Before founding Identity Partners, she was Executive Director at WDB Investment Holdings, leading several of their large acquisitions and was a VP at Deutsche Bank having worked in their Johannesburg, London and Tokyo offices prior to that.
Women’s economic empowerment, financial inclusion, gender parity and democratizing access have been specific areas of interest throughout her career.
Max has 24 years of experience in international and local corporate finance and investment banking. Prior to joining Identity Partners in 2012, Max was a deal-maker in the Leverage and Acquisition Finance team at Standard Bank for the mid-corporate and business segment, and prior to that a corporate finance transactor at Deutsche Bank.
Max is a non-executive director and shareholder representative on various Identity Partners’ investment companies’ boards and executive committees.
Talelani has over 8 years of experience in external audit, financial accounting and advisory services, financial management and investment management.
Prior to joining Identity Partners in 2019, Talelani was an Assistant Manager at EY in the Financial Accounting and Advisory Services department.
Talelani also serves a compliance function at Identity Partners.
