ABOUT THE FIRM

Built in Southern Africa. Structured for an international mandate.

Blue Highland Advisory Group is a registered advisory and investment platform bringing project finance, PPP structuring and investment appraisal to bankable infrastructure and commercial projects — with a positioning built to connect Southern African opportunity with international capital and expertise.

ORIGIN

From a regional advisory practice to a global-facing platform.

Blue Highland Advisory Group's practice grew out of Austerity, a Lesotho-based finance, advisory and investment firm working across project feasibility, structuring and financing for infrastructure, agribusiness, manufacturing and property projects in one of Southern Africa's smaller, more overlooked economies.

That work meant appraising projects the traditional financial markets often pass over — not because they lack merit, but because they lack investment-ready preparation. It also meant learning, project by project, what a small economy needs to make its case to bigger capital: rigorous feasibility work, bankability discipline, and a governance standard that outside investors recognise.

Blue Highland Advisory Group carries that discipline forward under an explicitly international positioning — with the explicit intent of connecting infrastructure, mining, agribusiness and development-finance capability from further afield, including Australia, with investment-ready opportunity across Southern Africa.

ENTITYBlue Highland Advisory Group (Pty) Ltd
REG. NUMBER2026/558810/07
REGISTEREDSouth Africa, July 2026
STATUSIn business, tax-registered
HERITAGEAdvisory practice, Lesotho since Sept 2022
OPERATING BASELesotho & South Africa
PRINCIPAL

Led by a decade of project finance and advisory practice.

Managing Director

Lere Letompa

B.Com (Finance), University of Johannesburg
10+ years in project finance & advisory
Based in Lesotho & South Africa

Lere Letompa is an infrastructure, investment and transaction-advisory professional with over a decade of experience across project finance, PPP-style structuring, financial modelling, investment appraisal, valuation and feasibility studies.

That experience spans agricultural investment facilitation, industrial and logistics localisation strategy, and private equity and capital-structuring support — work that runs from early-stage economic and impact assessment through to investor-facing financial modelling and transaction preparation.

Lere holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from the University of Johannesburg, and leads Blue Highland Advisory Group's positioning as a bridge between Southern African project opportunity and international capital and advisory partners.

TEAM & NETWORK

Senior expertise drawn in as mandates require.

Alongside the core practice, Blue Highland Advisory Group works with a network of senior specialists across project finance, energy policy and engineering delivery.

Project Finance & Emerging Markets

Oton "Tony" Iskarpatyoti

Washington, D.C.

An international project finance professional with over 35 years of transaction-based development finance experience, including senior roles at the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, and as a policy and transaction advisor across Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia. Advises governments and project sponsors on bankability, PPP structuring and private-sector-enabling reform.

Project financePPPEnergy
Energy & Climate Policy

Dr Albert Butare

Kigali, Rwanda

A former Minister responsible for Energy, Water and Communications in Rwanda, with over thirty years of energy and climate change experience across Africa. Led the team that developed Lesotho's first Climate Change Policy and Sustainable Energy Strategy, and has built national investment prospectuses under the Sustainable Energy for All initiative for governments including Rwanda, Zambia and Lesotho. CEO of Africa Energy Services Group and Director for Africa Region at Greenmax Capital Advisors.

Energy policyClimate financeLesotho
Engineering & Project Delivery

Johann van der Westhuizen

South Africa

A senior mechanical engineer and project/engineering manager with 27 years across petrochemical, mining, tank farm, metals processing and industrial infrastructure projects. A registered Professional Engineer (ECSA) and PMP, bringing feasibility, FEL and delivery-stage engineering discipline to project preparation.

EngineeringFeasibilityDelivery
HOW WE WORK

The principles the practice is run on.

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Entrepreneurship & urgency

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Teamwork

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Excellence

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Professional & ethical conduct

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Long-term development