About Us

We are entrepreneurs with extensive experience in building business in South Africa and internationally.

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The E4E team

Bastiaan Hochstenbach
Bas Hochstenbach
Co-Founder / Partner
  • Law & Buss / Public admin
  • McKinsey & Co
  • Co-Founder African eco-tourism leader Asilia Africa
  • Various non-exec and co-founder roles
Aisha Pandor
Aisha Pandor
Co-Founder / Partner
  • PhD in Human Genetics
  • Accenture Consulting
  • Co-founder/CEO SweepSouth, Africa’s leading platform for home services
  • Various leadership roles in tech ecosystem
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Neil Watson
Partner

Neil co-founded Digital Planet in 1999. He built the business into a large e-commerce services business and successfully exited in 2019.

During that time he invested and exited many businesses in a wide range of industries. Since 2019, Neil has been investing and mentoring full time.

He loves working with Entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions to hard problems.

Frederik Gerner
Frederik Gerner
Co-Founder / Partner
  • Offshore engineering, EMBA Insead
  • Co-founder Ampelmann (global high-tech hardware company)
  • Co-founder FORWARD.one, VC in hardware tech
Tatenda Nyamuda
Tatenda Nyamuda
Principal
  • B.Bus Sci (Finance - CA), UCT; MBA, University of Oxford
  • Auditor, Deloitte
  • Investment associate at Dalberg Group
  • Various roles in Transaction Capital Group
Andrea Jekkels
Andrea Jekkels
Associate
  • LLB, University of Witwatersrand
  • M&A lawyer
  • Associate at Kirkland & Ellis (London) and Bowmans (South Africa)
Alexis Favelin
Alexis Favelin
Analyst
  • MSc International Finance, HEC Paris
  • Former investment banker
  • Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Reinier Duraan
Reinier Duraan
CFO
  • Master accounting/auditing, Stellenbosch University
  • CEO/CFO at African scale-up
  • Various accounting/CFO roles