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A funder is not buying a market view. It is buying the discipline of the people who will hold the line when a cargo is late, a borrower is slow and the numbers move against the book.
01 / Board and Executive
Chairman of Maruping Finance House, providing strategic oversight of the institution's mandate across its wholesale and SME finance arms and its stated path toward becoming a regional merchant bank.
His stewardship is directed at rigorous governance, disciplined capital deployment and the alignment of every facility with the House's growth strategy across Botswana and the wider region.
Founder of the House and a financial strategist and business development leader with more than a decade in investment banking, project finance and corporate advisory across Southern Africa. Her career began as a trainee accountant with Portland Holdings (PPC) in Zimbabwe before joining BancABC Bank, where she advanced through the treasury and corporate banking divisions to become an investment banker.
Her track record includes funding facilitation and deal structuring for a 100 MW solar plant in Victoria Falls, the financial restructuring of a clinical laboratory in Botswana, a USD 100 million private hospital in Ghana and a USD 10 million agricultural biotechnology venture. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Banking and a Master's in Banking and Financial Economics from NUST, Zimbabwe, and is an Associate Member of the Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group in Botswana. She directs business development, growth strategy and stakeholder engagement.
A financial executive with more than two decades in accounting, auditing and institutional financial management. Career spans municipal project accounting and capital management, chief internal audit responsibility at a national university, and a serving finance directorship covering multi campus budgeting, infrastructure financing and audit governance.
Qualifications include a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) and an Executive MBA. Associate Member of the Institute of Forensic Auditors and Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors. As Chief Financial Officer he is responsible for financial strategy, audit integrity systems and capital deployment oversight.
Biographies are drawn from the Maruping Finance House corporate profile. Directorships, appointments and dates to be verified against company records before publication.
02 / Governance Framework
Origination cannot approve its own credit. Credit cannot release its own funds. Finance cannot audit its own controls.
Sets risk appetite, approves exposure limits and receives portfolio reporting. Retains approval authority above defined facility thresholds.
Approves facilities within delegated limits, tests security packages and holds the right to decline independent of origination.
Owns counterparty screening, sanctions and anti money laundering controls, and the conditions precedent checklist. Reports to the board, not to origination.
Controls disbursement, account operation, reconciliation and reporting to funding partners. Executes only against approved documentation.
Committee composition, delegated authority levels and reporting lines to be confirmed in the governance charter and shared under NDA.
03 / Advisory Bench
Commodity finance draws on expertise that no single institution should attempt to carry in house at every moment. The House retains specialist support across the disciplines where a wrong answer is expensive.
Cross border trade documentation, security perfection and dispute forum selection. [Firm to be named].
Independent quantity and quality inspection, and custody of financed parcels and stored product. [Provider to be named].
Marine, political risk and credit life placement. [Broker to be named].
Statutory audit and portfolio assurance reporting to funding partners. [Auditor to be named].
Introductions to the board and executive are arranged for funding partners, institutional counterparties and licensed traders with a live transaction.