Brandon Polley

Brandon attended Teacher Training Tech, then worked as a game ranger and travelled. He spent two years learning cabinet-making, then a further three years studying accounting through UNISA.

Later, his love of hand-made things led him to start up a weaving factory and a joint-management role at a furniture factory. Brandon then joined JCI as an internal auditor for two and a half years, before becoming a branch accountant at Italtile. Over the next ten years, Brandon became proficient in imports and distribution, while developing the franchise model for CTM.
In December 2000, he took over the highly succesful CTM franchise store in Port Elizabeth.

Since then, he has developed ten TopT home improvement stores across the Eastern Cape while earning a reputation as an accomplished Irrigation, Small Stock and Game farmer.

Over the last fourteen years, Brandon’s keen interest in renewable energy has resulted in a firm partnership with Demetri Pappadopoulos, developing Electric Fish – a hydro electric business on the Fish River irrigation scheme – and, more recently, Synthesis Power Solutions.