Seed’s Resumes

Ian de Lange
(Chartered Accountant – B Com (Hons), B.Compt (Hons), CA (SA))

Co-founder Ian de Lange is a Chartered Accountant, passing the Board exam in 1992. He obtained an honours degree at Unisa and a further B Com honours in financial and portfolio management from UCT in 2001.

He became actively involved in the financial markets in the late 1990’s when he joined Sharenet as director and shareholder. During this time he gained valuable investment advisory experience, starting and still editing daily and regular newsletters on the local market and investment planning. This led to the formation of Exsequor Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd as an independent investment advisor to high net worth clients in 2002, now known as Seed Investment Consultants (Pty) Ltd. With Seed’s expansion to also include investment management, Ian is responsible for the active management of client portfolios.

He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in South Africa, an Associate of the Financial Planning Institute of South Africa and a member of the Investment Analysts Society of South Africa.

Co-founder Vincent Heys is a qualified Actuary and has over 12 years of financial services and investment experience.

He started his career at Sanlam in 1996 and moved to the UK in 1999. Shortly after his return to SA in 2002 Vincent co-managed one of the first institutional fund of hedge funds in South Africa while being employed at Novare. During this time he was also involved in creating and implementing investment strategies for some the country’s largest pension funds with the likes of Soweto Pension Fund, SALGA Pension fund and AST-Gijima Pension Fund.

It was during 2006/7 that Vincent and Ian started what is today Seed Investment Consultants. Vincent is responsible for product development and formalising investment strategies for individuals.

He is a member of the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA), Institute of Actuaries in the UK and member of the Investment Committee of ASSA.

Portfolio Manager Mike Browne is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charter holder with over 5 years of experience in the investment industry. He graduated from UCT with a BBusSc honours degree at the end of 2004, and started with Exsequor Investments (Seed¿s forerunner) shortly thereafter. While working at Seed, Mike successfully passed all three CFA exams, and was awarded his Charter in early 2010.

Mike has actively followed the markets and economy since enrolling at university. This pursuit was formalised when he graduated and started work. He was appointed to the Investment Committee as an Investment Analyst at Seed in March 2007, providing input into the investment decision making process. As of March 2010 Mike was promoted to Portfolio Manager of selected investment portfolios.

Mike spends a large portion of his time researching current market valuations, meeting fund managers, and analysing investment portfolios.