Nkuli Mkhize

Nkuli Mkhize is a wife, a mother of two boys, an entrepreneur and an author. Nkuli's experience in corporate spans across several sectors and countries, having held both senior and executive positions in Investment Banking/Development Finance, as well as in Economic Development.

Before joining the Development Bank of Southern Africa in 2006, where she held several positions until her resignation in December 2013, including Business Development and Stakeholder Relations Manager, Senior Investment Officer and Head of Investment Structuring, Nkuli was the Chief Operating Officer at Wesgro, a provincial Economic Development Agency, as well as a diplomat for four years prior to that. She represented her country as an Economic Counselor at the South African Embassy in Tel Aviv, as well as Economic Consul at the South African Consulate General in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Nkuli is now the Executive Director and Founder of the Mteule Group of companies with interests in travel, investment banking, and financial services. She is a fellow of the African Leadership Initiative, alumni of the Bank Seta International Executive Development Program, as well as a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society. She has served as board and executive committee member of organizations like ABSIP (The Association for Black Securities and Investment Professionals) and COPESSA (Community based Prevention and Empowerment in South Africa).

Nkuli holds both an MBA and a Masters degree in Development Finance, and her passion in life is to empower others economically and otherwise, to bring hope and self-belief in those that have lost it,so that they too can make it in life, and they can make it big.