About our Staff
Our corporate capability notwithstanding, the success of any consulting project or other professional intervention is highly dependent on the skill and experience of the consultant team assigned to assist the client.Our management consultants are experienced, versatile professionals. Thus, while we provide objective advice, we also offer creative, often unique solutions to problems and opportunities.
Our proven track record is based on an ability to exploit client-consultant synergy, while focusing rigorously on relevant business issues.
DIRECTORS
Martin JR Westcott - Managing Director
Qualifications
B.Sc. (Chemical Engineering) with first class Honours in final year Design Thesis (University of Cape Town).
Master of Business Leadership (MBL) cum laude (University of South Africa) with gold medal for best final year case study project.
Fellow and Past President : Institute of Management Consultants of Southern Africa.
Registered Professional Engineer (SA Council of Professional Engineers).
Registered Personnel Practitioner (Generalist) of SA Board for Personnel Practice.
Approved Mentor of SA Board for Personnel Practice.
Professional Experience
His management consultancy experience comes from being with PECS in Southern Africa for over 25 years. His experience includes over 250 management consulting assignments concerned with organisation design and strategy, executive remuneration and job evaluation and human resource management in general, as well as in manufacturing, production and engineering management, productivity and marketing. His most recent experience includes 15 years of specialisation in the remuneration field. He spent 4 years as Partner of Price Waterhouse and Director in Charge of the firm’s Management Consulting Division during a period in which P-E Corporate Services was owned by Price Waterhouse. Martin negotiated a successful management buy-out of P-E Corporate Services in 1992.
His remuneration experience is very wide ranging and includes :
1. Leading and directing major remuneration projects
2. Acting as advisor to the Board/Remuneration Committee of the Board on executive pay policy to a substantial number of listed and unlisted companies
3. Regular preparation of economic and manpower, remuneration and working conditions trend policies for the P-E National Remuneration Surveys.
4. Acting as expert advisor in major pay arbitrations.
Specialised Professional Experience
Approximately 250 published papers and presentations in the areas of manpower, employment and remuneration strategy as well as general management issues. These include presentations to the South African State President’s Council, Labour Market Commission, Business School
Associations of the Universities of the Witwatersrand and of Cape Town, the International Labour Organisation, Annual Conventions of the Institute of Personnel Management, the First Annual Convention of the SA Society for Training and Development, the Institute of Certificated Engineers and a wide variety of other conventions and conferences.
Frequent interviews on remuneration, manpower and general management issues on radio and television, in South Africa and internationally. Member of various high level task groups appointed to review national manpower issues, and develop professional practice standards on training in South Africa.
Phillip Havenga - Director
Qualifications
Phillip has a BA in Psychology and Criminology from Pochefstroom University as well as BA Honours in Psychology (Marriage and Guidance Counselling Programme) through UNISA
He completed the Development Programme in Labour Relations through UNISA as well as his MBA in Pochefstroom.
Professional Experience
He has had 15 years personnel management experience in various senior positions, including 2 years with ISCOR as Personnel Officer; 4 years with GEC Power Distribution as a Personnel Manager, 5 years with Simba as Divisional Personnel Manager and Group Manpower Manager, 4 years as Senior Human Resource Manager - Transnet.
He spent 1 year in personnel management research with Human Sciences Research Council, followed by his 12 year career with PE Corporate Services specialising in: Job evaluation and remuneration policy and organisation design and structuring.
Publications
He has presented a number of papers on human resource topics to various conferences and interest groups and has been interviewed on radio as an expert speaker on remuneration issues.
Gustav Pansegrouw - Director
Gustav is a Director of P-E Corporate Services with specific responsibility for our training and consulting practice in the areas of Executive Coaching, Leadership, Organisational Development, Organisational Behaviour training and the Management of Change.
Qualifications
BA and BA (Hons) in Psychology (cum laude); MA in Psychology University of the Free State MS in Applied Behavioural Sciences (cum laude), California American University
PhD (Honoris Causa) (Contributions in the field of Leadership Development), California American University.
