Property is Riaan’s passion. He studied marketing and sales at Wits Technikon and Technikon RSA. After working for property developers operating mainly in Kagiso – a traditionally disadvantaged area between Krugersdorp and Randfontein, as well as in a suburb of Soweto as a sales agent, he started construction company Roos Contractors in 1992. In 1994 he also started RBA Developments in Johannesburg which expanded operations to the Western Cape in December 1999. In 2001 Riaan sold his shares and in 2007 the company listed on the ALTX.
In 2002, Riaan started MSP Developments: “The best move I ever made.” He is very optimistic about the future: “We are one of the bigger development companies in the market today, and are certainly going to be one of the biggest - if not the biggest - in the next few years.”

MSP has diversified over the years, offering a host of complementary business units that are all geared to offering significant end-user value across all market segments. “That’s what we want to do – cover the whole spectrum – and that is what MSP stands for – Multi Spectrum Property.”