Experience

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  Rand Merchant Bank

  • South Africa

  • Leader Strategy / Turnaround / Startup / Coach

    • Apr 2013 - Present
    • South Africa

    Support broader digital modernisation for organisation.Coach teams to performance through systemic team coaching to align teams to stakeholder needs, business strategy and implementation of operating models for success. Define strategy for digital innovation hub and partner leader to implement new operating model. Support teams in driving new strategic direction.Executive leadership coaching.

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  Rand Merchant Bank

  • South Africa
  • Banking
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Strategy | Leadership Development and Support

    • 2011 - 2013

    Leadership Development and Team Support. I am the designer of RMB leadership programme and now an executive coach on the programme. Act as coach or mentor to RMB executive leadership and employees and teams; Design and implement RMB’s executive leadership programme as well as a young leader programmes; Work with Group to design and implement philosophy;  Facilitate team coaching and group coaching; and Facilitate team strategies for business teams.

  • Business Leader & Strategic Projects (Ops, IT & Other)

    • 2006 - 2011

    Strategy & Special Projects (Ops, IT & Other) Design and implement Business Technology (BT) strategy and architecture for an agile organization and support leader as a programme director. Support RMB executive and the BT team through a major operational restructure, which included a retrenchment process; Lead several projects, including BT cost optimization (saving of 25m in 3 months); building a “total cost of ownership” costing model for systems; talent management; architecture development; outsourcing of infrastructure services, review of key projects; Manage and implement deployment, decentralisation and outsourcing of BT resources;  Development of the Operations model, including the International model being rolled out; Development of the Finance and Risk operations model, leading to Prop Board mandate and Risk Appetite framework development; Interim leadership for equities BT division; Interim leadership of the transformation project Ripple, with a redefinition to transformation’s project portfolio, reducing the double-digit number of projects to almost only 2 significant initiatives, shared services (such as KYC) and RADA concentrating on Finance; and Interim leadership of the BT function, in which we redefined the operating model to include a centre and deployed resources, as well as running a capability profiling which over time has moved the maturity of the division substantively.

  • Executive Strategy

    • 2003 - 2006

    Executive Strategy Deploy RMB IT into business units;  Support CEO on a number of strategic initiatives; such as international expansion and CIB options; Support RMB Corvest Private Equity clients in BT programmes; turnaround and business strategy;  Support Private Equity on Boards or with due diligence wrt technology and strategy for clients; and Support RMB strategic cultural and leadership initiatives

  • Private Equity Innovation and Business Develop Fund

    • 2000 - 2003

    Private Equity Turnaround Honey - full strategic intervention, Assist Superswift with IT implementation; Participate in deals;  Involved in mentoring young innovators / entrepreneurs; and Conceptualise and promote a 100m innovation fund for the Group (later taken over by FNB).

  • eCommerce Business Development (eBucks.com & Hyphentec)

    • 1998 - 2000

    Startup and New Initiative implementation. I was the visionary and designer of eBucks Start-up eBucks for the group; Design and define the offering e-commerce corporates that were delivered through Hyphentec; Define card division’s issuing and acquiring strategy, a significant shift from traditional thinking; Rollout RMB vision to FNB divisions and enable “flight plan” creation; Design Relationship manager model for corporate bank around industry specialisation; and Employed pre-merger to head up eCommerce solutions, but merger dissolved this team.

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  Deloitte Consulting

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • Senior Manager/Associate Partner - Strategic Business Re-Engineering

    • 1993 - 1998
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

    Deloitte ConsultingStrategic Business Re-Engineering Lead a 100-man re-engineering transformation for a Corporate and Investment bank; achieving significant turnaround and profitability growth in which it outstripped its’ retail counterpart;  Lead a manufacturing turnaround of a packaging plant from the “dog” to the star in its division; Lead a services organisation transformation around business relationship development; Lead the consulting services first re-engineering project to redefine a supply chain process for a large chemical processing plant; and Lead several smaller re-engineering projects across several firms, mostly industrial and manufacturing.Technology Strategy and Implementation Lead and participate in several IT strategy developments; Systems requirement specifications and implementations across a number of industries including manufacturing, pharmaceutical, mining and services; Co-develop a methodology for selection of packages, which was adopted world wide; and Our 15-man team was awarded the “best IT” team by the industry.

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  Synergy Computing, Inc.

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • Systems Analyst

    • 1990 - 1993
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

     Develop and implement a full supply chain system for a mining company; Develop methods and services for clients to migrate applications and systems; Support sales team; and Training of clients on product usage.

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  GOLD FIELDS

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • Head of Systems

    • 1988 - 1990
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

     Responsible for the DEC/VAX environment and CADD machines, supporting 800 users; Development of services; Management, maintenance of system and production environment; and Develop support process, manuals and systems to maintain the environment.