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Speaker Profiles
[ Peter Ndoro ]
[ Michael Broughton ]
[ Sean Summers ]
[ Dr Azar Jammine ]
[ Alexi L. Sarnevitz ]
[ Gary Bailey ]
[ Gordon Corbett ]
[ Loren Shuster ]
[ Justin Letschert ]
[ Jens Weng ]
[ Jean-Albert Nyssens ]
[ Rick Joubert ]
[ Rod McKinley ]
[ Joe Kelly ]
[ Andrew Kennedy ]
[ Justin Smith ]
[ Jonathan Banks ]
Peter Ndoro
Radio & Television Presenter
Peter is a well-known Radio & Television Presenter in South Africa and has more than 13 years experience as a broadcaster.
He has produced many TV series for both the national broadcaster SABC and the Pay Television channel M-Net. He has also produced many corporate videos for various South African Companies.
Peter was a TV Presenter with the pay channel M-Net for 12 years and is now a Business news anchor for Summit TV (DSTV Channel 5). Over the years Peter has built up enormous experience in Television & Radio doing both live and recorded programming.
Peter is also a Radio Talk show host on the popular station Radio 702. He has been with the station for three years. Previous radio stations include Highveld Stereo and SAfm.
Peter has acted as a master of ceremonies on numerous national events including Awards functions for former president Nelson Mandela. Other private functions he hosted include Government Ministers Ambassadors, Bill Gates, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Quincy Jones visits to South Africa and also work for Former US President Jimmy Carter. Peter has more than 10 years experience in this field and has officiated at more than 100 functions in that time. He is adept at dealing with all types of functions and audiences from the very informal to state occasions. He has been used many times at Annual Conferences as both an MC and conference facilitator. His skill is being able to pull the conferences together, keeping a flow for the conference delegates. Having spent more than 10 years in the corporate world himself, he well understands the workings of business and in particular Finance and Marketing.
Peter trained as an accountant at Coopers & Lybrand during which time he obtained an accounting degree with UNISA. He was a head office accountant for Printpak in Johannesburg before moving to South African Airways as a Marketing manager. He has worked in Advertising and has accumulated much of business knowledge running Television Production companies with partners and then ultimately on his own. He is also a partner at an advertising and design house.
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Michael Broughton
Consumer Goods Council Of SA - Programme Director
Michael obtained an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, focusing on Strategic Planning and Change. It was with with this in mind that he was asked to develop and facilitate the FMCG industry's Crime Prevention Programme.
The CGC Crime Prevention Programme now has over 2100 members (from a zero base in 2001), and in the capacity of Director of this programme, Michael participates in a number of Private and Public Sector Crime and Corruption initiatives.
Since May 2008 Michael has been driving the CGCSA in its focus on delivering meaningful solutions to industry, using the GS1 and ECR tools as its base; mitigating legislative and regulatory impact on the industry whilst also ensuring a safe food chain.
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Sean Summers
In February 2006 Sean stepped down as CEO of Pick 'n Pay ending his 33 year career with the organization, a journey that started when he joined as a trainee manager. He has subsequently elected to focus his energies largely on an advisory basis abroad. Always being a keen student of both retail and commerce he has kept himself well apprised of the rapidly evolving situation globally. To have witnessed the turbulence specifically of the last 12 months from an external perspective, being straight "out of the trenches", is indeed unique.
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Dr Azar Jammine
Chief Economist
Dr Azar Jammine matriculated at Pretoria Boys' High School after which he did a BSc Honours in Mathematical Statistics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Dr Azar Jammine represented Wits and Transvaal Under 20 at rugby. During the period 1970 - 75 he was employed as Investment Analyst at Senbank and subsequently at Stockbrokers Martin & Co, now JP Morgan, during which time he completed a B.A. Honours in Economics, Cum Laude, part-time at Wits. In 1976, Dr Azar Jammine completed his M.Sc in Economics at the London School of Economics, followed by his PhD at the London Business School after which he was awarded a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Business Strategy of the School. In order to pay his way whilst working on his PhD, Dr Azar Jammine used his knowledge of six languages to conduct numerous international business consultancy projects in Europe, North America and the Far East, covering a wide variety of industries. Dr Azar Jammine returned to South Africa in December 1985.
