Wendy Applebaum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCompletely disadvantaged women were empowered and assisted in understanding how to make profitable investments and consequently become wealthier. However, after five years of working with WIPHOLD and just after the company was listed on the J.S.E, Wendy sold her shares to enable women who had been previously disadvantaged to fill her spot. In reflecting on her time at the company, Wendy says that her experience working at WIPHOLD was one of the most beautiful experiences of her life.<\/p>\n
The relentless entrepreneur also worked in her father’s company, Liberty Group, and served as a director at the Liberty Group Investors. There, she became one of the company’s largest individual shareholders then. Later on, she sold her shares and opened the wine farm with her husband in 2003.<\/p>\n
Wendy attributes the knowledge, connections, and courage she found to pursue her dream to her experience at WIPHOLD. She had always nursed the desire to own a farm, which she did after she left Liberty Group, resulting in her wine production business. Her experiences working on several boards, sorting companies’ financials, and in H.R. came to use when she eventually started her own wine company, De Morgenzon.<\/p>\n
She Has Held Leadership Positions In Several Organizations\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\nWendy Appelbaum refers to herself as a serial board-sitter. She attained her first seat on the board of the Liberty Group and has gone on to sit on the board of over ten different foundations and companies in several capacities to date. Some of them include;<\/p>\n
\n- Chairperson – De Morgenzon Wine Estate<\/li>\n
- Chairperson – South African Women’s Professional Golfers’ Association<\/li>\n
- Chairperson – Sphere Holdings Limited, a black empowerment company<\/li>\n
- Deputy Chairperson – WIPHOLD Limited, a women’s investment portfolio<\/li>\n
- Deputy Chairperson – Connection Group Holdings, South Africa<\/li>\n
- Director – The Donald Gordon Foundation (which is the largest private charitable foundation in Africa)<\/li>\n
- Director – Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre Limited, University of the Witwatersrand Post-graduate Teaching Hospital<\/li>\n
- Director – Victory Strategic Services<\/li>\n
- Director – Liberty Investors, an insurance and real estate company.<\/li>\n
- Board Member – International Women’s Forum<\/li>\n
- Board Member – Western Cape Tourism, Trade & Investment, WESGRO<\/li>\n
- Board Member – Harvard University’s Global Advisory Board<\/li>\n
- Board Member – Harvard University’s Women’s Leadership Board<\/li>\n
- Board Member – Synergos Institute, Southern Africa<\/li>\n
- Trustee – Redhill School Trust<\/li>\n
- Trustee – The Children’s Haemophilia & Oncology Clinic (CHOC)<\/li>\n
- Trustee – Helen Suzman Foundation<\/li>\n
- Trustee – World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWWF-SA)<\/li>\n
- Trustee – Tribune Trust, an investment holding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n