Wayne Keast

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Mr. Wayne Keast is a Co-Founder and serves as a Managing Partner, Executive Director and Investment Committee member at Inspired Evolution Investment Management. Mr. Wayne Keast served as a Board Member at SIRAC Southern Africa. He is a Managing Partner and an Investment Committee member of Evolution I and II funds. In 2007/8 he co-founded Inspired Evolution and the Evolution I Fund, a USD90 million southern African renewable energy and sustainability PE fund. He was actively involved in the origination, management, and exits of all 12 investments made under Evolution I. He is a finance professional with more than 20 years of international private equity, corporate and operational finance experience. He is an experienced venture, growth equity, and infrastructure (project finance) investor. Previously, whilst at Consensus Business Group, he was a founding partner and an Investment Committee member of the USD250 million Masdar Cleantech Fund (located in Abu Dhabi, London, and New York). This fund focused on global energy-related technologies and companies with a strategic nexus to Abu Dhabi. He also established a USD500 million global investment programme focused on the cleaner energy and sustainability sectors and oversaw all strategic and financial investments made within the renewable energy and sustainability sectors across Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Israel, UK, USA, the Netherlands and South Africa. He also gained deep experience while at ePartners, in the financial management of global technology private equity investment platforms, and corporate finance and development. This included the establishment and acquisition of 22 new businesses in South Africa. He was the main board director on several companies including three companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. He holds both a Bachelors's and an Honours degree in Finance and Accounting Science (BCompt Hons) from the University of South Africa. He is a Chartered Accountant CA (SA) and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW).