THE TEAM
Namir was the CEO of Chrometco Limited (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CMO:SJ), a JSE-listed Chrome and Platinum mining company. He is the cofounder of Optomise (https://optomise.co.za), the third largest Alternative Investments Asset Manager in South Africa. His expertise spans across domestic and global Private Equity, Private Debt, Mezzanine Finance, Commercial Real Estate and Venture Capital. Namir is the cofounder of the Sail Group (http://sailgroup.com), a Commodity Trading House headquartered in Singapore with global assets listed on both the JSE & the Stock Exchange of Mauritius. Namir is the cofounder of StorageWorx (https://storageworx.co.za), a self-storage business with over 2,500 self-storage units located across 16 facilities throughout South Africa. StorageWorx has subsequently been sold to JSE-listed SA Corporate Real Estate Limited. Namir began his career as an Investment Banker at Investec and has more than 20 years of commercial and investment banking experience across various industries.
Namir is a qualified Actuary and CFA Charterholder. He holds a joint Honours qualification in both Actuarial Science and Advanced Mathematics of Finance from the University of the Witwatersrand which he completed cum laude. Namir is a Board Member of the FTSE-JSE Index Committee, the previous Chair of the Actuarial Society Investments Committee and a previous Board Member of the CFA Society of South Africa.
