Herman has been in investment management since 1985, holding senior positions in several asset management companies. He began his career when awarded a bursary from Old Mutual, studying a BBus Sci majoring in Actuarial Science, Statistics (Honours) and Economics. After a period at Old Mutual, he co-founded an asset management company. In 1993 Herman started the first index tracker fund, the Composite Unit Trust, in South Africa. This was sold to Investec, which he joined in 1995. He established Investec’s international fund management capability, establishing fund structures in Dublin.

In 1998 Herman and Guy Toms founded Prescient Investment Management which applies its investment techniques to cash, bonds, equities, balanced portfolios and asset allocation.

Cheree Dyers, CA (SA) & CFA, was appointed as CEO and Executive Director of Prescient Investment Management in February 2018, where she currently drives the company's vision of innovation, transformation and providing quality financial service offerings to the market. In addition, Cheree also serves as Executive Director on other Group boards. Cheree joined Prescient in 2005 as Head of Finance and Risk Management at Prescient Investment Management and served as a member of the Board. In 2007 she joined Prescient Securities (P-Sec) where she contributed to the success of the firm as an Executive Director, Rated Research Analyst, Head of Equities and most recently as CEO. Outside of Prescient she is a member of the Gen Re Board of Directors (a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway), as well as the PBT Limited board. She has a Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) (Marketing) degree, a B.Com degree and a post-graduate diploma in Accounting (all from UCT). She is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a CFA charterholder and a member of the South African Institute of Stockbrokers.

Willem is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA), a CFA charterholder, has a Masters Degree in Finance and is a qualified Chartered Global Management Accountant (ACMA,GCMA).

Willem joined the Prescient Group at the start of 2007. He spent the bulk of his first ten years with the Group as CEO of Prescient Securities, while also playing an active role in the executive management structures of the broader Prescient Group. At the start of 2017 Willem was appointed CEO of Prescient Holdings.

His working experience has broadly been in the field of finance. Willem acquired his grounding in stockbroking at UBS, an international investment bank, as the banks' South African platinum equity analyst. Willem started his working career in 1995 as an audit clerk with Deloitte and Touche. He has also worked at the University of Johannesburg lecturing finance at Honours and Masters degree level, the Industrial Development Corporation of SA as a project financier, and Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Limited as manager in the office of the CEO.

Peter is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Stellar Capital Partners, a JSE listed Investment Holding company.

Peter has a wide-ranging financial, operational, corporate finance and entrepreneurial experience in private equity ventures. His strong background in finance has assisted in his many roles looking after the financial and operational functions of various businesses, often to improve the functions within the business to a listed company standard.

Peter began his career as financial executive and investor in a few small technology businesses which grew from South Africa into the United Kingdom and United States until they were sold to larger investment houses at which time Peter assumed various executive roles in finance and then later in the Merger and Acquisitions for those investment houses.

Peter established the Thunder Group in 2008, a private equity investment business which holds investments in the technology, property, financial services and other credit lead alternative investments and remains a non-executive director within the group. In the same year peter co-founded an independent corporate finance house and shortly thereafter a privately held alternative credit business with the overall intention of providing restructuring and corporate finance services but with the ability to deploy debt and / or equity capital alongside such advice mandates. This was particularly relevant after the 2008 financial crisis which led to contraction of lending from traditional capital sources and a resultant economic environment were many good business models were trapped with inappropriate capital structures.

Peter was a key team executive in growing these businesses with an ultimate disposal of the Corporate finance business to Afrasia Bank and combination of the alternative credit business, now Greenpoint Capital, into the Stellar Group at its genesis. Peter continued to act for the Thunder Group, alongside other investors, in deploying capital into investment opportunities which required an active strategy on behalf of those investors. These were often special situation investments, with agreed initial tactical and strategic objectives, Peter would often fulfil short term roles within those investment to ensure initial investor strategies were implemented. The majority of these were into privately held mid-market companies but 2 such opportunities resulted strategies in listed public companies, namely Torre and Stellar.

