Brandon Ben Zietsman

Mr. Brandon B.
Zietsman is a Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer at PortfolioMetrix Pty Ltd.
and a Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer at PortfolioMetrix Asset Management Ltd.
He is on the Board of Directors at Portfoliometrix Holdings Ltd.
He has been actively involved in the broader industry for many years, and with his skill and wealth of experience, he is a great supporter of advocacy initiatives that promote ethical behaviour in the financial services industry.
Mr. Zeitsman began his career at Investec in 1994, before joining RMB Fund Managers, where he headed up product development.
This period in his career featured some pioneering achievements in derivative structuring.
In 1997, he also assumed responsibility for the sales division and was appointed to the board.
Two years later, Mr. Zeitsman joined Mercury Consolidated Holdings, a boutique financial services firm engaging in specialist derivative structuring, broking and risk management, as a director and co-head of structured products, where a number of global-first products were successfully developed.
He re-joined RMB Asset Management in 2001 as an Executive Director with responsibility for product development and structuring.
The following year he was appointed head of quantitative research before assuming the role of Chief Executive Officer of RMB Unit Trusts.
In 2008, Mr. Zeitsman was approached by Barclays to head up the Investment and Product Office at Absa Wealth, which included all aspects of investments (as Chief Investment Officer), banking and credit as well as fiduciary services.
When he left this role, he continued to be actively involved in the Absa Group strategy on wealth management and remained involved in product support and strategy formulation on a consultancy basis.
In early 2010, he left the corporate environment and founded PortfolioMetrix.