STRONG LEADERSHIP

Meet Epitome

A team of experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds in communities, the church, internal audit and the mainstream of the formal public and corporate sector of the South African economy.

Epitome Investments Team

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Mpho Makwana

Chairman

Mpho is an accomplished business leader with diverse experience acquired over 32 years overall; 26 of which have been in executive and C-Suite roles in the public and private sectors.

He is the immediate Past Non-Executive Chairman of Nedbank Group Ltd (NDBKF.PK), Nedbank Ltd (Term concluded on 02 June 2023). In addition, until Monday 30 October 2023, Mpho was Chairman of the ESKOM SOC LTD Board of Directors after a short term of 12 months.

Currently he is a Non-Executive Director of Platinum Group Metals (TSX:PTM) (NYSE:PLG) and Lead Independent Director on the Board of Invicta Holdings Limited (INVICTA).

He further serves as Chairman,

  • Epitome Investments (Pty) Ltd, his family investments holdings company which holds equity interests in LPI -LionPride Investments and LRMG.
  • Boardroom Alliance (Pty) Ltd and Boardroom Alliance Africa (Pty) Ltd – trading as Executive Search firm Heidrick & Struggles.

He ploughs back to society in many ways, in June 2023 he was appointed as Adjunct Professor at UNISA’s CEMS – College of Economic & Management Sciences.
 

He is a panelist for the Centre for Global Inclusion’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmark Report, and volunteers as a Trustee on the Board of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund as well as a Board Director of FLG Modise Pentecost Foundation.

Tshiamo Makwana

Director

Tshiamo Makwana is a qualified social worker who works with children, adults and teenagers to identify and repair psychosocial challenges within communities.

By focusing on the individual and the collective, she uses empathy and advocacy to help vulnerable people live a normal and meaningful fulfilling life. She has worked for both government and faith-based groups. She now works for the Gauteng Department of Social Development.

She holds a B Social Work from the University of Fort Hare.

More Makwana

DIRECTOR

More Makwana is an experienced Internal Audit professional. Her career started at National Treasury, where she worked her way up to an Assistant Director.

Her private sector experience inclues KPMG, Flight Centre Travel Group and Santam Limited. She holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science from Wits, and certificates in Forensic & Investigative Auditing and Performance Audit from UNISA.

She is working towards her Postgraduate Diploma in Internal Audit through UNISA.