Zimbabwe Family Business summit 2025
17 Industry Leaders
Feburary 19, 2025
8 AM - 3:30 PM
Cresta Lodge Msasa, Harare, ZW
ZFBS 2025
Why attend This Summit?
Hear from renowned speakers and industry experts on topics such as succession planning, family governance, wealth management, and more.
What to Expect?
Keynote Speakers
Inspiring talks from renowned family business founders, operators, and experts.
Panel Discussions
Interactive sessions with family business owners, entrepreneurs, and experts.
Networking Opportunities
Valuable connections with fellow attendees, sponsors, and partners.
Access to Solutions Providers
Explore innovative products, services, and solutions for family businesses.
February 19, 2025,
CrestaLodge Msasa, Harare, ZW
ZFBS 2025
Speakers
Inspiring talks from industry thought leaders and experts
SHARON BWANYA'S PROFILE
Sharon Bwanya
Summit Host, Founder and MD, Red Couch Advisory
Sharon is a multi-skilled business advisor who possesses commercial law, investment management, business operations, and corporate finance expertise. She is the Founder and MD at Red Couch Advisory, the convenor of the Zimbabwe Family Business Summit. Red Couch Advisory is a premier boutique advisory firm offering corporate advisory, transaction advisory, project finance advisory, and family business advisory services. Sharon previously served as the Group General Counsel of the Masawara Group and, before then, the Chief Operating Officer of the Nurture Investment Management Group. Between 2007 and 2019, Sharon worked in regional and international commercial law firms with a specialist practice focus on M&A and project finance.
Sharon Bwanya
Summit Host - Founder and MD, Red Couch Advisory
Tsitsi Mutendi's Profile
Tsitsi Mutendi
Entrepreneur
Tsitsi Mutendi is a globally recognised family business advisor, speaker, author, and entrepreneur with over 21 years of experience. She is the Founder of Nhaka Legacy Planning, specialising in Family Governance, Succession Planning, and Family Wealth Advisory. Tsitsi has worked with families across 15 countries and five continents, helping them build multigenerational legacies. She is also the Co-Founder of African Family Firms (AFF), a non-profit promoting family business continuity in Africa. As a Family Business Advisor certified by the Family Firms Institute, Tsitsi has co-authored thought pieces and her insights have been featured in platforms such as Forbes Africa, The Family Office Journal, and Billionaires Africa.
Tsitsi Mutendi
Entrepreneur
Shingayi Mutasa's Profile
Shingayi Mutasa
GCEO, Masawara
Shingayi Mutasa is the Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Masawara. He began his career in commodity trading, which laid the groundwork for his entrepreneurial journey. He later acquired a strategic stake in TA Holdings Limited, a prominent investment holding company with diverse operations. Under his visionary leadership, TA Holdings evolved into Masawara Plc, a dynamic conglomerate with interests spanning across various sectors including agriculture, financial services, hospitality, manufacturing, real estate, energy, healthcare, and telecommunications. Masawara's geographic footprint spans across Zimbabwe, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, Uganda, Mauritius, DRC, Namibia, United States, and the United Kingdom.
Shingayi Mutasa
GCEO, Masawara
Rungano Innocent Nyaude's Profile
Rungano Innocent Nyaude
Founder, Afrigate
Rungano is the Founder and Managing Director of Afrigate Commercial Brokers, a bespoke Brokerage Firm whose main mandate is to provide a gateway into the UAE and the GCC region for African Businesspeople looking to explore the GCC region and vice versa. Rungano is an accomplished senior banker, finance expert and senior business professional, with a career spanning over 16 years in Banking and having experience in covering clients across the Africa-Middle East region. He has a proven track record in relationship management, credit analysis and customer due diligence from one of the Globally Systemically Important Banks, Standard Chartered Bank.
Rungano Innocent Nyaude
Founder, Afrigate
Paul Nyamuda's Profile
Paul Nyamuda
Leadership Coach
Paul Nyamuda is renowned expert in leadership, personal mastery and emotional intelligence. He has a coaching and training business called Corporate Legends and as an Organisational Psychologist with a Master of Commerce in Research Psychology, he has researched extensively on the subject of leadership development and personal success. Paul's work focuses on executive coaching, team interventions and leadership development in Blue Chip companies, leading banks, NPO’s, Government departments, family businesses, and large multinationals. Paul has spoken on business leadership and related issues across the globe including in countries such as the US, UK, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt. He has authored 57 books on leadership.
