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Karel obtained an honours degree in Urban Geography from the University of the Orange Free State and an MBA from the Potchefstroom University Business School. He started his career at FNB’s branch and ATM network planning division. Over the span of 14 years at the Bank Karel worked at various departments and divisions gaining valuable analytical, project management and general business experience. He ended his career at the Bank, heading the advanced analytics and data modelling department. From June 2007 Karel was heading the ECE Project Developments Company, a subsidiary of a property syndication and investment business, providing program and project management services to both the property development and information technology environments. Karel was appointed as Senior Project Manager at Calgro M3 in January 2009 where he was responsible for various residential housing developments spanning across different market segments over the entire property development life cycle and value chain. This included mid to high income residential development, retirement estate as well as fully integrated housing projects requiring Government funding. Karel started a property development and project management consulting company, named O5 Projects during the course of 2018. In addition to the consulting company Karel took up full time employment at the Bigen Group (Engineering Consulting) at the end of 2019 till July 2022, as senior property development manager. From August 2022 Karel become part owner and director of the Innovative Consolidated Group, a holding company with various subsidiaries including a steel construction company, educational institution, property development company and other.