Reon Barnard

Reon Barnard balances his entrepreneurial spirit with intuitive and smart financial investments to ensure he creates and invests in businesses that offer sustainable, profitable growth. Decades spent in mining, mining services and trading reinforce his belief that “opportunity is everywhere” – especially right here at home in South Africa.

Liran Assness

Liran is an afro-optimist to his core. His deep, specialist expertise was acquired through hands-on experience in mining and industrial businesses. He believes that while anyone can throw money at a simple business to scale up, it takes teamwork, industry experience and strategic decision-making to unlock potential in a complex business or industry.

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.

We don’t want you to trust us with your wallet if:

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.

Strong professional team combining experience and entrepreneurial insights

We could be filling our boots.Doesn’t mean we should.

We could be filling our boots.
Doesn’t mean we should.