Arun Varughese, Head, TMT Advisory, Rand Merchant Bank

Arun is presently a Corporate Finance Executive in the Investment Banking Division at Rand Merchant Bank, where he leads the Telecommunications Media and Technology (TMT) advisory group. He has over a decade of expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, restructures, BEE, capital allocation and strategy; across a number of key sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa. Arun has also spent a year and half in London, building the RMB brand and strengthening relationships with key European clients.  During his career at RMB, he has advised and helped execute on landmark transactions worth over c.USD15 billion, including the sale of Pepkor to Steinhoff, the acquisition of Clover Industries by Milco and the Tsogo Sun placement by SAB Miller.

Before his career at RMB he was a member of the assurance team at Deloitte and prior to that was a tax lecturer at the University of Cape Town. Arun holds a B.BusSci (Hons), PGDA and a M.Com (Financial Management) from the University of Cape Town (UCT). He is also a qualified chartered accountant (SA) and a CFA charter holder.