Sonja Leite

Sonja Leite (CA SA, 1999) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Sanari Capital — the Rosebank, Johannesburg-headquartered South African mid-market private equity firm that manages approximately R4.5B+ (~$245M) cumulative AUM across Sanari Growth & Income Fund I (R1.2B, 2015), Sanari Pan-African Mid-Market Fund II (R1.8B, 2019), and Sanari Education & Business Services Fund III (R1.5B, 2023 vintage, explicit 35% Nigeria + Ghana corridor allocation), winner of the SAVCA 2024 Private Equity Firm of the Year (Pan-African Mid-Market) award. A UNISA BCompt Honours Accounting Science graduate, GIBS University of Pretoria MBA, SAICA-qualified Chartered Accountant, 7-year EY PE Portfolio Audit Supervisor and 10-year BoE/Nedbank Capital PE Principal before co-founding Sanari Capital in 2012 with a dedicated Nigeria expansion office opened 2019.