Rudi has enjoyed more than 22 years’ experience in the banking and foreign exchange industry. He commenced his career with the Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and quickly rose through the ranks to join Trust Bank Limited (now ABSA bank) and then Master Currency Foreign Exchange now (Bidvest Bank) regional manager in South Africa.

Rudi started his career in New Zealand by joining the HIFX group of companies where he became one of the most successful Business Development Managers over a four-year period. Rudi still provides his clients with Foreign currency services expertly done by HIFX & Currency Online. Read more

He prides himself in offering practical, swift and cost effective solutions to South Africans wanting to be re-united with their Rands! Rudi has been based in Auckland for over 4 years and is a frequent traveler throughout the world where he promotes Rand Reunite globally.

Rudi was personally responsible for the success of another company who assist South Africans with their Rand repatriations, before he started the Rand Group.

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Lijlanie has obtained the degrees BComm and BProc at the University of South Africa. In South Africa she practised as Attorney, Notary and Conveyancer and has over 13 years of outstanding loyalty to legal practice. Upon arrival in New Zealand she worked alongside Fred Baker at Baker Law in Auckland.

Lijlanie is Rand Reunites Marketing Manager and Events Co-ordinator and is an integral member of the team, with nearly 20 years’ experience in senior roles. As an immigrant to New Zealand, Lijlanie is aware of how stressful moving countries can be and understands how important it is for Rand Reunite’s clients to feel welcome and safe in their new country, and the same goes for their funds! Lijlanie is committed to successfully steer the Rand Reunite Marketing department in the right direction. Lijlanie continues to devote herself to further studies.

Lijlanie is very experienced in her field and has organised many successful events, both in South Africa and New Zealand. Lijlanie continues to deal with the day to day marketing of the Rand Reunite business in Australasia, while facilitating events Rand Reunite supports. Her efficiency and professionalism allows Rand Reunite to grow fast and to support the South African community in New Zealand. Despite her hectic schedule, Lijlanie always manages to allocate time to the community. She is the founder of SA Kiwi Chicks, who devotes themselves to serving women and families in Auckland and the greater New Zealand. In her free time, she enjoys the New Zealand lifestyle and spending time with her husband and children.

Mandie has 9 years of administrative and personal assistant experience working for NZ local government. She is an experienced administrator who takes the responsibilities as Personal Assistant and Office Manager for the New Zealand head office. She will liaise with the South African office, partners and providers to ensure clients can be re-united with their rands.

From the early stages of Henrico’s career he found a deep interest in asset and risk management, and realised that customer service and peace of mind was captured in the guarantee that your risk is secure and protected at all times. His aim is to provide an excellent customised service to every single customer.

When Henrico himself was faced with making the big move to New Zealand in 2015, he was challenged at his own game, and had to surrender his financial profile to The Rand Group, who managed the transfer of his personal funds and managed his financial migration process.

Henrico was recognised and approached by Rudi Stander, the Global Managing Director and founder of the Rand Group and is currently employed as the Business Development Manager for New Zealand. He is also the franchise owner for Australia.

Originally from South Africa, Bernie and his wife Lindy emigrated to New Zealand in 2010 and 2011 respectively, they are now both citizens of New Zealand. They have two adult married daughters, one in New Zealand and the other daughter still in South Africa.

Bernie has personally been through the process of Financial Emigration and knows the frustrations. Bernie has been providing a personal service to his clients for the past 30 years as a Financial Adviser. He has been in the Financial Services world both in South Africa and New Zealand and is very experienced and innovative, he is all about crossing the “t” and dotting the” I”. He will glide you through the complete process from beginning to end.

Bernie has dealt with all the insurance companies and banks in South Africa whilst assisting his clients, along with advising clients on their tax affairs and was trained as an Administrator of Estates.

Bernie and Lindy relocated to the Manawatu area in December 2015 and have made this their home, the expats of the Manawatu are very special to him in that he understands what they are going thru being new to the area and to New Zealand. He has many contacts that he is able to introduce to all the new members of our society.

He is now looking forward to his next chapter where he will specialise and be of total service to you, your family and friends in ensuring that your Financial Emigration will be as smooth and as effortless as possible.

Bernie’s hobbies include gardening and woodworking in his garage, and now that his first grandson is on his way he will be making a lot of wooden toys.

Leigh.Plimmer@randgroup.biz
United States: +1 678 8524360

Leigh and her husband Rob, a Chartered Accountant, relocated to Atlanta GA USA in 2000. During her working career of 12 years in South Africa, Leigh gained broad experience in the banking and foreign exchange industry followed by telecommunications product development experience as the South African Product Manager for Alcatel France. For the past 15 years in the United States, Leigh has been involved in owning and running a small business that sources and imports sports novelty products solely made in South Africa, marketing particularly to resorts and pro shops, and major chains such as the PGA superstore. Leigh has extensive trade show and promotional experience managing corporate trade shows in South Africa and wholesale trade shows in the US.

With first-hand experience of what is involved with relocating to a new country and fully aware of how daunting this big move can be, Leigh’s goal is to assist fellow South Africans however she can, and provide them with peace of mind when transferring their funds safely to their new country.

Leigh has extensive connections within the US who can assist with tax and accounting matters and will pool all of her knowledge and experience for the benefit of our customers.

Despite obtaining US Citizenship, Leigh and her husband delayed financial immigration and the repatriation of their retirement annuities until 2014 as they did not want to face the frustrations of dealing with SARS and the SA banks. Once she learned of the services Rand Reunite offered and compared these services and associated costs with competitive companies, Leigh had the peace of mind and reassurance that Rand Reunite’s ultimate goal was exceptional customer service and that Rand Reunite’s efficient and effective team would deal with the bureaucracy and protracted process with guaranteed success at a reasonable and competitive price.

Having assimilated well and made many new friends that include SA Expats, Leigh enjoys living in Atlanta and outside of work loves gardening and spending time with her husband and 2 young sons, ages 6 years and 16 months.

Reeva joins the Rand Reunite team as a business development manager for Australia. Her varied background includes working in mortgages and as a business and procedure analyst for the retirement annuity division and later the funeral planning division of a leading UK insurance company. She later moved into the field of digital marketing and brings a wealth of skills to Rand Reunite.

When she first arrived in Australia, she set up an online support group for South Africans relocating to Australia which has today developed into a very successful platform. She also writes a blog called Proudly South African In Perth, which aims to help those who are migrating from South Africa to Australia as well as those who are already living in Australia.

As someone who has moved internationally not once, not twice but three times, she knows how stressful the process can be, especially when you have to leave loved ones behind. As part of the Rand Reunite team, she enjoys being able to assist clients with transferring their annuities and finances to help ensure their secure financial future.

Based in Perth, she loves to spend time at the beach whenever she can and enjoys horse riding, reading and blogging.