
Bruce Whitfield
GIB Investment Summit MC.
Luck is not a single, random event. It can and must be cultivated and exploited. This keynote is drawn from the most critical lessons distilled through analysing successful global businesses for more than two decades. Great leaders position their businesses ahead of rivals to capitalize on opportunities that emerge in times of stress and disruption. That enables them to seize opportunities, often hidden in plain sight. Themes of Strategic Opportunism, Grit, Seeing & Seizing opportunities make the talk useful to all organisations looking to align their teams for growth.

Glenn Gamsy
Glenn has over three decades of experience and expertise in Retirement Fund Services and Business Leadership within a leading wholly owned South African insurance broking group. Glenn heads the GIB Financial Services management team responsible for steering business growth locally and within the firm’s international network partnership structure, operational in over 200 countries worldwide. Glenn is responsible for the divisions which specialise in Retirement Fund Services, Benefit Design, Regulation 28 Portfolio Construction, as well as other related Financial and Investment Services.
Herman van Papendorp
Herman has worked in financial markets since 1992 as both an economist and investment strategist. He was chief economist at BoE Securities (previously known as Senekal, Mouton and Kitshoff) in the late 1990s and then spent time as investment strategist at ING Barings, Citigroup and Renaissance Capital (previously known as BJM Securities). He was South Africa’s Economist of the Year in 1998 and has been rated in the top five of the Financial Mail Investment Analyst ratings during most of his sell-side career, holding the number one or number two investment strategist position a number of times. Herman joined Momentum Asset Management in May 2013 and currently heads up investment research and asset allocation at Momentum Investments. Herman holds B Com (Actuarial Science), B Com (Hons) (Economics) and M Com (Econometrics) (Cum Laude) degrees from Stellenbosch University.

Chiezda Maziba
Chiedza Madzima is the Head of Global Operational Risk and leads the South Africa Research team at BMI, a Fitch Group company. She specializes in business environment analysis, supply chains, economic and policy risk, with a focus on Emerging Markets. Chiedza is an active participant in industry conferences and has been involved in several high-profile events. Among others: she has featured in the regional outlook webinars for Invest Africa covering Southern Africa and East Africa (each year since 2021). Chiedza has also been a keynote speaker and panelist in the Bloomberg BNSHESAID live series in 2023 and 2024. In other media and interviews Chiedza has also significant contributions to macroeconomic thought leadership and has a been featured in a variety of regional and global news publications, including Bloomberg, Africa Report, Quartz, BusinessDay, Engineering News, News24, and Africa Business Magazine.

Tim Acker
Tim joined Allan Gray as an equity analyst in 2013 after working in academia and completing his articles. He was appointed as a portfolio manager in 2020 and manages a portion of the equity, balanced and stable portfolios. Tim holds a Master of Accounting degree, specialising in Taxation, from Stellenbosch University. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a CFA® charterholder.

Neville Chester
Neville Chester - BCom, CA (SA), CFA
Neville is a senior member of the investment team with 28 years’ investment experience. He joined Coronation in 2000 and manages Coronation’s Aggressive Equity Strategy. He also co-manages the Coronation Top 20 and Market Plus unit trust funds.

Chantelle Baptiste
Chantelle Baptiste achieved her Honours in Management Accounting at Stellenbosch University. After graduating she joined Deloitte in Johannesburg where she completed her articles and during this period she completed her studies through CIMA being awarded a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation. She joined Barclays Africa and worked in finance for 4 years and then moved internally into the Barclays Africa Equity Research team where she joined the Financials team. She was a sell side analysts for 5 years covering South African Banks and General Financials and in 2016 was rated #2 by the Financial Mail Ranking the analyst in General Financials and #6 in SA banks. She joined Fairtree on 1 January 2017.

Murray Winckler
Murray is the co-founder of Laurium Capital, an independently owned investment manager founded in 2008. Laurium Capital manages over R57bn in hedge and long only funds locally and globally.
Previously Murray was CEO of Deutsche Bank South Africa, having worked for them for 12 years. Prior to his role as CEO, Murray held various positions at Deutsche Bank including: Head of Global Markets (Debt and Equity) and Head of Research. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Murray was a Partner, Strategist and Industrial Analyst with Ivor Jones Roy and Co Inc. Murray has a B Com from University of The Witwatersrand, is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and a CFA Charterholder.

Simon Fillmore
Prior to that he was the CEO of Independent Securities for 14 years where he focused on growing the private client book, with an emphasis on offshore investments. Worked as a sell-side analyst for six years specialising in free-cash-flow equity valuations on JSE listed companies. Spent a few years with BlackRock in London as a global investment analyst.

Victor Bucarizza
Victor is an Executive Partner and Wealth Manager at GIB Private Clients, with nine years of experience in wealth management, most of it at GIB. A strong advocate for personal and professional growth, he is both a Certified Financial Planner ® professional and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder. Victor is passionate about the future of financial services in South Africa and its potential to improve people's lives. When not advising clients or building spreadsheets, he enjoys playing sports, making music, or playing board games with friends.

Dino Zuccollo
Dino Zuccollo is the Head of Investor Solutions at Westbrooke Alternative Asset Management, looking after the global product set for the business across SA, the UK and the USA. Dino is also a Director and member of the Group’s Executive Committee Team. Prior to joining Westbrooke, Dino spent a number of years in the Corporate Finance Team at Investec Bank Limited where he looked after listed clients across a variety of sectors. He also has experience at Deloitte and Touche in both SA and the USA. Dino is a CA(SA) and holds a BAccSci, BAccSci(Hons) and MCom in Finance from Wits University, all of which he graduated Cum Laude.
Clarissa Van Der Westhuyzen
Clarissa van der Westhuyzen studied BBusSci (Finance) and PDGA at UCT before joining KPMG to complete her accounting articles. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, she joined Allan Gray as an Equity Analyst. After seven years with Allan Gray, Clarissa joined Citi on the Equity Sales desk where she spent five years. Clarissa joined Fairtree in 2017.

Tivon Loubser
Tivon is the Fund Manager for both the Twelve B Green Energy Fund and the newly launched MeTTa Secondaries Fund, overseeing solar and secondaries investment strategies. In addition to his fund management responsibilities, he is now focused on new product development, creating innovative alternative investment opportunities across diverse sectors and geographies to expand the Grovest portfolio. With a double major in Finance and Accounting, Tivon brings an entrepreneurial mindset to his work, driven by a passion for responsible investing and a commitment to delivering long-term value for both investors and the environment.