Wade runs an independent PE business associated with Rand Merchant Bank. Previously, he held the position of Director and Head of Standard Bank’s Private Equity division. Wade was responsible for determining the investment strategy for the bank’s private equity initiatives, and for implementing this strategy through a team of professional private equity investment professionals.

Wade is a Chartered Accountant by training, and specialised in forensic and investigative accounting.

Daisy serves as a non-executive member of the Vantage Mezzanine Investment Committee and the Vantage GreenX Credit Committee. She is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Masters of Accounting degree (specialisation in Taxation) from the University of Natal Durban.

Daisy completed her articles at Ernst & Young in 1997, joining SAB as a Financial Planner. In 1999 she joined Deloitte as a Corporate Tax Consultant, leaving in 2001 for Gensec Bank (now Sanlam Capital Markets) as a dealmaker, where she worked for more than nine years. During this time she concluded numerous funding deals, and was appointed to the committee of the Sanlam Investment Cluster which considered investment into credit/fixed income assets. She was Sanlam’s nominee on the audit and credit committee of Fintech, a Director of Safair Lease Finance, and represented Sanlam as its Advisory Board Member on Vantage Mezzanine Fund 1.

Currently, Daisy serves as an independent non-executive director of various public/regulated and JSE listed companies including, inter alia, ABSA Group, Anglo American, Redefine Properties, Mr Price and Hudaco.