Paul Nyamuda
Leadership Coach
Lynne Knight's Profile
Lynne Knight
Management Consultant
Lynne Knight is a dynamic Management Consultant and business owner, with a commitment to fostering growth in individuals and organisations. Her work is centered on developing people, refining processes, and enhancing systems, to ensure the profitability of businesses and blessing of communities. As a leadership coach and long-term member of the charity Family Impact, Lynne has facilitated workshops and training sessions across four continents over the last 25 years. She partners with boards and senior leadership teams to drive improvements in performance, skills, efficiencies, and overall profitability bringing together a unique blend of both performance thinking and emotional intelligence to enhance business performance.
Lynne Knight
Management Consultant
Patrick Mavros's Profile
Patrick Mavros
Founder – Patrick Mavros
Master sculptor, Patrick Mavros, is considered by many to be one of the most important and influential silversmiths of his time. As fourth-generation Zimbabweans, Patrick Mavros and his family are passionate about bringing the African wilderness to the world through extraordinary sterling silver jewellery and sculpture. Every Patrick Mavros silver sculpture extraordinary and original design comes from the imagination of Patrick or one of his sons and all of them are handmade in sterling silver and 18ct gold in the home studio in Zimbabwe or in Mauritius. Over a period of more than 40 years, Patrick Mavros has expanded its presence beyond Zimbabwe to London, Mauritius and Nairobi and is well established as Africa’s best-known and iconic luxury brand.
Patrick Mavros
Founder – Patrick Mavros
Dr. Divine Ndhlukula's Profile
Dr. Divine Ndhlukula
Founder, MD DDNS
Dr. Divine Ndhlukula is a Zimbabwean businesswoman, founder and Managing Director of DDNS Security Operations (Pvt) Ltd which is the holding company for SECURICO Security Services. Securico is the first Zimbabwean staffed security company to be certified to the internationally acclaimed ISO9001:2008 Quality Management System. She also founded Zvikomborero Farms, an agricultural company involved in a variety of farming activities. Dr. Divine Ndhlukula has previously named one of the most successful women in Africa by Forbes and has been listed in the top 10 CEOs in Africa. She is the past president of Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) and Chairperson for Women's Desk.
Dr. Divine Ndhlukula
Founder, MD DDNS
Vulindlela Bongani Sibanda's Profile
Vulindlela Bongani Sibanda
Senior Partner, MawereSibanda
VB Sibanda is a founding partner of MawereSibanda Commercial Lawyers. He specialises in commercial and corporate law with particular emphasis on financial institutions, private equity funds, and high-networth individuals. His practice focuses on transactional advice in local and international transactions. He collaborates with international law firms in advising on the Zimbabwean and Botswana investment regulatory environment including tax, competition, and general investment laws. For nearly three decades, he has worked in both the Zimbabwean and Botswana offices of the firm advising on transactions involving listed entities. He has been recognised by Chambers and Partners as a leading commercial lawyer.
Vulindlela Bongani Sibanda
Senior Partner, MawereSibanda
Leroy Margolis's Profile
Leroy Margolis
CFO & Head of Operations, Margolis Holdings
Leroy Margolis is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a global professional background in corporate and investment banking. He has over 12 years of experience driving growth and profitability in diverse industries, including finance, technology, fintech, web3, property and hospitality. Leroy currently serves as a Director and the CFO and Head of Operations at Margolis Holdings, a diversified portfolio-holding company with operations spanning real estate, hospitality (Stephen Margolis Resort), mining, gaming and trading. Having successfully set up multiple businesses, he now also consults with companies, in particular early-stage and growth-stage companies, on finance, operations and strategy for growth.
Leroy Margolis
CFO & Head of Operations, Margolis Holdings
Dumisani Nomagugu Nkala's Profile
Dumisani Nomagugu Nkala
MD, Telco
Dumisani is the Managing Director of Telecontract (popularly known as Telco), a multi-generational family business and provider of telecommunications services founded in 1991. She has over 20 years of telecommunications experience within the Southern African region. She was a founding member of the South African Telecommunications Service Providers Association in 2010 and played a critical role in the establishment of the Blockchain Association of Zimbabwe in 2017. Dumisani currently serves as a member of the secretariat of the Zimbabwe Internet Access Providers Association and is a multi-award-winning industry operator.
