| Selestino Chikwature is a Chartered Development Finance Analyst. Incumbent has more than ten years of experience fund raising for development finance projects, public private partnership projects and investment management. He is a seasoned banker with wide expertise in structuring deals across various sectors of the economy from: Infrastructure transactions, green finance and sustainable development; development finance projects in Micro finance & SMEs support in marginalised communities and private public partnership projects. He is the current Head of Treasury for Zimbabwe Women’s Micro Finance Bank. He has previously held managerial positions at middle and senior level at Finance Partners Africa, Tetrad Bank, Platinum Asset Managers (Previously MBCA Capital), Premier Bank (now Ecobank Zimbabwe) and Momentum Management Consultants South Africa. He is non-executive director for Mukute Safaris Operators (Pvt) limited managing about 100 square kms of wild ranch in the northern parts of Zimbabwe. He is also an executive director of Farmhook exports (Pvt) Limited– an agricultural value chain company supporting small holders farmers and aggregating produce for export market.
He holds a Masters of Philosophy in Development finance from Stellenbosch University -South Africa; a Master’s of Science in Finance and Investments and Bachelor of Commerce Honours in degree in finance from National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Zimbabwe. Currently working on PhD research in development Finance. |
