Nexii, CEO

Tamzin is widely regarded as creating the first social investment exchange in the world and has been a visionary leader for GreaterGood South Africa – an African online social development networking platform – and its related impact investment advisory business Greater Capital over the past 12 years. Qualified in Applied Psychology and Commerce, she has worked as a financial analyst as well as in private equity and venture capital investment banking in South Africa and internationally for more than twenty years

She established Funding SA, subsequently renamed GreaterCapital, in 1998 as a “through the line” social investment advisory consultancy serving the “third sector” in South Africa. In 1999, she started The Funding Site as a web-enabled resource site for the South African Development Community and in 2004 founded the internationally acclaimed award winning social networking platform, GreaterGood South Africa, a social profit organisation dedicated to utilizing 21st Century technology to facilitate indigenous philanthropy and performance based giving in South Africa. Through GreaterGood Tamzin conceptualized and developed the South African Social Investment Exchange (www.SASIX.co.za) which was launched in June 2006.

SASIX has facilitated significant capital allocation to both performance-based philanthropy and impact investment whilst also leveraging larger-scale external investment in social financial offerings. For the past eighteen months, Tamzin has focused on establishing an Impact Investment Exchange to promote coherence and organization for maximum efficiencies in the impact investing sector. She has continually sought to use the markets for greater social good and was awarded the GIBS Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2007 and appointed an Ashoka fellow in 2008.