Savvy investor Richard Enthoven has enjoyed incredible success after setting up the Australian operations of South Africa-based Hollard Insurance Group, which includes Hollard Insurance, Hollard Financial Services and Real Insurance.

While insurance is a family business for Enthoven – his father launched the extremely successful and highly profitable South African insurance giant – he cut his teeth in the industry as a regional underwriting assistant for AIG’s South American operations and also worked as a project manager for United Financial Casualty Company. Enthoven moved to Sydney in 1999 to establish Hollard here and committed the company to doing things differently; since then, Hollard has grown exponentially and is a leader in the Australian market.

Enthoven also owns the Nando’s food chain and Spier Wine Farm; Bloomberg estimates his net worth to be more than US$1bn. Not content with meteoric business success, Enthoven is also committed to furthering the insurance industry and was appointed president and chairman of the Insurance Council of Australia in 2017; his two-year term will come to a close towards the end of this year.

Enthoven is also chairman of the ICA’s financial inclusion committee and serves on the advisory board of Head Over Heels, a not-for-profit organisation that supports a portfolio of high-potential women-owned businesses.