Our Leadership Team

Nkateko started her career as a graduate trainee at BMW SA in 1999 and subsequently progressed to become a Business Analyst and Junior Project Manager. She later horned her skills at EDS as Project Manager & Senior Business Analyst on the Nedbank Customer Care Centre Account. In August 2002, Nkateko moved to Barloworld Information Systems and AVIS Car Rental where she project managed the implementation of various CRM and ERP systems.

In 2006, Nkateko joined the Gauteng Shared Services Centre (Gauteng Provincial Contact Centre) in a consulting capacity as the lead Account Director focusing on programme management and acquisition activities. Together with a consortium of outsourcing service providers, she was entrusted with growing the contact centre business within the Provincial Government servicing all departments. In April of 2009 she was appointed COO of the preferred contact centre service provider company to the Gauteng Province at the point when the business was being fully outsourced. Her primary focus was to drive and provide the necessary leadership and re-engineering across several functional areas, namely: ICT, Human Resources, Operations, Customer Relationship Management, Stakeholder Management and Programme & Project Management.

This was followed by a 10-month engagement at Ubulungisa Operations, a Special Purpose Vehicle Company (Public Private Partnership), conceptualised to provide Financial Management and related Services in respect of Management of Third-Party Funds (TPF) to the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development.

In January 2011, she joined the Deloitte Consulting team as an Associate Director to drive business development and client service within the Business Process Solutions and Outsourcing team. Her mandate was to expand the firm’s public sector portfolio and footprint specifically within the SETAs (Sector Education and Training Authorities) and three Metropolitan Municipalities (City of Johannesburg, City of Tshwane and Ekurhuleni) with the sole focus of delivering significant firm-wide value propositions within these Public Sector entities.

After leaving Deloitte in May of 2014, Nkateko joined forces with her father to form on a new venture – Dzana Investments - a Family Office conglomerate, serving as its CEO with the sole aim of creating a holding company with interests in mining, property, energy, education, health and ICT sectors. She horned her Property Development skills working with Flanagan & Gerard Property Development & Investment from May 2014 pursuing joint development projects primarily in the rural retail and mixed-use property development space.

Through her family office involvement, Nkateko has executive management and financial oversight of the family's Hospitality and Agricultural interests domiciled in Gauteng and Mpumalanga. In 2016, Dzana together with like-minded family offices and investors, established and became a majority shareholder and investor in Hlayisani Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm that is focused on growing sub-Saharan African businesses and entrepreneurs; putting them on the global map while transforming local economies and communities.

Nkateko serves on several private and public company boards including Italtile Limited where she is also Chairman of the Group Social and Ethics Committee, a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and Director of the Italtile and Ceramic Foundation Trust. Nkateko currently serves as the Chairman of the National Mentorship Movement, a non-profit organization whose primary focus is the promotion and of mentorship as a tool for growth and development. In line with her passion for entrepreneurship and the ethos of the Dzana Investments Family Office, Nkateko also serves on the Board of Endeavor South Africa, an organisation that serves as a global high-impact entrepreneurship movement and catalyst to long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs South Africa has to offer.

In April of 2021, Nkateko was appointed non-executive Director of Flanagan and Gerard and also serves as the Chairperson of its Social & Ethics Committee. In May 2021, Nkateko was invited to sit on the board of Uplyft (Previously Beyond Covid) – an NPO that seeks to focus on assisting small businesses to collectively work together to access funding, markets and supply chains with a specific interest in Agriculture.