Job Title: FD
Company: ZCI
Willem Badenhorst is a Senior Manager of the Maitland Group. He joined Maitland in 2009, first in a consulting role and subsequently heading up the Product Solutions business area. He has a wide range of experience in the investment fund and professional services industry. He began his career with an audit and professional services firm in Cape Town from 2003 to 2005. At the start of 2006, he relocated to Luxembourg where he took up an Audit Manager appointment with Deloitte, specialising in the audit of regulated UCITS funds, offshore hedge funds and private equity fund investing in emerging market economies. He has been Non-Independent Executive Director and CFO of ZCI Ltd since November 2012. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA). He has a B.Acc from Stellenbosch University.
Work
2012 – Present Financial Director, ZCI Ltd
2016 – Present Managing Director, Corporate Clients, Maitland
2013 – 2016 Head of Institutional Client Operations, Maitland
2011 – 2013 Senior Manager, Private and Corporate Clients, Accounting Services, Maitland
2011 – 2011 Head of Product Solutions, Maitland
2009 – 2011 Senior Manager, Product Solutions
2006 – 2008 Manager, Deloitte Luxembourg
2003 – 2005 Audit Trainee, Horwath Zeller Karro
Education
2005 CA (SA), SAICA
1999 – 2002 B.Acc, Finance, Stellenbosch University
About ZCI Ltd: ZCI Limited (ZCI) is incorporated in Bermuda with its ordinary shares being listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and on Euronext. ZCI owns 73.4 % of the ordinary shares in African Copper Plc (ACU) which is a base metals company, incorporated in England and Wales. The Group’s main project, through its subsidiary Messina Copper (Botswana) (Pty) Ltd (Messina), includes the copper-producing open pits at the Mowana pit and Thakadu pit, and the Mowana plant (collectively referred to as the Mowana Mine) which are all located close to Botswana’s second largest city, Francistown, in the north-eastern part of the country.
