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Our core team consists of the following people:
Clare Bower - BSc
Clare Bower has a BSc Computer Science. She has been involved in the training of Excel at different levels for many years and brings a high level of practical skill to bear. Her career includes that of area manager for the SA Permanent Building Society, where her management role included the training of staff in various computer disciplines. She elected to become self-employed and ran the National Computer College in Ladysmith, specializing in End-user Computer Training and Programming. Her qualifications include End-User Computer Trainer (Advanced). In addition she took over MegaMasters Educational Computing - Ladysmith which specialises in End-user, Programming and Technical Computer Training. She holds the qualification of ICDL Trainer. She is also an accredited End-user Computer Assessor. As a franchisee she managed these centres for 12 years where she predominantly trained the Advanced levels of the MS Office Professional Suite, MS Project, and Programming. Colin Human - CA (SA)
Colin is a chartered accountant, with extensive business experience. He has occupied various senior management positions in both public and private companies. He is currently a non executive director of a number of listed and private companies. He is also Managing Director of GoalFix (Pty) Ltd, a financial management consultancy, which operates in all aspects of corporate finance, and specifically in the arena of corporate performance improvement, financial health assessments, and building of complex financial models. GoalFix owns and utilises a unique corporate financial analysis and forecasting software program, marketed under the name of "ValueGenerator". Value Generator has been developed over a period of ten years, and is a highly effective tool used by senior management to improve shareholder returns, evaluate corporate performance or alternative strategic scenarios. Colin became involved in lecturing and personal executive coaching in 1998 when he presented "Financial Courses for Non-Financial Managers" on behalf of The Mast Consulting Group. In addition to the above course, he also presents courses internationally in "Advanced Excel Techniques", "Advanced Corporate Financial Modelling" and "Excel Project Modelling" on behalf of:-
International Clients include the Kuwait Investment Authority, MTN Nigeria, and Merrill Lynch, Sydney. South African clients include:- African Platinum, Hallmark, City Power, Deloittes, Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), Lesotho Diamond Corporation, Mittal Steel, National Energy Regulator, Nedbank, New Diamond Corporation, Premier Foods Limited, Rand Merchant Bank, Standard Bank, UUnet. Jonny Leeb - CA (SA)
Jonny Leeb has conceptualised and assisted in the development of management tools used to support and measure the value outcome of strategic decisions. Jonny's valuation experience and the tools he has developed have been utilised in a variety of engagements including corporate finance support, mergers, acquisitions, capital raisings, management buy-outs, and valuations in terms of Generally Accepted Accounting Practice. As far as corporate advisory work is concerned, current engagements include the pricing audit of a parastatal for competition compliance purposes. Significantly, he has developed a B-BBEE Scorecard calculator in compliance with the Codes of Good Practice which is being utilised to produce gap analyses and strategy opinions to local and multinational organisations. Prior to his corporate advisory work, Jonny consulted on database design and systems implementation. He has also served as a financial manager and divisional director. Jonny is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA). He completed articles at Moores Rowland, having passed his SAICA final qualifying exams in 1988. Eelco Lodewijks - BSc Civ Eng, MBA
Eelco is a specialist in financial analysis, Microsoft Excel, and business management. He has 25 years of corporate and investment finance, business consulting and management expertise, arising from specific experience in construction engineering, merchant banking and financial, marketing and production management. More specifically, his experience is as follows: Current year:
David V Theron - CA (SA)
Mr. Theron is a self-employed chartered accountant consulting and lecturing in the field of financial modelling. He served articles with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG) and, after qualifying, spent some time with them in London. He has extensive experience in the building of financial models dating back to 1971, when punched cards were used on mainframe computers. He has been instrumental in the development of a wide variety of financial models, including the following:
He is currently presents public courses on corporate financial modelling in
Carmel Ives - BSc
Carmel is a qualified chemical engineer with considerable experience in diverse engineering projects and applications ranging from tendering, through the design phase to commissioning. She is the recipient of a Sastech Award for a project involving comparative analysis.
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