Professional Skills in OD (PSOD), National Training Laboratories, USA
Executive Coach Accreditation with Tavistock Consulting Services, UK
Registered Industrial and Organisational Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Arica.
Member of the South African Institute of Management Consultants
Member of several South African and International professional networks and interest groups in the Organisational Behaviour and Organisational Development fields.
Professional Experience
He worked for 4 years as a lecturer in Psychology at University of the Free State followed by six years in Psychological Assessment at the SA Military Psychology Institute. He has over thirty years of consulting, training and counselling experience with major private companies and in public sector institutions in South Africa. Particular areas of consulting include long term sustainable change management, team building, diagnostic studies, project management of comprehensive OD programmes, leadership development and coaching of managers and executives over a wide spectrum of performance and executive role related issues. In the area of leadership development he has worked extensively with Dr Paul Hersey, developer and author of the well-known Situational Leadership approach to managing people, – both in South Africa and the USA. This experience includes carrying out joint research projects, the design and development of training programmes and co-authoring publications in the fields of Leadership Development and Organisational Behaviour.
Publications
Gustav has published a number of articles on organisation, strategy, the management of change and training and development. He has also presented in these areas at conferences locally and abroad such as the annual conventions of the Institute of Personnel Management and Leadership Studies International. Has lectured part-time at RAU, and at the University of Stellenbosch Business School.
Melanie Trollip - Director
Melanie has been providing remuneration survey and consulting services to a wide range of organizations across all major industry sectors since 1987. In her earlier career she gained experience in Human Resources at an international Merchant Bank and worked as a Statistical Analyst at a multi-national firm.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Commerce - Rand Afrikaans University / University of Johannesburg. Member of the South African Reward Association
Professional Experience
She has extensive experience in the development of reward strategies and the implementation of reward solutions and specializes in:
· Reward Strategy design and implementation of reward systems
· Board Remuneration Committee advisory services
· HR Audits/Due Diligence projects
· Implementation of job evaluation
· Pay-line development, statistical methods and data analytics
· International and local benchmarking at executive and staff levels
· Remuneration surveys Her experience includes numerous remuneration consulting assignments especially among local and foreign multi-national organizations.
She has been the project lead on global assignments. She has presented a number of papers on human resource topics to various conferences and interest groups.
Olof van Schalkwijk - Director
Prior to joining P E Corporate Services Olof was founder member and CEO of FSA-Contact (Pty) Ltd, a Human Resources consultancy covering all the major HR disciplines. He was the GM of Personnel and Industrial Relations at a multi-national for 5 years and the Director of the Institute of People Management.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts – University of Pretoria. Master of Science Education - Indiana (USA)Member of the Institute of Directors
Professional Experience
Olof has extensive Human Resource consulting experience across all major industry sectors of the economy. He specialises in the following areas:
· Strategy, design and implementation of reward systems
· Serves as advisor to several Board Remuneration Committees
· Implementation of job evaluation
· Performance Management
· Executive and Non-executive Director remuneration.
He has presented numerous papers on human resource topics to various conferences and interest groups.
Francois Wilbers - Managing Director Work Dynamics and Director PE Corporate Services
Qualifications
M.Comm. (Personnel Management) Cum Laude. (University of Pretoria); Masters of Business Administration (University of Stellenbosch) Registered Industrial Psychologist
Registered Personnel Practitioner (Generalist) of SA Board for Personnel Practice
Member of the Institute of Directors
Professional Experience
After obtaining a B.Comm. (Personnel Management) Degree in December 1979, Francois had:
- Two years experience as an administrative assistant handling general administrative tasks in respect of the amendment of acts, regulations and other laws in the office of the Public Service Commission.
- Three years experience as a personnel manager at Nasionale Pers
- 10 years general management and consulting experience at Work Dynamics. He has specialist experience in remuneration, including salary surveys, recruitment and selection, organisational development, career management, performance management, training and development, industrial relations, human resource administration and human resource policy.
Jenny Yarham - Director
Jenny is the Financial Director of P-E Corporate Services and has been responsible for the company's financial function for over 20 years. She was appointed to the Board in 1992.
