Reon is a mining entrepreneur and a builder of businesses. He balances his entrepreneurial spirit with intuitive and smart financial investments to ensure sustainable, profitable growth in all his endeavours. Reon's belief that “opportunity is everywhere” - coupled with deep experience and mettle - has enabled him to uncover prospects in untapped areas.
Riaan is a driver for delivery and growth, seeking out opportunities wherever he operates. He lives by the philosophy that one should be stubborn about one’s goals, yet flexible about the methods deployed to achieve them. He is a real man of Africa, using his Engineering and Project Management skills across the continent.
Strong professional team combining experience and entrepreneurial insights.
Tabono was founded by Liran Assness and Reon Barnard, who are highly qualified and experienced professionals who have each built and scaled specialised businesses individually. In Tabono we see the combination of their expertise and entrepreneurial intuition as the alchemy that catapults the growth of highly specialised businesses.
We could be filling our boots.
Doesn’t mean we should.
You give breezy opinions about ESG scores at dinner parties.
You read newspapers while you walk and think ‘China’ and ‘Africa’ are dirty words.
You don’t like shaking hands with someone wearing a baseball cap and combat pants.
You searched for a ‘Live Chat’ to complain about the items in this list (or the fact we don’t have a Live chat)
You only invest in companies that use words like ‘strive’, ‘enable’ and ‘equitable’.
You searched for a ‘Live Chat’ to compliment us about the items in this list.
You ‘Like’ or ‘Share’ social posts you don’t read.
You put a Ukraine flag in your Twitter bio, yet can’t point it out on a map.
