Peter Maw is an executive partner of Stockdale Street South Africa (formerly Southern Cross Capital) which he founded in 2003. Stockdale Street South Africa represents the private equity interests of the Oppenheimer family in South Africa. Mr Maw was also one of the founders of Primedia in 1993 and, as an executive director from 1993 to 2003, was responsible for all of its corporate finance and mergers & acquisition activities. He remains a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Primedia. Mr Maw was also a non-executive director to Massmart Holdings and a member of the audit committee and strategy & investment committee of Massmart from 2003 to 2011. Prior to the establishment of Primedia, he co-founded Merhold Kirsh Capital in 1991 following two years in corporate finance at Standard Merchant Bank and the completion of his articles at Coopers & Lybrand in 1987.
