Ian Kilbride
Ian Kilbride is the Chairman of Spirit Invest and its subsidiaries Orion Investment Managers (who own Cadiz, Starfunds.ai, Capita, Accorn, Palmyra, Fundstore and Pangbourne) and Orion Wealth Managers (who own Warwick Wealth and Appleton).
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 he established the Spirit Foundation (SF) in memory of his late sister Louise and as an acknowledgement of South Africa’s new democracy. SF has grown over the last 30 years to act as the ‘philanthropic umbrella’ of three focused non-profit companies, these being the Spirit Education Foundation (SEF), Spirit Wildlife Foundation (SWF) and Spirit Community Foundation (SCF).
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