Nico Oosthuizen CA(SA)

CEO, Origin Private Equity Ltd

Born in Pretoria

As one of the founding members of Origin Private Equity, Nico Oosthuizen is a qualified Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in the Banking industry, with special reference to private equity transaction. Having spent several years working for Ernst & Young, where he specialised in the Commercial Banking and Insurance sector, his clients included amongst others: Investec, ABSA, RMA and Alexander Forbes.

* Assisted with the listing of Investec Plc in London during 2001.
* Assisted Deloitte Consulting in providing Deutsche Bank with Credit Financial Analyst .
* Assisted Deloitte Consulting during Vodacom`s buy-out of Smartcall.
* Focused on building the Telecoms portfolio of Origin Private Equity for the last 7 years, These companies include I-Mobile. IV Telecoms and Mobile Data