Job Title: former CFO
Company: Accelerate Property Gund
Dimitri Kyriakides served as CFO of Accelerate Property Fund for 10 years, starting in 2013. He began his professional career when he joined Pick n Pay Retailers as Chief Regional Accountant for the Pretoria Hypermarkets in 1981. In 1986 he joined a firm of chartered accountants in Pretoria as an Audit Partner. In 1989 he moved to Johannesburg as an Audit Partner at Myers Tennier & Co and in 1995, he purchased an interest in a manufacturing concern, which he managed and eventually disposed of in 2006. In 2009, he joined the Georgiou Group to assist with the management and administration of its Johannesburg-based properties. During this time, he gained valuable experience and expertise in all facets of the commercial property industry, from property administration to maintenance, leasing, selling and buying of properties and property development. Dimitri qualified as a CA (SA) in 1981 after serving articles with Coopers & Lybrand, now known as PwC.
Work
2013 – 2023 CFO, Executive Director, Accelerate Property Fund Ltd.
2006 – 2012 Owner / Manager, Imports, EQ-Tech
1987 – 2013 Financial Controller, Cordev Marketing
1981 – 1986 Chief Accountant, Pick n Pay
Education
1975 – 1978 Bachelor of Commerce, Accountancy, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
About Accelerate Property Fund: Accelerate is a listed Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) offering investors the opportunity to share in a portfolio of 61 well-established high-quality properties across South Africa, with a property portfolio value of 520 225m2, a property value of R8.4 billion and 1662 tenants.
It was built on strong foundations, by striving for the best asset and property management structures and operational frameworks to support these structures and the right people for the job.
