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.