Timothy Nuy

Founder

Timothy has 8 years of international experience across countries such as Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom in Europe and Botswana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe in Sub-Saharan Africa, 4 years of experience working as a managing director and extensive experience in investments, mergers & acquisitions and corporate advisory. He joined Nifty Financial in 2014 and has constantly exceeded target and led the company’s acquisition for banks and micro-finance institutions. Timothy has expert and specialist knowledge of a wide range of financial markets and investment processes, including full treasury and corporate fundraising activities. He has extensive experience in financial analytics and a CFA Charterholder, highly developed skills in business planning, valuations and data analytics.

Mark Young

Founding Director

Mark is the CEO of the Nifty Financial South Africa Group and a founding director of Fractal Labs, with over 25years experience in the African financial services landscape Prior to joining MyBucks, he was the founder and CEO of Ideation, a specialist lending and insurance consulting company with clients in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Malawi with a focus on credit risk, capital raising, and value chain transformation. Mark was previously the Deputy CEO and CRO for Bayport SA and the CRO of Old Mutual Finance. He has served as the chair of these organisations credit committees as well as serving as a non-executive director of Mazwe Financial Services, Old Mutual Investment Administrators and a trustee and chair of the Board of Trustees of the Fairbairn Capital and BoE retirement funds.

Tamuka Mpofu

Director

Tamuka Mpofu has over a decade of experience in the finance sector. He completed articles training with KPMG Chartered Accountants Zimbabwe with a specialty in Banking & Financial Services. He has successfully led audits of the largest listed and non-listed banking institutions in the country in addition to insurers and other financial service providers. He previously was an Audit Manager with MooreStephens International before joining Nifty Financial Microfinance Bank Limited as its Head of Internal Audit. Tamuka has taken on the role of Group Finance Manager for MBC Holdings Limited, a bank holding company, where he focused on financial reporting and management. Tamuka is a strong believer in innovation through technology having spearheaded implementation of several e-platforms to improve efficiency. Tamuka Mpofu holds a Bachelors of Accounting Sciences (BCompt) from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He also holds a post-graduate CTA (Certified Theory in Accounting) Level 1 from UNISA with emphasis on Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Audit and Taxation. He is a Certified Expert in Microfinance with the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Tamuka Mpofu is an avid First Aider and is passionate about emergency response. He is also a qualified and accredited trainer facilitating several professional training courses including those for the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA).

Gunther Marais

CRO

Gunther has 9 years’ experience in banking risk management with a focus on stochastic modelling, counterparty risk and derivative valuations. He joined MyBucks in 2015 as a credit risk analyst and in 2019 took up the role of group CRO overseeing all risk reporting as well as the IFRS 9 modelling for the group. Gunther holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics

Leilanie Uys

CDO

Holds a Master’s Degree in Computer and Electronic Engineering which was focused on the automatic classification of digital signals. Completed her master’s degree at the CSIR’s. She has been working in the FinTech industry since, specialising in credit risk modelling and data engineering.

Kobus van der Merwe

CTO

Holds an Honours degree in Computer Science, specialising in Software Engineering. Experienced Software Engineer in the Data Science. has broad, in depth experience on all aspects of software development, system architecture and robust design principles.