CEO, Investicore South Africa
Anton is passionate about investing in South Africa and unlocking the vast potential the country offers. He is on a mission to increase the GDP per capita – effectively increasing South Africans’ standard of living. Anton empowers those around him through multiple business ventures and mentoring programmes.
Over and above career success, Anton’s most treasured achievement is his family. Anton and his wife Megan (also a CA(SA)) walked the CA(SA) journey together from university at UJ to articles at KPMG to a US secondment in New Jersey and extensive travels to Chicago, Minneapolis, Miami, Atlanta and New York to develop and facilitate training for CPAs in KPMG LLC. They were offered promotions to stay on but decided to come back to South Africa and add value here. They have two young boys aged six months and three years respectively. Instilling the principles of integrity and grit in their boys is their legacy.
Anton is currently the CEO of Investicore South Africa, a property investment company with a portfolio of R2 billion in property across South Africa. Investicore excels at creating value for its investors, employees, suppliers and customers through investing in property in South Africa. Anton created a business division in the US for Investicore that assists with the structuring and tax compliance of investors from the ground up.
He is also a co-founder of the Building Wealth Partnership with Investicore Properties. Investicore Properties was created to enable people without significant capital to invest in industrial property to benefit from attractive returns. This business has grown from an idea in 2018 to 100 investors and R50 million under management.
In 2016, as a newly qualified CA(SA), Anton was asked to step up and take over the responsibilities of finance director at Chemical Process Technologies (CPT) from his father, who had health problems. CPT is an innovative Pretoria-based chemical and pharmaceutical company in which his family had a stake. At only 26 years of age, Anton was responsible for ensuring the financial sustainability of 75 employees’, many of whom were sole providers for their families. He struggled with the negative thoughts of ‘imposter syndrome’ but soon realised that his qualifications, training and sheer determination allowed him to make a significant contribution to the company.
Anton believes the path he is walking shows that you can add value wherever you are; you don’t need to be in a developed country to be a success.
