Rondebosch Head Boy
Not just a boy at Rondebosch. The boy. Head Prefect of the class of 2012, who opened his valedictory speech as “the proudest man alive.”
Source: his 2012 valedictory speech ↗Most people pick one hard thing and call it a career. Travis stacked actuarial science, elite strategy consulting, and founding his own company and still shows up as one of the good ones. This corner of the internet is here to say so.
The Receipts
A short, entirely admiring dossier.
UCT Actuary
A BSc in Actuarial Science from UCT, taken all the way to full FASSA and CERA. Translation: he does risk and probability for a living, and he's very good at it.
Source: LinkedIn ↗Ex-Bain
The better part of a decade in management consulting, including five years at Bain & Company, one of the legendary MBB trio. The kind of place that hires the actuary who is also a people person.
Source: LinkedIn ↗Founder, Altius Reach
Now Managing Partner of his own firm doing commercial due diligence for private equity. Offices in London, New York and Cape Town. Built, proudly, from home.
Source: altiusreach.com ↗Scout Leader
A Scout right through high school, then he ran a scout troop for five years through university and into his working life. weekly meetings and weekend adventures for boys aged 11 to 17, all about youth leadership.
Source: LinkedIn ↗Water Polo, With Heart
UCT 1st-team water polo and club vice-chair on the Outreach portfolio, running a swimming programme with the Blue Downs community. The club took UCT Sports Club of the Year.
Source: LinkedIn ↗A Solstice Original
Born on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the Joburg year. Fitting for someone who packs an unreasonable amount into any given day.
How He Got Here
Head boy → actuary → dealmaker → boss.
1994
Enters the world
21 June, Johannesburg. Shortest day of the year; clearly decided to make up for it.
2012
Head Boy at Rondebosch
Head Prefect of the class of 2012. First taste of being the person everyone quietly relies on.
SCOUTS
Runs a scout troop, five years
A Scout since high school, then leading one: weekly meetings and weekend adventures for boys aged 11 to 17.
UCT
BSc Actuarial Science
One of the toughest degrees going, plus 1st-team water polo and a genuine outreach streak on the side.
QUALIFIED
Actuary · FASSA & CERA
Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary. Risk is his mother tongue.
CONSULTING
Five years at Bain & Company
Strategy consulting at the top table, turning messy data into decisions people actually make. The start of the better part of a decade in consulting.
2025
Founds Altius Reach
Managing Partner of a due-diligence firm for private equity, run across three continents from Cape Town.
The Official Coolness Readout
Peer-reviewed by friends. Actuarially sound.
“I stand before you today as the proudest man alive.” — Travis, opening his 2012 head boy valedictory speech
Sources
This is a fan page, but the facts are real. Here's where they came from.
- Travis Taylor on LinkedIn — Managing Partner at Altius Reach, ex-Bain, Actuary (FASSA / CERA), UCT water polo & Outreach, and five years running a scout troop.
- Head Prefect's valedictory speech, Rondebosch Boys' High — Travis Taylor, class of 2012 (E'12). The primary source for head boy.
- altiusreach.com — the firm: commercial due diligence for private equity; offices in London, New York and Cape Town.
- UK Companies House — Altius Reach Limited registration.
- South African company register — Altius Reach, incorporated March 2025, Cape Town.