Julia La Roche
Author: Julia La Roche
Publications: Clusterstock
Date Published: 27 July 2012
The CEO of private equity firm was allegedly shot dead by a former business partner who then killed himself, MoneyWeb’s Julius Cobbett reports.
The CEO was Julian Williams, 37, the chief executive and co-founder of Basileus Capital.
He was allegedly shot by Herman Pretorius, a former business partner at hedge fund Abante Statistical Arbitrage.
MoneyWeb points out that the pair had a big dispute earlier this month over the payment of dividends for a company called SA Superalloys.
Here’s Williams’ bio from Basileus:
Julian Williams graduated with a Masters in Commerce from the University of Cape Town. He successfully completed his board examination and following the completion of his training contract with PriceWaterhouseCoopers Inc, he obtained his CA (SA) professional membership from the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.
In Business:
In 2001 he was responsible for launching Penryth (Proprietary) Limited, a specialist securities lending business in South Africa. This led him to move across and establish an investment Group of companies which comprised: a Financial Services Board registered investment manager; and a private equity company and related companies.
