Our team of professionals:
– Business Design: Heinz Essmann and Stephan Marais
– Finance: Van du Preez
– HR: Johan de Goede
– Legal: Marguerite Greeff
– Marketing: Mariska du Preez
Heinz Essmann
Heinz Essmann
Heinz is a perpetual student and learner, having spent much of the last 9 years understanding how companies are built, run and renewed to thrive. Formal learning and research has focused on how organisations radically build, improve and renew themselves through innovation.
Practically, Heinz has more than 5 years of experience in deploying a variety of tools and methods for business building, improvement and renewal as a researcher, business engineering and programme manager at Indutech. Clients range from new and small companies, new spin-off units focussed on innovation, to large corporates and parastals. He occasionally lectures to final year Industrial Engineering students at Stellenbosch University on the topics of Innovation Management and Enterprise Engineering.
Believing strongly in a balanced life style, spending time with family, friends and in the outdoors – whether relaxing or partaking in some or other adventure sport – takes up Heinz’s spare time.
Stephan Marais
Stephan Marais
Van du Preez
Wealth management
Investment management
Offering clients investment advice and management services on their investment portfolios
Creating tailored investment plans / portfolio for specified goals
Turing saving ideas into flourishing investment growth
Re-structuring monthly cash flow models but optimizing the full potential of an investment portfolio
Financial Risk Management
Calculating and focusing on potential financial risk which might be caused by death, disability, dreaded disease, medical expenditure etc.
Retirement Planning
I optimize the retirement planning process by not using old-aged life products, and incorporating your retirement needs, with your current investment plans; to optimize and hopefully reduce the time before you can retire.
Johan de Goede
Johan de Goede
Johan started his career in 2001, during his honours year at University, as a Psychotechnician with Psymetric Human Capital Assessment. After completing his honours, he started his MCom and completed his Industrial Psychology internship with the Power Group of Companies and Psymetric Human Capital Assessment. He was then appointed as a full-time internal consultant at the Power Group of Companies. His main focus was assessment and development.
After leaving the Power Group of Companies, Johan spent two years in Sydney, Australia and worked as both a freelance Assessment and Development Consultant and a full-time Talent Management Consultant. During this period, he consulted on and delivered various assessment, engagement and development projects, especially within the Banking Sector.
Before leaving for Australia, Johan developed the website EarlyCareer.com. EarlyCareer.com was established with the vision of providing practical and useful information which will make it easier to make good and realistic career decisions early on in life.
After returning from Australia, Johan again joined Psymetric Human Capital Assessment for a 9 month period. He started his own company. Johan’s speciality is to use psychological and career assessments to develop the strengths of individuals and reinforce a sense of value in their chosen careers, jobs and for their organisations.
Marguerite Greeff
Marguerite Greeff
Marguerite graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in 2004 and is a qualified attorney, notary public and conveyancer. She practices as a director at a boutique law firm, Erasmus Incorporated, in Stellenbosch. She has a charismatic approach to negotiation, liaising and conflict resolution and brings excellent drafting and research skills to the UNiiQ team.
She has experience in training and mentoring and specializes in commercial and company law, tax, contracts and property law. Marguerite is currently studying towards a post graduate diploma in financial planning law and this equips her to understand and assist the business of the entrepreneur even better.
She has a passion for fine food and wine, enjoys spending quality time with friends, meeting up for a good conversation and watching a game of rugby!
Mariska du Preez
Mariska is owner of *mdp marketing, a marketing consultancy that specialises in marketing, design and publicity.
Her other job is Marketing Officer for Indutech. Indutech is a business engineering company focused on innovation development for competitive advantage.
After hours her energy goes into Van Pepper Wines and the Stellenbosch Young Professionals Network. Van Pepper Wines was created and started by herself and two partners; the company ultimately encompasses her passion of events and wine. Women of Wines is an extension of Van Pepper and is a wine club for women in the Cape Town area.
The Stellenbosch Young Professionals Network (SYPN) is a group for 20-35 year old professionals living and/or working in Stellenbosch. This forum was founded and is chaired by me. SYPN members have a get together once a month to network, socialise and share ideas. The objective of the SYPN is to connect people, create a platform where great business contacts can be made, and develop the skills and expertise of its members.
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