About us

Phibion Gwatidzo is the CEO of Baker Tilly Chartered Accountants, a quad-country Member Firm of Baker Tilly International™. Phibion holds Bachelor of Accounting Science Degree and an Honours Bachelor of Accounting Science Degree both from the (University of South Africa).

He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1991 after serving articles with Deloitte & Touché in Harare and is entitled to use the designation Chartered Accountant (Zimbabwe). He has 28 years’ experience in the accounting field, 24 years in public accounting and auditing. He serves on the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe Auditing and Professional Standards Committee and is a director of several companies.

Phibion has experience in the audit of Public Companies, Private Companies, Financial Institutions, Educational Institutions, Public Enterprises and Public Institutions.

Phibion is Chairman of the Zimbabwe Wildlife Ecological Trust and sits on the boards of Engen Petroleum Zimbabwe (Private) Limited, Mail & Guardian Limited (South Africa), and is a Trustee of Hands of Hope (a charitable Trust). He is the current Chairman of the Baker Tilly International ™ Africa Coordination Committee and a member of the Baker Tilly International Europe, Middle East and Africa Advisory Council.

Justin is both a Chartered Surveyor and a Chartered Builder with broad experience in property investment. A former Chief Executive Officer for Mashonaland Holdings Limited and Dawn Properties Limited, he started his career at Knight Frank Zimbabwe before moving to CB Richard Ellis where he rose to become Partner. Justin has considerable overseas work experience having spent a number of years in Australia working for large organizations including Shell Australia Limited and Brookfield Multiplex Limited. A seasoned professional, Justin holds various qualifications including an MBA in Construction and Real Estate from the University of Reading, a post-graduate Diploma in Surveying from the College of Estate Management, a post-graduate Diploma in Project Management from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Zimbabwe. He also holds memberships of the Australian Property Institute, the Zimbabwe Valuers’ Council and the Real Estate Institute of Zimbabwe.

In the recent past he has been Managing Director for Dawn Property Consultancy, a subsidiary of Dawn Properties Limited.

Formai is a Chartered Accountant (Zimbabwe) with more than ten years of experience. He holds Bachelor of Accounting Sciences, Postgraduate Diplomas in Accounting Sciences and Applied Accounting Sciences from the University of South Africa (UNISA) and Certificate in Theory of Accounting (CTA).

He is a highly experienced audit and accounting professional with valuable experience in insurance, manufacturing and property development industries. Prior to joining Dawn Properties Limited, Formai held senior positions in the insurance, FMCG and Property development industries including Financial Controller, Finance Executive and Head of Internal Audit roles for leading companies which include Cell Holdings (Private) Limited, Lobels Holdings (Private) Limited and Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe.

Murisi is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe, with a solid professional background acquired through serving at Deloitte & Touché Zimbabwe, at Old Mutual Asset Managers (now Old Mutual Investment Group) and complemented by over twelve years’ experience in consulting and advisory services with Dominion Consulting Services. He is currently the Chief Finance Officer for Central Africa Building Society (a member of the Old Mutual Group) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Standard Telephones and Cables (Successors) (Private) Limited. Murisi is married to Maitirwa Mukonoweshuro and they have three daughters.

Brett Childs, a Chartered Accountant originally from Zimbabwe, has 30 years’ experience in change management, capital raising, IPOs, corporate actions and investment strategy. Brett spent 15 years in London, where he helped to build a successful venture capital business, listing assets on the London Stock Exchange and Helsinki Stock Exchange (HEX).

Brett has been based in Mauritius for the last 17 years and has managed or been a director of a number of private and public investment businesses, largely with a pan-African focus including Brainworks Limited, where he is Chief Executive Officer of this JSE listed company which is also the ultimate major shareholder of Dawn Properties Limited. Brett has been approved by various regulatory authorities including the Bank of Mauritius, Financial Services Commission (British Virgin Islands), Malta Financial Services Authority, Financial Services Board (South Africa), Solicitors Regulatory Authority (UK) and Financial Services Commission (Mauritius), to be a Director of companies they license.

Peter is a Chartered Accountant (Zimbabwe). He holds Bachelor of Accounting Sciences Honours and Bachelor of Accounting Sciences degrees from the University of South Africa (UNISA), Certificate of Theory in Accounting (CTA) and an Advanced Diploma in Auditing. He possesses strong financial management background skills having been the Finance Director at Dawn Properties Limited,  Financial Controller of Ecobank Zimbabwe Limited and Chief Finance Officer at Cell Holdings (Private) Limited – a holding company with subsidiaries and associates with interests in short term and medical insurance.

Peter has vast external audit background in the banking, insurance, tourism and power generation sectors having worked as an Audit Manager for both KPMG Zimbabwe and KPMG Namibia for a combined period of 5 years.

Peter is currently the Chief Finance Officer for Brainworks Limited and also sits on the board of directors of African Sun Limited.

Graham Paul Johnson is an experienced projects and business manager whose career has developed from a broad technical base through consulting, operational and general management. He has extensive experience of working at Board level, setting strategy and direction and then implementing the decisions throughout the organisation. He established GPJ Projects in 2016, a professional Consultancy business offering services in the project management field of all types of projects.

Graham was the Managing Director of Boschendal Wine Estate Property Development Company and was instrumental in gaining the first approvals for the R4.5 billion multi-use property development which included residential, retirement village, commercial, hotel and resort projects. Prior to this Graham was an Executive Director of Zimbabwe Sun Limited, now African Sun Limited, where he held several portfolios including those of Operations and Marketing Director responsible for the group’s local, regional and international sales and marketing and Development Director where he was responsible for the Group’s extensive hotel development programme during the 1990’s. He did an Advanced Management Programme from Oxford University, Property Development programme from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and a Bachelors of Science in Quantity Surveying from the University of Cape Town.

Lloyd Mhishi is the Founder and current Senior Partner of the law firm; Mhishi Nkomo Legal Practice based in Harare.  Lloyd has practiced law at several well established Zimbabwean law firms since 1993. Although he has experience in general practice, Lloyd has a special interest in Property Law, Real Estate and Conveyancing including registration of transfers and mortgage bonds with the Deeds Office. He has extensive experience in financial transactions involving financing agreements for international funders having registered security in their favour binding local institutional debtors. He also has experience in commercial and corporate law practice, banking and financial services work. Individually and as part of teams, Lloyd has advised on significant transactions including on competition laws, reconstruction and restructuring, schemes of arrangement, privatisations, unbundling, mergers and acquisitions and listings relating to a number of companies listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.

Lloyd is, and has been a Director and Member of several public and private corporations and Councils including, FBC Building Society, Council for Legal Education, Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council, Standards Association of Zimbabwe General Council, ZECO Limited, Estate Agents Council, Firstel Cellular (Private) Limited, Ecobank Zimbabwe Limited, MHMK Infratek (Private) Limited and a Trustee on a number of Charitable and Family Trusts established in Zimbabwe. He is a past President of the Law Society of Zimbabwe having been a Councillor for more than a decade. He has also been a Lecturer and was Departmental Chairman in the Procedural Law Department of the University of Zimbabwe for more than fifteen years. Lloyd has been appointed to several Constitutional Commissions and is currently a Commissioner on the Judicial Services Commission. Lloyd wrote and published a book entitled “The Law & Practice of Conveyancing in Zimbabwe” (Legal Resources Foundation, August, 2005). Apart from being a holder of a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Degree, he is also a holder of a Masters Degree in Business Administration with specialization in Finance.