<< Mr Wade de Jager
Wade is the independent non-executive Chairman of the investment committee of Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Wade plays a crucial role in providing strategic investment advice and independently guiding the funds investment decisions as part of the Fund’s sound corporate governance strategy. Between 1998 and 2006 Wade was Director and Head of Private Equity at Standard Bank’s Private Equity unit. His unit was responsible for providing mezzanine and equity finance for acquisitions/buy-outs and expansion capital for businesses exceeding R50 million.

<< Mr Campbell Barnes
Campbell is the Chief Investment Officer and a Principal at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. His interaction with clients and thorough analysis of business ensure that transactions are concluded in a sustainable and efficient manner. Campbell has provided debt, equity and mezzanine capital to a variety of early stage, expansion and mature businesses as a fund manager. His observer/non executive director status on numerous boards has compounded the knowledge that he has built up through his tenures at Deloitte, Werksman's Attorneys and NEF Trust which combined, span the past 15 years. Campbell holds an A.C.I.S, an MBA from Bond University and studied business marketing strategy at Harvard Business School.

<< Mr Christopher Clarke
Christopher is an Executive Director and a Principal at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Christopher assumes primary oversight of the funds’ investment management activities and corporate business. As a professional engineer and environment sector expert, Christopher also assumes responsibility for the fund’s sustainability performance. Prior to founding Capital Evolution Christopher spent fifteen years specialising in engineering technology innovations and environmental goods and services projects and markets. He focused on ecotourism transactions and the role that sustainability investing can play in accelerating the development and deployment of appropriate technologies to generate positive environmental and societal impacts. His experience spans start up enterprise development and management, project development finance, environmental planning, sustainability strategy, policy development, and corporate governance.

<< Dr Zuko Kubukeli
Zuko is an Executive Director and a Principal at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. For the past three years Zuko has been involved extensively within the private equity arena primarily in the arena of unlisted companies, performing company analysis and valuation, turnaround propositions, mergers and consulting to some of the country's largest financial institutions. He brings Evolution One a wide network of contacts and influence within these institutions, investment opportunities, managerial support and leadership to its companies and investments. Prior to joining Pan-African Capital Holdings Zuko was an equity analyst in the Specialised Funds division at Brait, a South African blue-chip private equity company. He was involved devising the company’s investment philosophy, criteria and process in selecting hedge fund managers from the universe of managers in South Africa and abroad. He held the position of executive director in the division and was also chairman of the group's Employment Equity Committee. During his tenure at Brait the division grew its funds under management eight-fold and the number of managers increased from two to eleven.

<< Mr Guy Baxter
Guy is an Executive Director and a Principal at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Guy holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Natal, Durban. He gained extensive development finance experience at the Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) in South Africa before establishing a privately owned business consulting practice in 1991. In the period since then, Guy has successfully provided a broad range of advisory and consulting services to major public and private sector entities in South Africa, including business and project planning, PPP financing programmes and bid strategies in the areas of gaming, tourism and media. Guy has special ised in devising and facilitating public-sector funded projects in South Africa. He is currently the Managing Director of Consensus Business Group South Africa.

<< Mr Wayne Keast
Wayne is an Executive Director and a Principal at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Wayne is chief executive of Consensus Environment, the CleanTech and Environmental private equity and strategic investment arm of Consensus Business Group (“Consensus”). Wayne is also an Investment Director for The Masdar Clean Tech Fund ($250m) and a member of the Masdar Investment committee. He is on the advisory / supervisory boards for Aloe Environment Fund II (€100m), Chrysalix Energy II LP ($70m) and Expansion Capital Clean Tech Fund II ($80M) and is a Non-Executive Director of Econergy International plc (Clean energy developer), Re-Energy Group (waste to energy & desalination), Green Gas International (coal mine methane) and Dynamotive Biomass Research Company (bio mass and energy crops). Prior to joining Consensus, Wayne spent several years in senior corporate finance, venture capital and private equity positions, including a number of years as Chief Financial Officer at ePartners and eVentures, the $1.2 billion global private equity and business incubation group. Wayne is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a Bachelors and Honours degree in Commerce & Finance.

<< Mr Paul Vorster
Paul is a Principal at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Paul provides specific strategic and rigorous investment equity analysis to the funds’ investments. Prior to Inspire-Evolution One Fund Management, Paul was responsible for deal sourcing and investment management in his position as deal executive and investment committee member at Protocol Venture Capital, the Dimension Data P.L.C. Business Development Fund. Paul’s experience with start-ups and early stage as well as late stage private equity deals adds material value to the fund and its investee companies and projects. Serving on numerous boards of companies in various stages of their life cycles over the last five years, Paul has gained extensive management and enterprise project development experience.

<< Mr Michael Brooks
Michael is an Executive Director and a Principal at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Mike is actively involved in managing the investment process, responsible for deal sourcing, deal flow and evaluation, and integrates at an executive level with investment management. Mike’s broad and deep expertise in many aspects of the financial markets, structured risk management products and integrated financial abilities will be applied to the core investments made by the fund. Prior to Inspired Evolution Investment Management, Mike was an executive director, co-founder and shareholder of Coronation Capital Limited, whose core operations included structured finance, equity arbitrage, private equity, treasury and risk management and property finance and funding.

<< Ms Bulelwa Nombamba
Bulelwa is an Investment Associate and transaction analyst at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Bulelwa is actively involved in deal sourcing, analysis of the equity investments, deal structuring and investment management. Prior to joining Inspired Evolution she was an equity analyst with Old Mutual Investment Group, Eskom Pension & Provident Fund and RMB Asset Management with primary responsibility for equity analysis. Equity analysis involved preparation of financial models for industrial companies, focusing on different sectors under Industrials, site visits, meeting management of those companies, doing research on different industries comparing various ratios and financial performance amongst competitors, and performing financial valuations and advising on company valuation. Bulelwa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Financial Accounting) and is currently completing her Chartered Financial Analyst qualifications.

<< Mr Steven Faure
Steven is a transaction analyst at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Steven's experience lies primarily within the investment banking arena where he spent 3 years working for a leading international financial institution, Deutsche Bank. The scope of his work spanned equity and credit derivative product support, structuring and execution, and involvement in mitigating o perational risks within the Group. Steven holds a Bachelor of Economics, Honours in Financial Economics from the University of the Stellenbosch, and an MBA cum laude from Stellenbosch University's Business School.