About

Guilder is a multi-national financial services organization founded by ex-central bankers, financial, invetsment and technology experts with a specific initial focus on Africa.

Our mission is to create a connected world of finance and provide people with a convenient and straightforward way to manage finances to achieve financial freedom.

We offer sound invetsment management, romoting stable returns over the medium to long term.  Our non-traditional invetsments have the advantage of avoiding traditional market fluctuation and provide excellet opportunities for wealth creation under responsibly managed portfolios

We leverage state-of-the art technology to move money between friends and family and pay at select businesses instantly, transparently, and conveniently.

 Our solution builds money without borders whilst making payments and managing finances a fun experience.

People

  • Christo Wiese CA (SA)
    Chairman
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    Christo Wiese CA (SA)

    Chairman

    Christo is a Chartered Accountant and former Registrar of Banks at the South African Reserve Bank. He studied at the Universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand. He completed his articles at Deloitte, where he became senior manager, working in the Johannesburg, Windhoek, Chicago, and Pretoria offices.

    He started his career in banking when he joined Volkskas Merchant Bank, establishing their finance department, and was responsible for developing and implementing systems and controls. After that, he joined the South African Reserve Bank, ending his tenure as the head of banking regulation and supervision of the Central Bank. In the years following his tenure at the Central Bank, he consulted for the International Monetary Fund in Africa and the Peoples Republic of China, focusing on compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision.

    Christo is a Board member of a company establishing a service industry in SADC with headquarters in George, South Africa, and a Non-Executive, Independent Director of First Mayibuye focusing on Corporate Governance and Oversight.

  • Hannes Louw, CFP®
    Group Executive Officer
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    Hannes Louw, CFP®

    Group Executive Officer

    Hannes is a serial entrepreneur, with a track record of establishing, scaling, and selling businesses on several continents . After completing his articles at a Charted Accounting Firm in Pretoria and Johannesburg, he co-founded an Accounting, Tax, and Financial Planning Firm. Following the succesfull sale of his firm, he joined a systems engineering group, specializing in financial systems, managing implementations for large multi-national organizations across the globe. In the years following his tenure, he co founded a successfull international consulting firm and held several C-level positions in South Africa and the United States of America.

    He graduated from the Universities of Pretoria and South Africa with qualifications in accounting sciences . Hannes is a professional member of the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa and has succesfully completed the Harvard Business School Certificate Program in Alternative Investments, a program that focuses on maximizing value and diverify portfolios with private equity, hedge funds and real estate.

  • Beyers Rabie
    Group Operating Officer
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    Beyers Rabie

    Group Operating Officer

    Beyers is a graduate of the University of South Africa with qualifications in Banking, Information Technology. He spent the greater part of his career consulting to various international banks and insurance companies doing large-scale system development and integration projects. During this time, Beyers headed up an outsourced contract team at Barclays Africa to support, maintain and approve some 260 core banking applications. He later joined Barclays as an executive to lead Service Management for Retail Banking. When Barclays divested from ABSA, he was placed in charge of migrating systems from Barclays to ABSA and part of the separation programme.

    After his tenure at ABSA, he founded a Banking Systems Integration firm specializing in the implementation of complex banking and financial systems.

  • Heinrich Grobler, CPA
    Group Investment Officer
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    Heinrich Grobler, CPA

    Group Investment Officer

    Heinrich is a qualified Chartered Accountant in South Africa and is currently registered as a Certified Public Accountant in the United States. He studied at the University of Pretoria and completed his articles at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), where he became senior manager, working in the Pretoria, Johannesburg and Houston offices. During his tenure at PWC, Heinrich was involved in the audit of the South African Reserve Bank, over 100 mutual funds, private equity funds, hedge funds banks and pension funds.

    He started his career in portfolio management when he joined Salient Partners LP, built out their accounting and financial reporting department, and was responsible for developing and implementing systems and controls and risk management. After that, he became the Chief Operating Officer of the Salient Private Wealth Group, moving on to become Chief Operating Officer for HighTower Texas whereafter he left Hightower to focus exclusively on portfolio management and working as a Financial Advisor.
    Heinrich has the following SEC licences: Series 65, Series 63, Series 7 and Series 24.

  • Ronnie Barnard
    Group Information Officer
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    Ronnie Barnard

    Group Information Officer

    Ronnie is a Chartered Information Technology Professional and a graduate of the University of South Africa. He gained a trove of knowledge while working on IT projects for various banks in South Africa and was the Chief Information Architect and National Head of IT Development at SA Home Loans, one of the largest mortgage finance providers in Africa. Since then, he helped design the first Elliptical Curve Encryption Certificate, Authority for encrypting data and transactions in real-time, and held several C-Level positions in Australia and the United States of America.

    Ronnie is a Global technology executive and evangelist with a remarkable history of catapulting innovative technology-based products and solutions in highly competitive international markets.

  • Mike Jansen
    Group Marketing Officer
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    Mike Jansen

    Group Marketing Officer

    Mike holds an honours degree from the University of Pretoria in Information Design and is an expert in various brand and multi-media design disciplines. His experience stems from a career spent in leading international Brand Agencies, and his portfolio includes brands such as Coca- Cola, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Bayer AG, British Petroleum, Airtel and MTN. Mike made a name for himself in the banking and wealth management industry after his team of designers built the prestigious Investec brand, in partnership with Investec's marketing teams in Johannesburg and London.

    He won several design awards for his work and was a judge at the South African Loerie awards for many years. Thereafter he co-founded JansenHarris in Australia, a successful International Brand Agency with offices in Dubai, London and Johannesburg.

  • Adv. Gerhard Louw
    Group Compliance Officer
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    Adv. Gerhard Louw

    Group Compliance Officer

    Gerhard holds two law degrees from the University of South Africa and is a Certified Business Intelligence expert by SAP Germany. He started his career in the South African Police Force's Fraud Unit and was quickly promoted to Captain, wherafter he was seconded to the Department of Justice's Office for Serious Economic Offences. During his tenure at the Office for Serious Economic Offences he was admitted as an advocate to the High Court of South Africa. He was thereafter appointed as Senior Special Investigator at the National Prosecuting Authority's Directorate of Special Operations (Scorpions), the equivalent of the FBI in the USA. Thereafter he was appointed as the Regional Team Lead at the National Prosecuting Authority's Asset Forfeiture Unit.

    After his tenure he joined an International Consultancy group, as a business intelligence and analytics expert, servicing multinational clients in South Africa and the United States. On returning to South Africa, he started to practice law as an advocate, with a focus on commercial law and litigation, risk and compliance, and consulted as a specialist in financial forensic investigations.

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