Simba Marekera

Head of Investment Solutions, Brightlight Group

Simba is the Head of Investment Solutions at Brightlight Group. He leads Brightlight’s work in designing and managing impact investment portfolios with and on behalf of institutional investors, government entities and non-profit organisations, foundations and family offices that are looking to allocate capital in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals with the goal of transforming lives. He specialises in innovative financing and blended finance across a variety of private markets asset classes including infrastructure, real estate, private equity and credit/private debt both in developed and developing markets. Prior to that, He spent 6 years managing Christian Super’s alternatives, fixed income and Impact Investment portfolios where he helped to commit close $150 million to Impact Investments. He is the co-Founder of Ignition Impact (www.ignitionimpact.com), an Angel Network of Australian professionals that invests in high growth and high social impact African SMEs and EdFin (www.edfin.com.au), a fintech company that provides affordable and responsible education financing for international students in Australia.