banking experience, with crossborder mergers and acquisitions expertise across a broad range of industries. Cloudflare Ray ID: 5f148ad9591a04e7 } Mark Sorour (Mark Sorour) is a non-executive director. 1985 Mnet founded, Naspers’ first Pay TV business. Koos Bekker is revered for transforming South African newspaper publisher Naspers into an ecommerce investor & cable TV powerhouse. Basil Sgourdos (South African and Greek) is our financial director and an executive director. By doing things differently and better for over 25 years, we have grown from small beginnings into one of the largest publishers and printers in South Africa. Read more. Nasbel is 49% controlled by Heemstede, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Naspers. However, on Wednesday Caxton argued before it that the merging parties in the latest notification again failed to fully disclose who controlled Naspers. imageBtnNext: "https://www.moneyweb.co.za/wp-content/themes/moneyweb-domination/images/bg_direction_nav.png", Naspers acquires Allegro and enters the B2C ecommerce segment. Hendrik du Toit (South African and British) is an independent non-executive director. We invest in some of the world's leading internet companies. Charles is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. Social grants: What's fair, right … and possible? She has more than 25 years of investment
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His team identifies emerging trends, acquiring and operating disruptive platforms for the group. else { Laurent was appointed CEO PayU in January 2016. Based on information from Naspers, it seems Naspers controls itself, or at least jointly, Caxton states. jQuery(document).ready(function () { Through Prosus, it also has minority investments in listed social-network platforms: "Naspers Delivers Solid Results for the Twelve Months Ended 31 March 2020", "Naspers delivers solid results for the twelve months ended 31 March 2020", "What Kind Of Investor Owns Most Of Tencent Holdings Limited (HKG:700)? Pat has more than 20 years’ experience in executing business growth and development strategies for hyper growth organisations. from the University of the Witwatersrand. Hertzog, and Louis Botha. MSc (cum laude) in econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Bob van Dijk (Dutch) is our chief executive officer and an executive director. return undefined; David then became General Counsel of the Allegro Group and was subsequently promoted to the position of General Counsel: Global Transaction eCommerce at Naspers. We believe in the power of local backed by global scale and we look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where we see the greatest growth potential. international studies from the Lauder Institute: University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. In September 2019, Naspers spun off its investments in Letgo into a separate company, Prosus. imageBtnPrev: "https://www.moneyweb.co.za/wp-content/themes/moneyweb-domination/images/bg_direction_nav.png", var range = document.selection.createRange(); They have been buying shelf space in stores (yes you pace for the space and the level on the shelf at which your product is displayed) and created and kept publications in these shelf spaces simply to keep competitor publishers out of the market.