The SA Professional Services Academy (SAPSA) was formed to promote professionalism in the country’s professional services industry as well as to provide a platform for interaction across disciplines.
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.
- Published in Legal, IT and Accounting
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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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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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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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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WEBBER WENTZEL MANAGING PARTNER SALLY HUTTON – ‘WHAT GOT US HERE WON’T NECESSARILY GET US THERE’
Sally Hutton is the managing partner of Webber Wentzel and is a partner in the Corporate/ M&A Practice. Sally Hutton has experience in all aspects of private equity transactional work, but specialises in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), especially leveraged buy-out and exit transactions (both public and private) for private equity funds. Her work includes structuring
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ACCENTURE CEO WILLIAM MZIMBA – INNOVATION CAN SOLVE ANY PROBLEM
What does it mean to be entrusted with a role of being CEO for Accenture? “This is my tenth year in the position, and I must say, it is a daunting task because of the huge responsibility. Our mission is basically to change the way people work and live. We want to make an impact
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DEREK THOMAS – LETSEMA CONSULTING CEO
Letsema is a privately-held investment holding company with long-term interests in management consulting, third-party investment management and proprietary investments. In over 20 years with the group, Thomas has led each of the firm’s operating divisions. Thomas has a keen interest in the study of ‘Late Industrialisation’. To this end he has recently been growing Letsema’s proprietary
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