iHoldings Youth Projects Investments partners with entrepreneurs and invests in privately owned business.
iHoldings Youth Projects Investments is an investment management company with a focus on private equity. By providing long term capital and significant management skills, we partner with entrepreneurs to grow and develop privately owned businesses.
iHoldings Youth Projects Investments is wholly owned by iHoldings iHoldings Youth Projects NPC, a not for profit company focused on uplifting previously advantaged young women in South Africa.
Our funds are sourced locally and the money is invested locally in South Africa.
Our flat corporate structure allows for agile and effective decision-making resulting in greater competitiveness and streamlined deal execution.
We have successfully invested and partnered with entrepreneurs in diverse sectors. Our executives have extensive investment and executive management skills and experience.
Excelllent BEE credentials: Wholly owned by Black South African women and youth, we embrace the spirit of a scorecard approach to BEE. With our BEE credentials and strategy, we are strategically positioned to participate in investment opportunities that are created by changes in the socio-economic environment in the country. We are well placed to promote the transformation objectives of the country.
iHoldings Youth Projects invests capital in various portfolio companies. We seek to partner with proven entrepreneurs in established businesses with the objective of developing and growing the portfolio businesses. We have a broad experience of investing in diverse sectors. Investments are made in companies operating in various sectors including basic industries, consumer goods, services, information technology, general industrials and financial services sectors of the economy. iHoldings Youth Projects acquires significant minority or majority of equity interests in portfolio companies. iHoldings Youth Projects targets investment opportunities in attractive businesses with competent management teams. The key management teams of the portfolio companies are supported and encouraged to be significant shareholders in the business.
iHoldings Youth Projects are involved in a number of transactions, including:
iHoldings Youth Projects is committed to growing and developing its investments. As such, we work closely with our partners to achieve agreed goals and objectives. Our executives assume non-executive roles in the portfolio companies, and typically are appointed to serve on the boards of directors of the portfolio companies and the relevant subcommittees of the boards.
To achieve above-average investment returns through making medium to long-term equity and equity related investments.
To champion and promote ESG and BEE in portfolio companies.
Partner-established companies seeking medium- to long-term equity partners.
Invest in profitable and established businesses with proven entrepreneurs and/or management teams.
Acquire significant minority and/or controlling positions in portfolio companies (varying from 15% to 80% equity interest).
Key executives in portfolio companies are encouraged to share in the equity risks and rewards.
Investment horizon of up to seven years.
Investments in various industries, excluding tobacco, liquor, gambling and military weapons industries.
Focus on investments in South Africa.
Level one contributor to BBBEE
The board of directors include Black South Africans
iHoldings Youth Projects plays a significant role in promoting the implementation of BEE in portfolio companies
iHoldings Youth Projects Investments plays a significant role in promoting the implementation of BEE in portfolio companies
Khalid is a well-established qualified Chartered Accountant and executive with strategic management experience as the CEO at WIP Investments and former CFO at the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa.
He has extensive experience working in the financial sector with organisations in manufacturing, import, wholesale, retail, investments and banking industries. He has a phenomenal knowledge of financial management and its procedures, which he utilises to make strategic financial and management decisions that maximise business operations.
He is an excellent manager who can lead large teams nationally. He aims to maximise his expertise by utilising his experience and qualifications including LLB and M.Com Degrees, adding value to a reputable organisation.
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Pieter is a founding director of iHoldings Youth Projects NPC and its subsidiaries and has decades of corporate finance, private equity, finance and investment experience.
Pieter began his career working for Deloitte as a Financial Institutions Consultant and in 1999 he joined Anglo American as a corporate financier. Thereafter, he joined the South African private equity group Peregrine and subsequently joined African Alliance as CEO of the Lobaka Private Equity Fund. He has also consulted extensively in a corporate advisory capacity, including as a consultant to Deloitte Innovation, the United Nations, Eskom Enterprises and various South Africa government departments.
He currently serves as a director on several privately owned company boards in different sectors. He holds a B.Com. (Accounting) degree (cum laude), is a registered CA(SA) and has passed the CFA examination administered by the CFA Institute.
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Lesego is a director of iHoldings Youth Projects NPC and has over a decade of experience in the fields of Governance & Compliance, specialising in Labour. Lesego began her career working for the Department of Employment & Labour as an Inspector in 2004 and worked her way through to the senior ranks until she resigned in 2020.
She founded and wholly-owns Ikamva Lomtha Holdings in 2020, a Corporate Governance and Compliance Consultancy Company that assists with governance and compliance, specialising in Labour. Recently, Lesego also founded Ikamva Lomtha Staffing Solutions, which provides specialist Private Employment Solutions. Lesego is passionate about the upliftment of previously disadvantaged young women from the community she came from and regularly returns to with diverse upliftment projects.
Lesego holds a BA.HSSS(Health Science & Social Services) degree specializing in Psychological Counselling.
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