Key Skills Set and Experience:Re-engineering and implementation of business strategyAlignment of business unit strategy with group shareholder strategySouthern African reporting responsibility and business establishment in MozambiqueEstablishing audit, legal and banking relationships in MozambiqueJoint Managing Executive for 2 years after departure of MD – headed South African business whilst colleague headed SingaporeExtensive business development negotiations for commodity trading off-take agreements.Structured finance raising for mining project asset constructionAcquisition projects for mining and commodity off-take in Liberia.Highly operational with extensive commercial exposure to tenders, joint ventures, contract negotiations and off-take agreementsValuations, acquisitions and corporate financeBusiness re-capitalisationSenior debt and working capital funds raising and legal negotiations with RMBInitiated and put together B-BBEE transaction to gain greater access to mining commodities for tradeBusiness restructuring, rationalisation and closure including retrenchment and other labour relations aspects related theretoUS GAAP reporting experience as well as IFRSLarge listed entity corporate governance and reporting experience – both local and internationalExtensive design, development, deployment and maintenance of IT, ERP and CRM systems, ledger and database re-designExtensive IT advancement within the enterprise to improve productivity and reducing overall total cost of ownershipBedded down, changed and improved new, poorly conceived JD EDWARDS ERP system post acquisitionImplemented Business Intelligence reporting layerFull Responsibility for Information Technology policy, design, development, procurement, deployment and on-going maintenance including group IT steering committeeISO 9001 Implementation, management and auditTreasury and Forex exposure management with import and export structured commodity trade finance.