Who Is Basil Sgourdos? Everything About The CFO Of Prosus

Basil(Vasili) Sgourdos (South African and Greek) is the finance director and executive director for Naspers. He loves music and is inspired by innovation. He is a polyglot; his LinkedIn profile states that he knows four languages- Afrikaans, English, Greek and Thai.

Sgourdos, the CFO of Naspers’ corporate venturing subsidiary MIH Holdings, succeeded Steve Pacak as CFO of Naspers in July 2014.

Basil Sgourdos is currently employed at (i) Prosus & Naspers as Group CFO & Financial Director, (ii)Prosus as Financial and Executive Director, and (iii)Naspers as Group Chief Financial Officer and Financial Director. He has had 5 past jobs including Team Member at PwC.

Basil was honored with Phil Weber Award in August 2012. It is the highest honor Naspers bestows to its highest achievers in recognition of their achievement within the Nasper group.

Basil Sgourdos Age

Basil Sgourdos hasn’t explicitly mentioned his age anywhere.

Looking at his pictures in his Twitter account, he looks like he’s somewhere in between the late fifties and early sixties.

However, age is just a number!

Basil Grourdos is yet to be featured on Wikipedia.

Even so, he is featured on Wiki –The Database of Famous People in the World.

He has his profile on Linkedin too.

Basil Sgourdos Net Worth

According to Businesstech, Vasili (Basil) Sgourdos, the group’s CFO and financial director, received $1,376,000 (R1,747,000) in long-term incentive (LTI) share options having a fair value of $740,000. (R9.5 million) in 2017.

Nesper has been expanding continuously so we can assume that the CFO sits on whopping millions.

“Ups and downs, in the near term, really don’t influence a strategy. Not in India, nowhere else either,” says the Naspers CEO to The Economic Times.

Basil Sgourdos Wife and Family

Since Sgourdos isn’t much active in social media, finding his family is especially hard.

Or, it is likely that he wants to protect the privacy of his family so he doesn’t post much of them.

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