Tatenda executed transactions with a value in excess of $6bn for a number of clients including Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs’s principal investment arms, Actis, Massmart, Standard Bank, Barclays, AngloGold Ashanti and Jinchuan. Tatenda has previously also worked at Ernst and Young and is a chartered accountant by profession. Tatenda serves on the boards of various Nurture portfolio companies as part of his Nurture responsibilities and on the boards of non-Nurture entities such as Rift Valley Holdings. He is also a founding trustee of the Kunashe Foundation, an organization that provides primary school scholarships for children in Zimbabwe.

During her time at PwC, Barbara was seconded to the New York and Hartford Offices on global assignment in the Banking and Capital Markets and Insurance divisions respectively where she gained valuable knowledge of US GAAP and PCAOB regulations for SEC listed clients. She holds a post graduate diploma in Advanced Auditing from the University of Cape Town. She is the Finance Manager at Nurture and as part of her duties, she sits on the boards of various Nurture portfolio companies in Zimbabwe and in South Africa.

During her time at Manokore Attorneys she was also seconded to the London office of DLA Piper LLP UK to work with their transfer pricing and commercial litigation teams.
Zinzile is specially trained in arbitration, having trained under a Senior Advocate and sitting arbitrator in Zimbabwe, and she uses her experience to draft commercial documents and structure commercial transactions which are sound, anticipate and avoid disputes and are tax efficient. She has published articles on tax law and has presented to the previous Zimbabwean Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines a Mineral Development on “Taxation in Mining in Zimbabwe.” She, therefore, keeps the tax implications of transactions in mind when she is drafting or structuring.

He is currently concluding his dissertation in completion of his MCOM in Development Finance with the UCT Graduate School of Business. Once completed he will be able to register as Chartered Development Finance Analyst (CDFA).

Before joining SECZ, Laurencia worked at the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) as a staff development fellow assisting in research and lecturing. She is currently studying for a Masters of Technology Degree in Strategy and Innovation at the Harare Institute of Technology.