Colin is head of the Investment Banking Division
for Sub-Saharan Africa, a role assumed in 2008,
and head of the South African office, a role he
has held since he joined Goldman Sachs in 2000.
In 2015, Colin was named member of the
Investment Banking Services EMEA Captains
Group. He is also a member of the Growth
Markets Franchise Group. Colin was named
managing director in 2002 and partner in 2010.
In 2013, Colin authored “Two Decades of
Freedom,” a report by Goldman Sachs on South
Africa’s progress since 1994.
In the 1980s, Colin was involved in South
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Africa’s anti-apartheid movement and later in its
constitutional transition. From 1989 until South
Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, he
was an executive
director for the Consultative Business Movement
(CBM). Colin served in working groups of the
multi-party talks, facilitated the International
Mediation Forum and helped to negotiate the
agreement to facilitate all parties’ participation in
South Africa’s 1994 elections.
In 1994, Colin became a senior consultant for
public affairs at Standard Bank Investment
Corporation (SBIC), where he was an advisor to
the SBIC chairman. He was subsequently
appointed director of public finance for SBIC’s
Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank. In 1997,
Colin relocated to London, where he became a
vice president of energy, power and oil for J.P.
Morgan’s Investment Banking Advisory
Department.
In 1996, Colin was nominated as one of the
World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders for
Tomorrow. He was also a recipient on behalf of
the CBM of Harvard Business School’s “Business
Statesman Award” in 1994 and was named one of
Euromoney's World Top Ten “Financing leaders
for the 21st Century.”
Colin earned a BA in Architecture from the
University of Witwatersrand in 1988.