Adrian brings 30 years of experience in capital markets and investment management to Boutique Asset Management, having worked across public and private markets in all major asset classes. His career spans several leading asset management firms, including founding and running a highly regarded boutique investment management firm that was sold to a listed company in 2017. After working with a multi-family investment office for a number of years, Adrian acquired an equity stake in Boutique Asset Management in 2023. 

Adrian has successfully blended his investment industry experience with an academic career as a Professor of Economics and Finance at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (Pretoria) where he teaches economics, finance, and strategy. He also holds a Visiting Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management (Toronto, Canada). 

Adrian holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (cum laude), MCom (cum laude), and a PhD (Economics) for which he was awarded the Economics Society of South Africa’s Founders Medal.  He is a UNESCO laureate, a matriculant of Linacre College (Oxford) and has completed programs in Capital Markets at New York’s Columbia University; competitive strategy at Harvard Business School in Boston; Machine Learning at Stanford; Financial Markets at Yale; and Game Theory at the University of British Columbia. Adrian is a member of various industry bodies, including the Academy of International Business, the Strategic Management Society, Investment Analysts Society, Economic Society of South Africa, Economic History Society of Southern Africa and Manual of Ideas (Global).