Cape Town-born Chairman of Sekunjalo Investment Holdings and Executive Chairman of Independent Media South Africa, Dr. Survé is committed towards meaningful transformation of the social and economic landscape of South Africa, in order to redress the economic legacy of apartheid. As the founder of The Sekunjalo Group, Survé has led the organization from initial seed capital of 20 000 USD (1997) to its current portfolio which includes more than 200 investments across the African continent with a presence in 40 African countries and an intrinsic market value of billions of dollars.
Noteworthy investments include the multisided platform Sagarmatha Technologies, Africa’s largest print and online media group, Independent Media and African News Agency, founded in 2015, is Africa’s first global news, text, picture, video content syndication service and Loot, one of Africa’s largest and fastest growing e-commerce companies. Survé Philanthropies (SP), the philanthropic foundation of Dr Survé and the Survé family, has 7 separate Foundations supporting children’s, women’s and human rights, education, music, arts and culture, entrepreneurship, social impact investing, climate change and health care.
Dr Survé carries out a number of engagements on behalf of a number of multi-lateral institutions and global organizations to which he is affiliated. He is a founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and has twice been honoured by President Bill Clinton for his contribution to CGI.
He served as a founding member of the BRICS Business Council, appointed by the President of South Africa and from 2017 was the Chair for the South African Chapter of the BRICS Business Council. In 2018 Survé assumed the Presidency of the Business Council for the five BRICS countries. Given Sekunjalo’s membership to the prestigious World Economic Forum (WEF), Survé is a regular contributor and participant in the Davos and Summer meetings.
He has served as the first Chairman of the Global Growth Companies (GGC) Advisory Board and Vice Chairman of the Global Agenda Council (GAC) for Emerging Multinationals. He is a participant of the G20 meeting and serves on B20 Task Team as well as the UNGA private sector forum.
He was one of the first blacks to be awarded the Afrikaanse Sakeleir Van die jar by the Afrikaanse Handels Institutt. He was listed as one of Africa’s most influential leaders by Africa Magazine; honored by Mayor Higgins of the city of New Orleans; and appointed as Honorary Consul for Cape Town of Finland. He is an alumnus of the HRH Prince of Wales Business & Environment program hosted by HRH Prince Charles with CPI, a Fellow of the
African Leadership Initiative (ALI), a patron of the South Africa-Italy Summit, until recently he was Co-chairman of the South Africa-Saudi Arabia Business Council (SASABC). He is a patron of the Munich based GISAID, a patron along with Queen Silvia and former President Nelson Mandela of the Swedish based World Children Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC), a founder member of the Siemans Global Sustainability Advisory Board, a member of the YPO Gold Cape Town Chapter, a patron of the South African chapter of the Soong Ching Ling Foundation, and twice honoured with the Directors award for his contribution to tertiary education by the University of Cape Town (UCT), Graduate School of Business where he served for several years as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Business School.
Dr Survé is an alumnus of the University of Cape Town (UCT), the Graduate School of Business (GSB), the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and Harvard University with degrees in medicine, science and business.
*MBChB (UCT), BSc. (Med) (Hons) Sports Medicine (UCT), Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM), MBA (UCT), SEP (Harvard), Trustee of the College of Medicine South Africa