Peter was the founding chairman of the Torre group, an industrial holding company, which was listed on the JSE in 2012. He remained in the position until late 2015 when he stepped down to act as a non-executive director until its delisting in April 2019.

Peter was part of the team that assisted in the restructure of ConvergeNet Holdings and joined the Board in 2013 in various roles until its conversion into a listed investment holding company and its relaunch into Stellar Capital Partners. Peter was appointed as one of the founding key individuals in the management company that was created to manage the portfolio of assets in Stellar, a position which he still retains today. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for the raising of capital and debt, capital deployment, investment disposal and the ongoing oversight of investments.

Peter currently also serves in the following capacities.

Director on Prescient Group including as a member of its remuneration Committee
Chairman of Greenpoint Group of companies
Chairman of Inyosi Solutions
Non-executive Director on Thunder Group Companies
Investment Committee member on Sithega Fund
Various other directorships on Stellar Group related entites

Thabo has spent more than 25 years working in and leading insurance and asset management businesses in South Africa. He has been involved with and has led the development of industry leading products, new business models and the turnaround of two large asset management businesses.

Cheree Dyers, CA (SA) & CFA, was appointed as CEO and Executive Director of Prescient Investment Management in February 2018, where she currently drives the company's vision of innovation, transformation and providing quality financial service offerings to the market. In addition, Cheree also serves as Executive Director on other Group boards.

Cheree joined Prescient in 2005 as Head of Finance and Risk Management at Prescient Investment Management and served as a member of the Board. In 2007 she joined Prescient Securities (P-Sec) where she contributed to the success of the firm as an Executive Director, Rated Research Analyst, Head of Equities and most recently as CEO.

Outside of Prescient she is a member of the Gen Re Board of Directors (a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway), as well as the PBT Limited board.

She has a Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) (Marketing) degree, a B.Com degree and a post-graduate diploma in Accounting (all from UCT). She is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a CFA charterholder and a member of the South African Institute of Stockbrokers.

Guy, together with Herman, is credited with developing what is arguably one of the leading investment tools - Prescient's QuantPlus®. Guy is Prescient's Head of Interest Bearing and investment strategist and is widely respected in the investment management industry in the field of asset allocation, bond and derivative management.

After graduating from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Business Science degree in Mathematical Economics, Guy worked as a bond analyst and manager, and as derivative specialist at asset management houses including Colonial Mutual, Cape Gilt Investments and Southern Life.

From 1991 - 1993 Guy Toms managed a gilt fund portfolio which remained consistently first in its category. At Investec, Guy worked as a bond manager and was responsible for all derivative exposure in the pension funds. He then joined District Securities Bank where he was later appointed a Bank Director.

Letshego joined Prescient Investment Management as Head of Institutional Business and a member of the Executive Committee in July 2021.

With more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, she’s held various positions in insurance, banking and asset management, including sales executive at Old Mutual Investment Group, business development manager at Argon Asset Management (where she also served on the MANCO), and senior client fund manager for STANLIB. At STANLIB, Letshego was eventually promoted to business manager in the CEO’s office and after that, she joined Vunani Fund Managers as executive director: head of business development and marketing. She’s also worked at Momentum Investments as executive head: institutional distribution.

Letshego holds a BCom degree in Industrial Psychology and Business Management from North-West University and an MBA from UNISA.

Bastian joined Prescient Investment Management in August 2015 as a Portfolio Manager, and was responsible for various multi-asset strategies. In 2018, he stepped into the role of Head of Prescient’s Asset Allocation Capability and in 2019, to Head of Investment Research. In 2021, Bastian was promoted to Chief Investment Officer.

His tenure includes developing actively managed investment strategies across asset classes and he has been closely involved with the management of optimal fixed-income allocations within Multi-Asset Class Funds.