Dr Azar Jammine has published a number of articles in international strategic management journals and is co-author of "McGregor's Economic Alternatives", "Trends Transforming South Africa" and "Mindset for the New Generation on South Africa", all published by Juta's. Dr Azar Jammine's contribution to McGregor's Economic Alternatives was used by the ANC as a set-work in the organisation's internal training programme prior to taking power in 1994. Dr Azar Jammine has presented papers on the South African Economy at conferences in Washington, New York, London, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Paris and Phuket. Dr Azar Jammine is also a non-executive director of Federated Employers Mutual, A M B Holdings, Netcare and Iron Fireman
Dr Azar Jammine has conducted approximately 3000 presentations to leading client corporations and other institutions as well as at conferences dealing with the local and international economic environment.
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Alexi L. Sarnevitz
Senior Director Retail Strategy, Global Retail Practice
Alexi is responsible for guiding SAS's retail vertical go-to-market strategies and solution development priorities on the basis of the latest industry trends. His responsibilities also include leading the Retail Product Marketing team, retail alliance relations strategies, analyst relations and evaluating competitive intelligence implications. Alexi works closely with Retail Product Management, R&D and the SAS regional retail field organizations around the globe.
Before joining the SAS Global Retail Practice Alexi was Research Director, Retail for AMR Research where he gave clients advice on their processes and IT strategies combined with insight into retail enterprise application market technology trends and dynamics. Prior to AMR Research Alexi was an Associate Partner at Accenture, where he led the roll-out new processes and enabling technologies in the merchandising, marketing, supply chain and store operations areas for a variety of leading retailers. His engagement teams also pioneered the development of new pricing, lifecycle management and advanced planning strategies that have been embraced by the retail industry. Alexi began his career with a variety of prominent national retailers where he held senior merchandising and inventory management roles.
Alexi holds a B.A. degree from Brandeis University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
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Gary Bailey
Media presenter and soccer legend of Man United and Kaiser Chiefs
Gary grew up in Johannesburg and Cape Town, studying at Wits University on a scholarship and played for Wits for 2 years. He then joined Manchester United in 1977 and less than a year later became their number one goalkeeper, playing 373 competitive matches, playing in 2 European semi finals and winning 2 FA cup medals.
During that time, he completed a BSc in Physics in Manchester. He played for England from 1978 to 1986 and was part of the 1986 world cup squad that made the quarter finals in Mexico. During the 86 world cup, Gary seriously injured his knee and retired from top class football at the comparitively young age of 28.
He returned to South Africa to play for Kaizer Chiefs for 2 years during which time the team won 5 trophies. After a final retirement, Gary turned his attention to the media and became the anchor soccer presenter at Supersport, covering the 1990, 94, 98 and 2002 world cups.
Gary has been one of Southern Africa's top speakers for the last 12 years.
He has also completed an MBA from Henley in Oxford, and was one of the ambassadors for South Africa's 2006 soccer world cup bid, travelling around Asia and Europe with Danny Jordaan, and being present at the final announcement in Zurich.
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Gordon Corbett
Director, Sales & Customer Service - RPC'S Chep UK & Ireland
Born November 1952 in the North of England.
Married with 2 children.
Started in Engineering with the Rover Group.
Entered sales and marketing with Imperial Food Group (latterly Group Danone) where he worked with Henri Giscard D'Estaing (son of the former French President).
Held several roles including General Manager HP Canning and Commercial Director Danone Waters before going into Fresh Produce as the S&M Director for a marketing group in Jersey.
His next stop was bananas where he worked with the Chiquita brand in the UK and 7 years ago he joined CHEP UK.
Today he is the Director for Sales & Customer Services RPC where the business has grown 4 fold in the last 5 years.
A keen golfer who plays off a handicap of 11 he is an avid Manchester United fan attending all home games with his son, they were both in Russia for the Champions League final last season for what he describes as "The Experience of a Lifetime".
