Oscar is a chartered accountant CA(SA), CA(Z) and began his career with PwC. He has a Bachelor of Accounting Science and an Honours in Accounting Science as well as a Master of Business Leadership (“MBL”) degree from UNISA and majored in portfolio management and strategic management and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration with Business School Lausanne.
Oscar held various senior management positions the ZSE listed Pan African conglomerate, Innscor Africa Limited, including Group Audit Manager – Africa, Group Financial Controller, and then Head of Information Systems with Innscor International focussed on the Innscor – ExxonMobil alliance, before moving on to become Group Finance Director of the energy and transport group, Migdale Holdings, which owned Comoil, Commercial Transport, Commercial Coal, Allen Wack & Shepherd, and was a major shareholder in Genesis Investment Bank. Oscar later became Corporate Finance Partner with the professional services firm, Baker Tilly Central Africa and later was Executive Director: Corporate Finance at Quartile Capital, prior to founding Southcity Group Limited and Black Eagle Group.
He has serviced institutions such as Polokwane Housing Association, Africa Ventures Property Development Senegal, Rand Water, NHFC, PIC, KZN Growth Fund, City of Johannesburg, Transnet Freight Rail, Mercedes Benz Financial Services South Africa, Quanten Consortium Angola amongst others. Oscar was a Lead Advisor in the development and capacitation of the KwaZulu Natal Growth Fund, the South African Housing and Infrastructure Fund and the SCB Africa Trade Finance Fund. He was a Lead Advisor representing the PIC in the MTN Newshelf BEE Structure unwind, amongst other transactions.
Oscar has diverse experience and has executed transactions in diverse industries including the Oil and Gas, Property, Energy, Resources, Telecoms, Medical, Manufacturing and Distribution industries. He has advised on transactions totalling in excess of R60billion within the last fifteen years. He has worked in diverse geographies and developed key relationships across the African continent.