Mr. Vallance has been involved in property since 1982 and qualified as a professional valuer in 1986 with Richard Ellis (Dunlop Heywood).

He subsequently moved to the banking sector, managing the property finance teams for Investec Limited (Pretoria) and FirstRand Limited where he consolidated the various property finance divisions in the First National Bank and Rand Merchant Bank to form one operating unit.

During this period he gained extensive experience in property finance and property credit/risk. He joined the Georgiou Group for a period of 3 years to set up the Johannesburg office. Thereafter he resigned to pursue his own property interests. During this period he has successfully traded in property for his own account and increased his property deal-making knowledge.

Mr. Vallance rejoined the Georgiou Group on January 1, 2013.