Warren van der Merwe is Chief Financial Officer of the Group as well as of Vantage Mezzanine. As such， he is responsible for the financial management of the Group's proprietary investment activities. He is also responsible for risk management， portfolio monitoring and reporting with regard to the mezzanine fund. Warren plays a significant role in the assessment of all new investments being considered by the Fund.
Warren served a year of academic articles at the University of Witwatersrand and the remainder of his articles at Arthur Andersen before starting his banking career with Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
His first position was Account Executive in the Corporate Banking division， managing the bank's relationships with certain of its mining clients. He then assumed a new business development role and later led a team of transactors in this new business team.
During this time he concluded numerous bank funding deals including several leveraged finance transactions. His last position was in the Bank's acquisition finance team where he successfully concluded a number of leveraged finance transactions， before joining Vantage Capital.
