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Matthew Lines

Associate Director

 
Matthew Lines joined LeapFrog in 2015 and is an Associate Director in the Climate Investment team at LeapFrog Investments, based in Johannesburg, where he helps drive investments that accelerate the clean energy transition across Africa.

LeapFrog Investments is a global impact investor that partners with exceptional businesses in Africa and Asia to achieve leaps of growth, profitability, and impact. Founded in 2007, LeapFrog companies now reach more than 500 million people across 37 countries, providing financial services, healthcare, and climate solutions. LeapFrog’s Climate Strategy marks a natural extension of the firm’s 16-year journey as a pioneer of impact investing. It focuses on backing companies in Energy, Mobility, Food & Agriculture, and the Built Environment that deliver a win-win between people and the planet.

With over a decade of impact investment experience across emerging markets, Matthew has worked across financial services spanning insurance, payments, and inclusive finance, and is now focused on scaling climate solutions that are both commercially competitive and socially transformative. His work focuses on sectors where green technologies are unlocking a “green discount,” achieving scale and cost parity to legacy alternatives, supported by favourable policy environments across emerging markets, including distributed solar, energy efficiencies, electric mobility, and smart agriculture.

Prior to LeapFrog, Matthew began his career at EY, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and was seconded to the firm’s asset management division in New York. Before joining LeapFrog, he served as a corporate banker at Nedbank, completing the bank’s accelerated talent development programme with a focus on acquisition and leveraged finance, and credit risk.

Matthew holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was awarded a university merit scholarship and admitted to the Golden Key Society. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.