Brad Pearse
Chief Executive Officer at Wellspring Investment
Profile
Brad is the managing director and a partner of the Wellspring Group.
He has over 20 years of entrepreneurial, corporate finance and private equity experience.
He offers a skill set that includes both first hand entrepreneurial and institutional experience.
His background enables a unique value-add through the full investment cycle of origination, negotiation, structuring, strategy development, value-add and exit.
Brad is a qualified chartered accountant and spent 5 years in the corporate finance/transaction services team at PricewaterhouseCoopers, managing multiple transactions and due diligences.
He went on to co-found and manage his own business and upon exiting played an operational and general management role in commerce.
This led him to join Nedbank Private Equity where he spent 12 years as a principal and successfully led a number of transactions which included assets in the water, energy and communications sectors.
He was an executive partner at the Multiply Group for 2 and a half years before taking on his more focussed role in the Wellspring Group.
Brad Pearse active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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Imbewu Capital Partners Pty Ltd.
Imbewu Capital Partners Pty Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance Imbewu Capital Partners Pty Ltd (Imbewu Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Durban, South Africa. | Director/Board Member | - |
Wellspring Investment | Chief Executive Officer | 01/01/2022 |
Former positions of Brad Pearse
Companies | Position | End |
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Multiply Group | Private Equity Investor | 02/12/2021 |
Nedbank Capital Private Equity
Nedbank Capital Private Equity Investment ManagersFinance Nedbank Capital Private Equity (NPE) is a private equity division of Nedbank Group Ltd founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Sandton, South Africa. | Private Equity Investor | 02/06/2019 |
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc. is a South African company that provides accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services. The company is based in Sunninghill, South Africa. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 02/09/2007 |
Training of Brad Pearse
University of KwaZulu-Natal | Undergraduate Degree |
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Private companies | 5 |
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PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc. is a South African company that provides accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services. The company is based in Sunninghill, South Africa. | Commercial Services |
Nedbank Capital Private Equity
Nedbank Capital Private Equity Investment ManagersFinance Nedbank Capital Private Equity (NPE) is a private equity division of Nedbank Group Ltd founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Sandton, South Africa. | Finance |
Imbewu Capital Partners Pty Ltd.
Imbewu Capital Partners Pty Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance Imbewu Capital Partners Pty Ltd (Imbewu Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Durban, South Africa. | Finance |
Multiply Group | Finance |
Wellspring Investment |
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