Experience

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  Toyota Wessels Institute for Manufacturing Studies

  • South Africa
  • Higher Education
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Manufacturing Ambassador

    • Jul 2022 - Present

  • Executive Director

    • Sep 2018 - Jul 2022

    As the inaugural executive director of TWIMS, I am responsible for its range of activities, most notably the delivery of its various Executive Development Programmes and the delivery of the GIBS PGDip and MBA (manufacturing specialisation).

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  Benchmarking and Manufacturing Analysts

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Executive Chairman

    • Oct 2007 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    My responsibilities cover the usual board issues: running of board meetings, participating in various board committees, etc.. In addition, as Executive Director I am responsilbe for the company's research, policy and strategy development division, which we call our Knowledge Unit.

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  School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal

  • Chair of Industrial Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor

    • Jan 2011 - Dec 2014

    Teach and supervise Masters' students; write and present academic papers on industrialisation topics; contribute to private-public sector discourses on topical industrialisation issues.

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  University of KwaZulu-Natal

  • Research Fellow

    • 1995 - 2002

    Research Fellow and Manager of the Industrial Restructuring Project at the School of Development Studies, focusing on the automotive assembly and component value chain.