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Michael Feldner
Director ofSocially Responsible Investing - InSpire
South Africa
Michael has recently formed InSpire South Africa, a fund management and advisory company principally aimed at investing in sustainable Cleantech ventures in Southern Africa and a member of the InSpire Group of companies, based in Norway. He is currently also working on a broad based empowerment project in the taxi industry and assisting a trade-union owned Micro-finance institution with strategic planning and fundraising. Prior to his involvement with InSpire, Michael was responsible for the management of non-mining related investments at Exportcapital, a South African Venture Capital firm. At Exportcapital, he has initiated investments to the total value of million and has held several board positions. He has experience in building up companies and teams, as achieved with E*Trade SA, where he acted as executive director. He negotiated and oversaw the introduction of this US-based online brokerage to South Africa and gained experience in the capital market regulatory environment as well as portfolio management. He has worked as a corporate advisor for ten years for among others Deloitte consulting and the IBM consulting group, where he headed up numerous projects in transport, ICT, manufacturing, banking, tourism and FMCG. Michael has specific expertise in strategic, marketing and financial planning, company listings and capital market fundraising.
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