Dumisani Nomagugu Nkala
MD, Telco
Ketan Naik's Profile
Ketan Naik
CEO, Rank Zimbabwe
Ketan Naik is the CEO of Rank Zimbabwe, the largest stationery and paper manufacturer in the country and home of household educational stationery brands, Merit and Kian. Ketan also leads the family investment office which has investments predominantly in Industrial Real Estate, private equity investments, and various listed entities. He sits on the board of several private limited companies. He has a Masters in Real Estate Investment from Cass Business School in London, and a Bachelor of Science from Warwick University. He worked in Investment Banking in London for several years prior to returning to Zimbabwe.
Ketan Naik
CEO, Rank Zimbabwe
Wayne Chingwena's Profile
Wayne Chingwena
Executive Director, Croco Holdings
Wayne is an executive director at Croco Holdings, a renowned Zimbabwean family business and conglomerate which has majority stake in entities within various sectors from automotive, logistics, real estate, mining, agriculture, manufacturing, tourism and hospitality. Founded in 1986, Croco Holdings' geographic footprint spans across all provinces in Zimbabwe and extends to several countries within Sub Saharan Africa with a growing international presence.
Wayne Chingwena
Executive Director, Croco Holdings
Miranda Khumalo's Profile
Miranda Khumalo
Tax Law Advisor
Miranda Khumalo is a corporate lawyer with a specialist practice that focuses primarily on tax advisory and cross-border investments in the energy, mining, and infrastructure sectors. She currently heads the tax practice at Atherstone and Cook and often collaborates with international firms in London, China, the United States of America, and South Africa on complex and high-value cross-border transactions. Miranda’s work has helped mobilize foreign direct investment into critical sectors in the economy. In infrastructure, she has advised international banks in funding transactions worth over USD500 million for landmark infrastructure projects that include the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport refurbishment.
Miranda Khumalo
Tax Law Advisor
Kiaran Knight's Profile
Kiaran Knight
Chief Operating Officer, ABC Auctions
Kiaran is a visionary leader, accomplished entrepreneur, and sought after speaker who is currently serving as the Group Chief Operating Officer at ABC Auctions and its subsidiaries. Under his strategic guidance, ABC Auctions has achieved remarkable growth, fueled by digital transformation and attested by its expansion across Zimbabwe and Zambia. In addition to leading ABC Auctions, Kiaran oversees five other key brands: ABC Real Estate, ABC Moneylenders, ABC Retail, ABC Connect, and ABC Reach. His expertise lies in identifying high-potential business opportunities, forging strategic partnerships, and building agile, high-performing teams that drive operational excellence and sustainable growth. What sets Kiaran apart is his unique superpower: Leveraging Failure. Kiaran believes that embracing failure as a crucial part of the learning curve is the secret to his success.
Kiaran Knight
Chief Operating Officer, ABC Auctions
Zinzile Mlambo's Profile
Zinzile Mlambo – Ziki
Advisory and Wealth Management Lead – Nurture Investment Management (Nurture)
Zinzile Mlambo plays a lead role in wealth management at Nurture with extensive experience in investment advisory and estate planning coupled. Her rich background includes commercial law expertise garnered over years of advising on cross-border transactions in an international commercial law firm. In her senior role in the advisory business at Nurture, she leads a comprehensive wealth management practice that encompasses investment strategy, asset allocation across diverse portfolios—including real estate, private equity, and alternative investments—and estate and succession planning. Her expertise also extends to compliance across multiple jurisdictions, philanthropic planning, and lifestyle financial management, such as managing personal properties and administrative support for high-net-worth clients.
Zinzile Mlambo – Ziki
Advisory and Wealth Management Lead – Nurture Investment Management (Nurture)
Maimba Mapuranga's Profile
Maimba Mapuranga
Summit MC
Maimba is a highly regarded expert in facilitation, training, moderating, and public speaking, celebrated for his dynamic presence and strategic insight. Maimba has worked with diverse audiences across industries, guiding productive discussions and fostering meaningful connections. With a natural talent for communication and a versatile approach, coupled with professionalism and thorough preparation that sees him immerse himself in the event subject matter, he has established himself as one of the most sought-after MCs for business and corporate events. He will be the MC at the Zimbabwe Family Business Summit, 2025.
Maimba Mapuranga
Summit MC
