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Pivot Point: Octavius Phukubye, Entrepreneurship Development Expert & Founder Of Brillianaire Consulting

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Gugu Mfuphi Talking to Octavius is the founder and lead economic development architect at Brillianaire Consulting, a socioeconomic investment management start-up firm that provides high impact policy and programme architecture, and shared value impact investments in agriculture, small business and infrastructure through re-engineered models/ frameworks, scalable execution methodologies and partnerships. He is a development finance professional with a broad set of capabilities ranging from project management, impact investment, small enterprise development and management consulting who has developed and managed large-scale enterprise development programmes, and social investments projects. He’s a former SAB Economic Development Manager where he was responsible for Socio-Economic Development and Enterprise Development programme with an annual budget of over R90mil; and served as an Enterprise Development Specialist before, reengineering the SAB KickStart programme to a leading SA’s privately run youth entrepreneurship programme. Before joining SAB, he was a management consultant at Accenture with finance performance engineering and programme management expertise in the Utilities sector. Octavius is studying his Post Graduate Diploma in Development Finance with Stellenbosch University. He holds a Fundamental Management Programme certificate from UNISA School of Business Leadership (SBL), and a B. Com Accounting degree from University of Limpopo.
23 Jan 2020 8AM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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