Experience

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  CIRES Property Solutions (Pty) Ltd

  • City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

  • Managing Director

    • Jun 2017 - Present
    • City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

    CIRES Property Solutions is a specialist commercial and industrial property advisory and management company.We specialise in matching our client’s business strategy with the right commercial and/or industrial properties.With close on 2 decades of experience within the South African property market, we provide an unparalleled property service which results in substantial value enhancement for our clients, whether it be to bottom line impact or operational efficiencies - we have the solution for all our client’s property requirements!

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  Cale Integrated Real Estate Solutions

  • Fourways

  • Director

    • Sep 2012 - Jun 2021
    • Fourways

    Cale is a professional property advisory and management company, offering corporate real estate services exclusively to tenants / owner occupiers, where Cale provides a holistic property outsourcing and consulting solution to extract maximum value from leased and owned property portfolios. Cale adopts a lifecycle approach to the management of property portfolios in order to: - Reduce property occupancy costs- Minimise financial, contractual and operational obligations- Increase flexibility- Align the property portfolio to the business strategy- Ensure efficient use of space, - Promote real estate best practice

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  Tsebo Facilities Solutions

  • Johannesburg, South Africa

  • Solutions Manager

    • Dec 2008 - Aug 2012
    • Johannesburg, South Africa

    DSFM a division of Tsebo Holdings and Operations is among the larger facilities management companies in South Africa. I was appointed as a solutions manager to ultimately perform the role of bid manager for the numerous Public Private Partnership projects that DSFM was bidding for. DSFM participates in PPP's at 2 levels namely, as a equity investor in the SPV and as the Operations and Maintenance subcontrator to design, finance, build, operate and maintain goverment infrastructure projects namely head office accomodation facilities for a concession period of between 15 to 27 years on a full risk, non-recourse basis.I have been lucky enough to be involved in facets of the business from business development, project and bid management, legal and contract negotiation; development management, operational design and implementation and financial and commercial deal execution.Working within facilites management has greatly assisted me to fully understand the real estate value chain and strengthen my tenant representation abilities.

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  Lyons Corporate Real Estate

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • Real Estate Asset Manager

    • May 2007 - Dec 2008
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

    LCRE provides corporate clients with holistic corporate real estate services with a focus on tenant representation. As Lyons is a relatively small team of property and structured finance professionals, i was afforded the opportunity to work across the numerous lines of service and gain valuable experience in the fields of corporate real estate services (CRES),leasing and investment, project management, fund management as well as develop managing the construction of corporate clients' facilities and portfolio management exclusively representing the tenant.My responsibilities included measuring and analysing our clients real estate portfolio (leasehold and freehold), Managing clients real estate portfolios through its lifecycle including facilities management and property management, research and benchmarking market trends and preparing indices to benchmark clients operations, financial re-engineering and financial management, business development, developing and implementing real estate strategies and tactical plans to enhance our clients investment in real estate.

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  PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory, Capital Projects & Infrastructure

  • Birmingham, United Kingdom

  • PFI Consultant (Project Finance)

    • Mar 2006 - Mar 2007
    • Birmingham, United Kingdom

    PFI consultant within IGU (Infrastructure, Government & Utilities) unit of the corporate finance department of PwC. The teams main focus was to act as financial advisors, assisting Government and private sector with financial and commercial deal execution for the implementation of PFI/PPP type projects.

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  JT Makhari & Company (Pty) Ltd

  • Johannesburg, South Africa

  • Project Finance Analyst

    • Nov 2003 - Dec 2005
    • Johannesburg, South Africa

    A consultancy focused on providing Municipalities and other Government Departments with transaction advisory services for various infrastructure projects including PPP's.