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Naspers companies operate and invest in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential.
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We invest in some of the world's leading internet companies.

Naspers is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE: NPN). The company also has a level 1 American Depository Receipt (ADR) programme, which trades on an over-the-counter (OTC) basis in the US. It has a sizeable investment in Prosus (AEX: PRX and JSE: PRX).
Strategy
Our strategy
We believe in the power of local backed by global scale and we look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where we see the greatest growth potential.
These include all major markets in the world. 
companies
Companies
leadership
Directors
Bob van Dijk
Bob van Dijk Chief executive officer
and executive director

Bob van Dijk was appointed Group CEO of Naspers in April 2014. Read more

Bob van Dijk Chief executive officer
and executive director

Bob van Dijk became Group CEO of Naspers in April 2014, assuming the additional role of Group CEO of Prosus at its listing on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange in September 2019. He has over two decades of experience managing online growth companies. He joined the group as CEO of the Allegro division in August 2013 and was promoted to CEO of Global Transaction eCommerce in October 2013. He previously worked at eBay and Schibsted, spanning the online marketplaces, online classifieds and fashion segments. Prior to that Bob was an entrepreneur in online financial products having started his career at McKinsey with a focus on M&A and media. Bob has an MBA from INSEAD and an MSc from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

 Basil (Vasili) Sgourdos
Basil (Vasili) Sgourdos Financial director and
executive director

Basil Sgourdos was appointed financial director of Naspers in July 2014. Read more

Basil (Vasili) Sgourdos Financial director and
executive director

Basil Sgourdos (South African and Greek) is our financial director and an executive director. He was appointed as the financial director of Naspers in July 2014. He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. from 1989 to 1994. Thereafter he joined Naspers, initially as the finance manager of the South African operations division in MultiChoice and then as chief financial officer of Naspers’s investment in United Broadcasting Corporation plc, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, where he remained for 10 years. He then spent two years in Amsterdam as the general manager of the video-entertainment business development globally before being appointed as financial director of MIH Holdings Proprietary Limited (MIH Holdings) in January 2009. He held this position until he became the financial director of Naspers. He is a qualified South African chartered accountant and holds a BCom from the University of the Witwatersrand and BAccHons from the University of South Africa.

 Koos Bekker
Koos Bekker Non-executive chair

Koos Bekker led the founding team of the M-Net/MultiChoice pay-television business in 1985. Read more

Koos Bekker Non-executive chair

Koos Bekker (South African and Dutch) is the non-executive chair of the board. He led the founding team of the M-Net/MultiChoice pay-television business in 1985. He was also a founder of MTN Group Limited, a South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company. He headed the group in its international and internet expansion until 1997, when he became chief executive officer of Naspers. He retired as the chief executive officer of Naspers on 31 March 2014. On 17 April 2015, he succeeded Ton Vosloo as chair of the Naspers board. He holds a BAHons and honorary doctorate in commerce from Stellenbosch University, an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MBA from Columbia University.

Hendrik du Toit
Hendrik du Toit Lead Independent non-executive director

Hendrik is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ninety One. Read more

Hendrik du Toit Lead Independent non-executive director

Hendrik du Toit is a non-executive director and our lead independent director. Hendrik is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ninety One. He entered the asset management industry in 1988 and joined Investec Group in 1991, founding Investec Asset Management, which rebranded to Ninety One in 2020. He also served as Joint Chief Executive Officer of Investec Group from 1 October 2018 until the demerger and listing of Ninety One from Investec Group on 16 March 2020.

Sharmistha Dubey
Sharmistha Dubey Independent non-executive director

Sharmistha Dubey (Indian, American) is an independent non-executive director of Naspers Limited. Read more

Sharmistha Dubey Independent non-executive director

Sharmistha Dubey (Indian, American) is an independent non-executive director of Naspers Limited. She is also the chief executive officer for Match Group, overseeing growth for the portfolio of brands including Tinder, Match, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, Pairs, Plenty of Fish, and OurTime. She holds a Bachelor of Science, Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India (1993) and a Master of Science, Engineering from Ohio State University, USA (1996). Mrs Dubey is also a board member and member of the compensation committee for Fortive Corporation, an industrial engineering company focused on hardware-driven businesses.