KEY PROFESSIONAL STAFF
Mike Potgieter - Divisional Manager Centre for Leadership and Organisational Studies
Qualifications
B.Comm (Industrial Psychology) RAU,Member of the Institute of Management Consultants, Member of the Association for Cognitive Skills Development of SA. Mike has had 25 years of management consultancy experience in the following areas:
- Association of Sales Personnel (1973-74)
- P-E Consulting Group (SA) (1974-79)
- People and Organisation Development (1983 - 85)
- P-E Corporate Services SA (1987 - present)
Mike has also had 5 years marketing and sales experience in the chemical industry
Professional Experience
Sales marketing and management training consultancy and strategic planning in; manufacture (engineering), mining, oil industry, retail, travel, agriculture, dairy, energy, government, non-profit organisations, computer hardware, insurance and stock exchange. Design and implementation of training programmes - sales, skills and management in; furniture, service industry, motor car retail and property sales. The application of Cognitive Skills Development methodology in training programmes for: artisans, teachers, trainers and managers.
Publications
'Selling and Emotion' in Successful Salesmanship (1975)
Deon Thomson - Principal Associate & Managing Director Financial Research Associates
Managing Director of Financial Research Associates (Pty) Ltd. (‘Finresa’), a PECS Group company; seconded to PECS as a professional associate consultant by arrangement for certain assignments
Qualifications
B.Com. (Hons.), LL.B., C.A.(S.A.), H.Dip. Tax Law
Professional Experience
Deon was a partner of an auditing practice for 11 years; subsequently presented tax and financial planning seminars and practiced as a general management consultant for another 3 years; he was then appointed managing director of Financial Research Associates (Pty) Ltd. from 1987 to date and an associate professional consultant to P-E Corporate Services (Pty) Ltd. from 1985 to date.
Has consulted widely in commerce and industry in South Africa for over twenty years in the field of corporate finance, leaning towards human resource issues - notably, management incentive schemes, employee gain sharing and incentive schemes, share participation, employment benefit schemes and remuneration package structuring.
Publications
“Flexible Remuneration”, P-E Corporate Services SA (Pty) Ltd, 1985; “Management Incentive Schemes In S.A.”, P-E Corporate Services SA (Pty) Ltd, 1986
“Valuation of Business Enterprises”, Sandton Management Consultants (Pty) Ltd, 1987; “Productivity Partnerships:
Case Studies in Labour Productivity (1992)”, P-E Corporate Services (Pty) Ltd, 1992; “Employee Housing : The Case for Involvement in 1994', Managed Capital Projects (Pty) Ltd, 1994.
Editor of P-ECS’ quarterly journal provided to remuneration committees of major organizations, “RemCom”.
Recent publications include an HR Executive Guide Series covering the areas of corporate governance, performance-related pay and share participation.
Maarten du Plessis - Principal Associate - Remuneration & Human Resource Consulting
Qualifications
B.Comm (Computer Science), B.Comm (Honours) Industrial Psychology
Professional Experience
Maarten has 16 years experience in Information Technology and the Human Resources disciplines, in various increasingly senior positions and companies. The roles he occupied spanned the Human Resources discipline including business process re-engineering, development and implementation of various systems from small to multi million rand implementations in the Information Technology field. He gained his experience within the international mining group Rio-Tinto Zinc, which is represented in South Africa by Palaborwa Mining. Martin has had been with P-ECS for nine years as a management consultant specialising in: Remuneration consulting, including incentive scheme design, job evaluation and a broad scope of related research.Organisation design and structuring
Publications
He has presented a number of papers on human resource topics to various conferences and interest groups and has been guest Lecturer at the University of the Free State on the subject of Remuneration Management.
