Bruce Hunt

Bruce Hunt is the CEO of Ownership Solutions (Pty) Ltd and a director of Transcend Corporate Advisors (Pty) Ltd, the two leading BEE Advisory Firms in South Africa. He is a specialist in designing and implementing democratic Employee Owned Trusts, Broad Based Empowerment Schemes and structuring Multinational BEE Empowerment deals. He has a particular competence in designing tax efficient sustainable employee trusts that drive value for both the business and the employees. His fundamental belief is that employee ownership, implemented properly, will substantially change the culture of a business and drive profitability.

Bruce spent the previous 18 months developing and setting up CIDA City Campus’s Empowerment initiative and negotiating CIDA’s business interests. He has been consulting in the ownership aspects of empowerment with a special emphasis on employee ownership trusts, dispute resolution and the equitable and tax efficient closing of deals. He also lectured Corporate Strategy for Milpark Business School’s MBA Program. Prior to that, Bruce worked for Investec Bank for five years. During this period he was involved in managing and structuring the banks foreign asset and liability interest rate and currency positions. He was a proprietary trader and was a specialised derivative and debt structurer. Prior to joining Investec he spent four years in the printing and heavy engineering businesses as a turnaround consultant. He holds a B.Comm degree from the University of Cape Town, is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has an MBA from Manchester Business School. Bruce is also a founding Director of the Employee Ownership Association of Africa.