Our History
IJG was registered in 1996 as Irwin, Jacobs, Greene (Pty) Ltd to capitalise on opportunities opened up in the Namibian corporate finance and stockbroking field by the rapid growth of the Namibian Stock Exchange.
IJG has since grown into one of Namibia’s leading financial services companies offering Advisory, Business Broking, Investment Management, Private Equity, Stockbroking and Wealth Management services to its clients.
Empowerment
IJG is committed to the advancement of previously disadvantaged Namibians (PDN), with 27% of its shares held by PDNs and an Equitable Economic Empowerment score, awarded by the Namibia Preferential Procurement Corporation, of 75.2%.
Board of Directors
Mathews T. Hamutenya
Mark Späth
Helena Amutenya
Herbert Maier
Jolyon Irwin
Mathews T. Hamutenya
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Mathews is the Executive Chairman of the Millennium Investment Group which was incorporated as a Namibian holding company in 1999 and which, to date, has about 21 subsidiary companies falling under its control. Mathews holds an MBA and a post graduate Diploma in Business and Management, from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. Mathews has been appointed as the Namibian Representative for the World Energy Council (WEC) to represent the Republic of Namibia for 5 years. Mathews is currently serving as Chairperson on the Namboty Fishing board, and also holds the position of Executive Director for Namcot Diamonds. In 2009, Mathews was inducted into the Namibian Business Hall of Fame. |
Mark Späth
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Mark is the Group Managing Director of the IJG Group of Companies. Mark joined IJG in September 2003 as Head of Research. Following the completion of his stockbroking exams in 2005, he was appointed as Managing Director of the IJG Securities business. In addition to his Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) in Finance degree from the University of Cape Town, Mark has completed an executive management course at the renowned Stanford Graduate School of Business and was a Member of the Namibian Stock Exchange until 2012, when he was appointed as Group Managing Director. Mark was rated no. 1 sell-side analyst in the category “Other African Markets & Economies” in May 2006 in the prestigious Financial Mail broker ratings.
Mark’s experience spans stockbroking, private equity investments, corporate finance transactions as well as wealth management solutions. Prior to joining IJG, Mark worked in the derivatives department of WestLB in London for two years and completed an internship with Schwabe, Ley & Greiner, an Austrian consultancy firm. |
Helena Amutenya
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Helena, CA (Nam), joined IJG in May 2016 as the Group Financial Manager where she was responsible for the financial reporting of the IJG Group of Companies. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Rhodes University and a Bachelor of Accounting Science Honours degree from the University of South Africa. Before joining IJG, Helena worked for Deloitte for six years, where she completed her articles and qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and performed the role of a manager in the Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) department. Helena currently serves as Financial Director for the IJG Group of Companies. |
Herbert Maier
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Herbert Maier CA(NAM) CA(SA), Licenced Stockbroker. Herbert is the Managing Director of IJG Advisory. Herbert has been working closely with IJG for many years, and formally joined on 1 June 2012. He started his career with Deloitte & Touche, before becoming the Group Financial Director of the Ohlthaver & List Group of Companies in Windhoek, where he was instrumental with the listing of Namibia Breweries on the Namibia Stock Exchange and the resulting Group’s debt restructure and management. Thereafter, Herbert spent 3 years in the securities broking business as part of Fleming Martin Securities Namibia.
During 2001, he opened an office for Mettle in Namibia, which was then taken over by Pointbreak Namibia as part of a management buyout. Herbert played an instrumental role, both as shareholder and joint CEO, in the growth of Pointbreak in Namibia, where he was heavily involved in debt structuring, as well as debt and equity-based fundraising involving both the private and parastatal sectors. At the end of July 2009, Herbert left Pointbreak to establish Greenhouse Financial Advisors, which focused on corporate and transaction advice (including turnaround strategies for ailing businesses), and debt restructuring. Herbert’s 35-year track record stretches from business valuations and restructuring, through capital raising and corporate finance support to best-practice advice on privatisations, debt issuance, debt restructuring and private equity. In addition to serving as a director on several of IJG’s portfolio companies, he spearheaded Namibia’s first local direct investment into a grid-tied utility-scale solar PV plant. Herbert has wide-ranging industry and strategy experience. |
Jolyon Irwin
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Jolyon founded IJG in 1996 and was its Managing Director until the sale of IJG to Pointbreak in 2006. During that period, Jolyon built IJG up from a start-up competing with HSBC, ABN Amro and Huysamer Stals to become the leading Namibian stockbroking business offering a wide range of services, including institutional broking, corporate finance and advisory, money market and fixed income dealing, research (including developing several Namibian indexes that have become benchmarks), and private wealth management.
Jolyon was also instrumental in the establishment and listing of the Stimulus private equity vehicle in a joint venture with PointBreak, and was a Member of the Namibian Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Following the sale of IJG in 2006, Jolyon moved to Mauritius to focus on various unlisted equity opportunities and develop a structured finance business. Jolyon continues to focus on unlisted equity opportunities and has recently acquired a stake in IJG again. |
Leadership Team
Mark Späth
Helena Amutenya
Jolyon Irwin
Herbert Maier
Andri Ntema
Eric van Zyl
Jakob de Klerk
Leonie de Klerk
Mark Späth
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Mark is the Group Managing Director of the IJG Group of Companies. Mark joined IJG in September 2003 as Head of Research. Following the completion of his stockbroking exams in 2005, he was appointed as Managing Director of the IJG Securities business. In addition to his Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) in Finance degree from the University of Cape Town, Mark has completed an executive management course at the renowned Stanford Graduate School of Business and was a Member of the Namibian Stock Exchange until 2012, when he was appointed as Group Managing Director. Mark was rated no. 1 sell-side analyst in the category “Other African Markets & Economies” in May 2006 in the prestigious Financial Mail broker ratings.
