Powering ahead
PROFILE: Savca’s Tanya van Lill
The opportunity to veer into the world of private equity was somewhat unexpected, but this determined weightlifter-biker-MBA graduate has taken on the challenge
Tanya van Lill can deadlift as much as 145kg and bench press 65kg. This is not something you would immediately assume if you spied her on her mountain bike or Harley-Davidson. It’s true that dynamite comes in small packages. Van Lill, who is from Johannesburg’s East Rand, is the newly appointed CEO of the Southern African Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (Savca). The opportunity cropped up fairly unexpectedly. She was at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs) at the time, where she has worked with some of SA’s largest corporates over the past decade. "I fell in love with the impact that Gibs makes in moulding future leaders," she says over coffee and a croissant. Most recently, as director for academic programmes, Van Lill worked on the redesign of Gibs’s MBA programme. When a recruiter approached her to join Savca, she admits that, initially, she didn’t think she was the right person for the job. "I knew very little about private equity or venture capital," she...
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