Wayne Cowie

Managing Director, Project Finance at BlueWave Solar

Wayne is responsible for all BlueWave Solar project finance activities, including the raising of development and construction finance and ultimately the sale of our projects to long term investors. Wayne is also responsible for the BlueWave South Africa solar development business.

Wayne brings over 15 years of experience spanning mergers and acquisitions, fundraising, corporate strategy, solar development, and project finance to BlueWave. He joined BlueWave in 2014 from London-based merchant bank Close Brothers Group PLC where he worked on corporate M&A and group strategy. Prior to that, he worked in the financial services M&A team at Hawkpoint, a London-based independent corporate finance advisory firm, and with Deloitte in Cape Town, New York, and Sydney.

Wayne graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Business Science with Honours in Finance and later qualified as a Chartered Accountant and CFA® Charterholder.


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