Join us as we sit down with Rob Keldoulis, CEO of Viviene Court Trading, a financial trading firm where wealth is generated with a social conscience. Unlike any traditional financial institution, VivCourt is centred on the employees, customers and charities.

About Rob

Rob started in the markets in 1987, the year of the great crash when the markets fell 50% in a week. He travelled through China and the Soviet Union before Tiananmen Square and the fall of communism, worked in New York as the manager of a jazz band and toured Italy before ending up in Amsterdam in 1989. He spent 6 years working in the Dutch trading pits before coming back to establish Optiver Australia in 1995. He started with a friend and grew the company to 200 people, retiring in 2010.

He took to Buddhism in 2008 and worked for the Dalai Lama, arranging 5 of his visits to Australia from 2008 to 2015, living and travelling with him for 2-week periods when he visited. In 2012 he opened Vivienne Court Trading and placed the ownership of the company into a charitable trust so that 100% of corporate profits would flow to the charitable sector, rather than 1% which is the average corporate philanthropic spend.

To date VivCourt has generated about $65m, $10m of which has been directly donated and the balance retained to grow the capital base of the company.