Neil Page is the Independent non-executive director and member of the Investment committee of Universal Partners, he is a South African. Neil gained marketing experience with Ford Motor Company prior to entering the banking industry in 1978.
Subsequently, Neil has gained extensive experience in commercial banking including retail, corporate and international banking. Neil has specialised in private equity since 1985, when he joined the MBO division of Barclays Merchant Bank, which subsequently became Firstcorp Capital, the forerunner of Ethos Private Equity (Pty) Ltd.
In 1989 he co-founded what is today RMB Corvest, a leading private equity investor in South Africa. Neil has been the Managing Director of this company since inception.
Neil sits on the boards of various RMB Corvest investee companies and the boards of the subsidiary companies making up the RMB Corvest Group of Companies.
Neil has been a member of the RMB Investment Committee for a number of years, a position he continues to hold.