Experience

Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA)

• South Africa
• Mining
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  Mr Trentini until his appointment was the Operations Director at SEIFSA. He has been with SEIFSA since 1990 and over the last two decades he has been involved at management and executive level at SEIFSA and has been actively involved in the leadership of the Federation. He has gained extensive experience in the metals and engineering industries and has developed sound working relationships with all industry stakeholders.Mr Trentini holds a BA degree in Economics and Industrial Psychology and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the University of the Witwatersrand and the WITS Business School respectively. He also holds an Expert Negotiator Certificate from the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science.Mr Trentini represents employers in the metals and engineering sector on various Institutions and Statutory Bodies. He is also a member of the Management Committee of the MEIBC, a SEIFSA Executive Director, a Director on the Board of MIBFA and an employer representative on the Labour Market Chamber of NEDLAC and the Social and Transformation Committee of BUSA. Show less

• Operations Director

  • Sep 1990 - Oct 2021

  Mr Trentini is currently the Operations Director at SEIFSA. Having joined the Federation in 1990, he has gained extensive experience in the metals and engineering sector, but particularly in the centralised collective bargaining and industrial relations processes that take place at national level between employers, trade unions and Government. He has developed sound working relationships with the employer and trade union leaders in the sector and has earned the trust of all the key stakeholders.Mr Trentini holds a BA degree in Economics and Industrial Psychology and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the University of the Witwatersrand and the WITS Business School respectively. He also holds an Expert Negotiator Certificate from the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science.Mr Trentini represents employers in the metals and engineering sector on various institutions and Statutory Bodies, including the Metals and Engineering Industry Bargaining Council (MEIBC), Metal Industry Benefit Funds Administrators (MIBFA), Business Unity SA and NEDLAC. He is also a member of the Management Committee of the MEIBC, a SEIFSA Executive Director, a member of the Board of MIBFA and an Employer (BUSA) Representative on the Labour Market Chamber of NEDLAC.Mr Trentini has presented papers at various conferences, both locally and internationally. Most recently, he presented a paper on the extension of collective agreements at the ILO in Geneva and participated in a BUSA study group to Japan to study the Japanese Industrial Relations System. He has also participated in an employer and trade union delegations to study industrial relations systems in Germany, France and Belgium. He has also been interviewed on South Africa’s major television networks such as SABC, eNCA and BDTV, among others, and has been heard on SAFM, Power FM and Classic FM, among other radio stations. Show less



Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA)

• Operations Director