Before joining Prescient, Bastian spent 10 years in asset management, starting in 2006 as a multi-asset portfolio manager in Zurich, Switzerland. He then worked for four years as a portfolio manager in the asset management division of Berenberg in Hamburg – where he also managed multi-asset allocations and derivative strategies. After his time in Hamburg, he spent two years as a portfolio manager at Amundi Pioneer in Munich, Dublin and Milan, where he was responsible for the management of conservative fixed-income funds and global risk overlay strategies.

Bastian holds a BA (Honours) degree in Banking and Financial Management from the Ravensburg University of Cooperative Education in Germany and in 2009, he obtained a Master of Science in Banking and Financial Management from the University of Liechtenstein. He’s a CFA Charterholder and completed his Financial Risk Manager Certification in 2012.

Herman has been in investment management since 1985, holding senior positions in several asset management companies. He began his career when awarded a bursary from Old Mutual, studying a BBus Sci majoring in Actuarial Science, Statistics (Honours) and Economics. After a period at Old Mutual, he co-founded an asset management company. In 1993 Herman started the first index tracker fund, the Composite Unit Trust, in South Africa. This was sold to Investec, which he joined in 1995. He established Investec’s international fund management capability, establishing fund structures in Dublin.

In 1998 Herman and Guy Toms founded Prescient Investment Management which applies its investment techniques to cash, bonds, equities, balanced portfolios and asset allocation.

Thabo has spent more than 25 years working in and leading insurance and asset management businesses in South Africa. He has been involved with and has led the development of industry leading products, new business models and the turnaround of two large asset management businesses.

Rachel completed her BSc at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal followed by her PGDip and MBA at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (“GIBS”). She has assumed several director roles in the financial services, property development and tourism sectors owing to her recent appointment as a Non-Executive Director at Prescient Investment Management. Rachel believes in leading a balanced life. She is passionate about progressive organisations and the sustainability of the multi-generational workforce.

Bonolo holds a Bachelor of Science, Actuarial Science from University of Witwatersrand and has 16 years of experience in financial services. Her career history includes five years at STANLIB as a portfolio manager of the quantitative strategies, as well as holding a senior actuarial analyst position at Alexander Forbes. She has diverse industry experience and an entrepreneurial nature which brings an innovative perspective on our industry. 

Anthea joined Prescient Securities in 2010 as Head of Operations, having overall responsibility for the day to day Operations, as well as Finance, Risk and Compliance Functions. She’s been the appointed JSE and FSB Compliance Officer, with an obligation to report to the Board. During 2015, she joined the Prescient Securities Executive Committee, and in February 2018 she was appointed as Executive Director and Stockbroker in Control, to run the business alongside the CEO.

Anthea has been in the industry for 20 years. She started her career at HSBC in the United Kingdom, working in different parts of the Finance department. She later joined Fidelity International, initially in the Investment Administration Department working in Fund Accounting and Pricing for 2 years, and then took a Senior Manager Role in Group Reporting and Analysis, providing financial support, analysis and management information to the CFO, Board and Senior Management of the Company, for a further 7 years, before emigrating back to South Africa.

Anthea’s qualifications include a B.Comm degree at the University of Cape Town. She is also a Fellow Member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (FCCA), after qualifying in the UK. Anthea is also a Certified Stockbroker CSb (SA), and member of the South African Institute of Stockbrokers, a JSE Registered Person and a member of the South African Institute of Tax. She also represents Prescient Securities at the South African Securities Lending Association (SASLA).

Willem is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA), a CFA charter holder, has a Masters's Degree in Finance, and is a qualified Chartered Global Management Accountant (ACMA,GCMA).

Willem joined the Prescient Group at the start of 2007. He spent the bulk of his first ten years with the Group as CEO of Prescient Securities, while also playing an active role in the executive management structures of the broader Prescient Group. At the start of 2017, Willem was appointed CEO of Prescient Holdings.

