Meet The Founder & CEO

Jabulani Trevor Ndlovu (“Jabu”) qualified with a B.Sc. Electrical & Electronic Engineering degree from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1987, on a Shell Scholarship. In 1998, he obtained a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB), on a UK Lord Sainsbury Gatsby Charitable Trust Scholarship. His MBA included a 2 month exchange programme at Cambridge University in 1999 and was one of the 3 founders of the Sainsbury Management Fellows Society South Africa in 2003.
Jabu started his career in 1988 as a Process Control Software Development Engineer. From 1989 to 1996 he worked as an Embedded Systems Software Research & Design (R&D) Engineer working with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems, Automotive Vehicle Security systems and Electricity Prepayment systems.
He joined bp Southern Africa (bpSA) in July 1996 until his early retirement in March 2022. He worked for bp in South Africa and London in various divisions within Refining and Marketing (Supply, Logistics, Retail and Commercial). His career spanned Project Engineering, Project Management, Strategy (Formulation and Execution), Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE), Business Development and Finance. His last role with bpSA was Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of bpSA from January 1999 until his early retirement in March 2022 and was a member of the bpSA Executive Leadership Team from 2008.
His experience also includes Mergers and Acquisition (M&A). During the period 2013 to 2014, he led and project managed the sale of bpSA’s 25% equity stake to B-BBEE partners. In addition, from 2015 to 2016, he led the sale of a bpSA subsidiary Masana’s 35% equity stake to a B-BBEE Consortium, with a simultaneous increase of bpSA’s equity stake from 45% to 50% +1 share.
He served both as Executive Director (at bpSA) and Non-Executive Director of 3 bpSA’s Subsidiaries (Masana, SAPREF and CAPREF).
He currently serves as Treasurer Trustee of the Dainfern Ridge Estate Homeowners Association and as a Member of the Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) of the SA Rugby Union, a contract basis