1. EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Aviwe Ndyamara is a seasoned Business Restructuring Professional, Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) and Business Rescue Practitioner (BRP) with over 14 years of continuous, hands-on experience in business rescue, corporate restructuring, insolvency advisory, and complex turnaround mandates across South Africa. His experience spans construction, mining,property development, infrastructure, logistics, manufacturing, agriculture, and social housing, with a consistent record of stabilising distressed enterprises, preserving employment, restoring governance, and delivering creditor outcomes superior to liquidation.
2. REGULATORY & PUBLIC SECTOR ENGAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
Government-owned and state-linked entity restructuring, including provincial government-owned companies. Direct engagement with the National Department of Agriculture, Provincial Departments of Human Settlements, and the Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA). Mobilisation of post-commencement private-sector finance and successful grant funding mobilisation.
3. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Phuthuma (Pty) Limited
Founder | 2014 – Present (11+ years)
Founded and led Phuthuma, a specialist management consulting and restructuring firm focused on business turnarounds, corporate restructuring, insolvency advisory, and corporate finance. The firm provides board-level advisory services to distressed and underperforming businesses across construction, property, infrastructure, agriculture, mining, logistics, manufacturing, and social housing sectors.
Since 2016, appointed in excess of 30 formal business rescue mandates in terms of the Companies Act, across multiple sectors and ownership structures, and in excess of 10 business turnaround and Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) mandates (informal workouts), including board-appointed restructuring roles outside formal business rescue proceedings. Engagements include statutory business rescue proceedings, informal workouts, due diligence, solvency and liquidity assessments, enterprise valuations, creditor negotiations, post-commencement finance mobilisation, and execution of recovery, exit, and disposal strategies. These mandates have consistently resulted in outcomes superior to liquidation.
- Tshwane Trust Company (Pty) Ltd
Director & Insolvency Practitioner | 2012 – Present
Senior role within an established insolvency and liquidation practice, with exposure to court-appointed matters, liquidations, creditor recoveries, and litigation support.
- ABSA Bank Limited
Corporate Banking & Distressed Credit | 2007 – 2010
4. EDUCATION
- Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration
UNISA School of Business Leadership
- Diploma in Insolvency Law & Practice (Distinction)
University of Pretoria
- Dale College Boys’ High School (2001 – 2005)
Old Dalian Union (Old Boy)
5. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
- Accredited Member – South African Restructuring and Insolvency
Practitioners Association (SARIPA)
- Associate Member – INSOL International (Global association for restructuring, insolvency, and turnaround professionals)
- INSOL Future Leaders Fellow (2023)
Selected for INSOL International’s highly competitive Future Leaders Programme, recognising emerging global leaders in restructuring, insolvency, and turnaround advisory.
- Education Committee Member – INSOL International
South African Course in Insolvency Law and Practice Serving on the Education Committee responsible for curriculum oversight, practitioner development, and standards within South Africa’s INSOLaccredited insolvency programme.
