Experience

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  Corinium Corporate Finance

  • Johannesburg

  • Owner and principal

    • Jan 2004 - Present
    • Johannesburg

    Mainly, helping privately owned companies in South Africa and the UK raise finance for development or find new shareholder partners via private equity transactions. First class references and verifiable alliances with leading private equity houses. Personal attention to all clients. Broad busi...

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  Rosebank Offshore Asset Managers

  • Senior Partner

    • Sep 1997 - May 2004

    Built and led a team of offshore financial advisers working with a high net worth client base in Johannesburg and Pretoria, providing independent advice and help with structuring offshore portfolios of financial assets.

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  IMC Management Consultants Limited

  • Cardiff, Wales

  • Operations Director

    • Oct 1980 - Oct 1986
    • Cardiff, Wales

    Designed, led and conducted strategy, profit improvement and sales improvement programmes for many large and medium size companies mainly in Wales, North West and Midlands of the UK. Also designed and conducted entrepreneurial and business start up training and mentoring for budding entrepreneur...

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  Longman Group

  • Consultant

    • 1977 - 1981

    Worked to train and induct financial director for Group's largest subsidiary, Longman Nigeria in Lagos, in the meantime filling financial director role myself. To comply with indigenisation decree sold part of local equity via private placing.

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  Tom Stacey Gropup of Companies London

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Financial Director

    • Apr 1973 - May 1976
    • London, United Kingdom

    Shareholder and financial director with entrepreneurial book publishing venture. Main tasks were to building accounting and control systems through three year period of rapid and substantial growth and, with joint managing directorsw, to determine strategies for growth. Secured City of London f...

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  International Publishing Corporation

  • UK, London

  • Corporate Planning Manager

    • Jan 1965 - Sep 1972
    • UK, London

    From production cost accountant at Daily Mirror became eventually executive assistant to group managing director Sir Frank Rogers and group corporate planning manager.

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  Royal Dutch Shell Group

  • London Nigeria

  • Financial executive

    • Nov 1955 - Oct 1964
    • London Nigeria

    After training in London head office and completion of ACIS examinations assigned to Group international staff, posted to Shell-BP exploration and production operation in Nigeria in various senior finance roles, including budgets manager and company treasurer