About Us – Impact Plus Holdings

About us

Impact investing to drive measurable change

Impact Plus is an impact investment company. Our business is built around a changing investor landscape, where ESG is no longer a choice but an imperative. Having ESG as a key business driver, is not only to meet regulatory requirements, companies that have ESG as a focus build competitive advantage, are more resilient and drive value.

Through our investments we seek to redress the negative consequences of legacy spatial planning and investment inequalities. Our aim is to support the realisation of a more equal society and bring about transformational change in the South African economy.

We have raised significant capital from South African pension funds and private equity partners and seek out investments that meet our impact objectives.

Our intention is to grow our portfolio substantially over the next five-10 years, we will do this by investing in our key sectors: property, infrastructure and private equity.

Diverse work colleagues talking business together in a modern office

PROPERTY

Our diversified property portfolio includes residential, commercial, industrial and retail assets.

INFRASTRUCTURE

We focus on the provision of infrastructure in South Africa.

PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS

We provide capital for private equity opportunities, which have a measurable and transformational outcome on the sectors we invest in.

Our vision

South Africa’s leading impact investor

Our vision is to be the leading impact investment company in South Africa, committed to bringing about real economic transformation, particularly in the property and infrastructure sectors.

Our values

As a company we are driven by our commitment to:

Social responsibility

We believe that South Africans have a collective responsibility to bring equitable economic transformation.

Transformation

Our business invests in property and infrastructure, but what motivates us is our commitment to social change. We want all our business activities to result in meaningful change for ordinary South Africans.

Innovation

We don’t accept the status quo. We look at what hasn’t been achieved and ask why not? In doing so we are changing the approach to investing.

Our team

Meet our founders

We have a proven track record in property development and are experienced in measurable enterprise development and job creation.

Ashley Appollis

Co-Founder

Social entrepreneur driven to bring about social change

Ashley Appollis is a social entrepreneur and political activist who understands first hand the challenges that come with growing up in an underprivileged community. Right from the start of his career he has been driven to bring about real economic transformation in South Africa. His first entrepreneurial pursuit was to set up a 3,000-seat customer call centre in the Western Cape that served three major network operators, creating much-needed jobs. He is passionate about developing affordable housing in major metropolitan areas and has been involved in developing a number of housing developments and student accommodation over the course of his career.

Bradley Marsden

Co-Founder

Successful commercial and residential property developer

Bradley Marsden is a successful property developer. As director of Broll Retail Projects he was responsible for the redevelopment of the Old Mutual Properties prime retail portfolio including Cavendish Square (Cape Town), Menlyn Park (Pretoria), The Zone (Rosebank) and Gateway (Umhlanga). Since leaving Broll, he has built a successful track record in commercial and residential property including the first major new office development in Woodstock, District Park.

Our committee

Our advisory committee

The Buffet Group

Family office with investments in real estate and private equity

The Buffet Group acts as the South African family office for Dr Jonathan Beare, a successful property and business investor. It is involved in a wide range of partnerships with investments spanning across real estate and private equity. Its model, which is strongly predicated on partnerships, has proven extremely successful in helping young entrepreneurs achieving great success in South Africa over the last 25 years. It is the largest shareholder in Zenprop SA and has ownership in over 200 commercial properties in South Africa.

Rodney Weinstein

Professional structural and civil engineer, co-founder of Zenprop

Rodney was a co-founder of Zenprop. He was its joint CEO from inception until 2005 and its CEO from 2005 to mid 2009, when he assumed the role of Chairman. He has been in the real estate industry for almost 35 years, having spent 16 years as a Consultant in the multi-disciplinary project design and construction environment before moving into development and investment – his focus since the early 1990s. He has been involved in the development of approximately four million square metres of buildings. Rodney is as an investment and strategic advisor, as well as an equity investor, in Impact Plus.