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Phillip Ndlovu is a senior audit and finance professional with over 20 years of progressive experience across the region, spanning IT and telecoms, consumer and industrial products, the public sector, retail, manufacturing, farming, shipping and FMCG. His career combines the technical rigour of Big 4 audit practice with the commercial insight of running his own firm.

He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) in 1989, passing the Final Qualifying Examination at his first attempt, and holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science (Honours) from the University of South Africa.

He founded and led P Ndlovu & Co for seven years, training seven chartered accountants before the firm merged with KPMG in 2002. He went on to serve as a Senior Audit Partner at KPMG Harare, General Manager of Project Management Solutions in Kigali, Rwanda, and Senior Partner of PNA Chartered Accountants, before joining the firm as Partner in 2018.

An accredited KPMG Quality Cross Reviewer with review experience across Malawi, Zambia and Mauritius, Phillip has led group consolidation engagements for multinational clients, coordinating audit teams across the United States, South Asia and North Africa. His portfolio includes engagements with organisations such as Cargill, Harare City Council, Zimbabwe Electricity Power Company, Rainbow and Wankie Colliery Mine, alongside extensive experience guiding companies through judicial management and liquidation processes.

Thamsanqa Michael Siwela is a Chartered Accountant with dual registration in South Africa and Zimbabwe, bringing over 20 years of experience in external and internal audit, financial reporting, advisory, forensic investigations and strategic turnaround management. He has led high-profile engagements and restructured distressed entities across manufacturing, FMCG, insurance, mining, healthcare, non-profit and financial services sectors.

He holds a BCompt from the University of South Africa (UNISA) and is a member of both the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ).

As Partner, Thamsanqa serves as Engagement Partner on external audits and leads internal audit and advisory engagements for clients including First Mutual Life Assurance, National Railways of Zimbabwe, United Bulawayo Hospitals and Highlanders Football Club. His forensic investigation work has covered institutions such as PSMAS and Mpilo Hospital, where he led a multi-year review of procurement compliance against statutory tender regulations, among other things.

He is widely recognised for his turnaround leadership, notably guiding National Blankets Limited out of judicial management into a viable, profit-making entity — an engagement that included a US$10 million debt-to-equity restructuring. He has also led due diligence assignments for major acquisitions, including ZimPharm’s acquisition of Datlabs, and feasibility studies for projects valued in the tens of millions of dollars.