Simba Marekera
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Head of Investment Solutions | Brightlight Group
Bio:
Simba Marekera is an experienced and motivated impact investment executive who aims to use his financial expertise, business acumen, leadership skills and global networks to finance businesses that empower underserved and financially excluded communities and individuals.
He is the Head of Investment Solutions at Brightlight Group. He works with and on behalf of institutional investors, government entities, non-profit organisations and social enterprises that are active in the impact investing capital markets. He helps clients access opportunities, build and manage impact portfolios, and access impact capital.
Prior to that, he spent 6 years managing Christian Super’s alternatives, fixed income and Impact Investment portfolios where he helped to commit close $150 million to Impact Investments.
Simba is the Co-Founder of Ignition Impact (www.ignitionimpact.com), an Angel Network of Australian professionals that invests in high growth and high social impact African Small to Medium Enterprises. Ignition Impact sources part of the its capital from Africans in Diaspora and Africans at Home.
He is also a Co-Founder of EdFin (www.edfin.com.au), a fintech company that provides affordable and responsible education financing for international students in Australia.