Archives: Management Team

Anuj is the Finance Analyst-Treasury at Lango Real Estate. His key role is to prepare management accounting ,financial management and the production of a full set of Group and subsidiary annual financial statements. He is also responsible for treasury management, cash flow forecasting, hedging and budgeting.

Prior to joining Lango, Anuj was a Senior Hedge Fund Accountant at Apex Malta and Guernsey where he was involved in the fund set up, review NAV, regulatory reporting and administration of hedge funds with AUM of around USD 12 Billion. Anuj also worked for Alter Domus Malta as Senior Treasury Accountant responsible for the cash management,debt management,treasury activities of the Alter Domus Group. He gained extensive experience working in banking sector for nearly 13 years in Mauritius at AfrAsia Bank and PT Bank International Indonesia  with expertise in Treasury,Banking Operations and Finance and Regulatory Reporting.

Anuj is currently completing the Strategic Professional Level of the ACCA.

Olympio is an Assistant Asset Manager based in Ghana. He is responsible for providing local support to the Asset Manager in ensuring investment growth and maximum income of the assets as well as ensuring performance of the assets in line with strategic initiatives and regulatory compliance.

Having worked in the real estate industry for over 16 years, his property experience is extensive. Before joining Lango, he was the Assistant Asset Manager for the Attafrica portfolio in Ghana. Prior to that he was the Portfolio Executive at Broll Ghana, responsible for the Attafrica Portfolio.  One of Olympio’s major achievements was, as General Manager of Kejetia Central Market O&M, he was involved in operationalising the biggest western styled market in West Africa, at Kejetia in Kumasi. Olympio has also held a position as a Senior Consultant at KOA Consult, a leading valuation and legal consultancy firm in Ghana, where he led a team to provide valuation advisory services to major local and international companies, and he also was Head of Valuation Advisory in Broll Ghana, overseeing the production of valuation and feasibility reports for several reputable companies, including major financial institutions.

Olympio holds a Bachelor Degree in Land Economy from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and Master of Science Degrees in Business Economics and International Real Estate from the University of Hull and Oxford Brookes University respectively, in the United Kingdom. Olympio is a Professional Member of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GhIS).

Sonja is the Senior Asset Manager at Lango. Her key responsibility is to oversee Asset Management and strategically maximise the profitability and value of the asset portfolio.

Sonja has extensive real estate experience, having worked in the industry for the past 3 decades. Prior to joining Lango, Sonja was heading up Asset Management for the Sub-Saharan Africa Portfolio for the JSE Listed Hyprop Investments Fund. Prior to that Sonja was Divisional Director for Broll Property Services, overseeing the management of several client assets (commercial and retail) across various regions in Africa. Additionally, she served as Country Head for Broll Zambia and was on the board of directors of Broll Uganda.

Sonja holds an Honors Degree in Urban Planning.

Geetika holds the position of Finance Assistant at Lango Real Estate. Her core responsibility is to assist the Finance Manager and the Finance Head in the preparation of management accounts and annual financial statements for all Mauritian entities of the Group.

Geetika holds a BCOM – Double Major Degree in Accounting and Finance from the Curtin University, Mauritius and is currently completing the Strategic Professional Level of the ACCA.

Abheesh is the Finance Analyst at Lango Real Estate. His key role is to prepare periodic Asset Management and ESG reports, working in conjunction with the Director of Asset Management and Associate Principal – Investments. He is also responsible for assisting the Financial Controller of the asset holding entities with the financial accounting, reporting and review of asset holding entities throughout Africa.

Prior to joining Lango, Abheesh was an audit associate at KPMG Mauritius, where he was largely involved and led audits and other assurance services of medium to large sized private equity and hedge funds with AUM of around USD 100 million. He gained extensive knowledge of key financial reporting framework, processes, and controls of several types of entities and structures.

Abheesh holds a BSc first class honours in Economics, Banking and Finance from Cardiff University and is currently completing the Strategic Professional Level of the ACCA.

Mokshada is a Corporate Administrator at Lango Real Estate. She supports the Company Secretarial manager on all corporate governance matters, regulatory and corporate structure activities of Lango.

Previously she worked in offshore management companies where she acquired hands-on experience in the financial services industry. She also acquired knowledge on the fintech industry at her previous job.

Mokshada holds a BSc (Hons) Business Economics and Investment Analysis and a MSc Financial Economics from the University of Mauritius. She is also an Associate Member of the Chartered Governance Institute of the UK and Ireland.

Sheetal is the Company Secretarial Manager at Lango and is responsible for the efficient administration of Lango group of companies, particularly in ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

She has gathered, over a decade in the offshore sector, extensive experience in the structuring and administration of global business companies and fund structures. She has a special interest and expertise in corporate listings, whether as Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) or as Security Token Offerings (STOs).

Sheetal is a Chartered Secretary of the Chartered Governance institute of the UK and Ireland, a fellow of The Private Wealth & Family Office Association of Switzerland and is the holder of a Bachelors’ degree in Finance, with a minor in law, from the University of Mauritius.

Parineeta is the Finance Manager at Lango Real Estate. She is responsible for the financial, treasury and regulatory reporting for Lango’s Mauritian subsidiary entities and entities in which Lango has an ultimate ownership stake.

Before joining Lango, Parineeta occupied the position of Finance Manager at Ascencia Ltd, the leading retail property company in Mauritius. Prior to that she held the position of Lead Internal Auditor at Rogers & Company Ltd, a listed conglomerate in Mauritius where she gained extensive knowledge of internal controls and risk management across the hospitality, fintech, logistics and property served markets in Mauritius and Africa. She gained extensive knowledge of the real estate industry in Mauritius during her tenure at both Rogers & Co Ltd and Ascencia Ltd.

In addition to holding a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science from the University of Mauritius, Parineeta is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member of the Mauritius Institute of Professional Accountants.

Kevin is the Head of Finance at Lango and his key focus is Lango’s Mauritian financial, treasury and regulatory reporting entities and subsidiaries in which Lango has an ultimate ownership stake. Kevin is also responsible for the running of the Mauritian office. Kevin has a post graduate Honours degree in Commerce cum laude from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, an MBA from Deakin University, Australia and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).

Kevin started his career in PwC in 1998 and moved to the UK in 2002. He held various positions before joining River and Mercantile as Director of Finance in 2008 and was pivotal in growing assets under management from GBP 4bn to GBP 21bn. Kevin played a leading role getting the company listed on the main market of the LSE in 2015. In 2016, Kevin moved back to Mauritius as Finance Director of E&S Group.

Before joining Lango, Kevin headed the finance team of the property side of the Rogers Hospitality Fund and Ascencia Limited, a property company focused on the retail sector domiciled and listed, which owns and manages in excess of 150,000m² of retail real estate in Mauritius.

Kirsty is the Financial Controller of the asset holding entities within the Lango Group and responsible for management and ensuring the accuracy of the financial accounting and reporting.
When joining the team in 2020 she was involved in investor reporting and investor relations. Kirsty also supported the Financial Director with the financial review and reporting for both the Mauritian and asset holding entities through Africa.
Prior to joining Lango, Kirsty worked at Growthpoint Properties, the largest South African primary REIT listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Here she was an accountant in the Finance Department and then went on to join Internal Audit where she gained invaluable knowledge of property systems and processes as well as the real estate sector at large. Before joining Growthpoint, Kirsty’s career in the property industry started as part of the finance team of a private property fund which was later acquired by Growthpoint.
Kirsty holds a BCOMPT, Financial Accounting from the University of South Africa, ACCA Strategic Professional Level and brings 10 years of experience in the real estate industry.