Précis of my working life.
I have spent the past 35 years of my business life guided by the following drivers:
- Balance – I perform my duties continuously balancing ever changing variables, requirements, and desires while still achieving business and personal goals
- Deep passion for effective communication
- New Venture Development and Evaluation
- Project Management
- Operational Management
- Business Development Strategies
- Developing Constructive Partnerships
- Communication
- Creating a favourable policy environment to achieve the outcomes that are desired
- Profitability
I live and aspire to continue living by the following principles;
- Family
- Fidelity
- Innovation
- Integrity and honesty
- Responsibility and accountability
- Authority and fairness
- Sound Construction & Development
- Balance
- Education
- Commitment and caring
- Goal orientation
Business and development is in my veins.
I personally have developed businesses (some of which I owned), business plans and businesses
turnaround strategies for:
- Commodities and trade markets
- Financial projects
- Recycling industry
- Desalination
- High performance sport centres
- Training academies
- Restaurant and hospitality industry
- Bee keeping
- Agriculture and greenhouses
- Infrastructure projects (warehousing and logistics)
- Mining reclaim of mining waste
- Electric motor industry and motor sport
- Fast food industry
- Online retail industry
- Oil and oil refining industry
- Renewable energy industry
- Tourism • Pharmaceutical industry
- Communication, Marketing and Advertising
- Tyre Recycling
- Cannabis farming and export
- Concrete Industry
- Online Learning and Education
- Mining Industry (Chrome, Gold, Iron ore, etc)
I have also been privileged in being an international speaker on subjects such as food security for Africa (UN Food and Agricultural Organisation - FAO), Commodity and exchange development (UNCTAD, Burgenstock, World Exchange Congress), African Development (African Union) and Energy through recycling (South Africa). • Communications Environment I have extensive experience in working in the communications environment. In South Africa I was responsible for statutory compliance communications for Rand Water, Strike Communications for Anglo Platinum, Integration communications for the National Defence Force, and assisted various other institutions in their internal and external communication planning and execution. I also have lobbied for various institutions in bringing about a constructive communication platform for stakeholders to constructively participate in the communications required in complex personnel and stakeholder environment
EDUCATION
- Masters in Business Admininistration (MBA)
GIBS - 2002
- BA Hons Psychology
University of Johannesburg (Old RAU) - 1997
- BA (Information Science & Psychology)
University of Pretoria (UP) - 1995
- NDip Communication Science & Public Relations
Nelson Mandela University (NMU) - 1990
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Company: Nelson Mandela University
Position: Programme Manager - uYilo
Period of Employment: Feb 2018 – Jun 2018
Duties
- Programme Management of uYilo Programme within the eNtsa Programme
- Report to National TIA Offices on progress
Key Performance Areas
- Programme Management
- Presentations and panel participation in discussions surrounding the electric vehicle industry in South Africa
- Head up the weekly and monthly internal meetings
- Programme promotions
Company: Tyre Energy Extraction (Pty) Ltd JV with National Empowerment Fund
Position: MD
Period of Employment:June 2009 – current
Duties
- Provide Sound Research on Tyre Recycling
- Complete and All-round Business Development
- Identify Business Opportunities within the Eastern Cape
- Regulatory integration of recycling environment
- Lobbying for regulatory harmonisation in the recycling industry
- Develop business relationships with suppliers and off-takers
- Secure funding for projects
- Prepare the company to become operational
- Project management
- Due Diligence on Technology/suppliers/buyers
- Full Compliance involvement: EIA, AEL, WML, Fuel Manufacturing License
- Engineering and Manufacturing specifications SANS
- SARS, Governance and Legal Compliance Full project reporting and oversight
Key Performance Areas
- Research and gather information on the viability of the indentified venture
- Filter and Package of information into a business format
- Build a economic business model
- Oversee Legal structure
- Prepare and oversee project planning
- Procurement of technology and all other aspects of getting the project operational.
- Strategic Communication to stakeholders and shareholders
- Build strategic relationships
- Ensure off-take agreements
- Identify and conclude new contracts
- Raise funding (National Empowerment Fund)
- Manage the operations to its conclusion
Company: PACP™ and PACDEX™
Position: CEO
Period of Employment: May 2004 – 2009, 2019 to current
Duties
- Establishing a Commodity & Derivative Exchange for Africa
- Working hand in glove with the Regional Economic Communities (REC’s) the African Union and UNCTAD
- Serve as a member of the AU taskforce on African Commodities
- Accomplished to establish and maintain many strategic African commodity partners
- Speaker at many International conferences (UN, UNCTAD, FAO, World Commodity Conference, Burgenstock, African Oil and Minerals Conference)
- Recognised by the UN, AU, and international bodies as a strategic economic contributor.
