FRED ROBERTSON

Mr Robertson is executive chairman and co-founder of Brimstone Investment Corporation and is a leading figure in the South African business community. His trusteeships and patronages include: Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of the Western Cape Foundation; Interim Chairman of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation; Member of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology Entrepreneurship Advisory Board; Trustee of the Masisizane Fund; Patron to the South African Academy for Young Leaders; and Patron to the Youth Unemployment Peoples Project. He received the CNBC AFRICA All Africa Business Leadership Awards (AABLA) Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2014. In 2016 Mr Robertson was conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy by the University of the Western Cape and received the Kaapstad Sakekamer Die Burger Sakeleier 2016 Award.