 Craig Enenstein
Craig Enenstein Independent non-executive director

Craig Enenstein is the CEO of Corridor Capital. Read more

Craig Enenstein Independent non-executive director

Craig Enenstein (American) is an independent non-executive director. He is also the chief executive officer of Corridor Capital, LLC, an operationally intensive private equity firm focused on the lower middle market. Corridor Capital, LLC is based in Los Angeles and was founded by him in 2005. He holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in international studies from the Lauder Institute: University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Manisha Girotra
Manisha Girotra Independent non-executive director

Manisha Girotra is the CEO of Moelis India and has more than 25 years of investment banking experience. Read more

Manisha Girotra Independent non-executive director

Manisha Girotra (Indian) is an independent non-executive director. She is the chief executive officer of Moelis India. She has more than 25 years of investment banking experience, with crossborder mergers and acquisitions expertise across a broad range of industries. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, she was the chief executive officer and country head of UBS AG in India, managing its investment bank, commercial bank, markets, equity research and wealth management divisions. Previously, she was head of North India of Barclays Bank PLC. She began her investment banking career at ANZ Grindlays in London. She serves on the boards of directors of Ashok Leyland Limited and Jio Payments Bank Limited. She holds a BAHons in economics from St. Stephen’s College, India and a masters in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, India.

Rachel Jafta
Rachel Jafta Independent non-executive director

Rachel Jafta, holds the degrees MEcon and PhD, and is a professor of economics at Stellenbosch University. Read more

Rachel Jafta Independent non-executive director

Rachel Jafta (South African) is an independent non-executive director. She is a professor in economics at Stellenbosch University. She joined Naspers as a director in 2003 and was appointed a director of Media24 in 2007. She is a member of the South African Economic Society, chair of the Cape Town Carnival Trust, a member of the Management Committee of the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch University and a member of the International Advisory Board of Fondação Dom Cabral Business School, Brazil. She was appointed as chair of the Media24 board of directors in April 2013. She is the chair of the Media24 nomination committee. She is also a director of Naspers Beleggings (RF) Limited. She holds an MEcon and a PhD from the University of Stellenbosch.

Angelien Kemna
Angelien Kemna Independent non-executive director

Angelien Kemna holds a MSc Operations Research from Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1981) and a PhD Finance from Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1988). Read more

Angelien Kemna Independent non-executive director

Angelien Kemna (Dutch) is an independent non-executive director. She holds a MSc Operations Research from Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1981) and a PhD Finance from Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1988). She was a visiting scholar at Sloan School MIT (1985, Boston, USA). She is currently an independent board member and chair of the audit committee of Friesland Campina; senior independent board member of AXA Investment Managers and independent board member and member of the audit committee of AXA Group; and independent board member and chair of the risk committee of NIBC Holding. Mrs Kemna was previously a member of the executive board of APG Group in the Netherlands, where she initially held the role of chief investment officer and subsequently was chief finance and risk officer. In addition, she was part-time professor in corporate governance at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Nolo Letele
Nolo Letele Non-executive director

Nolo Letele joined M-Net in 1990 and pioneered MultiChoice's expansion outside South Africa. Read more

Nolo Letele Non-executive director

Nolo Letele (South African) is a non-executive director. He joined M-Net in 1990 and pioneered MultiChoice’s expansion outside South Africa. In 1995, he moved to the Republic of Ghana, where he served as MultiChoice’s West African regional general manager. In 1999, he was appointed chief executive officer of MultiChoice South Africa Holdings Proprietary Limited (MultiChoice SA), and later served as the MultiChoice group chief executive officer until 2010, when he was appointed executive chair of MultiChoice SA; currently non-executive chair. He has won several awards including Media Man of the Year in 2001 (Saturday Star—Business Report); Media Owner of the Year in 2003 (Financial Mail Adfocus); and the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize for media development in Africa (Millennium Excellence Foundation). He holds a BScHons in electronic engineering from the University of Southampton.

 Debra Meyer
Debra Meyer Independent non-executive director

Debra Meyer is professor of biochemistry and executive dean of the faculty of science at the University of Johannesburg. Read more

Debra Meyer Independent non-executive director

Debra Meyer (South African) is an independent non-executive director. She is a professor of biochemistry and executive dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Johannesburg. She has completed modules in media strategy and academic leadership at Harvard University and the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria and makes regular contributions to several newspapers and magazines. She serves as a trustee or board member for several organisations. She is also a director of Naspers Beleggings (RF) Limited. She holds a BSc in biological sciences, a BScHons and an MSc in biochemistry from the University of Johannesburg (then, the Rand Afrikaans University) and a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Davis (which she attended as a Fulbright Scholar).

