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Portia

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Zilwa

Head SME Banking

Portia is a Development Finance She was promoted into the EXCO team as the
professional who holds the following Head of Investment responsible for loan and
academic qualifications: Master's Degree investment operations in 2019. Over the years
in Development Finance with UCT she had exposure across the various Investment
Graduate School of Business (UCT), disciplines in Masisizane Fund. She also led the
Honors in BCom Economics degree Business Development and Stakeholder
(UNISA) and undergraduate degree in relations team, was interim CEO and acted as
BCom General majoring in Economics Head of Post Investment, Monitoring and
and Management (UWC). Business Support

Portia's career experience has been in Portia recently joined the Grindrod Bank as the
various organisations within South Head of SME Banking, where she responsible
Africa's accomplished Financial Services for growing the bank's SME client base directly
sector. Her career began at First National or through new mutually beneficial strategic
Bank holding various positions. She then partnerships.
moved on to work for Anglo-American
Zimele, as the Western Cape Small Portia is passionate about development in
Business Hub Manager, where her general and her interests are in the development
passion for the entrepreneurship sector and SME finance arena because it is evolving,
blossomed. dynamic and creates great opportunities for
under- serviced small, medium businesses.
Portia joined Masisizane Fund as the
Western Cape Provincial Manager in Outside of work she is a wife and a mother of 2
2017. Where her primary responsibility who loves the outdoors, trying out new recipes
was deal origination, deal execution and and spending time with her family.
provincial stakeholder engagement and
management.

portiaz@grindrodbank.co.za