His working experience has broadly been in the field of finance. Willem acquired his grounding in stockbroking at UBS, an international investment bank, as the bank's South African platinum equity analyst. Willem started his working career in 1995 as an audit clerk with Deloitte and Touche. He has also worked at the University of Johannesburg lecturing finance at Honours and Masters degree level, at the Industrial Development Corporation of SA as a project financier, and at Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Limited as a manager in the office of the CEO.

Nonhlanhla is a qualified CA (SA). She is innovative, hardworking, self-motivated, and committed to excellence. She is passionate about people, learning, business, and strategy.

She has served clients in the health and beauty, retail, food, telecommunication, mining, and automotive industries and listing of a biotechnology company on the NYSE. She is currently working in the non- banking financial services industry as an investment analyst at Sithega which focuses on asset management, insurance, and distribution businesses.

Craig completed his B.Com (Accounting and Information Systems) and post-graduate diploma in Accounting at the University of Cape Town in 1994. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

After completing his training contract with Deloitte & Touche in 1997, Craig spent time in London working for both Abbey National Treasury Services and the Royal Bank of Scotland in their Treasury and Capital Markets area. Craig returned to South Africa at the end of 1999 where he worked for Prudential Portfolio Managers Unit Trusts Ltd.

He was appointed as a director of the management company at the beginning of 2006. Craig joined Prescient in August 2006 and is the Chief Executive Officer of Prescient Fund Services.

Willem is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA), a CFA charterholder, has a Masters Degree in Finance and is a qualified Chartered Global Management Accountant (ACMA,GCMA).

Willem joined the Prescient Group at the start of 2007. He spent the bulk of his first ten years with the Group as CEO of Prescient Securities, while also playing an active role in the executive management structures of the broader Prescient Group. At the start of 2017 Willem was appointed CEO of Prescient Holdings.

His working experience has broadly been in the field of finance. Willem acquired his grounding in stockbroking at UBS, an international investment bank, as the banks' South African platinum equity analyst. Willem started his working career in 1995 as an audit clerk with Deloitte and Touche. He has also worked at the University of Johannesburg lecturing finance at Honours and Masters degree level, the Industrial Development Corporation of SA as a project financier, and Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Limited as manager in the office of the CEO.

Herman has been in investment management since 1985, holding senior positions in several asset management companies. He began his career when awarded a bursary from Old Mutual, studying a BBus Sci majoring in Actuarial Science, Statistics (Honours) and Economics. After a period at Old Mutual, he co-founded an asset management company. In 1993 Herman started the first index tracker fund, the Composite Unit Trust, in South Africa. This was sold to Investec, which he joined in 1995. He established Investec’s international fund management capability, establishing fund structures in Dublin.

In 1998 Herman and Guy Toms founded Prescient Investment Management which applies its investment techniques to cash, bonds, equities, balanced portfolios and asset allocation.

Carey has over 23 years’ experience in the investment management industry having started his career with UAL Merchant Bankin 1982. His initial experience was in the private client area before assuming responsibility with the Executive Director for business development of both the institutional and unit trust areas.

He left the industry in 1987 to start his own marketing and advertising company. In 1994 he rejoined the financial services industry and after short stints with Fleming Martin and UAL, joined Nedcor Bank as head of Retail Liabilities. Carey was also tasked with the establishment of Nedbank's offshore and domestic investment products. During this time he was CEO of the Nedcor Bank Management Company with particular responsibility for all operational and strategic functions. He was later transferred to NIB as CEO of their management company and as a member of both NIB and NIB Asset Management's executive committees.

Carey has been a member of many committees in the unit trust industry, including chairman of its Fund Management Committee.

Nonhlanhla is a qualified CA (SA). She is innovative, hardworking, self-motivated, and committed to excellence. She is passionate about people, learning, business, and strategy.

She has served clients in the health and beauty, retail, food, telecommunication, mining, and automotive industries and listing of a biotechnology company on the NYSE. She is currently working in the non- banking financial services industry as an investment analyst at Sithega which focuses on asset management, insurance, and distribution businesses.

