Marthinus Erasmus

Marthinus Erasmus is a South African Chartered Accountant (CA(SA), qualified through SAICA) whose career has centred on finance leadership and corporate advisory. He earned a B Acc in Accounting and Finance from North-West University (1986–1988) and a B Com (Hons) CTA in Accounting from the University of Pretoria (1989). His early executive career was in the technology/services sector, where he served as Executive Director at AST Group Limited and Group Financial Director at GijimaAst from 1998 to 2006.

From 2006 to 2018 he was an Executive Director at Arbor Capital, a Sandton-based transaction and corporate advisory firm. Arbor Capital advises companies on corporate finance and M&A, capital raising, buy-outs, JSE listings (as sponsor/designated advisor), strategy execution, government incentives and independent expert opinions — positioning itself as an "extension of the client's own executive team." Its published deep-experience sectors include financial services, manufacturing, ICT/fintech, education, logistics, property, medical and agriculture.

Since 2018, Erasmus has been Chief Executive Officer of Sperosens (Pty) Ltd, a Johannesburg-based provider of fire-protection, detection and telemetry/monitoring solutions to the African mining and industrial sectors. This is his current principal role.

> Accuracy note: The stub described him as "CEO / Angel Investor" at Arbor Capital investing at the "Seed Round" stage. Public sources do not substantiate this: Arbor Capital is an advisory firm (it connects clients to capital rather than deploying its own into startups), his title there was Executive Director, and his current CEO title belongs to Sperosens. No angel/seed investment activity by him is documented in public sources. The sections below reflect what is verifiable rather than the stub's framing.

• No personal, publicly stated angel/venture investment thesis or check-size could be verified.
• His professional deal exposure comes through Arbor Capital's corporate-finance mandate: M&A, capital raising, buy-outs, and JSE listing/sponsor work for established and owner-driven ("entrepreneur-led") businesses rather than early-stage startups.
• Sector emphasis follows Arbor Capital's stated strengths: financial services, manufacturing, ICT/fintech, education, logistics, property, medical and agriculture, primarily in South Africa.
• As a CA(SA) and long-time financial director, his likely evaluation lens is financials, governance and a hands-on execution role alongside management (consistent with Arbor Capital's "trusted advisor / extension of your team" philosophy).