Theresa de Sarigny is a Chartered Accountant who started her Investment Banking career at Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) after completing her Articles at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

After two years on the RMB Class Of programme, she spent 10 years (1997 – 2007) at RMB Ventures, a private equity arm of RMB, and was involved in all aspects of various leveraged buy-outs and black empowerment transactions. Since 2008, Theresa has served on various Investment Committees and, for the past 11 years, also served as an independent non-executive member on Credit Committees at FirstRand, Ashburton and Stanlib (2013 –2019).  Her experience as a deal maker and committee member has given her an in-depth understanding of the private equity, leveraged finance and debt markets in South Africa, which has enabled credible insight into the analysis of risk and reward, structuring and understanding of financial transactions.Theresa’s interests include the development of communities (volunteer work with various organisations, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic), pro-bono assistance in the success of small businesses, mentoring individuals, traveling and international cuisine, as well as finance and economics.