Owner-managed businesses in the “10 to 100” growth phase often run on the founder’s personal energy rather than institutional systems: past survival, but not yet built to scale. Wayne brings the combined financial and operational discipline that changes that, taking founder-led companies from person-dependent to structured for scale, succession, or sale. Built to scale. Structured to sell.
He’s a Fractional CFO and COO based in Cape Town with over 20 years of experience across South Africa and the United States, founder of Acclivity Executive Advisory. His work spans fractional CFO leadership (bespoke executive dashboards, cash flow architecture, FP&A, and board and investor reporting), fractional COO leadership (operational systems, restructuring and turnaround), M&A due diligence and transaction advisory, and corporate governance and compliance across the Companies Act, CIPC and SARS frameworks. His diagnostic work runs through a Five-Tier Operational Audit Framework covering Inputs, Processes, Tools, Handoffs and Inefficiencies, with AI-enhanced finance built into every engagement to move clients from basic digital adoption toward automated, real-time financial operations. He holds an MBA in IT and Finance from the University of Cape Town and is a member of Fractionals SA.
His career highlight predates the fractional practice entirely: as GM Business Development at Swist Group Technologies, he authored the original business plan and financial model for MXit and is personally credited with naming it, the low-cost cellular messaging platform that went on to attract Naspers investment and became one of Africa’s largest social networks. He’s also built Eco-Logic Bamboo into the most specified bamboo brand in South Africa, and delivered international recognition for sales and pricing analysis while at Brandhouse Beverages.
Alongside his commercial mandates, Wayne applies the same institutional discipline to faith-based non-profit work supporting orphaned and vulnerable children, a quieter commitment that shapes how seriously he takes the responsibility of building something that lasts.
