Roberts, as a civil engineering contractor on various road, bridge and bulk concrete projects.

  

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  Lungelwa Silomntu

  Asset Manager

  Current Responsibility

  Lungelwa is an Assistant Portfolio Manager in the infrastructure and development assets team. She is currently involved in the management of the IDEAS Fund. In this role, she analyses and assesses potential investment projects for the funds.

  Previous Experience

  Prior to joining OMIGSA, Lungelwa was employed as a trainee by an investment management company in its Specialised Finance division. Lungelwa’s was involved in research and analysis for various investments. Prior to that, Lungelwa worked for asset management companies as a client liaison officer where she was responsible for investment reports for institutional clients.

  

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  Ulisha Singh

  Asset Manager

  Current Responsibility

  Ulisha joined OMIGSA in January 2010. As a member of the Infrastructure team, she is responsible for toll roads, public private partnership and alternative energy assets.

  Her background enables her to bring her professionalism and analytical skills to the fore.

  Previous Experience

  Prior to joining OMIGSA, she was in corporate finance and taxation at PriceWaterhouseCoopers for five years.

  Ulisha has 10 years of work experience in various roles including investment banking, auditing and advisory.