About
I am a chemical engineer, strategy & business development leader with over 13 years of experience from global companies and a top-tier consulting firm. My mission is to drive business improvement, sustainable growth and future-focused transformation, leveraging my expertise in oil & gas, chemicals, mineral resources, agriculture and infrastructure sectors.
In my past role as Manager of Strategy & Systems at Orica, I supported the integration of acquired companies into Orica's Digital Solutions business, ensuring alignment of systems, processes, and culture. I also contribute to the capital evaluation and portfolio management of Orica's projects and investments, as well as the strategic engineering and business development of new solutions and markets.
Prior to Oroca, I worked as a Specialist Consultant at McKinsey & Company in EMEA, and as a Director of Strategic Projects and M&A at Incitec Pivot Limited in Australia. I am a structured problem solver, a good communicator, an analytical thinker, and a trusted adviser to C-suite.
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If this is true, it is definitely the way forward to reduce greenhouse emissions and food shortages
If this is true, it is definitely the way forward to reduce greenhouse emissions and food shortages
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Explore the Key Global Mega Trends and Growth Opportunies for Your Industry on Our Website
Explore the Key Global Mega Trends and Growth Opportunies for Your Industry on Our Website
By Fritz Reynders
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What's the deal with oil? Saudi Arabia's about-face on OPEC
What's the deal with oil? Saudi Arabia's about-face on OPEC
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Contributions
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How can you identify problems in Business Strategy?
Too many corporate strategies are mere frameworks of its objective statements, principles, values and target markets etc. Without an underlying plan to respond to macroeconomic headwinds or competition to achieve the desired outcome/objective, it’s not a strategy. Just my 2 cents.
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How can you use data visualization to track growth hacking progress?
Visualization of tracking versus target is important for performance management. However, in my experience, goals or targets are often parked and forgotten due to being unrealistic. People disengage from targets if they are not involved in the development, and relevant stakeholders should be part of the target-setting, and revision, process.
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As I wrap up my McKinsey adventure this week, I can't help but reflect on what was initially a 2-3 year plan that turned into an incredible…
As I wrap up my McKinsey adventure this week, I can't help but reflect on what was initially a 2-3 year plan that turned into an incredible…
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Are you behind or ahead of the curve in ML? How are top companies winning with GenAI? Now you have a resource with real data.
Are you behind or ahead of the curve in ML? How are top companies winning with GenAI? Now you have a resource with real data.
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Gas-Limited Hydrogenation of 1-Octene in a Fixed Bed: Upflow Versus Downflow
Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2011, 50 (18), pp 10476–10479
Two downflow operational modes with different hydrodynamic states were compared to upflow operation. Various gas-limited conditions (γ = 15–60) were employed. The downflow mode with the higher wetting efficiency consistently outperformed the downflow mode with the lower wetting efficiency. Both downflow modes outperformed the upflow mode at high gas mass fluxes and underachieved against upflow at lower gas mass fluxes. The results stand in contradiction to the theory on direct gas–solid mass…
Two downflow operational modes with different hydrodynamic states were compared to upflow operation. Various gas-limited conditions (γ = 15–60) were employed. The downflow mode with the higher wetting efficiency consistently outperformed the downflow mode with the lower wetting efficiency. Both downflow modes outperformed the upflow mode at high gas mass fluxes and underachieved against upflow at lower gas mass fluxes. The results stand in contradiction to the theory on direct gas–solid mass transfer under trickle-flow conditions. The switching behavior of the upflow mode performance was attributed to hydrodynamic regime shifts, hinting that the perceived “poor” performance of upflow reactors under gas limited conditions might be linked to slugging in laboratory-scale reactors.
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Basic Aspen Plus
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Basic Consulting Readiness
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Commissioning for Commissioning Managers
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Contract Management
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Crucial Conversations
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Distillation & Column Design
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EM - Area Emergency Controller
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ENS Professional Negotiation and Influencing
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Economic Crime
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Finance for Non Financial Managers
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Innovation & VIP
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Introduction to Commissioning
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Investment in Excellence
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Lean Construction
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Lieberman Troubleshooting Seminar
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Manage Self Development Programme
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Operations Transformation
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Permit to Work RSA
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Personal Power and Influence
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Pinch Analysis
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Piping Hydraulics - Theory
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Presenting with Impact
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Problem Solving & Decision Making (Kepner)
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Procurement for mega projects
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Project controls
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Project planning optimization
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Pump Operation and Maintenance
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Resilience Training Employee
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Root Cause Analysis (Kepner)
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Sasol Factory Value Chain
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Sigma 6 green belt
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Spreadsheets as Process Eng Tool ST
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Stay in business capex optimization
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Honors & Awards
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NRF Scholarship
NRF
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SASOL Postgraduate Bursary
SASOL LTD.
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Golden Key Academic Honours
Golden Key Society
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SASOL Graduate Bursary
SASOL LTD.
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GMAT
Score: 660
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English
Full professional proficiency
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Afrikaans
Full professional proficiency
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Dutch
Elementary proficiency
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