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Fabricio Bloisi

GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Fabricio Bloisi

GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Fabricio Bloisi was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer in July 2024. Fabricio was previously CEO and Chairman of the Group’s Brazilian food delivery business, iFood. Under Fabricio’s leadership, iFood has grown to be the leading food delivery business in Latin America, delivering over 90m orders per month and is highly profitable. Fabricio is an innovator, strategist, and entrepreneur, and has spent his entire career working in technology. In 1998, he founded Movile Group, a Brazilian technology investment company, through which Naspers made its initial investment into iFood in 2013. Alongside his work as an entrepreneur, Fabricio created the 1Bi Foundation, a non-profit organisation that supports education through technology to create opportunities for young Brazilians. Fabricio holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, an MBA from Fundação Getulio Vargas, and has completed further studies at Harvard Business School and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Basil (Vasili) Sgourdos
Basil Sgourdos

Group Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director

Basil Sgourdos

Group Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director

Basil Sgourdos is our Group Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director. He was appointed as the Group Chief Financial Director of Naspers in July 2014. He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. from 1989 to 1994. After that, he joined Naspers, initially as the finance manager of the South African operations division in MultiChoice and then as chief financial officer of Naspers’s investment in United Broadcasting Corporation plc, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, where he remained for ten years. He then spent two years in Amsterdam as the general manager of the global video-entertainment business development unit before being appointed financial director of MIH Holdings Proprietary Limited (MIH Holdings) in January 2009. He held this position until he became the Group Chief Financial Director of Naspers. He is a qualified South African chartered accountant with a BCom from the University of the Witwatersrand and a BAcc Hons from the University of South Africa.

Ervin Tu
Ervin Tu

Group President and Chief Investment Officer

Ervin Tu

Group President and Chief Investment Officer

Ervin Tu was appointed Group Chief Investment Officer in August 2021, and Prosus Group President and Chief Investment Officer in July 2024. He joined the group from his managing partner position at the SoftBank Vision Fund. There, he helped lead investments in Uber and Bytedance, among others, across technology sectors, including transportation, logistics, next-gen media and sustainability. He previously co-led M&A and corporate finance for SoftBank Group International. Before Softbank, Ervin was a managing director in the technology banking group at Goldman Sachs, where he focused on M&A. Ervin has an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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David Tudor

Group General Counsel

David Tudor

Group General Counsel

David has advised the Naspers group of companies since 1996. Before joining the group full-time, he was a partner in Mallinicks Attorneys (now Webber Wentzel) and worked in London at two leading international law firms. In 2008 David was appointed Naspers and MIH group senior counsel. In this role, he led the legal teams for the group’s M&A activities in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. After that, David became general counsel of the Allegro Group and was promoted to general counsel: Global Transaction ecommerce at Naspers. Finally, in June 2015, he was appointed General Counsel, Naspers Group.

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Gustavo Vitti

GROUP CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER

Gustavo Vitti

GROUP CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER

Gustavo Vitti was appointed Group Chief People Officer in July 2024. He joined the group from iFood, where he was Chief People and Sustainability Officer for over four years. Gustavo has diverse experience in logistics, production, planning, and sales, previously holding leadership positions at Kraft Heinz (Latin America and APAC) and ALL - Latin America Logistics. He is also a partner, investor and board member for several Brazilian start-ups. Gustavo holds a Bachelor's degree in physics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, and has completed an Advanced Executive Program in Management from Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

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Euro Beinat

GLOBAL HEAD AI AND DATA SCIENCE

Euro Beinat

GLOBAL HEAD AI AND DATA SCIENCE

Euro joined the Group as the Global Head for AI and Data Science in March 2018. He has spent more than 25 years working as a technology executive and entrepreneur in data science, machine learning and AI. Euro is an active angel investor, with a track record in technology start-ups. He currently holds positions on the Board of Directors for two companies and is co-founder of Data Science for Social Good, a non-profit organisation committed to leveraging data science for societal impact. Euro studied Computer Science and holds a PhD in Economics. He lectures on AI Governance at Insead Business School and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Salzburg.

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Christian Gisy

CEO PROSUS CLASSIFIEDS

Christian Gisy

CEO PROSUS CLASSIFIEDS

Christian Gisy was appointed CEO of OLX in May 2024. He has extensive experience leading the growth and expansion of marketplace and ecommerce businesses across various industries, from financial services to entertainment and online marketplaces. Christian is the former CFO of Scout24 group, managing director of AutoScout24 group, and CEO of Cinemaxx and Autodoc. Christian has an International Baccalaureate and a Master's degree in Economics and Business Economics from Bonn's Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität.

