Neill Davies - CA (SA)

Neill is one of the founder members of Clade, and currently serves as Chairman. He was a member of the original management team of Altron, South Africa's leading electronics company, where he served as Financial Director and Deputy Chairman of the Group and was responsible for Altron Overseas Holdings (listed in the UK and USA).

Neil has been Executive Chairman of Powertech Ltd. and Fintech Ltd., and has sat on the board of Anglo American, Rand Leases, Vestacor and Durban Roodepoort Deep.

Neill was awarded honorary membership of South African Institute of Industry and Commerce in 1987 for contribution to South African industry, chaired the Alexandra Development Foundation, a non-profit organization established in 1990 by Johannesburg businessmen to build houses in Alexandra, and was Vice President of the South African Rowing Union.

Since 1997 Neill has focused on turnarounds of both listed and unlisted companies. In that role, he has sat on the board of a number of companies, including Afgri, Astrapak, Brait, Claude Neon, Clinical Emergencies, Concor, Rennies Express Distribution, Rusfurn and Unispin.

Gavin Goldblatt - BSocSci, Economics Honours, MBA

Gavin is one of the founder members of Catalyst Innovation and Clade, and is currently CEO of Clade as well as head of Catalyst Innovation. He has extensive experience in Venture Capital, project finance and strategy advisory services, in South Africa, the UK and the USA. He has worked for Deloitte & Touche as a Strategy Consultant and for RMB Holdings, where he managed proprietary investments, worked in project finance, corporate finance and venture capital, led the Group Strategic Planning Team and established RMB Resources.

Gavin regularly advises both South African Government organizations and international organizations on business support, technology development and commercialization issues. Amongst other pro-bono work he has been an advisor to the National Council for Innovation, a member of the Steering Committee of the South African Research and Innovation Managers Association, and a member of the Council for Higher Education MBA Accreditation program.

David Robb - BA (Hons) Econ

David is one of the founder members of Clade, and since establishing Clade he has been incubating start-up companies in the health and bio-tech sectors, providing advisory services, sitting as the chair of several large trust funds, and been leading commercial property investment initiatives.

David started his career after completing his degree at Sussex University, by working in Britain in health services. After returning to South Africa he became general manager of Alexandra Health Centre, a highly successful not-for-profit clinic, and developed courses in hospital management for Wits Medical and Business Schools. After the 1994 elections David headed the South African Health Department in the North West Province until 1997

Carl Isernhinke - BSc, B Sc Honours (Actuarial Science)

Carl is one of the most highly rated structured products developers in the country, and has considerable experience as a quantitative analyst. Carl's most recent position was at Abvest Associates (Pty) Ltd, where he was responsible for establishing a structured products division, including: designing and implementing structured products; expanding the client base, and; servicing relationships with clients. His responsibilities included the pricing, trading, implementation, tax and regulatory compliance and administration of structured products. 

Prior to joining Abvest Carl was a director of Escher Structured Products (Pty) Ltd. ESP focused on design, pricing, implementation/trading and administration of derivative based investment products. Before joining ESP, Carl was responsible for the quantitative analysis of asset managers and the construction of the risk-profiled Multi-Manager portfolios for PSG Escher Investments. There he designed and added structured products to the range of risk-profiled portfolios. The assets in the structured portfolios grew to over R4 billion.

Carl obtained his BSc degree majoring in Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science from Wits in 1995. Thereafter he completed an Honours degree in Actuarial Science, including courses on Investments, Options Pricing, Modern Portfolio Theory, Interest Rate Derivatives and Hedging and Swaps.

NICOLE FUNK - B.BUS. SC (FINANCE)

Nicole Funk graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2007. She will be joining Clade Investment Management in August 2008 fulfilling the position of Business Developer and analyst.