Mark’s experience spans stockbroking, private equity investments, corporate finance transactions as well as wealth management solutions. Prior to joining IJG, Mark worked in the derivatives department of WestLB in London for two years and completed an internship with Schwabe, Ley & Greiner, an Austrian consultancy firm. |
Helena Amutenya
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Helena, CA (Nam), joined IJG in May 2016 as the Group Financial Manager where she was responsible for the financial reporting of the IJG Group of Companies. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Rhodes University and a Bachelor of Accounting Science Honours degree from the University of South Africa. Before joining IJG, Helena worked for Deloitte for six years, where she completed her articles and qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and performed the role of a manager in the Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) department. Helena currently serves as Financial Director for the IJG Group of Companies. |
Jolyon Irwin
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Jolyon founded IJG in 1996 and was its Managing Director until the sale of IJG to Pointbreak in 2006. During that period, Jolyon built IJG up from a start-up competing with HSBC, ABN Amro and Huysamer Stals to become the leading Namibian stockbroking business offering a wide range of services, including institutional broking, corporate finance and advisory, money market and fixed income dealing, research (including developing several Namibian indexes that have become benchmarks), and private wealth management.
Jolyon was also instrumental in the establishment and listing of the Stimulus private equity vehicle in a joint venture with PointBreak, and was a Member of the Namibian Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Following the sale of IJG in 2006, Jolyon moved to Mauritius to focus on various unlisted equity opportunities and develop a structured finance business. Jolyon continues to focus on unlisted equity opportunities and has recently acquired a stake in IJG again. |
Herbert Maier
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Herbert Maier CA(NAM) CA(SA), Licenced Stockbroker. Herbert is the Managing Director of IJG Advisory. Herbert has been working closely with IJG for many years, and formally joined on 1 June 2012. He started his career with Deloitte & Touche, before becoming the Group Financial Director of the Ohlthaver & List Group of Companies in Windhoek, where he was instrumental with the listing of Namibia Breweries on the Namibia Stock Exchange and the resulting Group’s debt restructure and management. Thereafter, Herbert spent 3 years in the securities broking business as part of Fleming Martin Securities Namibia.
During 2001, he opened an office for Mettle in Namibia, which was then taken over by Pointbreak Namibia as part of a management buyout. Herbert played an instrumental role, both as shareholder and joint CEO, in the growth of Pointbreak in Namibia, where he was heavily involved in debt structuring, as well as debt and equity-based fundraising involving both the private and parastatal sectors. At the end of July 2009, Herbert left Pointbreak to establish Greenhouse Financial Advisors, which focused on corporate and transaction advice (including turnaround strategies for ailing businesses), and debt restructuring. Herbert’s 35-year track record stretches from business valuations and restructuring, through capital raising and corporate finance support to best-practice advice on privatisations, debt issuance, debt restructuring and private equity. In addition to serving as a director on several of IJG’s portfolio companies, he spearheaded Namibia’s first local direct investment into a grid-tied utility-scale solar PV plant. Herbert has wide-ranging industry and strategy experience. |
Andri Ntema
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Andri Ntema joined IJG Wealth in October 2018 as a Wealth Manager and was recently appointed as its CEO. Andri is enthusiastic about service delivery and the investment arena and adamant about providing our clients with appropriate and bespoke wealth solutions. During his four-year tenure at IJG Wealth Management, Andri has been responsible for business development, primarily with corporate and institutional clients as well as young professionals, and took responsibility for risk planning. As CEO, he will oversee IJG Wealth Management’s growth and strategy, as well as increase access to wealth management solutions for the rest of Namibia’s population through digital transformation. |
Eric van Zyl
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Eric van Zyl is the Managing Director Designate at IJG Securities. He holds a BCom degree from the University of Stellenbosch and is a CFA charter holder. Eric joined IJG Securities in September 2014 as a research analyst, prior to which he worked as a hedge fund accountant in Cape Town. |
Jakob de Klerk
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Jakob CA(NAM) (MBA) is the Managing Director of IJG Capital, having previously served as Portfolio Manager and before that as Group Financial Manager of the IJG Group. He draws on his extensive experience in financial management paired with his advanced knowledge of current best-practice private equity thinking, acquired as part of his MBA at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, to support portfolio companies in strategy implementation. |
Leonie de Klerk
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Leonie joined IJG Wealth Management in February 2023 as the Middle Office/Operations Manager, and was soon thereafter promoted to the role of Group Compliance Officer. She is an experienced professional with 15 years’ demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Leonie holds a Bachelor’s of Marketing Degree, a Paralegal Studies Certificate as well as a Postgrad Diploma in Financial Planning. She is currently studying towards completing a certificate in Information Technology. Leonie is result orientated with a strong business acumen, skilled in business operations, training, micro-lending, asset management, financial planning and people management. Leonie prides herself with her passion for self-development. |
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IJG Trails
Effective 1 January 2016, IJG is the title sponsor of Farm Windhoek and will have all naming rights to Farm Windhoek. Farm Windhoek is located along the Auas Mountains, just south of Windhoek. It provides for outdoor activities for the whole family, with over 70 kilometers of trails suitable for mountain biking, hiking, trail running, dog walking and bird watching.
IJG sees this as an ideal opportunity to give back and invest in the community by making recreational areas such as Farm Windhoek safer and more accessible to the Windhoek community.
Visit the website here: www.ijgtrails.com