Jasandra Nyker

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Jasandra Nyker
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Jasandra Nyker is a South African entrepreneur and former CEO of BioTherm Energy, a South African developer of renewable energy sources and power plant operator. [1] She was a managing director of the International Power Fund at Denham Capital, [2] and a board member in the Emira Property Fund. [3] In 2021, she was appointed CEO of Nala Renewables, a company set up by Trafigura and IFM Investors. [4]

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Education

Nyker has a bachelor's degree in business science from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the London Business School, where she was a Merrill Lynch scholar. [5]

Career

After working from Brait SE, and being senior vice president at PCG Asset Management LLC, [3] [6] Jasandra Nyker became CEO of Biotherm Energy in 2011. She has participated in renewable energy forums such as the World Economic Forum on Africa, held in Kigali, Rwanda in 2016, [7] and the 2017 Africa CEO Forum in Geneva. [8] In 2019 she became a managing director at Denham Capital, after the sale of Biotherm to Actis Capital. [9] [10] In April 2021 she was appointed CEO of Nala Renewables, [4] a company set up by Trafigura and IFM Investors with the initial goal of reaching a two gigawatts renewables portfolio. [11] At the beginning of her tenure the company acquired a majority stake in Boston-based Swift Current Energy, together with Buckeye Partners. [12]

Nyker also serves as an nonexecutive director of the Emira Property Fund, [13] and the international banking and wealth management group Investec. [14]

She has supported business school students and young entrepreneurs by chairing the judges' panel for the 2012 Anzisha Prize, [15] [16] and participating in the Odgers Berndtson CEOx1Day programme in 2017. [17]

Views

Nyker has advocated for the importance of renewable energy in Africa as a way to combat poverty, [18] given the abundance of solar and wind natural resources in the continent. [19] In order for power projects to succeed she has emphasized the need for certainty and consistency in government energy policy, [20] [21] and advocated for partnerships between government and the private sector, [22] warning about state capture and failings of utility companies, such as South Africa's Eskom. [23] She has said that the independent power producers help improve power grids run by state utility companies, and that more African countries would benefit from this type of collaboration. [24] However, for 2021 she expected the private renewable market to still dominate, with country-owned renewable power still lagging behind. [25]

Awards and recognition

Nyker was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2012. [26] She was included in the "Fifty Changemakers Advancing Gender Equality in South Africa" list, on the occasion of the first 50/50 Day in 2017. [27] In 2019, she received the Outstanding Contribution Award in Power at the African Power, Energy and Water Awards. [28] [29]

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