Lance Jacobs joined Prescient Fund Services (PFS) as Chief Operating Officer in September 2023. Lance also joined the PFS Exco and Board.

Before joining PFS, Lance worked in operational roles at Curo Fund Services since 2015, most notably as an operations executive, and more recently as chief executive officer.

He also previously worked as an audit manager at Deloitte before holding several roles in finance at Old Mutual from 2000 to 2015, most notably as  finance manager in product accounting and head of distribution channel finance for the retail affluent market.

Lance is a qualified CA (SA) and holds a BComm degree and a PGDA from the University of Cape Town.

Craig completed his B.Com (Accounting and Information Systems) and post-graduate diploma in Accounting at the University of Cape Town in 1994. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

After completing his training contract with Deloitte & Touche in 1997, Craig spent time in London working for both Abbey National Treasury Services and the Royal Bank of Scotland in their Treasury and Capital Markets area. Craig returned to South Africa at the end of 1999 where he worked for Prudential Portfolio Managers Unit Trusts Ltd.

He was appointed as a director of the management company at the beginning of 2006. Craig joined Prescient in August 2006 and is the Chief Executive Officer of Prescient Fund Services.

Grant Jacobi is the Head of Operations at Prescient Fund Services (Ireland) Limited, where he is responsible for the overall Fund Operations delivery, including Fund Accounting and Transfer Agency. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and Graduate Diploma in Commerce and has over 16 years’ experience in the investment funds industry. Prior to joining Prescient Fund Services in 2011 he held a number of management positions within the ASB Group, a subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He has extensive experience in managing Fund Operational teams, and has been responsible for managing Prescient Fund Service’s Risk and Compliance functions since Prescient Fund Services was authorised as a UCITS manager in 2011.

Herman has been in investment management since 1985, holding senior positions in several asset management companies. He began his career when awarded a bursary from Old Mutual, studying a BBus Sci majoring in Actuarial Science, Statistics (Honours) and Economics. After a period at Old Mutual, he co-founded an asset management company. In 1993 Herman started the first index tracker fund, the Composite Unit Trust, in South Africa. This was sold to Investec, which he joined in 1995. He established Investec’s international fund management capability, establishing fund structures in Dublin.

In 1998 Herman and Guy Toms founded Prescient Investment Management which applies its investment techniques to cash, bonds, equities, balanced portfolios and asset allocation.

Emily Davy joined Prescient Fund Services (Ireland) Limited (PFSI) in August 2018 as Head of Legal and Compliance. In addition to advising PFSI on its business and regulatory requirements, she also provides legal support and advice in relation to all aspects of the Prescient Group’s European fund platforms, as well as in relation to certain of Prescient’s key global initiatives. Emily also serves as PFSI’s Money Laundering Reporting Officer.

Prior to joining Prescient, Emily practiced financial services law with both international and domestic law firms, with specific focus on asset management and investment funds, advising a wide range of domestic and international clients on all aspects of their business, including their asset management activities and the structuring, establishment, marketing and sale of investment vehicles and products in Ireland and other jurisdictions.

Emily has worked at Walkers Global, a leading Irish and offshore law firm, where she was an Of Counsel in the Investment Funds Group. She has also spent a number of years in the Investment Funds Department at Matheson, another leading Irish law firm where she trained and qualified.

Emily holds a Bachelor in Civil Law and French from University College Cork and Université Robert Schumann Strasbourg, as well as a Diploma in Applied Finance Law. A member of the Law Society of Ireland, Emily has also acted as a lecturer on Irish investment funds and regulatory topics for the Irish Tax Institute and has served as a committee member of the Irish Funds Association Legal and Regulatory Groups, contributing to multiple submissions, papers and industry guidelines.

