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The people entrusted with your wealth.

Our leadership brings decades of experience across private banking, investment management, law and cross-border structuring.

Graeme Robertson

Graeme Robertson

Chairman and Founder

Graeme Robertson is the Founder and Chairman of the Intrasia Group, a diversified enterprise with interests spanning wealth management, infrastructure, energy, and real estate across Asia and Africa.

A graduate of the University of New South Wales, Australia, Graeme has spent his career building and leading major businesses in developing markets, combining entrepreneurial vision with a deep sense of social responsibility. His work has been recognised internationally for advancing investment and sustainable development in emerging economies.

He is a former shareholder and Director of AfrAsia Bank Limited, one of Mauritius’s most respected financial institutions, and continues to serve as Chairman of the AfrAsia Foundation, which provides education to children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Graeme is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Mauritian Institute of Directors, and serves as Vice Chairman of the Singapore Business Federation’s Africa Group.

Since establishing the Intrasia Group in 2005, with offices in Singapore and Mauritius, Graeme has guided the Group’s expansion across multiple sectors. He founded Intrasia Wealth to help individuals and institutions build, protect, and preserve wealth across generations.

Having recently divested his shareholding in AfrAsia Bank, he now focuses on growing Intrasia’s international footprint and advancing its investment and philanthropic initiatives.

Neil Kleinsmith

Neil Kleinsmith

Chief Executive Officer

Neil has led Intrasia Wealth as Chief Executive Officer since November 2024. He sets the firm's direction with the Board and remains close to its clients: families, entrepreneurs and institutions globally.

He has spent more than 17 years in wealth management and private banking in South Africa, starting his career at Standard Bank. At RMB Private Bank and FNB, both part of the FirstRand group, he worked as a wealth manager, went on to run operations and service for the advice businesses of RMB Private Bank and FNB Private Wealth as Regional Operations Head, led the Private Clients financial advisory channel, and then returned to advising high-net-worth clients across both private banks. That mix of advice, operations and leadership shapes how he runs the firm today.

Neil holds a Bachelor of Commerce, a Postgraduate Diploma, an Honours degree and a Master of Business Administration, and is licensed for Category I and Category II financial services and is a registered securities trader in South Africa. He also serves as a director of Acacia Wealth, the firm's partner in London. Born and raised in South Africa, he brings a passion for client service and for growing his clients' wealth.

Corne Burger

Corne Burger

Wealth Director

Corne brings more than two decades of experience in wealth and asset management, advising families and leading advisory businesses in South Africa and internationally.

He spent ten years as an Executive Director of Ashburton Investments, the investment management business of the FirstRand Group, where he headed Ashburton International and served on the boards of a number of its funds. Before that he was Co-CEO of Financial Advisory at RMB Private Bank, having joined as a Senior Wealth Manager, and he began his career in private wealth with seven years at Stonehage Fleming, the international family office.

Corne holds a BCom Honours degree in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management. At Intrasia Wealth he leads the firm's relationships with private clients and their families.

Chloe Duval

Chloe Duval

Head of Legal and Compliance, MLRO

Proficient Legal & Compliance professional, Chloe Duval boasts 10 years of experience in the legal field and financial services sector.

Passionate about ensuring regulatory adherence and risk mitigation, she is committed to fostering a culture of compliance and ethics within the organisation.

Chloe holds an LLB (Hons) and an LLM in International Business Law.

Girish Appadu

Girish Appadu

Portfolio Manager

Girish manages client portfolios at Intrasia Wealth. He builds each portfolio within the client's mandate, from the asset allocation to the individual holdings, and explains to clients how their portfolio is positioned and why.

He is a CFA Charterholder who studied actuarial science before completing a Master's degree in Investment Management at the University of Reading. Over more than ten years in banking, wealth management and investment analysis, including roles at SBM Bank and Warwyck Private Bank in Mauritius, he has advised high-net-worth clients, developed investment strategies and carried out the research behind them.

Mauritian by origin, Girish combines local knowledge with a global view of markets, and a commitment to building wealth patiently over the long term.

Patwena Coetzee

Patwena Coetzee

Wealth Management Analyst

Patwena is an experienced investment specialist with more than two decades in private banking and wealth management.

She built her career at RMB Private Bank in Cape Town, where she worked alongside wealth managers serving ultra-high-net-worth families. Her work covered investment performance measurement and portfolio reporting, offshore structures and trusts, fund research, and the day-to-day administration that keeps a client's affairs in order, from transfers and estates to tax-season queries and anti-money-laundering due diligence.

At Intrasia Wealth she supports the firm's advisers and portfolio managers with client analysis, reporting and onboarding, bringing a meticulous eye for detail to every relationship.

Hamina Rapelanoro

Hamina Rapelanoro

Business Development Manager

Hamina Rapelanoro brings over two decades of experience across Europe and Africa in cross border structuring and investment advisory.

She has advised family businesses, private equity teams, fintech operators, and high growth companies on structuring investment vehicles in Mauritius, Seychelles, and Dubai, including Global Business Companies, PCC structures, fund vehicles, and trusts.

Her career spans West Africa and Madagascar, where she led business development initiatives, built institutional partnerships, and worked with banks, development finance institutions, and private equity funds to structure and deploy capital.

At Intrasia Wealth, she supports entrepreneurs and institutional partners seeking compliant, commercially intelligent structures designed to protect and grow capital across borders.

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