Roberto Oliveira de Lima
Roberto Oliveira de Lima Independent non-executive director

Roberto Oliveira de Lima from Brazil is a board member of Telefonica Brasil. Read more

Roberto Oliveira de Lima Independent non-executive director

Roberto Oliveira de Lima (Brazilian) is an independent non-executive director. He developed his career at companies like Accor S.A., Rhone Poulenc S.A. (now part of Sanofi S.A.) and Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. in the information technology and finance areas. He was chair and chief executive officer of Credicard Group, chief executive officer of Vivo S.A., the largest mobile telecommunications company in Brazil, chair of Publicis Brazil and president of Natura S.A. (Natura). He was previously a board member of Edenred S.A. in France, Pão de Açúcar S.A. (Casino) and Natura in Brazil. He is a member of the board of directors of RNI Negócios Imobiliários S.A. In April 2019, he left the board of directors of Telefônica Brasil S.A. after 14 years with that company, having served six of those years as president and chief executive officer and eight years as a board member as well as quality and services committee member. He holds a BA and MA in business management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil and an MA from Institut Superieur des Affaires at Jouy en Josas—France.

Steve Pacak
Steve Pacak Non-executive director

Steve Pacak a chartered accountant (SA), began his career with Naspers Read more

Steve Pacak Non-executive director

Steve Pacak ( South African) is a non-executive director. He began his career with Naspers at M-Net in 1988 and has held various executive positions in the Naspers group. He is a director of MultiChoice Group Limited as well as companies in the Naspers group. He was appointed as an executive director of Naspers in 1998 and a non-executive director on the Naspers board on 15 January 2015. He retired as Naspers’s financial director on 30 June 2014 and remained on the Naspers board as a non-executive director. He is a qualified South African chartered accountant and holds a BAcc from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Mark Sorour
Mark Sorour Non-executive director

Mark is a non-executive director of the Naspers board. He retired on 26 February 2018 after more than 20 years with the group. Read more

Mark Sorour Non-executive director

Mark Sorour (Mark Sorour) is a non-executive director. He joined the Naspers group in 1994, leading business development and corporate finance, globally. Following assignments in Hong Kong and Amsterdam, he returned to Cape Town in 2002 as the Naspers group’s chief investment officer, being responsible for all global investment activities. On 31 March 2018, he retired after more than 20 years with the Naspers group. He remained on the Naspers board as a non-executive director. He is a qualified South African chartered accountant and holds a BCom and DipAcc from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Cobus Stofberg
Cobus Stofberg Non-executive director

Cobus Stofberg is a founder member of M-Net in 1986. He served as CEO of the MIH group from 1997 to 2011 Read more

Cobus Stofberg Non-executive director

Cobus Stofberg (South African and Dutch) is a non-executive director. He was a member of the founding team of the M-Net/ MultiChoice pay-television business in 1985. He served as chief executive officer of the group from 1997 to 2011, and has been instrumental in the expansion of the Naspers group. Prior to joining M-Net, he was a partner of Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.). He is a qualified South African chartered accountant and holds a BComLaw and LLB from Stellenbosch University and a BComptHons from the University of South Africa.

Ying Xu
Ying Xu Independent non-executive director

Ying Xu is the president of Wumei Technology Group (Wumei, or Wumart), a technology-driven retailer in China. Read more

Ying Xu Independent non-executive director

Engaged in the retail business since 2004, Ms Xu has been leading Wumei’s major acquisitions including that of Metro China and B&Q China, and the digital transformation of the traditional retail stores into online and offline omni-channels. Prior to joining Wumei Technology Group, Ms Xu was vice president of LG (a joint venture) at Tianjin International Trust & Investment. Ms Xu holds a BA degree in English from Tianjin University, China, and an M.B.A. from Meinders School of Business, Oklahoma City University, United States.

Team
Management team
Bob van Dijk
Bob van Dijk Chief executive officer
and executive director

Bob van Dijk was appointed Group CEO of Naspers in April 2014. Read more

Bob van Dijk Chief executive officer
and executive director

Bob van Dijk became Group CEO of Naspers in April 2014, assuming the additional role of Group CEO of Prosus at its listing on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange in September 2019. He has over two decades of experience managing online growth companies. He joined the group as CEO of the Allegro division in August 2013 and was promoted to CEO of Global Transaction eCommerce in October 2013. He previously worked at eBay and Schibsted, spanning the online marketplaces, online classifieds and fashion segments. Prior to that Bob was an entrepreneur in online financial products having started his career at McKinsey with a focus on M&A and media. Bob has an MBA from INSEAD and an MSc from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

