CEO | K1 Advanced Technologies Consultancy
Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 2009 - present

ICT and Telecommunications

Incorporated in 2009 to market and sell South African technologies, solutions and services in the telecommunications, financial services and logistics sectors in the Middle East and other parts of Africa

Chairman | Hyperoffice SA (Pty) Limited
Johannesburg | 2009 - present

Online Media, Internet and E-Commerce

Chairman and shareholder in the company that is bringing SaaS solutions to all levels of government and the private sector

Chairman | Hosane Advisory Services (Pty) Limited
Johannesburg | 2001 - present

Accounting, Banking and Finance

Chairman and shareholder in the company that is focused on facilitating business opportunities in the Middle East and the rest of Africa

Director | MTN Irancell
Tehran, Iran | 2005 - 2007

ICT and Telecommunications

Served as the in country director on behalf of the MTN Group

Country Representative | MTN Group Limited
Tehran, Iran | 2004 - 2007

ICT and Telecommunications

Established the MTN presence in Iran by opening and managing the MTN Iran office in April 2005.

CEO | Orbicom (Pty) Limited
Johannesburg | 2002 - 2004

ICT and Telecommunications

Orbicom was owned by the MTN group and responsible for the satellite signal distribution for Multichoice Africa. As CEO I turned it from a loss making entity into a net profit position and then MTN sold it back to Multichoice in 2004.

Business Operations Executive | Metrorail
Johannesburg | 1999 - 2001

Travel, Tourism and Hospitality

Executive tasked with responsibility of managing the operational regions of Metrorail

Senior Industrial Relations Consultant | Gold Fields Limited
Johannesburg | 1997 - 1998

Mining, Energy and Natural Resources

This was a newly created position after the creation of Gold Fields Limited in 1998

Manager | Group Industrial Relations | AECI Limited
Johannesburg | 1996 - 1997

Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Promoted into this position from Group Labour Law Advisor

Part-Time Lecturer | CPIR | Wits Business School
Johannesburg | 1991 - 1997

Academia, Education and Training

Lecturer in Labour law to CPIR students

Advisor | Group Labour Law | AECI Limited
Johannesburg | 1990 - 1996

Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Senior Plant Human Resources Superintendent | South African Preserving Company (Pty) Limited
Tulbagh, South Africa | 1987 - 1990

Consumer Goods, Fashion and Retail

Fellow | Legal Resources Centre
Cape Town | 1987 - 1987

Law Practice and Legal Services

Noorder Paarl Senior Secondary School, Paarl, South Africa (1977)

Harvard Business School

Boston, United States of America | 2000 - 2001

Senior Executive Programme - Business Management

This was a joint programme with the Wits Business School in South Africa

High Court of South Africa

South Africa | 1988 - 1998

Advocate

University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg | 1993 - 1994

LLM - Labour Law

University of the Western Cape

Cape, South Africa | 1985 - 1986

LLB - Law

University of the Western Cape

Cape, South Africa | 1980 - 1984

BA (Law) - Law

United Democratic Front

Delegate, 1983 - 1983

Delegate from the Boland Student community at the launch of the UDF in 1983

Legal Aid Clinics - University of the Western Cape

Chairman, 1982 - 1986

As coordinator of the Legal Aid clinic at the University of the Western Cape i extended the geographic reach as far as Worcester in the Boland and prepared the ground for the creation of the Community Law clinic at the University in 1987

CJV

Chairman, 1989 - 1995

I was elected in 1989 as the National Chairman of the Christelike Jeugverenging (CJV) of the former Dutch Reformed Mission church (NGSK). Re-elected in 1991 and then in 1993 when I was supposed to retire after two terms Congress resolved to appoint m

Christian Youth Movement

Founding Chairman, 1995 - 1999

I was responsible for organising the uniting congress of the youth organisations of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa. In 1995 my team and I organised the founding congress at the University of Free State where I was elected the first Ch