CASTLE INVESTMENTS - Key Persons
Ciska has been an entrepreneur for most of her working years, returning from the US 14 years ago Ciska was working for well established interior designer Christiaan Nel . Ciska joint Castle Investments as a part-time administrator in March 2016.
Job Titles:
- Senior Executive Financial Planner
Derek is a Senior Executive Financial Planner with Momentum and is an Associate Financial Planner with The Financial Planning Institute of South Africa. Derek started his career in life assurance in 1977. Since then, he has built his business on client service. He has been a member of the Million Dollar Round Table Assurance Organisation of America since 1981.
Job Titles:
- Freelance Business and Technology Writer
Jessica is a freelance business and technology writer, and is a frequent contributor to Finweek magazine, Brainstorm, and ITWeb custom publications; as well as a panelist on the Finweek Money Matters show on CNBC Africa.
Following a BA (economics and psychology) undergrad at Unisa, Joy went on to complete a BA Honours and Masters in Industrial Psychology at Wits. She began her career at a human resources consultancy before becoming involved in the financial services industry in 1997. Joy started her own business as an independent financial advisor in 2002.
Job Titles:
- Assistant to Joy Immelman
Marie started her career at Hysamer Stals in the Private client section, and in 2002 passed her JSE Equities Traders Exam. Marie joined Castle Investments at the beginning of 2012 as a personal assistant to Joy, and has become a trusted and valuable contributor to not only Castle investments, but to all of our clients.
Job Titles:
- Head of Fiduciary and Tax Services at Sanlam Private Wealth
Marteen Michau is head of fiduciary and tax services at Sanlam Private Wealth. Marteen has 20 years' experience, and specialises in structuring advice and implementing it from a legal and tax perspective.
Nick is an internationally published and awarded author, playwright, scriptwriter and copywriter who has been writing professionally for over 20 years. Throughout this time he has worked as a Writer/Creative Director with a number of advertising and experiential marketing agencies producing a variety of communications across all media for a wide range of clients and industries. He is currently Owner/Creative Director of The Word Association.
A former Editor-in-Chief of Independent Newspapers and Moderator at World Economic Forums in Davos for 12 years, Peter has travelled to over 60 countries, many as a guest of governments. George Soros asked him to start the Open Society Foundation in SA and he has chaired many charitable organisations including Bird Life South Africa and currently is chairman of Amrop/Landelahni, a recruitment and leadership training organisation.
Rico is a cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawing the comic strip MADAM & EVE which has been syndicated in South African newspapers for over 21 years and has also worked on a wide range of projects for clients in corporate, literacy and science education, television, advertising and publishing.
Robyn is a Partner at Eversheds and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She specialises in areas including corporate tax, international tax, trust laws and wills.