- Work and Structure and with other policy makers mutually beneficial Euro-Afri-centric economic policies
- Complete Project, Budget; Strategy and Strategic Relationship management
- Develop all aspects of a fully recognised and regulated international commodities and derivatives exchange for Africa including:
- Regulation
- Management
- Clearing & Settling
- Integrated Warehouse Receipt Systems (See end of document for more detailed warehouse systems experience)
- Tradeable Contract Development
- Membership o Delivery Mechanisms
- Licensing and recognition
- Cross-border trade distribution
- Loyalty reward system
- Data Distribution
- On-line Connectivity
- Trading System
Key Performance Areas
- Research and gather information on the viability of such a venture
- Filter and Package of information into a reportable and/or business format
- Build a multinational economic business model that will benefit all participants
- Strategic Communication to stakeholders and shareholders
- Build relationships and partnerships on a multinational basis (UNCTAD, AU, African countries on ministerial and executive levels)
- Identify and conclude new contracts
- Raise funding
- During this time I were international speaker at world conferences on African commodities in Dubai, London, and Turkey.
- Travelled extensively in +30 African Countries, Europe, India, Singapore, China, and America.
- Project Management
- Operational Management
- Turnaround Strategist
- Online Learning Strategist
Company: Finland Trade Centre (Finpro)
Position: Commercial Advisor/Acting Trade Commissioner Southern Africa
Period of Employment: October 2001 – April 2004
Duties
- Identify business opportunities for Finnish industry
- Work together with various Development Funds to fund projects synergistic with Finnish, Nordic and Scandinavian enterprise
- Determine the Import and Export marketing fit as well as market opportunities.
- Assist and advise to structure relationships with various institutions
- Advise the Finnish Embassy on the socio-economic climate of South Africa
Key Performance Areas
- Gather, analyse and package opportunities for Finnish Industry
- Ensure successful business partnerships and relationships
- Inform the Finnish government and industry on any developments that could harm the Finnish economic situation in South Africa
- Provide Turnaround strategies for those companies that are failing to achieve their business objectives
- Disseminate information to the Finnish and South African industries on economic opportunities arising either way
- Participate in research and due diligence exercises
- Provide a comprehensive trade imbalance study between South African and Finland
- Operational Planning
Clients (Most prominent clients)
- Finnish Government & Finland Embassy South Africa – Trade imbalance study.
- PCE Engineering
- H Vesala & Metso
- AB Enzymes
- VistaCom
- Add2Phone
- Jaakko Poyry
- IT SME’s from Finland
- Nokia
- Nokian Capacitors
- NDF (Nordic Development Fund)
- NIB (Nordic Investment Bank)
Company: AdenCorp
Position: General Manager
Period of Employment: January 1997 – October 2001
Duties
- Offer services as a Management Consultant for various companies in South Africa including Rand Water and Anglo American Platinum Mines.
- Provide research on the state of the company’s information linkages and weak areas that could harm the company
- Design and implement a communication and turnaround strategy to ensure that weak communication areas are converted to strong-holds
Key Performance Areas
- For Rand Water: Design a communication strategy that will inform the labour market at Rand Water on their Essential Services status without the communication causing labour action
- Report to the executive management of Rand Water on the efficacy of the information and communication dissemination strategies
- For Anglo American Platinum Mines develop a comprehensive communication strategy on the reason why labour action has been entered into (1997)
- Provide a comprehensive communication and information dissemination strategy to remedy the strike
- Provide research on the effects of senior level communication to the labour forces
Company: South African Medical Services (SANDF)
Position: Head of Department – Communication (Captain)
Period of Employment: August 1994 – December 1996
Duties
- Gather intelligence on the state of morale and willingness to integrate into the SANDF
- Research and develop a comprehensive communication implementation plan for the integration of the statutory and non-statutory military forces into the SANDF.
- Create communication model as a military integration benchmark.
- Manage all media and disseminate communication that will positively impact on the SANDF integration
- Research on the readiness of two commands to amalgamate
- Develop a comprehensive communication strategy to assist in the amalgamation of the Wits and Northern Commands
Key Performance Areas
- Gather and package information for the use at HQ level
- Develop a benchmark communication strategy for communicating to an integrated national force from SADF to SANDF as well as all other statutory and non-statutory forces
Company: Alternative Advertising
Position: MD
Period of Employment: January 1987 – July 1994
Duties
- Establish manage and develop an international and local import/export marketing agency.
- Trade local and international products through recognised warehouses
Key Performance Areas
- Gather and package a business on the opportunities surrounding an export/import agency
- Establish a viable export/import marketing agency based on this strategy
- Manage this venture to economic fruition
- Diversify business as per strategies identified
- Identify warehouses through which products can be marketed internationally
