Venteri Capital

Meet The Team

CEO

Petro Magos

Petro is a media entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Magos Media, a prominent media production company that has been creating content for various platforms since 2000. He has also been an Angel Investor in many cutting edge projects and startups realizing success and gaining significant experience on both the operation and investor side. Petro often speaks on entrepreneurship and marketing, connecting with people who share his vision and values. Petro leverages his 24+ years of experience as a media entrepreneur and investor to help founders unlock their growth potential and also holds a diploma in marketing from the IMM Graduate School.
CFO

Savva Argyros

Savva is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA) who holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting with Honours. His academic focus included Financial Accounting, Financial Analysis, and Valuations. He completed his three-year articles at KPMG, and subsequently served as a Senior Auditor at PwC. In 2009, Savva transitioned into a full-time career as a professional equities trader, specializing in U.S. growth stocks, and founded Black Leaf Capital, a proprietary trading firm. He also currently serves as CFO and Board Member of GotBot AI, an innovative AI chatbot company that was selected among the Top 10 startups in Africa by Startupbootcamp AfriTech in 2017.
COO

Nick Argyros

Nick is the co-founder and Group CEO of INJOZI Technology Studio, Audio Militia and GotBot AI. Establishing and heading the INJOZI Technology Studio team for over a decade, the studio has received numerous accolades, including multiple Promax, Bookmark, Midas, Clio, FWA and Loerie Awards. Audio Militia has similarly seen achievements at the Loeries under his curatorship and was credited on a Cannes Grand Prix winning project. Both businesses have been voted into the Top 3 Digital Agency and Audio Post Production companies on the African continent over multiple years. GotBot AI was selected as one of the Top 10 Start-Up companies on the African continent by StartupBootcamp in 2017. Nick’s undeniable experience in the machine-learning sector has also seen him presenting, demonstrating and introducing the product to local and international audiences, from WPP Stream to Viva Tech Paris.
Chairman

Yusuf Randera-Rees

Yusuf was awarded a scholarship at Harvard University where he studied Economics (with Honors), thereafter moving to New York to work in a volatility trading group for Credit Suisse Investment Bank. He was then awarded a South African Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where he completed two Masters degrees, a MSc in Financial Economics and a MSc in African Studies. In 2009, Yusuf co-founded and is the CEO of Awethu Project. The company developed one of the lowest-cost and most scalable job creation solutions in South Africa and one of the country’s most successful social impact investment funds with over 2,200 entrepreneurs incubated, over 3,000 jobs created and over R450 Million raised and invested. The flagship fund realizing an IRR of 20%.