Craig Lyons

Craig Lyons has over 27 years of investment banking experience as well as strategic, management and finance experience in various industries, having built and led a number of businesses in Southern and West Africa.

Mr Lyons has been managing his private equity portfolio of companies and actively participates as a chair and director and/or investment committee member on various company boards, committees and investment funds.

He spent 2 years at Hollard Insurance Company before joining Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank (investment banking) for five years prior to co-founding icapital financial services and Mvelaphanda Strategic Investments. At Mvelaphanda, he was responsible for building and managing its investment portfolio of property, financial services, mining, infrastructure, technology, telecommunications, engineering, healthcare and engineering assets and investments. As a founder and chief executive, Mr Lyons built Mvelaphanda into one of the BEE investment houses in South Africa.