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Geoff Blount is the CEO of Cannon Asset Managers. After completing a BCom (Hons) at Wits, Geoff lectured Corporate Finance in the university's business economics department. He subsequently worked as an equity dealer at Société Generale Frankel Pollak (the precursor SG Securities and later Sasfin Securities) and later became a private-client portfolio manager at SGFP.

Geoff moved to BoE Private Bank as a portfolio manager before joining the Investment Solutions investment team in January 1999, where he developed and headed their manager research team. Over this period, Investment Solutions grew assets under management from R4bn to R180bn to become the largest multi-manager in South Africa.

Through his career, Geoff has extensively reviewed all the institutional asset managers in South Africa, as well as many managers in the UK and USA. He has probably conducted over 2000 face to face manager reviews and due diligences, and is very intimate with the asset management industry in South Africa. This experience has given him fantastic insight into what makes a successful asset manager. He brings this knowledge and expertise to his role as chief executive officer at Cannon Asset Managers.