Nadya Bhettay

Non Executive Director @ MetroFibre

About

While currently based in Johannesburg, I have worked across New York, London, Mumbai, and Dublin over the past 20 years, specialising in mergers & acquisitions, strategy and finance. My last role as Chief Operations Officer: Vodacom Business Ventures & Partnerships, I managed a portfolio of Vodacom's new tech companies including IoT, payments security, health-, agri-and edu-tech

Country

South Africa

City

City of Johannesburg

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Strategic Services, Executive Advisory, Leadership, Growth Strategies, Capital Markets, Financial Reporting, Financial Accounting, Business Decision Making, Investor Relations, Treasury, Project Management, New Business Development, Digital Strategy, Mergers , Corporate Finance, Strategy, Valuation, Telecommunications, Investment Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions

Experience

Non Executive Director

MetroFibre

2025-6 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Non Executive Director

E Squared Investments

2025-6 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Non Executive Board Member

Capitec

2023-9 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

Non Executive Board Member

Endeavor South Africa

2022-10 - Present · 4 yrs

City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Strategic Advisor

Discovery Health

2024-6 - 2025-11 · 1 yr 6 mos

City of Johannesburg

Strategic consulting to the CEO, focus on preventative health and artificial intelligence, and other projects.

Chief Operations Officer: Ventures & Partnerships

Vodacom

2019-5 - 2022-10 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Managing portfolio of companies for Vodacom in the enterprise space (IoT, payments security, agri- & health-tech) and also strategic enterprise partnerships. Pivoting Vodacom Business to be able to provide e2e digital transformation solutions to its customers.

Chief Officer Strategy and Business Development

Vodacom

2016-5 - 2019-5 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I was responsible for Vodacom Group’s strategy (formulation, board discussion and communication) , mergers & acquisitions, business development (including spectrum) and BEE.

Chief Financial Officer, Vodafone Ireland

Vodafone

2014-1 - 2016-4 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

- Managed a team of 100+ finance professionals across financial operations, reporting, planning/budgeting, decision support, commercials, internal audit, treasury, business development, JVs and implementation of the strategy - Key member of exco - financial liaison with Vodafone Group

Head: Financial Planning & Analysis

Vodafone

2011-6 - 2013-9 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Mumbai Area, India

Forecasting and Decision Support for Sales & Marketing and Technology

Group Executive: Business Development (incl. Strategy, M&A)

Vodacom

2005-5 - 2011-5 · 6 yrs 1 mo

- Support to the CEO and CFO on “business unusual projects”, assessment of business cases. - Responsible for Strategy and Corporate Finance: defining and implementing the strategy for growth, both organically and through M&A and working with Exco to achieve Vodacom’s goals. - Corporate Finance role includes M&A activity in the home market (South Africa) and Africa, covering telcos, IT companies, ISPs, sea cables, etc. - responsible for Investor Relations where Vodacom was the largest part of Telkom which was listed - listed listed Vodacom on the JSE - deals included largest ICT BEE deal

Vice President

Morgan Stanley

2000-7 - 2005-5 · 4 yrs 11 mos

South Africa. United Kingdom

Coverage role including M&A, debt/equity capital markets across top 20 companies on the JSE: mining, financial services, industrials Included 1 year in Morgan Stanley London (M&A)