84 Acquisition International - Influential Businesswoman Awards 2023 May23108 Most Influential Clean Energy Businesswoman 2023 (Southern Africa): Yolanda Mabuto Based in South Africa, Western Cape, PlatterKloof with offices also in Johannesburg, Divaine Growth Solutions is a 100% black female-owned organisation affiliated with BRICS and dedicated to accelerating the global transition to renewable energy solutions through exceptional project deployment and management. The company is headed by a Founding and Managing Director Yolanda Mabuto, a multiple award winner and an experienced leader with a strong background in the energy sector. Here, we dive deeper into her impressive career and the work she does at Divaine Growth Solutions. Now a seasoned global leader with qualifications from the UCT Graduate School of Business, Yolanda Mabuto has truly flourished throughout her career in the energy sector, positively impacting the industry with her boundless passion, dedication, and integrity. Having worked for Eskom and served at the Association of Municipal Electricity Utilities, Yolanda leveraged her extensive experience in the field to establish Divaine Growth Solutions almost a decade ago, a company focused on clean and affordable energy, innovative manufacturing, deployment of electric vehicle and charging station as well as driving gender equality. She was inspired by an ambitious vision: to implement sustainable development goals that would drive the global economy forward through transformation, innovation, and improving lives across the world. To realise this vision, Divaine Growth Solutions has since been working to address the underlying economic issues that are key to driving the growth of Africa and promoting sustainability within the energy sector. Ultimately, its goals are to create access to clean and affordable energy, support the energy transition by facilitating investment opportunities for African infrastructure projects. Divaine Growth Solutions offers several services to its clients, who primarily operate across the sectors of energy, mining, education, manufacturing and agriculture. In collaboration with international partners, the company has embarked on manufacturing solar panels using sand and silicon. It then supplies and installs these solar panels, primarily focusing on the commercial and industrial markets. Through this, it accomplishes its goal of providing access to clean and affordable energy, whilst also serving as an Independent Power Producer (IPP) to lessen the load on the national grid. Through its manufacturing hub and electric vehicle operations, Divaine Growth Solutions effectively intends to add more value to the economy by creating employment opportunities for young people and women across the country and continent. Today, Divaine Growth Solutions is an active member of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Energy and Green Economy Working Group. N In 2023 Divaine Growth Solutions presented a successful case study on electric vehicle deployment during BRICS Summit in South Africa with the intention contribute towards the achievement of net zero emissions. Through Divaine Growth Solutions, Yolanda has been breaking boundaries, both continentally and internationally, as a Pan African female business leader with endless ideas for addressing the most pressing global economic challenges in Africa and beyond. Divaine Growth Solutions as a women led organisation is proud to have been endorsed by the Department of Minerals Resources and Energy in 2019 to host The Woman Power Boss, an 18-month programme focused on empowering women and creating opportunities for women-owned businesses within the energy sector, with the next co-hort planned for 2024. For her outstanding work as a leader in the clean energy sector, Yolanda Mabuto was named Most Influential Clean Energy Businesswoman, Southern Africa, in the Influential Businesswoman Awards 2023. We are delighted to congratulate her on this impressive achievement and look forward to seeing what she will go on to accomplish in the years to come. Email: [email protected] Company: Divaine Growth Solutions Web Address: www.divainegrowthsolutions.co.za
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