Matt Pieterse
Director, CE
China Capital Advisors
Matt is a co-founder of TBA and Head of the firm’s Investment and Strategy divisions. He served as a Non-Executive Director of the Company since 2003 before joining TBA as an Executive Director in 2009. Matt joined TBA from CREATE Ventures, the UK Venture Capital Fund Manager, where he was a co-founder and Investment Director since 2000.
At CREATE, Matt was a member of the Investment Committee where his responsibilities included investment origination, transaction negotiation, structuring and completion; as well as ongoing investee company portfolio management. His sector experience includes manufacturing, green technologies, biotechnologies, special materials, TMT and telecoms security. He has completed investments from seed capital to MBOs and he served on the boards of these investments.
Previously Matt worked as an Investment Banker in the Corporate Finance divisions of Crédit Agricole (London and Paris) from 1998-2000 and UBS (Zurich and London) from 1993-1998. At Crédit Agricole, Matt managed a team in Paris and London that worked on transactions in the Automotive, Financial Services and Logistics sectors.
Matt started his career with UBS in Zurich in 1993 as a graduate trainee before joining UBS’s Investment Banking team in London. Whilst in Zurich, Matt worked on transactions in South Africa, Israel, Greece and Turkey. He was promoted to UBS London in 1995 where he was responsible for the implementation of a new Investment Banking strategy before joining the M&A execution team. He worked in the London Corporate Finance team as an Assistant Director until 1998 where he was in the Metals and Mining transactions team.
Matt holds a B.Com Hons degree in Investment Management from the University of Johannesburg, 1992.
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