Hannes van der Westhuyzen

Mr. Hannes van der Westhuyzen is a Head of Fixed Income & Director at Truffle Asset Management (Pty) Ltd.
He is one of the two founding members of the Truffle Group of companies and has spent the last 20 odd years in the trading environment of the financial markets.
Having completed a degree in accounting he qualified as a chartered accountant in the mid 80s and joined Rand Merchant Bank in 1989 on the money market desk, where he was instrumental in starting the FRA market in South Africa.
After a couple of years he joined a stock broking company on the JSE, Huysamer Stals, where he became a director and specialised in trading hybrid instruments between equity and the interest rate markets.
In 1996 he was approached and joined a start up company Mettle (formally known as Boland Financial Services) that specialised in structured finance, as the treasury specialist.
The position at the time had a close working relationship with Boland Bank and in 1997 he was asked to take over as treasurer of Boland Bank.
Through takeovers and mergers he became the Treasurer of NBS Boland Bank and later BoE Bank.
In 2003 BoE Bank was taken over by Nedbank.
In 2005 he was appointed as Head of Global Markets and a EXCO member in Nedbank Capital and was responsible for all the foreign exchange and interest rate trading activities of Nedbank at the head office in Johannesburg, with branches in London, Cape Town and Durban.
In 2008 he resigned to start Truffle with Louis van der Merwe.