Piet studied at the University of Stellenbosch and attained his Honours in Economics. He started his banking career with ABSA (now part of Barclays) and then joined BoE as business development manager. He left BoE during the Nedbank merger to co-found Circin Capital and is a full time executive director of the company. He currently holds various board positions in investee companies as part of Circin Capital’s private equity management responsibilities.