Mr Bashi Gaetsaloe is the Managing Director of Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) – A leading development finance institute based in Botswana.  BDC finances commercially viable enterprises in Botswana and across the region with the aim of stimulating economic development, growth and diversification. 

He joined BDC from Accenture Botswana where he was the Country Managing Director. He has held Director / CEO positions of growing responsibility and profile for the past 18 years, initially as a Director of HRMC Management Consultants and later as Managing Director of two global entities, KPMG Consulting and Accenture. He has advised and consulted to the Botswana Government as well as to Botswana’s leading companies across the banking, telecommunications, insurance, manufacturing and mining industries.

Mr Gaetsaloe has specific expertise in the areas of business strategy, organisational transformation, business start-ups and business turnaround, and change management.  He has successfully led the BDC Transformation Programme for the past two years

He holds a MA in Economics from Yale University, New Haven, USA and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Connecticut College, New London, USA.