About Pinoak Consulting

Our mission is to empower our clients by sharing our knowledge and thinking, so that they can maintain competitive advantage.

Consultants:

Ms. Antonia (Toni) Gillham

C.E.O. (Corporate Business School Design and Implementation; Learning Strategies; Business Strategy, Knowledge Management Strategies & Solutions)

Mr. Mbulelo Mayikana

(C.E.O. of Mayikana Consulting which consults in the field of Human Capital // Human Resources)

Professor Zak Van Straaten

Consultant (Knowledge Management Strategies & Solutions; Corporate Business School Design and Implementation) (in a previous academic life:- The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, Model Theory, Provability Logic & ZF Set Theory)

Mr Almur Killian

(Corporate Business School Design and Implementation; previously Head, Group Learning and Knowledge Management, Old Mutual Business School, Cape Town)

Ms. Thobeka Base

Project Officer (Community Projects)

Advisers:

Professor Nigel Nicholson

(Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School and author of Managing the Human Animal, (Texere, London, New York, 2000.))

Mr. Rolf Dienst

Business Strategy (Rolf Dienst is a founding partner of Wellington Partners, a leading European venture capital company; and past chairman of the German Private Equity Association)

Mr. Anton van Straaten

(Software Consultant, Decision Support Systems, Functional Languages Expert (e.g. SCHEME, HASKELL, LAMBDA & ML). http://www.appsolutions.com/)

Dr. Abner Nyamende

(African Languages; Communications & Cultural Affairs)

Knowledge & Thinking Partners

Professor Mark Leon

(Foundations of Psychology; professor of philosophy in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.)

Mr. Onno Huyser

(Manager, Table Mountain Fund; Environmental Strategies)

Mr. Cory Voigt

(General Manager, Palgrave MacMillan (Southern Africa) Academic, professional and reference book publishing and marketing in developing countries, Johannesburg.)

Mr. John Thompson

(Leadership Development using the business driven action learning (BDAL) approach. Has run major programmes for top talent in the Standard Bank and in the Packaging, Chemical and Pharmaceutical industries using the BDAL methodology. Johannesburg.)

Dr. Susan Van Zyl

(Psychology & Evolutionary Psychology, Deputy Dean (Postgraduate), Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.)

Mr. David Suzman

(Demography of Africa & Private Wealth Management, Johannesburg.)

Ms. Henrietta van Greuning

(Merchant Bank Credit Scoring, Origination & Account Management, & Private Wealth Management)

Ms. Alison Garlick

( Information Specialist, Capetown.)

Ms. Janet McFarlan

(Education & Training Specialist, Glascow, Scotland.)

Ms. Laura de Wet

(Education & Training Specialist, Johannesburg.)

Dr. Colleen Seymour

(Researcher at the South African National BioDiversity Institute, Cape Town. Environmental matters & terrestrial ecology)

Mr. Anthony Holland

(Information Technology; London.)

Mr. Ryan Hill

(Copyright and Publishing; Cape Town.)

Ms. Caroline Suzman

(Photography, Johannesburg. Official photographer for the World Bank. homepage: http://www.carolinesuzman.co.za/)

Ms. Alice Gillham

(Composer; the Music Industry, Cape Town)

Unlisted Knowledge & Thinking Partners

(We have many unlisted knowledge & thinking partners, who for reasons of professional reticence or modesty, or because they are the ultimate insider, influential but not visible, wish to be knowledge & thinking partners but remain unlisted.)