Meet Pete

A lifetime of flying, learning, and living deliberately

For fifty years, Pete Schuil has been a builder.

He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Zimbabwe and spent his early career examining the next generation of accountants — then spent the four decades that followed structuring, funding and rescuing enterprises across Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and beyond. He has restructured companies out of the path of liquidation, helped design privatisation frameworks for governments, and worked with institutions including the African Development Bank and the World Bank Group. Along the way he founded businesses of his own — some that lasted, some that didn't, all of which taught him something.

His other office has been the cockpit. A commercial pilot with more than 8,000 hours, multi-engine and instrument rated and Cranfield-qualified in aviation safety, he has built the safety and operations systems for aviation companies across the region — and flown the landscapes that became his paintings.

Because that is the other thing Pete does: he paints. His canvases capture the rivers, escarpments and skies of southern Africa as only someone who has flown low over them for half a century could see them. And after turning around his own health, he wrote a plain, practical book about it, so that others might do the same.

Chartered accountant, pilot, artist, author — but underneath all of it, one thing: a man who builds what works, mends what is failing, and shares what lasts.

• Pilot
• Entrepreneur
• Artist
• Author
• Mentor