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Our IP is

Experience

We are a firm of CEOs, CFOs, and capital markets executives who provide the senior leadership and execution power needed to achieve your strategic goals.

kendal:IP by the Numbers

Our Collective Track Record

Experience

of capital raised across five continents.

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Relationships

deep relationships with global capital providers, including banks, DFIs, pension funds, and traditional assets managers’ .

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Global Insights

countries of operational and transaction experience.

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Deep Experience

cumulative years in leaderships positions.

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Our Operator

Advantage.

Nick Ward-Able

Chief Executive Officer of Kendal Investment Partners, with extensive experience across financial planning and analysis, capital structuring, and advisory execution.

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David Rajak

Executive Director at Kendal Investment Partners and a capital markets specialist with over 25 years of experience across global debt and capital markets.

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Joel Kletz CA(SA)

A chartered accountant and operational CFO focused on financial modelling and data to shape clear narratives and support informed decision-making.

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David Hurwitz CA(SA)

Former CEO of a JSE listed company’; specialist in acquisitive and organic growth and capital markets.

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Martine Burgess

Heads up financial modelling and capital structuring at Kendal Investment Partners and has over 20 years of experience in financial planning and analysis within large financial institutions.

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Daniela Burns

Key member with over 15 years of specialised debt capital markets experience across boutique advisory and JSE-listed environments, she brings a combination of strategic insight and calm precision to complex capital market transactions.

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Ewa Orpen

Legal Counsel at Kendal Investment Partners with over 20 years of experience across banking, regulatory, and capital markets law.

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Megan Shankman

A Chartered Accountant (SA) with experience across audit, fund finance, and operational finance in South Africa and the UK.

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James Macgregor

Professional with a background in audit and financial analysis from Deloitte London. He brings extensive experience in financial analysis and technical accounting within the agricultural, energy, retail, financial & industrial sectors.

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Justin Stone

Transactor at Kendal Investment Partners, responsible for aspects of the firm’s technology stack, financial management, and process optimisation.

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Ryan Painting

A transactor at Kendal Investment Partners. He brings experience in audit, transaction due diligence, and financial modelling, having worked on both buy-side and sell-side engagements.

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Grant Kurland
Non-Executive

An experienced entrepreneur, founder and investor with over 20 years in multi-national financial services.

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Stuart Stone
Non-Executive

An experienced entrepreneur, founder and investor with over 20 years in multi-national financial services.

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Our How:

Four core capabilities.

We integrate four critical areas to ensure strategy and execution remain constantly aligned. The result is a professional, scalable finance architecture aligned to growth and capital markets expectations.

Capital Strategy & Execution

We design capital structures aligned to your objectives. We act as the primary interface between your business and capital markets, engaging capital providers with clarity and credibility that reduces execution risk and shortens timelines.

FP&A as a Service

We provide senior financial capability: planning, forecasting, and liquidity management, without the need for you to build a permanent in-house team. We establish the financial discipline, reporting, and governance required to attract institutional capital and provide boards and other stakeholders with decision-ready insight.

Legal Consulting

Our legal expertise is embedded to ensure transactions are executed with regulatory certainty. We operate alongside the CEO and CFO to provide practical, business-minded advice on banking, securities law, and M&A support to remove friction enable smooth legal execution during the
critical stages of transitions.

Finance Function Platform

We install a fully-fledged, senior-led finance function built for scale. This is not fractional finance. We integrate alongside the CEO and leadership team to optimise operations, enforce disciplined close processes, implement structured reporting, strengthen financial controls, and deliver forward-looking insight.

We Deliver the “How”

Our Philosophy

Ownership

While many firms exit once a report is delivered, we take ownership of the outcomes.

Operators

We become your operating backbone. Our work is anchored by an embedded financial operating layer.

Involved

This isn’t a periodic reporting exercise; it is the mechanism that connects your high-level strategy to day-to-day execution.

Accountable

We remain engaged and accountable as your business evolves, ensuring that every financial model and capital strategy is grounded in the reality of your operations.

Clients