James Charles Herbst
Chief executive officer
BComm, BAcc, CA(SA), Chartered Financial Analyst
Appointed: 1 September 2006
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James is a CA with sound experience in corporate finance, corporate law, investment banking, and investment management. After completing his articles with Coopers and Lybrand and the Chartered Financial Analyst programme, James worked for Fleming Martin Private Asset Management where he managed full discretionary funds. He left in 2001 to start a private equity business that later culminated in the listing of Level 4 IT Services with its subsequent acquisition of DataPro: now Vox Telecom. Having completed his service contract with DataPro, James went on to pursue corporate finance and deal-making with the launch of WRH Corporate Advisors. |
In July 2007 they acted as corporate advisors to TelePassport, which was reverse-listed into Huge Group. Since his appointment as CEO, James has been instrumental in integrating Huge Group’s two principal telecommunications businesses, which have been combined to form Huge Telecom.
Non-executive directors
Stephen Tredoux
Ken Jarvis
Brian McQueen
Michael Beamish
Anton Potgieter
Executive directors
James HerbstNeil Wensley
Vincent Mokholo