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Anirban Mukherjee

CEO PAYU

Anirban Mukherjee

CEO PAYU

Anirban Mukherjee is the CEO of PayU. He brings to the company more than two decades of experience and extensive knowledge of global payments, credit, and digital banking gained across geographies like the US, India, and the broader Asia-Pacific region. 

He has long been at the forefront of a changing financial services landscape and understands the opportunities exceptionally well. Prior to joining PayU, Anirban was part of the leadership team at Jio, where he drove payments, merchant services, and digital financial services serving as the Co-CEO of Reliance Payments Solution Ltd. 

Anirban has previously worked with Standard Chartered Bank in India and APAC, and with CapitalOne as a senior executive leader in the US. He has an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is an alumnus of IIT, Kharagpur.

Roger Rabalais

CEO PROSUS FOOD DELIVERY

Roger Rabalais

CEO PROSUS FOOD DELIVERY

Roger Rabalais took on the role of CEO Prosus Food Delivery in September 2023 after serving as the CFO Food and COO B2C for many years. Roger has shown himself to be an excellent leader, operator and partner to our companies and will focus on our Food Delivery portfolio comprising iFood, Swiggy and Delivery Hero, among others.

Gautam Thakar

CEO PROSUS EDTECH

Gautam Thakar

CEO PROSUS EDTECH

Gautam Thakar is CEO, Prosus Edtech since September 2023. Prior to this, he was the global CEO of OLX Autos, a Prosus subsidiary with operations across four continents. Before joining Prosus, Gautam was the CEO of Star Sports, India's largest sports media business. Gautam has deep entrepreneurial experience in pioneering digital marketplaces in global businesses across ecommerce, media and retail. His previous roles include CEO of LivingSocial, CEO of Shopping.com, leadership roles at eBay and pioneering ecommerce in India as a founding management team member of baazee.com. Gautam started his career at P&G and has a Bachelor of Commerce and Economics from the Sydenham College and an MBA from IIM-Lucknow.

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Martin Tschopp

CEO PROSUS VENTURES

Martin Tschopp

CEO PROSUS VENTURES

Martin leads Prosus Ventures. Before this role as COO of Prosus Ventures/Naspers Ventures, Martin’s primary focus areas were venture strategy, assessing investment targets and supporting our portfolio companies with operating expertise. Before Naspers, Martin was CEO of Kiva.org, responsible for bringing the organisation to a solid operational and financial footing in the years after the startup. Before Kiva, he spent many years leading ecommerce businesses in retail marketplaces and horizontal & vertical classifieds spaces. In addition, Martin started working as a strategy consultant and founded his own private equity business early in his career. Martin holds an MSc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and an MBA from INSEAD.

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Charles Searle

CEO prosus Internet Listed Assets

Charles Searle

CEO prosus Internet Listed Assets

Charles is responsible for the group's listed internet assets, including Tencent Holdings Limited, a leading Chinese internet company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He joined the Naspers group in 1998 in Hong Kong, where he held the position of chief investment officer for the group’s internet division. Before joining Naspers, Charles held senior corporate finance and M&A positions at Cable & Wireless, Hong Kong Telecom and Deloitte. Charles is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

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Fabricio Bloisi

GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Fabricio Bloisi

GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Fabricio Bloisi was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer in July 2024. Fabricio was previously CEO and Chairman of the Group’s Brazilian food delivery business, iFood. Under Fabricio’s leadership, iFood has grown to be the leading food delivery business in Latin America, delivering over 90m orders per month and is highly profitable. Fabricio is an innovator, strategist, and entrepreneur, and has spent his entire career working in technology. In 1998, he founded Movile Group, a Brazilian technology investment company, through which Naspers made its initial investment into iFood in 2013. Alongside his work as an entrepreneur, Fabricio created the 1Bi Foundation, a non-profit organisation that supports education through technology to create opportunities for young Brazilians. Fabricio holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, an MBA from Fundação Getulio Vargas, and has completed further studies at Harvard Business School and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Basil (Vasili) Sgourdos
Basil Sgourdos

Group Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director

Basil Sgourdos

Group Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director

Basil Sgourdos is our financial director and executive director. He was appointed as the financial director of Naspers in July 2014. He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. from 1989 to 1994. After that, he joined Naspers, initially as the finance manager of the South African operations division in MultiChoice and then as chief financial officer of Naspers’s investment in United Broadcasting Corporation plc, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, where he remained for ten years. He then spent two years in Amsterdam as the general manager of the global video-entertainment business development unit before being appointed financial director of MIH Holdings Proprietary Limited (MIH Holdings) in January 2009. He held this position until he became the financial director of Naspers. He is a qualified South African chartered accountant with a BCom from the University of the Witwatersrand and a BAcc Hons from the University of South Africa.

