Ajay is an experienced entrepreneur and chartered accountant, having serviced a range of multi-nationals, private sector and public sector clients as a trusted advisor over the past 20 years. He is the founder and Managing Director of Black Lite Consulting, a strategic consulting practice focused on B-BBBEE, sustainable development and general management consulting.
Ajay has extensive experience in B-BBEE advisory services, strategy formulation, executive and business managed and policy setting and has been involved in various businesses, including being a BEE shareholder to Deutsche Bank South Africa.
Ajay is a long-standing member of both the South African Institute of Charted Accountants and voting member of Greenpeace Africa.
Leadership, interpersonal and professional skills:
B-BBEE and transformation advisory, policy formulation, strategy formulation, executive business management, project management, financial management, renewable energy project development, executive committee involvement, non-executive board involvement, NGO Trustee, operations management, strategic leadership, corporate finance, capital raising and BEE mergers and acquisitions.
Education:
Chartered Accountant (SA) – SAICA
B Compt Hons (UNISA)
B Comm (University of Western Cape)
Recent certifications:
Sustainability Leadership Programme (Cambridge University)
Sanjay is an experienced and dynamic chartered accountant, having serviced a range of multi-nationals, private sector and public-sector clients as a trusted business and strategy advisor over the past 22 years. He is an executive director with the Black Lite Group, a niche advisory boutique focused on B-BBEE strategy, sustainability advisory and management consulting services. Sanjay has extensive experience in B-BBEE advisory services, strategy formulation, executive and business management and corporate governance and has been involved in various businesses, as both a shareholder and executive director, for the past 15 years.
An entrepreneur at heart, Sanjay has established many successful businesses across various sectors, and has assumed various executive and advisory roles to various clients. He is passionate about personal development, and has a particular interest in coaching and mentoring aspiring and future leaders and business owners.
Leadership, interpersonal and professional skills:
B-BBEE and transformation advisory, strategy formulation, executive business management, project management, financial management, renewable energy project development, executive committee involvement, non-executive board involvement, audit committee member, social & ethics committee member, corporate governance, operations management, strategic leadership, corporate finance, capital raising, credit risk & compliance management, human resource & people management and CRM.
Education:
Chartered Accountant (SA) – SAICA
B Compt Hons (UNISA)
B Comm (University of Natal – UKZN)
Recent certifications:
King IV Codes on Good Corporate Governance
Director Development: Being a Director (parts 1, 2 and 3)
Applied Director Programme
Strategy, Innovation and Design Thinking
Kilpena is an economist by profession. She has over 20 years experience in the Financial Services Industry. 14 of these years were in Banking focusing on Retail Banking for the first 8 years and then specialising in Private Banking for the next 6 years. She was the Head of Product Marketing and Investor Relations in Fund Management for Old Mutual Investment Group Property Investments for 2 years. She currently serves as the Operations & Human Resources Manager of the Black Lite Group and is a certified integral coach offering Executive & Life Coaching as well as facilitation and training.
She is passionate about sustainability and transformation and she plays a strong change management and leadership development role in and outside business. She enjoys coaching clients by facilitating a process to allow them to create and open up new possibilities for growth.
Kilpena has served as a mentor on the Associate and Professional Coaching Certifcation Programmes for the Centre for Coaching with the UCT Graduate School of Business. She has also served as a panel member for the qualifying certification process for the Professional Coaching Certification Programme.
Education:
B.Com (Economics) from the University of the Western Cape
Marketing Diploma from UNISA Credit Diploma through the CAIB in 1998
Qualified assessor
Certified Integral Coach through the UCT Graduate School of Business and New Ventures West, San Francisco, USA
Recent certifications:
- Integral Coaching,Learning & Development
- Change Management, Facilitation,Training
- Chairing Disciplinaries, Sales Enablement
- Product MarketingStakeholder Management