Description: GAIA Group
As a specialist asset manager, Gaia focuses exclusively on infrastructure and agriculture investments and prides itself on its unique engineering, project development and finance skills to execute upon the investment options throughout the project lifecycle.
Botha was an inspirational and visionary co-founder of Gaia. His passion for business and engineering led to the founding of several successful business ventures over many decades. He inspired loyalty and was respected by everyone that met him personally. A fiercely independent thinker with bold ideas and strong views of the future, he is missed by his colleagues and friends in Gaia. Gaia will always form part of his legacy.
Leon started at Sanlam Limited, and then spent most of his career offering consulting services to many of the largest retirement funds in South Africa. He joined PSG Group Limited in its early years and was responsible for Channel Life Limited. In 2002, he left formal employment and moved to a wine farm in Stellenbosch where he engages in special projects and community development programmes. Leon and Botha Schabort have worked on funding of renewable energy projects by South African institutions since 2011