25+ years of building success stories.
One decision at a time.
Most decisions fail before they start.
Not because the data wasn’t there.
Because no one could explain what it meant.
I have been in that room — watching a decision unravel not from lack of information, but from the inability to turn it into something anyone could act on.
That moment redirected me.
I went back to the source — asking harder questions, digging deeper into the evidence before drawing conclusions. I built frameworks that made complexity navigable. I challenged those frameworks against real clients, real markets, real regulatory environments — until they held.
And then I put them to work.
That arc — from raw data to reasoned decision — is the thread running through everything I do.
GMT
Before data strategy, there was the laboratory. As co-founder of GMT, I built and managed a technology business from the ground up — leading research, development, and production of micro devices. This is where scientific rigour met business discipline. Where I first learned that the gap between an idea and a result is always closed the same way: ask the right questions, test until it holds, then build.
Marcus Consultant
From engineering to strategy. At Marcus Consultant I applied research methodology to complex business decisions — conducting due diligence, feasibility studies, and contributing to the listing of a company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. It was here that research became strategy.
Liberty
Every independent practice needs a foundation. Mine was built at Liberty — one of South Africa’s most established financial services institutions — where technical discipline met the human reality of financial planning.
Ahrens Teixeira & Associates
The first firm. Financial planning and consulting, including work for Nedbank. The lessons learned here directly shaped what LPJ became.
LPJ Group
Three entities. One philosophy. Data → Strategy → Growth.
- →CFP® — Certified Financial Planner
- →MSc, Solid State Physics — University of the Free State
- →Higher Diploma in Education (Postgraduate)
- →Member, Financial Planning Institute of South Africa (since 2001)
- →Member, International Institute of Business Analysis
- →Board Member, IIBA South Africa
- →Lead Data Analyst, Centra Sul DAO
- →AI literacy and governance
- →Blockchain and digital asset strategy
- →Financial planning and compliance
- →Business analysis and data storytelling
I write weekly on AI, Blockchain, Governance, Financial Planning, Foreign Exchange, Leadership, and Business Analysis.
THE LPJ ACADEMY PROMISE
No jargon. No unnecessary complexity. No one-size-fits-all.
Just practical, rigorous frameworks that work in the real world—for professionals who are serious
about growing.