Adansonia Holdings Limited

About us

Adansonia Holdings Limited is a diversified financial services platform aimed at providing value added solutions to International Investment funds, Corporates and High Net Worth Individuals who have chosen Mauritius as their investment base.

Our business offerings include:

ADANSONIA MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED

A licenced offshore management company regulated by the Financial Services Commission

ADANSONIA PE OPPORTUNITIES LIMITED

A permanent capital investment vehicle that aims to generate above average investment returns

ADANSONIA CORPORATE FINANCE LIMITED

The Group’s corporate advisory arm maintains close and confidential relationships with private equity firms and corporates who are investing in Africa.

ADANSONIA INSURANCE BROKERS LIMITED

A Mauritian entity with a network of insurance joint ventures across Africa; to legal source and then obtain comprehensive international insurance underwriting for risks faced by our clients ( Pending License Approval)

PERRIERI OFFICE SUITES LIMITED

Flexible upmarket office solutions enabling businesses who have chosen Mauritius as their domicile, to create permanent establishments

PERRIERI IT SOLUTIONS LIMITED

Customer focused information technology infrastructure, server hosting and services provider to corporates and entrepreneurs

Adansonia Holdings Limited is genuinely independent and owner managed - we consult with external advisors in specialist fields but we never outsource accountability.

DIRECTORS

Brendon Jones

CEO

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Brendon Jones

CEO

Brendon was schooled at Durban High School in Durban, South Africa. He worked for Standard Bank for two years up to early 1997, where after he headed for London. He acquired a broad range of investment banking focused consulting experience over a six-year period in London working for JP Morgan Chase, West Landes Bank, Deutsche Bank, Citibank and Reuters.

After completing his MBA at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town in 2003, he headed for Thailand where he set up an entrepreneurial venture and then spent 2 years as an accounting and information technology business consultant at Diethlem Travel Group until October 2006.

Upon moving to Mauritius in November 2006, Brendon became a shareholder and was appointed Managing Director of Inter-Ocean Management Limited, a Mauritian offshore management company licensed by the Financial Services Commission in November 2006. He managed to return the business to profitability and grew the revenue base by 25% per annum up to 2012, in the process building up a valuable business network across a number of sub-Saharan countries. Inter-Ocean Management Limited was successfully sold to the Maitland Group, and rebranded Maitland (Mauritius) Limited in June 2012.

After completing his earnout at Maitland (Mauritius) Limited in 2014, Brendon, in partnership with Rudolf Pretorius and Zain Madarun formed Adansonia Holdings Limited. The group currently provides a number of value-add solutions to a range of corporate and private equity clients from the USA, UK, Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa.

Brendon serves, inter alia, on the boards/investment committees of:

Denham Capital’s African mining platform and its portfolio companies
Alphamin Resources Corporation, a listed TSX company
Novare Fund Manager Limited

Brendon holds dual South African and British citizenship and is married to Henda with 2 children.

Rudolf Pretorius

Director

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Rudolf Pretorius

Director

Rudolf qualified as a chartered accountant with PWC in South Africa. He joined Rand Merchant Bank Limited (RMB) in 1987 in the Corporate Finance division, which included the bank’s private equity activities.

In 1993, RMB acquired a joint controlling interest in Aegis Insurance Limited, a broker-aligned non-life insurer, where he was seconded to as Deputy Managing Director in 1994. As RMB representative, Rudolf has been involved since the start in the development and growth of Outsurance as an active non-executive director. Outsurance is currently the dominant telephone/internet-based personal lines insurer in South Africa.

After leaving the FirstRand group at the end of 1999, Rudolf formed Treacle Private Equity with two partners. Treacle Fund I raised ZAR 226 million in 2000, and Treacle Fund II raised ZAR 463 million in 2005.

RMB acquired First National Bank Limited in 1998, leading to the formation of the FirstRand Limited group. He was appointed to the FirstRand Limited’s executive committee, taking responsibility for mortgage lending and private banking in the group. Board positions included First National Bank, Aegis and Outsurance. Rudolf also served on the RMB Private Equity Investment Committee up to 1998

Treacle Fund I achieved a realised annualised IRR after costs and fees of 34%, and Treacle Fund II achieved a realised annualised IRR after costs and fees of 16.7%.

Rudolf relocated to Mauritius in 2011. He presently serves, inter alia, on the boards/investment committees of:

Outsurance Insurance Company Limited in South Africa
Sourcecode Technology Holdings Inc in Seattle, USA
Denham Capital’s African mining platform and its portfolio companies
Alphamin Resources Corporation, a listed TSX company
One Thousand & One Voices
Novare Africa Fund PCC
Atlantic Leaf Limited, an AIM listed company

Rudolf is a South African citizen and is married to Alouette with 3 children.

Zain Madarun

Managing Director

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Zain Madarun

Managing Director

Zain has over 10 years’ experience in the global business sector in Mauritius and is a Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

She started her career with CIM Global Business, where she performed a team leader role in the Fund Administration department. The role consisted of net asset valuation calculations, ensuring regulatory and compliance aspects for the funds under her responsibility as well as attending board meetings and dealing with clients.

As part of Zain’s portfolio while at CIM Global Business, she administered The Carlyle Group, an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation, which entailed overseeing a team of 10 staff. This experience has aided Zain in acquiring a good understanding of the regulatory and operational aspects of funds, in particular private equity.

After spending 5 years with CIM Global Business, Zain joined Inter-Ocean Management Limited (now Maitland (Mauritius) Limited) as Manager of Corporate Services, and worked with Brendon. As part of her role, Zain oversaw a team of corporate administrators and senior corporate administrators and was responsible for the administration and execution of the full portfolio of companies and trusts. She also performed the Money Laundering Reporting Officer function of Maitland (Mauritius) Limited.

In 2015, Zain moved across to Adansonia Management Services Limited where she became a shareholder in the business in addition to taking on the Managing Director role. She oversees the day-to-day functioning of the business as well as being Company Secretary of Alphamin Resources Corporation, a TSX-listed entity which forms part of the Tremont Group.

Zain serves, inter alia, on the boards/investment committees of BSI Steel Africa Limited.

Zain is a Mauritian citizen married to Ahmad and has 2 children.

About us

DIRECTORS

Brendon Jones

Rudolf Pretorius

Zain Madarun

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