Machaka Mosehana is the Director of the Centre of Entrepreneurship at the Johannesburg Business School, a faculty of the University of Johannesburg. She is also an Enterprise Development (ED) Strategist who specialises in small and medium enterprise (SME) development and market linkages, both locally and internationally. Her SME development experience spans well over 16 years of working with the private sector, public sector, multinationals, and non-profit organisations. As an ED strategist, she plays an advisory role in aligning the Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) priorities of organisations in South Africa with their strategic objectives. Machaka is also an industry leader in strategy formulation, planning, and the seamless execution of innovative SME development programmes to solve for corporate and public sector transformation agendas using Enterprise Development, Supplier Development and Skills Development elements of the B-BBEE scorecard as the drivers.
Over the years, she has re-defined the art of facilitating access to market and finance for SMEs and has unlocked well over R500 million worth of supplier contracts and investments for small businesses by linking investors with SMEs for local and international investment opportunities, contributing to these organisations’ sustainable development and growth.
Machaka is also the founder of the start-up called Fahrenheit Capital, which aimed at creating a market access platform for small businesses and start-ups with high growth potential. Fahrenheit Capital carved its niche by focusing on Market Linkage Facilitation, Enterprise Development, Corporate Innovation and Alternative Funding. In 2016, in recognition of her industry leadership on the continent, she was contracted as a Business Development Executive Manager by a Switzerland-based company called AFIDEP (African Investor and Development Programme). Her role focused on marketing Africa to the European investor community as an investment hub for signature infrastructure projects.
Over the last 16+ years, she has created strong relational capital with key players in South Africa’s SME ecosystem. Currently. Machaka is also a Non-Executive Director (Board Member) of Aspire Development Agency.