 Basil (Vasili) Sgourdos
Basil (Vasili) Sgourdos Financial director and
executive director

Basil Sgourdos was appointed financial director of Naspers in July 2014. Read more

Basil (Vasili) Sgourdos Financial director and
executive director

Basil Sgourdos (South African and Greek) is our financial director and an executive director. He was appointed as the financial director of Naspers in July 2014. He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. from 1989 to 1994. Thereafter he joined Naspers, initially as the finance manager of the South African operations division in MultiChoice and then as chief financial officer of Naspers’s investment in United Broadcasting Corporation plc, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, where he remained for 10 years. He then spent two years in Amsterdam as the general manager of the video-entertainment business development globally before being appointed as financial director of MIH Holdings Proprietary Limited (MIH Holdings) in January 2009. He held this position until he became the financial director of Naspers. He is a qualified South African chartered accountant and holds a BCom from the University of the Witwatersrand and BAccHons from the University of South Africa.

Aileen O'Toole
Aileen O'Toole Group Chief Operating Officer

Aileen was appointed Group Chief Operating Officer in March 2023, having held the position of Chief People Officer since joining Naspers in 2014. Read more

Aileen O'Toole Group Chief Operating Officer

Aileen was appointed Group Chief Operating Officer in March 2023, having held the position of Chief People Officer since joining Naspers in 2014. She has over two decades of leadership experience in fast-growing hi-tech and internet companies. Before joining Prosus, Aileen led HR for eBay Europe and eBay Global Classifieds. She also worked with businesses in the online payments, comparison-shopping and Etail sectors. Previously, Aileen led HR for Europe at Jabil Global Services and worked at the Telenor Group.

David Tudor
David Tudor Group General Counsel
 

David was appointed Group General Counsel of Naspers in June 2015. Read more

David Tudor Group General Counsel
 

David has advised the Naspers group of companies since 1996. Before joining the group full time, he was a partner in Mallinicks Attorneys (now Webber Wentzel) and worked in London at two leading international law firms. In 2008 David was appointed Naspers and MIH Group Senior Counsel. In this role he led the legal teams for the group’s M&A activities in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. David then became General Counsel of the Allegro Group and was subsequently promoted to the position of General Counsel: Global Transaction eCommerce at Naspers. In June 2015 he was appointed General Counsel, Naspers Group.

Ervin Tu
Ervin Tu Group Chief Investment Officer

Ervin Tu was appointed Group Chief Investment Officer in August 2021. Read more

Ervin Tu Group Chief Investment Officer

Ervin Tu was appointed Group Chief Investment Officer in August 2021. Ervin joined the group from his Managing Partner position at the SoftBank Vision Fund. There, he helped lead investments in Uber and Bytedance, among others, across technology sectors including transportation, logistics, next-gen media, and sustainability. He previously co-led M&A and corporate finance for SoftBank Group International. Prior to Softbank, Ervin was a Managing Director in the technology banking group at Goldman Sachs, where he focused on M&A. Ervin has an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa
Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa CEO, South Africa
 

Phuthi joined Naspers as CEO, South Africa in July 2019. Read more

Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa CEO, South Africa
 

Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa joined Naspers as South Africa CEO, in July 2019. Before joining Naspers, she was the co-founder and Executive Chairperson of Sigma Capital, an investment holding company formed in 2015. She held the position of CEO at Shanduka Group, an investment holding company from 2004 to 2015. Prior, she was the Head of the Project Finance South Africa business unit at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Phuthi holds a BA Economics from Rutgers University, USA, and an MBA from De Montfort University in the UK. She also completed the Kennedy School of Government Executive Education programme “Global Leadership and Public Policy f or the 21st Century” at Harvard University in 2008. She sits on the board of the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation and was Chair of the Kagiso Shanduka Trust (KST) Audit and Risk Committee in 2016. In 2017, she was appointed to the KST Board of Trustees. (KST is a joint organisation between the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation and Kagiso Trust that focuses its resources on “whole school development”.) Phuthi is an independent director of Vodacom and previously served on the boards of Discovery Insure and Gold Fields. She serves on the advisory board of Stellenbosch University’s business school.

