10 Things you should know about Phuti Mahanyele

Phuti Mahanyele is widely known as the founder of Sigma Capital. Here are 10 Things you should know about Phuti Mahanyele.

1. Phuti Mahanyele was born in Meadowlands, Soweto, South Africa.
2. Her father passed on in 2012.
3. Her mother died when she was 17-years-old.
4. Phuti left Johannesburg at age 17 to attend Douglass College in the United States.
5. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1993.
6. In 1996 she earned an MBA from De Montfort University.
7. In 2008, Mahanyele completed Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government executive education program “Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century”.
8. She joined Fieldstone Private Capital Group in New York City, an international investment banking firm specialising in infrastructure development.
9. She eventually became vice president at Fieldstone in New York, and later transferred to the firm’s South African office.
10. She then became head of Project Finance South Africa at the Development Bank of Southern Africa.