Ms Schutte is currently an Investment Principal at Sanlam Private Equity (SPE) where she is responsible for sourcing potential investments, evaluation and implementation, post-investment management and represents SPE on the various governance structures of its investments. Schutte is a qualified Chartered Accountant and completed her articles at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Entrepreneurial Advisory Division and holds a Masters Degree in South African and International Taxation from the University of Johannesburg previously known as RAU (Rand African University).

She has been active in the private equity industry since 2004 when she joined Tiso Group as Finance Manager and Private Equity Deal Executive. At Tiso, she was responsible for the full finance function, as well as the evaluation and structuring of investments, providing tax advice to the group and representing Tiso Group on the audit committees of its various investments. In 2008 she joined Tsiya Group, a small investment company as Director and is responsible for deal sourcing and structuring, due diligence investigations, and post-investment management. During her time at Tsiya, she was seconded to a radio station in KZN (Gagasi 99.5) as Managing Director.