Our Leadership Team
RYAN HARTSLIEF
Executive Director
BCOM (Financial MGT), BCOMPT (HONS), CA(SA)
As co-founder and managing director, Ryan shares the responsibility for driving the strategic leadership and commercial success of The Affinity Group.
Ryan proudly served his articles at BDO and is a qualified and registered Chartered Accountant. He has over 10 years corporate sector experience in auditing, accounting, financial services, software development and business process outsourcing.
His commercial expertise and industry experience in business systems analysis, business process solutions, call center operations and client services development were achieved during his time served as Group Chief Operations Officer and Director of the Upstream Group of companies, having provided services to the likes of Woolworths Financial Services, MR Price Money, RCS, Direct Axis, Capfin, Truworths and The Foschini Group.
Ryan is married with two children, is a self-professed coffee and food aficionado who is passionate about sports of any kind.
ANDREW PORTMANN
Executive Director
BCOMPT (HONS), CA(SA)
Andrew served his articles at BDO in Durban and in 2015 became the Group Chief Financial Officer of the Upstream group of companies.
As the co-founder of the Affinity Group, he is responsible for the financial management and investment success of the business. He has extensive industry sector experience in all financial, investment and risk-based services of business process outsourcing and in the contact centre environment.
Andrew has always lived in Durban, is married and has two children and enjoys playing golf and indoor soccer.