Eric Maclear - Principal Associate - Operations Management
Qualifications
B Com (Economics, Business Economics, Statistics) UNISA 1980
National Diploma in Industrial Administration – 1972
Programme for Management Development UCT 1983
Membership in Professional Societies:
Member: Institute of Management Consultants of South Africa
Member: Institute of Industrial Engineers
Professional Experience
Eric spent 12 years in the retail environment as an Industrial Engineer before joining WD Scott as a Management Consultant for 3 years. He joined P-E Corporate Services in 1983 as a Senior Management Consultant Eric has had over twenty years experience in management consultancy in Southern Africa, including:
- Over 100 management consulting assignments involving staffing and restructuring, marketing, productivity, logistics and maintenance.
- Trained in excess of 1000 delegates in the areas of production, materials, productivity, logistics, project and engineering management. Training presented in RSA, Southern Africa and Saudi Arabia.
- Experience in consulting for the private sector, government, quazi government and educational institutions.
- Presentation of papers at various conferences and interest groups on subjects pertaining to materials management and productivity.
Lionel van Schalkwijk - Prinicipal Consultant
Lionel joined P E Corporate Services SA (Pty) Ltd in July 2009 as a Principal Consultant in the Salary Survey and Remuneration practice. Prior to joining PECS, Lionel obtained 10 years’ experience in both remuneration consulting and employee relations and was the Industrial Relations “hot-line” consultant servicing a wide range of clients from all industry sectors. He has participated in negotiations and consultations with trade unions and employees, and advised on employment equity processes and the management of pay.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Commerce – University of the Witwatersrand. Lionel furthered his post graduate qualification with a Certified Programme in Industrial Relations (C.P.I.R.) obtaining a first class pass. Pending the completion of a dissertation he will obtain an MBA at Wits Business School. Current studies - Global Reward Practitioner programme of World@Work/SARA.
Professional Experience
Lionel has over 10 years experience in remuneration consulting, salary review exercises and pay-line development. He has conducted audits on HR policies and procedures and assisted organisations with the development of HR policies.
Deirdre van Greunen - Senior Remuneration Consultant
Qualifications
Deidre has a diploma in sales and marketing management as well as business management.
Professional Experience
Prior to being employed with PE Corporate Services she worked at Rentokil from 1992 until 2006. She began as a Sales Consultant and worked her way to Sales Manager, Branch Manager, Area Manager to Senior National Corporate Accounts Manager. During this time, she received many awards including Branch Manager of the year, Sales Manager of the year and Sales Consultant of the year.
Maria Romo - Business Development Consultant
Qualifications
Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing) - University of Witwatersrand
Professional Experience
Maria is a Business Development consultant for the Salary Surveys division. New business portfolios span local and international clients. Her focus is to retain and grow survey clients, launch new surveys for the division and continuously upgrade existing surveys to ensure market leadership.
Deirdre Wilson - Salary Survey Consultant
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (Personnel Management) -University of Pochefstroom
Professional Experience
Deidre is a Senior Consultant within P-ECS's Salary Survey Division and has been with PECS since 2002. Prior to that, she was a Senior Survey Specialist at Deloitte and Touche Human Capital. She is responsible for the production of P-ECS' wide range of national, regional, industry-based and customised remuneration surveys and is also involved in benchmarking related projects. In 2009 Deirdre launched PECS Linx, which houses the national electronic surveys on the web. Deirdre was instrumental in designing, testing and loading these electronic based surveys.
Karen Stayne - Salary Survey Consultant
Professional Experience
Karen is a Senior Consultant within P E CS's Salary Survey Division responsible for the production of P ECS' wide range of national, regional, industry-based and customised remuneration surveys. She is also invovled in remuneration benchmarking and related projects.
Rhozel Grobler - Salary Survey Consultant
Professional Experience
Rhozel is a Senior Consultant within P-ECS's Salary Survey Division responsible for the production of P-ECS' wide range of national, regional, industry-based and customised remuneration surveys. She is also involved in remuneration benchmarking and related projects.
Sandy Loots - Salary Survey Consultant
Qualifications
Financial Management Diploma - Damelin
Professional Experience
Sandy is a survey consultant within PECS’ Salary Survey Division, she joined LMO in 2007. Prior to that she was Financial Manager at ABSA Head Office. She is currently specialising in customised and industry specific surveys and is also involved in remuneration benchmarking and related projects.
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