PREMIUM From dreams of priesthood to building an insurance business Businessman believes that success is not only measured by profits, but also by a business' ability to continue serving clients long after its founder has left. Enterprise Just now Listen

Today, nearly 30 years later, he is the founder and managing director of HISA African Insurance Agency, which distributes financial products for Absa Life and Old Mutual.“I knew that when I left employment one day, I wanted to run my own business.”Within a month, he had secured a position as a junior financial advisor at Old Mutual, unknowingly stepping into the profession that would define the next three decades of his life.