Jean Craven

Buildmax Ltd. engages in the provision of opencast mining, mining services, bulk earthworks, and supplies construction materials. It operates through the Mining Services and Equipment Sales and Rental segments. The Mining Services segment includes mine planning, pit design, production scheduling, drilling and blasting, opencast mining, pillar mining, surveying, and mine rehabilitation. The Equipment Sales and Rental segment focuses on the disposal of the company's second-hand equipment as well as short-term rental of equipment to preferred customers. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Bapsfontein, South Africa.

Rand Merchant Bank provides banking services. The company was founded by Laurie Lanser Dippenaar, Gerrit Thomas Ferreira and partick Maguire Goss in 1977 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Export Trading Co. Ltd. supplies african agricultural products. It offers commercial farming, procurement, trading, and processing of cereals, pulses and oil-seeds. The firm produces and processes grains, nuts and spices, sugar, coffee and tea, fertilizer, and rice. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Cotonou, Benin.

Barak Fund Management Ltd. (Barak) is an independent asset management firm headquartered in Floreal, Mauritius. The firm was founded by Jean Craven and Prieur du Plessis in 2007. Barak provides investors with unique, uncorrelated strategies in Emerging Markets. The flagship Barak Structured Trade Finance Fund was launched in February 2009, with the other Barak funds formed in mid- 2014 and early 2016 respectively.