Eoin Gleeson is the Head of Finance at Prescient Fund Services (Ireland) Limited and has over 15 years of accounting experience. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in Accounting and Finance from Dublin City University and is a fully Qualified ACCA accountant and ACCA member since 2013. He received two awards for finishing 1st and 3rd in Ireland while completing his ACCA exams. Prior to joining Prescient Fund Services in 2010 he held supervisory and management positions within the PFPC International, HedgeServ and UBS. He has extensive experience in managing Fund Operational teams and has been responsible for managing Prescient Fund Service’s Fund Accounting team since Prescient Fund Services was authorised as a UCITS manager in 2011.

Carey has over 23 years’ experience in the investment management industry having started his career with UAL Merchant Bankin 1982. His initial experience was in the private client area before assuming responsibility with the Executive Director for business development of both the institutional and unit trust areas.

He left the industry in 1987 to start his own marketing and advertising company. In 1994 he rejoined the financial services industry and after short stints with Fleming Martin and UAL, joined Nedcor Bank as head of Retail Liabilities. Carey was also tasked with the establishment of Nedbank's offshore and domestic investment products. During this time he was CEO of the Nedcor Bank Management Company with particular responsibility for all operational and strategic functions. He was later transferred to NIB as CEO of their management company and as a member of both NIB and NIB Asset Management's executive committees.

Carey has been a member of many committees in the unit trust industry, including chairman of its Fund Management Committee.

Herman has been in investment management since 1985, holding senior positions in several asset management companies. He began his career when awarded a bursary from Old Mutual, studying a BBus Sci majoring in Actuarial Science, Statistics (Honours) and Economics. After a period at Old Mutual, he co-founded an asset management company. In 1993 Herman started the first index tracker fund, the Composite Unit Trust, in South Africa. This was sold to Investec, which he joined in 1995. He established Investec’s international fund management capability, establishing fund structures in Dublin.

In 1998 Herman and Guy Toms founded Prescient Investment Management which applies its investment techniques to cash, bonds, equities, balanced portfolios and asset allocation.

Liang Du joined Prescient Investment Management in 2005 as a portfolio analyst on the Equity team where he helped establish Prescient’s first Equity product. Liang was later promoted to fund manager of the Positive Return and Balanced portfolios and eventually became head of Asset Allocation, responsible for asset allocation decisions across all Prescient portfolios.

Liang, born in China, has always taken a keen interest in investments in Mainland China and after a decade with Prescient in South Africa decided to head up a new business unit for Prescient in China. Today Liang and his team are responsible for all investments in China.

Liang has an MBA with distinction from UCT, CQF, is a CFA charterholder, and graduated with a B.Bus.Sc degree from UCT.

Mr Malherbe qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa and worked with the predecessor firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining Rand Merchant Bank in 1985. In 1990 he joined Rembrandt Group Limited and was involved with Richemont at that time. Since its formation in 2000, he served first as Chief Executive Officer and then as Deputy Chairman of VenFin Limited until 2009 when that company was acquired by Remgro Limited.
Mr Malherbe continues to serve as a director of Richemont Securities S.A., Remgro Limited (appointed non-executive Co-Deputy Chairman in November 2014), Reinet Investments Manager S.A. and Pension Corporation Group Limited.

David is a Director of Stonehage Fleming Group. He has over twenty years’ experience in offshore legal and financial services, with particular experience in funds, trust, banking, multi-jurisdictional regulatory matters and litigation.

Prior to joining the Group in 2010, David obtained a combined Honours degree in Law and French from the University of Cardiff and a Certificate d’Etudes Juridiques from Universite de Nantes before qualifying as an English Barrister (non-practicing).

Guy heads the Investment Management business of the Stonehage Fleming Jersey office and has over 30 years’ experience in the investment and wealth management sector.

Prior to joining the Stonehage Fleming in 2007 he was Business Development Director with HSBC Investments and has also worked in the Trust, Private Banking, Investment Management and Insurance industries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Guy obtained a BA (Honours) in Economics followed by a range of professional qualifications and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.