Management
The Investment Management Team
Chairman
John Webley retired from Morgan Stanley in 2002 after 18 years' service. He was a Managing Director, administrative head of all the Morgan Stanley entities in the European region outside London for many years and Chief Executive of Morgan Stanley's regulated bank in London from 1999. He also served on the boards of a number of the firm's banks in Europe, many of which he helped set up. He was based in Zurich from 1990-1994, in Morgan Stanley's Swiss private bank where he was on the Management Board, a position he retained until retirement. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley he spent 11 years with Price Waterhouse, primarily in Paris, San Fransisco and London. He was, until 2010, non-executive chairman of mhs homes limited (a social housing company with over 7,000 homes), having joined the board in 2003. John is a Chartered Accountant.
Chief Executive Officer
Brian is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Masazane Capital Holdings (Pty) Ltd, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Brian formed Masazane in September 2005. Since its inception, Masazane, has advised on a number of large and complex transactions for prestigious clients. Prior to forming Masazane, Brian was head of JPMorgan's Financial Institutions Group based in Johannesburg, with responsibility for all activities across all product groups including mergers and acquisitions, debt capital markets, derivatives and treasury services. Brian has been involved in a number of notable transactions including Barclays Bank PLC in acquiring control of Absa Limited; Empowerment transactions for Absa, Sanlam, Standard Bank, Nedbank and Liberty Life; and several debt capital market transactions including the first-ever issue of Tier III bank capital in South Africa for Standard Bank, first-ever issue of Tier II insurance capital for Liberty Life, and several mortgage securitisations for SA Home Loans. Brian was also a board member of, and oversaw JPMorgan's investment in SA Home Loans, an independent retail mortgage provider with a mortgage book of over £3.75bn. Brian is a Chartered Accountant, having qualified at KPMG, and holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Science and a Masters in Commerce from the University of Cape Town.
Deputy Chairman
Richard Bouma is the former Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking for sub-Saharan Africa at HSBC Plc. He is a highly experienced emerging markets corporate and investment banking professional, whose career both at Bank of America and HSBC plc spanned over 25 years. Since leaving HSBC, he has managed and advised a number of businesses operating in the mobile telecommunications sector in sub-Saharan Africa, including most recently in the DRC and Tanzania. Richard's career at HSBC began in 1987 where he was responsible for HSBC Equator Bank's aviation loan and lease portfolio and he subsequently held a number of high-level roles, including establishing Equator Bank's regional headquarters in South Africa in 1994 and managing the bank's investment banking team. In 1999, he was appointed MD of the Corporate Finance & Advisory Division of HSBC in South Africa where he was responsible for the group's corporate finance operations throughout sub-Saharan Africa and subsequently held the positions of Head of Investment Banking for sub-Saharan Africa and Head of Business Development for sub-Saharan Africa before his final role as Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking for sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to HSBC, Richard worked for Bank of America between 1979 and 1987, coordinating the development and implementation of a strategic plan for sub-Saharan Africa and subsequently, as Manager of the Africa Regional Office, was responsible for all cross border activities in the region with staff in London and Paris. Over the period, he was also responsible for Bank of America's subsidiaries and affiliates in the Middle East and Africa, representing the bank as either vice chairman or director of a total of nine local entities in eight countries. Richard's background prior to Bank of America was in real estate with Savills, the real estate investment advisory group, as a surveyor in London and Paris and he remains a Member of the UK's Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.
Principle Capital and Masazane provide the support of highly experienced teams covering fund management, corporate finance, banking, private equity, legal, accounting and fund administration, and Investor Relations. Masazane Capital is a corporate finance and advisory consulting firm with considerable experience in investment and advising major financial institutions and funds.
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