Ian Kilbride has been one of the leading figures in the business of private client asset management for well over 35 years. During the past four decades he has established, and or developed, numerous asset and wealth management operations, as well as built up a number of successful philanthropic foundations. In 2022 Kilbride was awarded an Honorary Professorship by Stellenbosch Business School, where he now lectures on Philanthropy as well as business in society, to the MBA, MPhil and visiting overseas students. In 1994, Kilbride established the Spirit Foundation in memory of his late sister Louise and as an acknowledgement of South Africa’s new democracy. This has grown over the last 30 years to act as the ‘philanthropic umbrella’ over three focused non-profit companies, these being the Spirit Education Foundation (SEF), Spirit Wildlife Foundation (SWF) and Spirit Community Foundation (SCF).