🧬Gert van Wyk

Gert van Wyk has a diverse work experience spanning from 2004 to 2019. 🧬Gert is the founder of BioCertica, a company they established in October 2019. Prior to that, Gert worked at Sanlam Investments from October 2015 to October 2019 as a Hedge Fund Manager, where they managed a commodity hedge fund focusing on extracting alpha returns from commodity markets.

Before joining Sanlam Investments, Gert was employed by Senwes from 2009 to 2015. During their time at Senwes, they held various positions including General Manager of Senwes Grain Brokerage, Soft Commodities Option Market Maker, Group Risk Manager (CRO), White Maize Trader, and Senior Safex Trader in the Grain Procurement Division. In these roles, Gert was involved in tasks such as managing the trading and advisory team, providing liquidity to the soft commodities options market, overseeing risk management efforts, maximizing time and location value of white maize, and developing innovative hedging strategies.

Prior to working at Senwes, Gert worked at Free State Maize as a Grain Trader from 2007 to 2009. In this position, they had exposure to a variety of trading disciplines including brokerage activities, physical trading, option trading, and portfolio management. Additionally, they worked at HSBC in roles such as Treasury Support Investigations Analyst in the Foreign Exchange Department from February 2006 to November 2006, and as a Static Data Control Analyst in the Foreign Exchange Department from December 2004 to July 2005. Gert also worked at Bank of New York: London as a Confirmations Analyst in the Foreign Exchange Department from August 2005 to February 2006.

Gert van Wyk's education history includes a degree in M. Com. Risk Management from North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit. In addition to this, Gert has also pursued additional education, although specific details regarding the degree and field of study are not provided.