Safubi Hybrid (Rental: Safubi Views)

Cathal Conaty

Group Managing Director, IHS

Cathal Conaty is a founder of IHS and serves as a Group Managing Director responsible for Portfolio Management and Capital Raising for IHS as a whole. He is also chairman of the Investment Committee, which approves all IHS investments and dispositions. He has been involved in affordable housing since 1993, and brings extensive experience in residential property investment, spanning capital raising, investor closings, portfolio management, deal structuring and negotiation, financial engineering and the management of major renovation projects.

Mr. Conaty holds an MBA from IESE, Barcelona, Spain and a BA from University College in Dublin, Ireland.

Stephanie Botha

Managing Director, IHS Property Management

Joined IHS Property Management in 2013 and is currently the Managing Director of IHS Property Management (IHSPM), where she is responsible for operations within the property management business. Previously, Stephanie was the Finance Director of IHSPM. She has a broad range of property experience and has been working in the industry for the past 12 years.

Previous positions includes the Financial Manager and Company Secretary at Fortress Income Fund Ltd and Debtors Manager at Zenprop Property Holdings. Stephanie has an Honours BCom Accounting degree and is a registered Chartered Accountant.

Peter Mayavi

Managing Director, IHS Kenya

Responsible for Capital Raising and Investor Relations for IHS Kenya, Mr Mayavi is an accomplished property development professional with over 14 years of experience. He joined IHS Kenya from the Kenya Revenue Authority where he founded and headed the Construction and Property Development Division as a Chief Manager. The work at KRA included setting up the Division, property development spanning housing and commercial buildings for the Authority and property management for all the KRA Pension owned properties. His previous positions include Projects Manager for AMS Properties where he handled residential end-to-end developments, as well as overseeing commercial development.

Peter has also held Project Management positions in the telecommunications sector as well as in Oil and Gas. Peter earned his BSc in Civil Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University in 2008 and an MA in Project Planning and Management from the University of Nairobi in 2015. He’s currently pursuing a PhD in Project Finance from the University of Nairobi. He is also a corporate member of the Architectural Association of Kenya as well the International Project Finance Association.

Kioi Wambaa

Managing Director, IHS Kenya

Responsible for Investment and Asset Management for IHS Kenya, Mr Wambaa has over 25 years’ experience in Construction, Engineering and Real Estate Development. His experience of working through complete development cycles and covering a variety of asset classes has been attained through a combination of long and short-term assignments in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa. He most recently, as a Director, spent about 10 years based in the Middle East working for sovereign wealth funds with projects valued at over $40 billion which included residential, commercial, retail and hospitality developments.

He has been involved both at the operational level managing and delivering projects and also at the corporate level serving on the Investment Committee and setting up governance and operational structures for the company’s global operations. Kioi holds an MBA from Bradford School of Management (UK), an Honors Degree in Civil Engineering from Loughborough University (UK) and a Diploma in Building Engineering from the Kenya Polytechnic. He is also affiliated to the Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK), Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and The Urban Land Institute (USA).