Roderick Phillips

CA(SA), ACA

Rod completed his tertiary education at the University of Cape Town, and his articles with Deloitte. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1997. After relocating to the UK in 1998, he was involved in start-up businesses before founding Quotient, an accounting services firm, in 2002. Rod sold Quotient to the Sable group in 2010 and relocated to Mauritius in 2011 to establish a joint venture with Sable in the offshore sector. Summit Trust International acquired Sable’s 50% in the Mauritius company in late 2012, and the balance of the equity held by the Mauritius management team in early 2016. Rod is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales.

Bridge roles in Summit / Sanlam Mauritius structures (graph summary)

Roderick (Rod) Phillips sits at the intersection of:

Summit Trust International – child in this brain, reflecting Summit’s acquisition of the Mauritius JV he helped establish with Sable.
Sanlam Trustees (Mauritius) – also a child, representing his subsequent move into the Sanlam trustee platform.
Sable Group Mauritius JV (created from his bio) – a JV he led, later acquired by Summit.

This positions Rod as a bridge person between:

Sable → Summit Trust International → Sanlam Trustees (Mauritius)

and, by extension, into the wider fiduciary network (Oak / Sanlam / EBC / Y4L / Kariba) already modeled in this brain.