Koos Bekker
Koos Bekker

Non-independent non-executive chair

Koos Bekker

Non-independent non-executive chair

Koos Bekker is the non-independent non-executive chair of the board. He led the founding team of the M-Net/MultiChoice pay television business in 1985. He was also a founder of MTN Group Limited, a South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company. He headed the group in its international and internet expansion until 1997 when he became chief executive officer of Naspers. He retired as the chief executive officer of Naspers on 31 March 2014. On 17 April 2015, he succeeded Ton Vosloo as chair of the Naspers board. He holds a BA Hons and honorary doctorate in commerce from Stellenbosch University, an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MBA from Columbia University.

Hendrik du Toit
Hendrik du Toit

Independent non-executive director and lead independent director

Hendrik du Toit

Independent non-executive director and lead independent director

Hendrik du Toit is a non-executive director and our lead independent director. Hendrik is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ninety One. He entered the asset management industry in 1988 and joined Investec Group in 1991, founding Investec Asset Management, which rebranded to Ninety One in 2020. He also served as Joint Chief Executive Officer of Investec Group from 1 October 2018 until the demerger and listing of Ninety One from Investec Group on 16 March 2020.

Sharmistha Dubey
Shar Dubey

Independent non-executive director

Shar Dubey

Independent non-executive director

Sharmistha Dubey is an independent non-executive director of Naspers Limited. She is also the chief executive officer for Match Group, overseeing growth for the portfolio of brands, including Tinder, Match, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, Pairs, Plenty of Fish, and OurTime. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, India (1993) and a Master of Science in Engineering from Ohio State University, USA (1996). Mrs Dubey is also a board member and member of the compensation committee for Fortive Corporation, an industrial engineering company focused on hardware-driven businesses.

Craig Enenstein
Craig Enenstein

Independent non-executive director

Craig Enenstein

Independent non-executive director

Craig Enenstein is an independent non-executive director. He is also the chief executive officer of Corridor Capital, LLC, an operationally intensive private equity firm focused on the lower middle market. Corridor Capital, LLC is based in Los Angeles and was founded by him in 2005. He holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in international studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Rachel Jafta
Rachel Jafta

Independent non-executive director

Rachel Jafta

Independent non-executive director

Rachel Jafta is an independent non-executive director. She is a professor of economics at Stellenbosch University. She joined Naspers as a director in 2003 and was appointed a director of Media24 in 2007. She is a member of the South African Economic Society, chair of the Cape Town Carnival Trust, and a member of the Management Committee of the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch University and the International Advisory Board of Fondação Dom Cabral Business School, Brazil. She was appointed chair of the Media24 board of directors in April 2013. She is the chair of the Media24 nomination committee. She is also a director of Naspers Beleggings (RF) Limited. She holds a MEcon and a PhD from the University of Stellenbosch.

Angelien Kemna
Angelien Kemna

Independent non-executive director

Angelien Kemna

Independent non-executive director

Angelien Kemna is an independent non-executive director. She holds an MSc in Operations Research from Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1981) and a PhD in Finance from Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1988). She was a visiting scholar at Sloan School MIT (1985, Boston, USA). She is currently an independent board member and chair of the audit committee of Friesland Campina; senior independent board member of AXA Investment Managers and independent board member and member of the audit committee of AXA Group; also, independent board member and chair of the risk committee of NIBC Holding. Mrs Kemna was previously a member of the executive board of APG Group in the Netherlands. She initially held the chief investment officer role and was subsequently chief finance and risk officer. In addition, she was a part-time professor in corporate governance at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Nolo Letele
Nolo Letele

Independent non-executive director

Nolo Letele

Independent non-executive director

Nolo Letele is a non-independent non-executive director. He joined M-Net in 1990 and pioneered MultiChoice’s expansion outside South Africa. In 1995, he moved to the Republic of Ghana, where he served as MultiChoice’s West African regional general manager. In 1999, he was appointed chief executive officer of MultiChoice South Africa Holdings Proprietary Limited (MultiChoice SA). He later served as the MultiChoice group chief executive officer until 2010, when he was appointed executive chair of MultiChoice SA and is currently a non-executive chair. He won several awards, including Media Man of the Year in 2001 (Saturday Star, Business Report), Media Owner of the Year in 2003 (Financial Mail Adfocus), and the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize for media development in Africa (Millennium Excellence Foundation). He holds a BSc Hons in electronic engineering from the University of Southampton.

