Our Team

Nexii is managed by a group of experts with extensive experience and a proven track record in both the finance and development sectors. Nexii’s skilled team is also complimented by the Nexii Industry and Standards Advisory Board comprised of a group of experts who have agreed to provide Nexii with industry-specific input, advice and recommendations that complement Nexii’s work and the organisation as a whole.

 

Tamzin Ractliffe

CEO, NEXII

Tamzin is widely regarded as creating the first social investment exchange in the world and has been a visionary leader for GreaterGood South Africa – an African online social development networking platform – and its related impact investment advisory business Greater Capital over the past 12 years. 

Qualified in Applied Psychology and Commerce, she has worked as a financial analyst as well as in private equity and venture capital investment banking in South Africa and internationally for more than twenty years.  She established GreaterCapital in 1998.  In 1999, she started The Funding Site as a web-enabled resource site and in 2004 founded the internationally acclaimed award-winning social networking platform, GreaterGood South Africa, a social profit organisation dedicated to utilising 21st Century technology to facilitate indigenous philanthropy and performance-based giving and social impact investing in South Africa. Through GreaterGood Tamzin conceptualised and developed the South African Social Investment Exchange in June 2006.  SASIX has facilitated significant capital allocation to both performance-based philanthropy and impact investment whilst also leveraging larger-scale external investment in social financial offerings.  For the past two years, Tamzin has focused on establishing Nexii to promote coherence and organisation for maximum efficiencies in the impact investing sector. She has continually sought to use the markets for greater social good and was awarded the GIBS Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2007 and appointed an Ashoka fellow in 2008.

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Carol Tappenden

COO, NEXII

Carol is an experienced development practitioner with more than a decade of experience in fundraising, social investment opportunity identification, research, evaluation and monitoring. She has broad experience in designing, implementing and managing CSI and SRI programmes with both non-profits and grassroots initiatives as well as multi-national corporations and international development agencies and a far-reaching international network in the sector.

Carol has spent significant effort on the development and implementation of replicable tools and initiatives that work towards the establishment of sustainability in Africa and played an important role within the cross section of civil society, private and public sector, building the field of philanthropy, grant making and increasingly, social investment while facilitating new forms of collaborative funding for development work.  Carol led CSR Systems, GreaterGood’s social enterprise focused on developing online platforms, business process technology and tools for the impact capital markets over the past two years. She is a member of the GRI Social Sector Supplement working group and was a participant in the Skoll Foundation’s Global Social Benefit Incubator in 2007.

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Justine Raschio

Justine is an energetic development practitioner with strong knowledge of implementing and designing global corporate responsibility initiatives, operating local content development/supplier training projects and engaging on impact investing research and opportunities. She has managed international corporate volunteer programs for IBM and FedEx from design to evaluation.

She has significant experience in Kenya with strategic management and business development for community based organizations in urban informal settlements. Previously working for Smith Barney Morgan Stanley, Justine structured securities models to track earnings growth, profitability, and valuations of equity positions for high net worth clients. She created a long-term integrated communications strategy for a local boutique investment advisory to reach new client pools in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Justine has also coordinated the recruitment, curriculum development and delivery of a summer school program for East African youth refugees under UN mandate in Portland, Oregon to ensure they pass benchmark exams. She has a B.S. dual-degree from American University in Business Administration and International Studies and was selected into the Early Identification Program, and she is also part of the Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies.

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Sari Miller

Sari is a serial entrepreneur and an investor in social impact companies. She has been a founding investor and partner in numerous start-ups and social ventures. One recent example is her angel investment in LeapFrog Investments, a micro-insurance fund which raised $135 million and is described as the world's first and largest investor in companies that insure the underserved in Africa and Asia.

She was a founding investor in Switch & Data Facilities, which was acquired by Equinix in 2010 for $800+ million. She helped sell a company to AIG, Inc. in which she had been a Partner, an Executive Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer. Sari founded a publicly traded insurance company that grew to hold assets in excess of $1 billion. She served on its Board of Directors and chaired the Executive and Investment Committees. Sari received a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She lives in New York City.

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Gabrielle Habberton

Gabrielle Habberton is a specialist in the field of development practice, specifically in the areas of Organisational Development and Evaluation. She has broad-based theoretical and practical experience focused on defining stringent and relevant due diligence protocols and evaluation and monitoring systems to ensure investments met specific criteria, including the ability to deliver measurable returns.  She is currently the Operations Director of Relativ Enterprise Development where she applies her core skills set to the alleviation of poverty through the development of local enterprises which have the potential to create significant social and economic change.


Janelle Morris

Janelle graduated from Princeton University in June 2011. At Princeton, she was a Student Associate at the Liechtenstein Institute of Self Determination since 2009 and also founded the Princeton chapter of Circle of Women in 2009 and currently serves as a board member. Circle of Women is a not-for-profit dedicated to building schools for girls in developing countries.  Previously, Janelle worked in Global Wealth Management at Merrill Lynch where she provided support to financial consultants who advised international high-net worth clients and also developed strategies for customizing short-term and long-term risk management to meet clients’ needs.  In August and September of 2010, she also worked at Clearbrook Financial where she was responsible for a project on developing a social business initiative and making recommendations for integrating impact investing into the firm’s business practices.


Kelly Notcutt

Kelly is an inquisitive writer and editor with a keen interest in current affairs and community development. She began her career in journalism working as an editor for global security specialists, red24, after graduating from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Social Science in politics and anthropology. She has over six years experience as a youth leader, mentoring young women in her Cape Town community.

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