Professional SummaryThe consummate people person, I work to inspire those around me in the belief that people are created to change the world for the better, something i strive to achieve every day. With an intrinsic ability to manage people, my strength lies in building and developing business relationships with people - internal and external - using my leadership, motivational and networking abilities to meld the business, our staff and our service providers into a highly professional and seamlessly well-oiled machine. Well-known for being the 'go-to-guy' in any business situation, I have a penchant for bringing disparate components of the business together and for my ethical business thinking. I am a leader who leads by example and for whom perfection is a minimum standard and time considerations are non-negotiable. A forward-thinker, I works constantly to close the loop on any and every facet of business in which I am involved and always has a 'Plan B' solution upon which to fall back upon, should the need arise. I am a responsible and compassionate leader, unafraid of making difficult decisions, but more intent on using my stellar ideas to best mentor my staff, working continuously to develop individuals, so taking members of staff to ever greater business heights, whilst creating and implementing plans and programmes to ensure effective succession planning across all departments, thus ensuring long-term entity sustainability. An accomplished and confident public speaker and negotiator, I am as comfortable addressing retail conferences as I am with deal creation and strategic partnership negotiation. Qualifications and SkillsHaving Matriculated, I went on to study for a National Diploma in Marketing Management, through the University of South Africa (UNISA) before launching myself into the world of business, working for a major lifting company in the mining sector. Description of Business AchievementsMy natural leadership ability, together with his sound administrative and marketing background was a perfect business fit for a position within the new venture My move in 2016 saw my appointment as General Manager of an embryonic concept within the Group; a concept which was to rapidly gain traction, emerging as the Group's online footwear and fashion shopping platform, Planet54, and later the appointment to Managing Director My business achievements from the inception of the Planet54 platform to date are indicative of my business ethos, which is that “whatever the power of the mind of an individual can conceive, it can be achieved”