Awards: Independent Non-Executive Awethu Breweries Ltd 2011/3Business Consulting services in the following areas:+ Succession Planning+ Training+ Corporate Finance+ Company Culture & Coordination+ Financial Strategy+ Human Resource Management+ Managing Strategic Change+ Risk & Forensic InvestigationOffices in Durban, Tanzania and Qatar

Profits, Progeny and Politics is an easy read guiding family businesses on how to navigate business challenges symptomatic to a family business. The book outlines various characteristics of family business born from the strength of a sound family ethos of founder generations together with the recipe for success in the wave of competitors in their trading space, as well as legislated discrimination in the case of South Africa. The book explores the idiosyncrasies of a family business and the… Show more Profits, Progeny and Politics is an easy read guiding family businesses on how to navigate business challenges symptomatic to a family business. The book outlines various characteristics of family business born from the strength of a sound family ethos of founder generations together with the recipe for success in the wave of competitors in their trading space, as well as legislated discrimination in the case of South Africa. The book explores the idiosyncrasies of a family business and the dynamics at play which impacts on the business which stymie its growth trajectory and aspirations. Issues on the paucity of performance management of family members in the workplace, the claim to entitlement, emotional blackmail and the blockage to innovation, trends and alternate ideas being sterile due to the inbreeding of thought as the business framework is one of organizational incest. However, the pendulum swings both ways as the business model has advantages and was built on it but the forge ahead will never be easy as the negatives outweigh historic strengths.The book also unearths the issue on how third generation family businesses who out of need and the lack of wider knowledge gravitate to industry consultants as a quick-fix to their woes. But the insular nature of a family business makes it very difficult for external business models to be embraced and rolled-out. Furthermore, issues on gender stereotyping relegation women from the family to silent administrators at most with their voices not be heard in a male-dominating strategic planning and decision making meeting. Show less

Commodity Trading, Business Development

Fund managers - risk and compliance

Member of Audit Committee