Hixonia Nyasulu

Hixonia Nyasulu (born 1954) is a South African businesswoman.

Biography

Early life

Hixonia Nyasulu was born in 1954 in South Africa. She received a BA in Social Work and an Honors degree in Psychology from the University of Zululand. She graduated from the Arthur D. Little School of Management program in Massachusetts.

Career

She worked at Unilever from 1978 to 1984. In 1984, she founded T.H. Nyasulu & Associates, a marketing and research company. In 2004, she founded Ayavuna Women's Investments, a woman-controlled investment firm.

She is a former Deputy Chairman of the South African bank Nedbank. She is a former director of Anglo American Platinum and McCarthy Retail. She now serves as Chairman of Sasol. She sits on the Board of Directors of Unilever, Paton Tupper Associates and Tongaat Hulett. She also serves on the Advisory Board of JPMorgan Chase.