Our Principal Officers

Andre Gien

Andre is passionate about converting financial statement into a story about the business taking the art of financial analysis to educate and direct superior financial performance.

Andre's motto is: Enhancing the passion of Intuition with the rigor of evidence

His experience includes150 public and privately held businesses within the USA, Australia and South Africa.

Andre has a B.Comm degree in Accounting, and a Masters in Marketing from the University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School, Australia.

Graeme Nichol, MBA

What differentiates Graeme is the depth and breadth of his experience in management. He has either been in management or has been consulting to management for over 25 years. What he has seen and experienced is an unlimited resource that his clients can tap when resolving their business, strategic and technology systems problems.

His experience includes consulting with large practices such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Coopers and Lybrand and Price Waterhouse; and boutique performance improvement implementation practices such as Knox D’Arcy Intl. and KrestaHague Intl. He has managed complex ERP software implementations, worked in productivity and performance improvement, quality improvement, change management, strategy implementation, and managed both small and large projects.
Graeme has worked on four continents in areas such as: manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, communication, direct marketing, banking, beverages, consumer packaged goods, foodstuffs, and retail amongst others.

Besides management he loves teaching and training. He has instructed many workshops and training sessions on various aspects of business such business planning, sales training, team building, introduction to business, conflict resolution, negotiations, general management, costing, management accounting, management reporting, developing management metrics and operations management.

Graeme has a BS degree in Economics and Agricultural Economics, and an MBA from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.