Academic Staff
Chair of the Department
Prof Gert Human
PROFESSOR
HOD: Department of Business Management
Research focus area: Strategy | Industrial Marketing
Teaching area: Strategic Management
Marketing Management
Prof Chris Pentz | Chair: Marketing Management
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research focus area: Strategic and Global Marketing | Wine Marketing
Teaching area: Strategic and Global Marketing
Dr Lené Ehlers
SENIOR LECTURER
Research focus area: Retail | Consumer Behaviour | Digital Marketing
Teaching area: Retail Management | Marketing Communication
Lucea Toerien
LECTURER
Research focus area: Public Health Communication | Neurophysiological Research
Teaching area: Marketing
Prof Stefanie Kühn
ASSOCIATE LECTURER
Research focus area: Relationship Marketing | Consumer Behaviour
Teaching area: Marketing Management | Marketing Research
Prof Edwin Theron
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research focus area: Marketing, with specialisation in Relationship Marketing
Teaching area: Services Marketing | Advanced Marketing
Dr Debbie Human-Van Eck
SENIOR LECTURER
Research focus area: Marketing Communication |Brand Management |Brand Purpose Creativity | Consumer Psychology | Design Thinking
Teaching area: Marketing Communication | Consumer Behaviour | Brand Management | Digital Marketing
Financial Management
Dr Annalien de Vries | Chair: Financial Management
SENIOR LECTURER
Research focus area: Financial Management | Behavioural Finance
Teaching area: Financial Management | Investment Management | Behavioural Finance
Prof Pierre Erasmus
PROFESSOR
Research focus area: Financial Management | Value-based Financial Management
Teaching area: Financial Planning and Forecasting
Vuyokazi Gobile
Ruth Johnson
LECTURER
Research focus area: Financial Management | Environment, Social and Corporate Governance Factors (ESG)
Teaching area: Financial Management
Prof Nadia Mans-Kemp
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research focus area: Corporate Governance | Corporate Finance
Teaching area: Financial Management
Hanli Mulholland
LECTURER
Research focus area: Business Research | Process Improvement | Lean Six Sigma
Teaching area: Business Research | Process Improvement | Lean Six Sigma
Dr Kara Pienaar
LECTURER
Research focus area: Sustainable investment | Investment decision-making | Sustainability reporting
Teaching area: Business Management | Financial Management
Dewald Smit
Prof Suzette Viviers
PROFESSOR
Research focus area: Responsible Investing | Shareholder Activism | Impact Investing | Proxy Voting
Teaching area: Financial Management | Investment Management | Business Ethics
Investment Management (Financial Planning)
Lelani Maree | Chair: Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
LECTURER
Research focus area: Innovation | Corporate Entrepreneurship
Teaching area: Innovation | Corporate Entrepreneurship
Dr Anika Berning
LECTURER AND ACADEMIC COORDINATOR: FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS
Research focus area: Strategic Management | Management Control Systems
Teaching area: Business Management | Strategic Management
Prof Evan Gilbert
PROFESSOR
Research focus area: Portfolio Management | Decision making | Machine Learning in Finance
Teaching area: Investment Management
Prof Gert Human
PROFESSOR
HOD: Department of Business Management
Research focus area: Strategy | Industrial Marketing
Teaching area: Strategic Management
Adolph Neethling
LECTURER
Research focus area: Entrepreneurship | Small Business Management | SMME Development
Teaching area: Entrepreneurship | Small Business Management
Sabrina Matthee
LECTURER
Research focus area: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
Teaching area: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management | SMME Development
Chanel Venter
LECTURER
Research focus area: Organisational Sustainability | Strategic Management
Teaching area: Strategic Management | Management of Corporate Social Responsibility
Investment Management (Financial Planning)
Johan Steyn | Acting chair: Investment Management
Lomari Theart
LECTURER
Research focus area: Investment Management | Financial Derivatives
Teaching area: Investment Management
Phillip Ferreira
LECTURER
Research focus area: Financial Management | Value-based Financial Management
Teaching area: Financial Planning and Forecasting
Dr Elze-Mari Roux
LECTURER
Research focus area: Retirement Planning | Consumer Finance
Teaching area: Financial Planning | Investments
Emile Terblanche
LECTURER
Research focus area: Investment management | Fixed income
Teaching area: Investment management | Fixed income
Valdon Theron
SENIOR LECTURER
Research focus area: Investment management | Fixed income
Teaching area: Investment management | Fixed income
International Management
Prof Pierre Erasmus
PROFESSOR
Research focus area: Financial Management | Value-based Financial Management
Teaching area: Financial Planning and Forecasting