Jan van der Walt

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Cell: 082 853 1414

Land line: 011 477 4414

Fax: 086 510 6184

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Member information

TMA-SA membership status

Regular member.

Background and experience

As CEO of Corporate Renewal Solutions I have 26 years' experience in corporate renewal, ranging from management consulting to business transformation to turnaround management.

In my turnaround practitioner career I served as both senior accountable executive and in advisory positions in numerous turnaround situations in a variety of industries ranging from the public sector, to private sector clients as large as R5bn turnover.

I have wide experience in devising and implementing leadership, strategy, financial, organisational and operational solutions.

I regularly write articles, present at conferences, participate in panel discussions and do guest lecturing at business school on the topics of corporate renewal, business transformation, turnaround and business rescue.

In 2004 I initiated what was eventually named the Task Group for Organising the Turnaround and Business Rescue Industries, which included 100 representatives from various stakeholder groups in industry in its Work Group and Advisory Group.

The Task Group led to the formation of:

ABASA - Association of Business Administrators of South Africa - a proposed business rescue regulatory body in terms of future new business rescue legislation.

I serve on the Interim Executive of ABASA as Treasurer.

Turnaround Management Association - Southern Africa, the establishment of which I initiated and concluded as a founder member.

I serve as a director and Chief Operating Officer, as well as Director: Informatics.

I have a keen interest in new business rescue legislation, which are analysed in depth on the CRS Business Rescue web site of Corporate Renewal Solutions. Additionally, I'm the author of the comments of TMA-SA on Chapter 6 (Business Rescue) of the 2007 and 2008 versions of the Companies Bill.

Qualifications

Presently busy with the directed learning part of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) at the Gordon Institute of Business Science of the University of Pretoria. I plan to do research on predicting business rescue resolution once Chapter 6 of the Companies Act No. 71 of 2009 has been implemented.
MBA (Stanford Business School), where I studied with a Fulbright Scholarship and specialised in strategy.
Honours B.Sc. in Operations Research (University of South Africa).
B.Sc. Industrial Engineering degree cum laude (University of Pretoria).
Member of the Institute of Directors.

Turnaround professional discipline(s) represented

Turnaround practitioner.
Turnaround consultant.
Interim manager.
Private equity.
Corporate renewal consultant.
Business transformation consultant.
Management consultant.

Services offered

Turnaround viability assessment.
Emergency management.
Crisis stabilisation.
Turnaround management.
Turnaround restructuring.
Turnaround recovery.
Turnaround interim management.
Turnaround private equity.
Corporate renewal.
Business transformation.
Management consulting - strategy, leadership, financial and organisational issues, supply chain management, and sales and marketing.

Why I joined TMA-SA

Having been a member of the Chicago Chapter of TMA, I realised the tremendous benefits that TMA could bring to the restoration of corporate value in South Africa. As a result, I brought turnaround industry participants together to form TMA-SA.

I am a member of TMA-SA because I believe it in its benefits of turnaround networking, knowledge, education and promotion.

Personally, in my capacity as CEO of the organisation, I have a personal interest in establishing the Certified Turnaround Professional qualification in South Africa, contributing to the effective formulation and implementation of new business rescue legislation, and finding ways for government and TMA-SA to work together to save businesses and preserve jobs.

Firm: Corporate Renewal Solutions (Pty) Ltd.

Corporate Renewal Solutions is a full-service management consulting firm focusing on turnaround and corporate renewal that has been active in South Africa since 1999. It has 4 main service offerings.

Distressed situation turnaround:

CRS Turnaround Management helps turn around distressed companies in crisis due to liquidity or solvency problems. These turnarounds involve triage principles and emergency management.

Turnaround:

CRS Turnaround Management helps turn around severely underperforming companies that have the time and resources to find solutions. Our turnarounds rehabilitate such companies and set the stage for future achievement.

Remedial business transformation:

CRS Business Transformation helps moderately underperforming companies to achieve and surpass industry performance standards by changing the way the do business, by means of transformational change management.

Proactive business transformation (continual corporate renewal):

CRS Business Transformation helps healthy companies to continually transform themselves in response to market-place events of a political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental nature.

Management consulting:

CRS Management consulting helps management to unlock value by reshaping their businesses through the formulation and implementation of leadership, strategic, financial, organisational and operational change.

Turnaround Management Association - Southern Africa