Johnnie Kruger

• Leading the development and execution of corporate strategic initiatives to drive business growth, operational efficiency, and long-term value creation.
• Conducting detailed market analysis, competitive benchmarking, and industry research to identify new opportunities and emerging risks.
• Partnering with executive leadership to define corporate goals, align strategic priorities, and develop actionable business plans.
• Overseeing strategic projects, from ideation through implementation, ensuring timely delivery, stakeholder engagement, and measurable outcomes.
• Building financial models and business cases to support investment decisions and major capital projects.
• Leading and managing cross-functional teams including operations, sales, procurement, and production, driving alignment between corporate strategy and on-the-ground execution.
• Responsible for large capital equipment sales, group-level client engagement, and relationship management with key stakeholders.
• Drafting and negotiating high-value proposals, commercial agreements, and project tenders in line with client requirements and company objectives.
• Facilitating cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment between strategic initiatives and operational execution.
• Monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) and developing reporting frameworks to track progress against strategic objectives.
• Preparing high-level presentations and communication materials to support decision-making and stakeholder engagement.
• Supporting change management initiatives by advising on organizational design, process improvements, and resource optimization.
• Maintaining awareness of industry trends, regulatory changes, and macroeconomic factors impacting corporate strategy to maintain competitive differentiation.

Reference: Gerhard van Vuuren : 0414 171 008

Legal and Regulatory Compliance, which included:

• Providing legal, regulatory and project management assistance to the technical project team;
• Navigating business development in new territories;
• Managing African in-country tax, legal, immigration and payroll service providers;
• Managing client supply level agreements.

Global Business Reporting, which included:

• Reporting on global business operations, including sales, invoicing, business and financial performance, to the Managing Director and Shareholders;
• Managing and monitoring all African business operation and performance;
• Building client and competitor analysis reports.

Tax Compliance, which included:

• Effective African business incorporation and structuring;
• Optimizing global business structuring;
• International employee tax compliance and mitigation solutions.

Intellectual Property Management, which included:

• Managing, monitoring and tracking global registered intellectual properties;
• Managing intellectual property service provider engagements; and
• Administering all intellectual property payments to service providers.

Human Resource Management, which included:

• Assisting the human resource management department from a legal perspective;
• Drafting employment agreements and communications;
• Dispute resolution assistance.

Business Analyst, which included:

• Reviewing business systems and procedures to identify and diagnose the business' financial, operational and technological risks;
• Implementation of new business systems and improvements;
• Implementation and monitoring of business policies;
• Building commercial business proposals.

New Business Development, which included:

• Strategic advisory on new business development;
• Identifying and managing new business partners, distributors and agents;
• Managing stakeholder relations;
• Building commercial strategies around new business development to expand the organizations client base.

Reference: Shawn Donly +27 (83) 678 1809

Managing the aviation division of Africorp Solutions and Advisory, Afriblade Aviation, which included:

• Managing the acquisition of an aviation charter company;
• Legal due diligence;
• Managing day-to-day jet aircraft charter services operations;
• Managing all staff members including pilots, maintenance crew and administration staff;
• Reviewing and drafting all legal documents including agreements, legal letters and Civil Aviation Authority (“CAA”) communications;
• Managing the finance team and clearing all payments to internal and external parties.

Managing International Mining Supply Chain Solutions, which included:

• Managing a team of supply chain specialists;
• Advising mining clients on African mining codes and subcontracting laws;
• Providing specialised procurement solutions to African mining groups;
• Providing labour broking services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mauritius;
• African country business incorporation's;
• Managing stakeholders across several companies;
• Providing immigration solutions to mining employees in African countries;
• Providing outsourced payroll solutions.

Manager of the Africa Tax Desk Department, which included:

• African business development manager;
• Mining clients account manager;
• Managing a team of tax consultants, chartered accountants, tax diagnostic specialists and client engagement specialists;
• Expatriate tax compliance;
• Providing tax mitigations solutions which includes the setup of employer participating pension funds;
• Chairing monthly business unit meetings;
• Contributor to the Lexis Nexis published tax textbook titled “Expatriate Tax – South Africans Working Abroad and Expats Working in South Africa”

Consulting as a Tax and Legal Attorney, which included:

• Drafting tax and legal opinions;
• Tax dispute resolution procedures with the South African Revenue Service;
• Assisting clients with voluntary disclosure programmes;
• Drafting commercial agreements;
• Advising clients on tax technical matters.

Reference: Jean Du Toit +27 (79) 523 4252

Practising as an Admitted Attorney, which included:

• High Court litigation;
• Magistrate’s Court Litigation;
• General civil litigation;
• Commercial Dispute Resolution;
• Debt collection;
• Third-party claims;
• Health Professions Council of South African (“HPCSA”) third party claims appeal procedures; and
• Drafting of legal agreements, opinions and communication.

Reference: Tamara Kirchner +27 (12) 435 9444

Two year of legal articles experience, which included:

• Assisting Advocates and Attorneys in High Court litigation proceedings;
• Magistrate’s Court Litigation;
• General civil litigation;
• Debt collection;
• Third-party claims;
• Health Professions Council of South African (“HPCSA”) third party claims appeal procedures; and
• Drafting of legal agreements, opinions and communication.

Reference: Jaun–Pierre Robertse +27(12) 435 9444