Debra Meyer
Debra Meyer

Independent non-executive director

Debra Meyer

Independent non-executive director

Debra Meyer is an independent non-executive director. She is a professor of biochemistry and executive dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Johannesburg. She has completed media strategy and academic leadership modules at Harvard University and the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria and regularly contributes to several newspapers and magazines. She serves as a trustee or board member for several organisations. She is also a director of Naspers Beleggings (RF) Limited. She holds a BSc in biological sciences, a BSc Hons and an MSc in biochemistry from the University of Johannesburg (then, the Rand Afrikaans University) and a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Davis (which she attended as a Fulbright Scholar).

Roberto Oliveira de Lima
Roberto Oliveira de Lima

Independent non-executive director

Roberto Oliveira de Lima

Independent non-executive director

Roberto Oliveira de Lima is an independent non-executive director. He developed his career at companies like Accor S.A., Rhone Poulenc S.A. (now part of Sanofi S.A.) and Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. in the information technology and finance areas. He was chair and chief executive officer of Credicard Group, chief executive officer of Vivo S.A., the largest mobile telecommunications company in Brazil, chair of Publicis Brazil and president of Natura S.A. (Natura). He was previously a board member of Edenred S.A. in France, Pão de Açúcar S.A. (Casino) and Natura in Brazil. He is a member of the RNI Negócios Imobiliários S.A board of directors. In April 2019, he left the board of directors of Telefônica Brasil S.A. after 14 years with that company, having served six of those years as president and chief executive officer and eight years as a board member as well as quality and services committee member. He holds a BA and MA in business management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil and an MA from Institut Superieur des Affaires at Jouy en Josas, France.

Steve Pacak
Steve Pacak

Independent non-executive director

Steve Pacak

Independent non-executive director

Steve Pacak is an independent non-executive director. He began his career with Naspers at M-Net in 1988 and has held various executive positions in the Naspers group. He is a director of MultiChoice Group Limited and Naspers Group companies. He was appointed as an executive director of Naspers in 1998 and a non-executive director on the Naspers board on 15 January 2015. He retired as Naspers’s financial director on 30 June 2014 and remained on the Naspers board as a non-executive director. He is a qualified South African chartered accountant with a BAcc from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Mark Sorour
Mark Sorour

Non-independent non-executive director

Mark Sorour

Non-independent non-executive director

Mark Sorour is a non-independent non-executive director. He joined the Naspers group in 1994, leading business development and corporate finance globally. Following assignments in Hong Kong and Amsterdam, he returned to Cape Town in 2002 as the Naspers group’s chief investment officer, responsible for all global investment activities. On 31 March 2018, he retired from the Naspers group after over 20 years. However, he remained on the Naspers board as a non-executive director. He is a qualified South African chartered accountant with a BCom and DipAcc from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Cobus Stofberg
Cobus Stofberg

Independent non-executive director

Cobus Stofberg

Independent non-executive director

Cobus Stofberg is a non-independent non-executive director. He was a member of the founding team of the M-Net/ MultiChoice pay television business in 1985. He served as chief executive officer of the group from 1997 to 2011 and has been instrumental in expanding the Naspers group. Before joining M-Net, he was a partner of Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.). He is a qualified South African chartered accountant with a BCom Law and LLB from Stellenbosch University and a BCompt Hons from the University of South Africa.

Ying Xu
Ying Xu

Independent non-executive director

Ying Xu

Independent non-executive director

Engaged in the retail business since 2004, Ms Xu has been leading Wumei’s significant acquisitions, including that of Metro China and B&Q China, and the digital transformation of traditional retail stores into online and offline omnichannel. Before joining Wumei Technology Group, Ms Xu was vice president of LG (a joint venture) at Tianjin International Trust & Investment. Ms Xu holds a BA degree in English from Tianjin University, China, and an MBA from Meinders School of Business, Oklahoma City University, USA.

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Manisha Girotra

Independent non-executive director

Manisha Girotra

Independent non-executive director

Manisha Girotra is an independent non-executive director. She is the chief executive officer of Moelis India. She has over 25 years of investment banking experience, with cross-border mergers and acquisitions expertise across various industries. Before joining Moelis & Company, she was the chief executive officer and country head of UBS AG in India, managing its investment bank, commercial bank, markets, equity research and wealth management divisions. Previously, she was head of North India of Barclays Bank PLC. She began her investment banking career at ANZ Grindlays in London. She serves on the boards of directors of Ashok Leyland Limited and Jio Payments Bank Limited. She holds a BA Hons in economics from St. Stephen’s College, India, and a master in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, India.