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Loren Shuster
Nokia Vice President, Sales Sub Sahara Africa
Since the beginning of 2008, Loren has had responsibility for the Nokia business across Sub-Saharan Africa, comprising of 6 sales units (South Africa, Nigeria, Southern Africa, West Africa, Central Afria, East Africa). His responsibilities include overall business strategy, sales, marketing, channel and business development as well as customer care. Prior to this, Loren held a similar position as the general manager of Nokia South and East Africa, based in Johannesburg, since the beginning of 2007.
Loren moved to South Africa after a long stint in the Far East where he was the general manager for Nokia's Taiwanese operations for three years, preceded by a period as the director for the company's entertainment and media business unit based at their Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore.
He joined Nokia in 2000 having previously held positions with MTV, De Beers and Henkel KGaA.
Loren was born in Canada and has worked in Germany, Great Britain, Poland, France, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Africa. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from INSEAD in France and a Bachelor of Commerce (Bcomm) from McGill University in Canada.
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Justin Letschert
CEO of Union-Swiss
Justin Letschert (41) is the CEO of Union-Swiss, the maker of Bio-Oil - South Africa's most successful international skincare product. Since acquiring the company with his brother David in 2000, Justin has overseen its growth from a local business into a global operation with a presence in 17 countries across 5 continents.
Prior to acquiring Union-Swiss, Justin established SA's first mergers and acquisitions boutique, specialising exclusively on dealmaking in the pharmaceutical industry.
Justin is a chartered accountant by training, but his interest and passion lies in the field of marketing.
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Jens Weng
Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Jens Weng is a Partner in McKinsey & Company's Munich office. He leads McKinsey's German Consumer Goods Practice and is a core member of McKinsey's European Consumer Goods Practice where he leads the Customer Management and Pricing Group.
Jens has extensive experience in assisting leading consumer goods players in a wide range of topics - from front-line capability building and pricing to major strategic revisions. Currently, he is actively serving three of the largest FMCGs on major business transformations. In addition, he works with core McKinsey consumer goods clients throughout Europe on specific pricing and customer management programs and has been involved with ECR Europe in developing the Jointly Agreed Growth (JAG) framework and toolkit.
Jens holds a BA in European Business Administration from Middlesex University London/ESB Reutlingen and an MSc in Marketing from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques ("Science-Po") in Paris. He earned his PhD at Henley Management College in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining McKinsey, Jens worked for Procter & Gamble in Germany and L'Oréal in France.
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Jean-Albert Nyssens
Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
- Partner in the Brussels office of McKinsey
- co-leader of Mckinsey's customer management cluster
- Serving retailers and Packaged goods companies throughout western and Eastern Europe on commercial excellence
- helped ECR Europe develop the JAG toolkit
- supporting JAG pilots as we speak
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Rick Joubert
Executive Head of Mobile Advertising and Social Media, Vodacom
In April 2007 Rick led the creation of a dedicated Mobile Media business unit in Vodacom, one of the first mobile phone operators in the world to do so.
Rick currently heads up the Vodacom Mobile Advertising business and also oversees Vodacom's initiatives in the Social Media space.
He joined Vodacom in 1999 and has held various executive positions within Vodacom, primarily in sales and marketing.
Rick holds a BCom degree from WITS with majors in Economics and Law and an MBL from UNISA.
www.linkedin.com/in/rickjoubert
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Rod McKinley
Director: McKinley & Associates
Rod runs and owns McKinley & Associates, a management consulting business that provides expertise in; Customer & Sales Management; Supply Chain and Strategy.
He has worked in the UK and South Africa for car component, retailing and FMCG companies gaining experience in Finance, Supply Chain and Customer Sales. Before moving to management consulting, Rod gained diverse experience with Johnson & Johnson South Africa, as a Finance Manager, Supply Chain Director and finally Customer Director.
Rod has been involved with ECR for many years having worked on industry projects and has served on working sub-groups and Executive committee.
