PARAGON’S ANTHONY ORELOWITZ- “WE DON’T SELL BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS; WE SELL A LIFESTYLE”
Anthony Orelowitz is one of the founding partners of The Paragon Group. He has a degree in Architecture and an MBA from Wits University. Anthony specialised in property finance and, after graduation, worked for Standard Bank’s Property Division. In 1997, Anthony returned to Architecture and founded the Paragon Group with his partner Henning Rasmuss. He
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SINDI ZILWA – “INGENUITY, INSPIRATION, INSIGHT, IMPACT AND INTEGRITY – THAT’S OUR I5 BRAND PERSONALITY”
Sindi Zilwa has enjoyed some outstanding achievements in her time. She qualified as the second black woman to become a chartered accountant in South Africa in 1990 at age 23, and also became co-founder and CEO of Nkonki, one of the country’s leading indigenous firms of chartered accountants since 1993. Sindi spoke to SA
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WERKSMANS’ CEO JEREMY BOTHA – “MANAGING LAWYERS REQUIRES TACT”
Jeremy is a Chartered Accountant having passed the PAAB (Public Accountants and Auditors) exam in 1996 after completing his BCom at the University of Cape Town and Hons BCompt at the University of South Africa. Jeremy was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Werksmans Attorneys in April 2006. Jeremy’s background was initially financial management and taxation
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NEXIA SAB&T’S BASHIER ADAM: “GAME-CHANGERS AT EVERY TURN”
Bashier Adam is one of the founders and CEO of Nexia SAB&T. It is a firm that has been providing accounting, audit and consulting services since the birth of South Africa’s democracy in 1994. Over the years the firm has established ten offices in nine provinces with a total staff compliment of approximately 400 people.
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NEXIA SAB&T’S BASHIER ADAM: “GAME-CHANGERS AT EVERY TURN”
Bashier Adam is one of the founders and CEO of Nexia SAB&T. It is a firm that has been providing accounting, audit and consulting services since the birth of South Africa’s democracy in 1994. Over the years the firm has established ten offices in nine provinces with a total staff compliment of approximately 400 people.
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DELOITTE CHAIRMAN TREVOR BROWN – “MAKING AN IMPACT THAT MATTERS”
Trevor Brown was admitted as a partner of Deloitte in 1988 and has served the firm for over three decades. He was appointed partner-in-charge of the Johannesburg Audit office in 1997, and was appointed to the firm’s Executive Committee (Exco) in 1998 as the service line leader of Audit. During 2005, he was appointed as
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NONKU NTSHONA – “I’M DRIVEN BY THE DESIRE TO DIFFERENTIATE MYSELF”
Nonku Ntshona started her career with Rousseau Probert Elliot Quantity Surveyors in Port Elizabeth. She then joined Bham Tayob Khan Matunda in Johannesburg, after which she joined Turner and Townsend as a Quantity Surveyor. Whilst at Turner and Townsend she worked her way to Associate Partner over a period of seven years to head up
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BTKM’S HASHIM BHAM – “TREAT YOUR CLIENT’S MONEY AS IF IT WERE YOUR OWN”
Hashim Bham traces his management skills to the mentorship he received working in his father’s hardware shop for a three-year period soon after completing his high school studies at Swaziland’s Waterford Kamhlaba College in 1972. This environment prompted him to seek further studies in the Built Environment at Wits University. Of the options available, quantity
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RLB PENTAD’S LEON CRONJE – “FOSTERING AN ENVIRONMENT OF LEARNING AND GROWTH”
RLB Pentad is a South African based, registered Quantity Surveying and Construction Cost Consulting Practice that operates both locally and internationally. The company’s head office is located in Johannesburg, South Africa with other offices in Pretoria, Cape Town, Botswana, Mozambique and Mauritius. The company was founded in 1997 and the name, Pentad, originated from the
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GLH’S XAVIER HUYBERECHTS – “LEADERSHIP IS LEAVING THE SHIP BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT”
Xavier qualified in Belgium at the ISA St Luc in Brussels. He joined GLH in 1994, became a partner in 1997, and the senior member in 2005. Xavier leads the practice as the principal designer where his meticulous eye for detail and design is critical in every project. His experience includes a range of commercial,
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BOWMAN MANAGING PARTNER ALAN KEEP – ‘OUR PEOPLE ARE OUR ONLY ASSET’
Alan is the Managing Partner of Bowman Gilfillan, a position he has held since 2014. He is ranked by Chambers Global as a leader in his field and by Legal 500 as a leading lawyer, and is also ranked by other legal publications, including Best Lawyers, IFLR and Plc. Alan practices in the fields of
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MRA’S PHILL MASHABANE – “BE A BETTER PERSON TO ENABLE OTHERS TO BE BETTER PEOPLE”
Phill completed his studies in Paris where he obtained his degree in Architecture, and three years later enrolled and completed his LLB in the same city. In 1995, he registered Mashabane Rose architects together with Jeremy Rose. In 2012, he completed his studies in Alternative Dispute Resolution with the University of Pretoria and he also
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SNG CEO VICTOR SEKESE – “OUR MERGER WAS GROUND-BREAKING”
What does it mean to you that your colleagues have entrusted you with the position of Managing Partner? I am humbled by the gesture demonstrated by my partners. I am excited to have been given the opportunity to lead the firm at a time when we are building a strong Pan African firm. I count
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WSP PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF’S IAN BEAUMONT – ‘SEEKING A LEGACY OF SAFETY’
What does it mean to you to have this role of project director entrusted to you? I don’t think about it too much. I suppose the role has come to me as a result of twenty eight years of experience in the construction sector having worked in many locations from Russia to the Far East,
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PWC’S DION SHANGO – “TRANSFORMATION IS NOT AN OPTION”
What thoughts run through your head when you were appointed the Southern Africa CEO of PWC effective 1 July 2015 at the young age of 39? I give credit to everybody in my life who has directly or indirectly played some role in shaping me into the person that I am today. And that goes
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IN SOUTH AFRICA: EY CASE STUDY
(Responses submitted by F. Naidoo, EY Africa Media Relations) Ø What awards has EY South Africa received recently (2015 – 2016)? Top Employer Awards -EY South Africa has ranked in the top ten across all companies in South Africa for the past ten years – EY Certified Top Employer in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and
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