David Scholtz

David joined Ariadne Capital in 2006 to be part of the transaction team. His sector expertise includes digital entertainment, local media, online consumer services, e-commerce and online recruitment. David has championed and advised companies including BView, Enrich Social Productions, Nearworld Investments, Momail, Consenda and Digital Stores.

David's key focus areas include advising on capital raising, business growth strategy and partnership development as well as corporate advisory within the digital media and online services sectors. He has a strong grasp of new technologies, web development and consumer services.

Prior to Ariadne Capital, he was a Senior Business Analyst at Yahoo! Search Marketing, a division of Yahoo! Europe, for three years where he worked in the European Operations Finance team as a finance business partner to the European YSM Business Development team. Prior to Yahoo! Europe he was at Monster Worldwide (European subsidiary of Monster Worldwide Inc) for four years as European Business Analyst, working across the European Finance and Sales divisions with the European CEO, CFO and Head of Sales.

David has a dual BA Psychology degree from Richmond the American International University in London and the Open University, is a Swedish South African and speaks Swedish, Afrikaans and some French and Dutch.

david.scholtz@ariadnecapital.com