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Joe Kelly
Commercial Director for K.Hartwall, UK
Joe Kelly is the Commercial Director for K.Hartwall, UK. K Hartwall is a Finnish company and the largest manufacturer of Returnable Transit Cages in Europe. K.Hartwall have also designed distribution solutions for the hardware, automotive, beverage, dairy, retail and many other industries. Their customers include some of the biggest names in industry worldwide such as Asda-Walmart, Tesco, Sainsbury, Coca Cola, Nissan, Honda and B&Q.
Joe has been involved directly in solving supply chain issues since he started work with
Tetra Pak over 25 years ago. He held the position of Commercial Director for Tetra Pak and Tetra Lavel, Ireland. He then joined K.Hartwall 13 years ago. Joe has also lived and worked extensively in Africa, North America and Europe.
K. Hartwall has specifically focused their energies over the last 10 years on improving the last 50 metres of the supply chain for their international retail and industrial clients.
Joe is married and has one daughter. Although based at the K.Hatrwall plant in Durham, England, he lives in Dublin, Ireland and travels extensively on business.
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Andrew Kennedy
Customer Director Asda/Wal*Mart Account, Unilever UK
Andrew has worked in Unilever for 12 years having worked in a variety of Customer Development roles both within South Africa and internationally. He is currently Customer Director for the Unilever UK business with Asda Wal*Mart where he's spent three challenging but exciting years in this very competitive, highly developed market. Previous roles include Customer Marketing Director for the Homecare business in South Africa, a secondment into the Unilever UK Tesco Business Unit and working in Unilever Global HQ on the roll-out of the last corporate strategy. Highlights of his career include being awarded Supplier of the Year in Shoprite Checkers (Beverages / Household) in 2000 and leading the team that Asda Wal*Mart has awarded International Supplier of the Year for the last two years in a row.
Andrew is a 'banana boy' at heart having grown-up in KZN, attending PMB University and with Unilever based in Durban. It's therefore hardly surprising that he misses the warmth of South Africa, both the climate and outdoor lifestyle but also its people. He's married with three young kids (how to make London even more challenging!) and tries to take time-out through mountain-biking, fly-fishing, time out in the outdoors and the occasional trip into London's theatres etc.
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Justin Smith
Manager: The Good business journey, Woolworths
Qualifications:
- B Comm Law (cum Laude) (UP)
- LLB degree (cum Laude) (UP)
- B Comm Honours in Financial Management (cum Laude) (UP)
- LLM at University of South Africa (UNISA)- Environmental law, International Economic Law, and International law.
Employment History:
- Woolworths - manager of the Good Business Journey (Sustainability Programme).
- Nedbank Group, Head, Governance and Sustainability as well as Operational head of Enterprise Governance and Compliance within Nedbank's Enterprise Governance and Compliance cluster
- Edward Nathan and Friedland (Pty) Ltd Environmental Law and Sustainability Services department
- Standard Bank Group Risk Management.
Other Qualifications:
- Certificate in Environmental Management Systems (SABS/ISO 14001) Potchefstroom University, May 2001.
- Certificate in Corporate Governance - RAU 2004
- Certificate in Compliance - University of Johannesburg 2006
- Certificate in Board Governance - University of Johannesburg 2006
- Nedbank Strategic Leadership Development Programme 2005 (SLDP) in conjunction with GIBS
External:
- Co-chair of United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiatives African Task Force
- Member of National Business Initiative Sustainable Futures Advisory Council
- Member of JSE SRI index working group
- Judge for Mail and Guardian Greening the Future Awards 2006
- Judge of Nedbank Capital Green Mining Awards
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Jonathan Banks
Business Insight Director, Nielsen, Europe
Translating today's trends into tomorrow's winning strategies
Jonathan is Nielsen's European Business Insight Director, based in Oxford, UK. During his 30 year career spanning FMCG manufacturing and retail, Jonathan has held senior sales and marketing positions in multinationals.
As Nielsen's European consumer analyst, Jonathan specialises in tracking and predicting consumer behaviour and trends, to help manufacturers and retailers formulate winning strategies.
Jonathan is a widely recognized figure on consumer and FMCG trends in British and international media, as well as being a prominent speaker and moderator at key industry events around the world.
He has 2 children, lives near London, and is making diminishing contributions to the Old Latymerians 3rd XI football team.
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