Vanessa Gounden (born 1961) is an entrepreneur and the first female mining magnate in South Africa. Her business portfolio encompasses healthcare services, financial services, lifestyle, and leisure.

Career

In 2003, Vanessa, alongside her husband Sivi, founded HolGoun Investment Holdings, an investment holding company in South Africa. Starting with minimal resources, they transformed HolGoun into a highly successful multi-divisional company. HolGoun Investment Holdings primarily invests in coal and uranium but has diversified into various sectors, including mining, exploration,

healthcare Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...

financial services Financial services are the Service (economics), economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, acco ...

, property, and

fashion Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion in ...

. Vanessa currently serves as the chief executive officer of HolGoun. The group extends its reach through subsidiaries like HolGoun Healthcare, HG Risk Management Solutions, HG Property, and HG Lifestyle and Leisure. March 2011 marked the launch of her clothing line, Vanessa G London, during London Fashion Week. Hosted at Banqueting House in London, her women's luxury fashion label spans casual, cocktail, formal, and haute couture "ready to wear" clothing.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gounden, Vanessa Living people 1961 births University of Pretoria alumni South African women in politics South African mining businesspeople South African people of Indian descent 20th-century South African politicians 21st-century South African businesspeople