Lydia Paterson
Lydia Paterson CEO, Classifieds

Lydia was appointed CEO of OLX in March 2023 after serving as Group CFO since 2016. Read more

Lydia Paterson CEO, Classifieds

Lydia was appointed CEO of OLX in March 2023 after serving as Group CFO since 2016. She has over 25 years' experience in leadership roles at global consumer internet and online marketplace businesses, including eBay and PayPal. Lydia currently serves on the boards of directors of OLX Brasil, OfferUp and Udemy (Nasdaq:UDMY) where she is Chair of the Audit Committee.

Laurent Le Moal
Laurent Le Moal CEO, Payments & Fintech

Laurent was appointed CEO PayU in January 2016. He is responsible for global operations. Read more

Laurent Le Moal CEO, Payments & Fintech

Laurent was appointed CEO PayU in January 2016. He is responsible for global operations and brings extensive knowledge of digital payments and high-growth markets to PayU. He concluded an 11-year career at PayPal as Vice-President and General Manager for Continental Europe, where he successfully led the launch of PayPal in Africa, Israel and the Middle-East. Laurent started his career as a business analyst at McKinsey, before founding TalentManager in 1999. TalentManager is a leading recruitment software provider and he spent three years growing the business, successfully selling the Italian operation. Laurent holds an MBA from the London Business School and is a graduate of Bocconi University in Italy (CEMS Master, International management).

Larry Illg
Larry Illg CEO, Prosus Edtech and Food

Larry Illg leads the Food and EdTech teams for Prosus ensuring the company identifies opportunities for future growth globally. Read more

Larry Illg CEO, Prosus Edtech and Food

Larry is the CEO of Prosus Food and Edtech. He is an experienced CEO, leading investor and board director, with over 20 years of experience in managing and advising multinational companies. Since joining Naspers in 2013 and launching Prosus Ventures (previously Naspers Ventures) in 2015 as the group’s first CEO, Larry now leads the Prosus Food and Prosus Edtech segments as CEO. Larry has overseen investments totaling nearly $12 billion around the world. He has been recognised for his leadership, twice chosen as one of the top five most influential corporate venture investors on the GCV Powerlist. In 2021, he was featured as an expert panelist at the Milken Institute conference, and in 2022 at the ASU + GSV Summit.

Martin Tschopp
Martin Tschopp CEO, Prosus Ventures

Martin leads Prosus Ventures, supporting our portfolio companies with operating expertise. Read more

Martin Tschopp CEO, Prosus Ventures

Martin leads Prosus Ventures. Prior to this role, as COO of Prosus Ventures/Naspers Ventures, Martin’s primary areas of focus were ventures strategy, assessing investment targets, and supporting our portfolio companies with operating expertise. Prior to Naspers, Martin was CEO of Kiva.org, where he was responsible for bringing the organisation to solid operational and financial footing in the years after start-up. Prior to Kiva, he spent many years leading ecommerce businesses in retail marketplaces, and horizontal & vertical classifieds space. Martin started his working life as a strategy consultant and founded his own private equity business early in his career. Martin holds an MSc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and an MBA from INSEAD.

Charles Searle
Charles Searle CEO, Internet Listed Assets

Charles is responsible for the group's listed internet assets, including Tencent Holdings Limited. Read more

Charles Searle CEO, Internet Listed Assets

Charles is responsible for the group's listed internet assets, including Tencent Holdings Limited; a leading Chinese Internet company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He joined the Naspers group in 1998 in Hong Kong where he held the position of chief investment officer for the group’s internet division. Prior to joining Naspers, Charles held senior corporate finance and M&A positions at Cable & Wireless, Hong Kong Telecom and Deloitte. Charles is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Ishmet Davidson
Ishmet Davidson CEO, Media24

Ishmet Davidson joined Media24 in 2012 and became CEO in October 2018. Read more

Ishmet Davidson CEO, Media24

Ishmet Davidson joined Media24 in 2012 as head of community newspapers. He became the head of its news division in 2014, after which media distribution company On the Dot and Media24’s magazine division were added to his responsibilities. He has 16 years’ experience in the media industry and among other qualifications, holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School at Scotland’s Heriot Watt University. He became CEO of Media24 on October 1, 2018.

Governance & risk

We operate with integrity by applying appropriate corporate governance, risk policies and business practices.

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Governance & risk

Sustainability

We believe in a connected world - one where the power of local is unlocked to make the world a better place. And we run our business with that philosophy front of mind.

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Sustainability

Naspers voting control structure

The Naspers voting control structure ensures the continued independence of the group.

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Naspers voting control structure

Naspers’s approach to tax

We recognise that the tax we pay is an important element of our broader economic and social contribution to the countries where we operate.

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Naspers’s approach to tax