At R-e-volution we take great pride in our ability to bring thought leadership to bear to help solve the complex problems our clients are continuously faced with.

Not only do we harness the exceptional intellectual capacity of our people, we also ensure that we bring practical experience to the melting pot of our solution enabling process.

To give you an idea of the caliber of people you are likely to encounter when working with us, we would like you to meet some of our people:

Pierre Kotzé Eugene Klopper Ria Marshall Jan Bredenkamp                    

One of the founding fathers of R-e-volution, Pierre has over the last three years been one of the key driving forces to ensure the success of R-e-volution. His absolute passion and commitment to the realisation of breakthrough results for our clients has become legendary.

Leveraging his more than 18 years of business management and business operations improvement experience, in industries as diverse as steel, mining, vehicle assembly, fast moving consumer goods and government, has enabled Pierre to achieve amazing results for our clients – not only does he add fresh perspectives to the issues faced by our clients, while relentlessly driving for the realisation of the optimal solution, but he also brings with him the understanding of the complexities and challenges faced by the business leadership.

Pierre studied at the University of Pretoria where he completed a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering, followed by an MBA. In addition he also received specialised operations improvement training at Nissan’s plant in Sunderland in the United Kingdom.

One area that lies extremely close to Pierre’s heart is that of self-directed teams – the empowerment of shop floor workers to enable to manage and optimise their own performance.

Other areas of interest include, information architecture, business strategy, supply chain optimisation - including manufacturing optimisation, as well as change management.

Another of the founding fathers of the company, Eugene uses his seven years of business management (primarily in the Public Relations, Marketing and Sales Strategies, as well as Marketing Communications areas), as well as fourteen years of business and management consulting to assist our clients in addressing the business performance issues they face. Eugene uses his extensive experience in the air transport, manufacturing, forestry, engineering, mining and technology research and development industries to work with our clients to help develop the solutions to their business issues.

The majority of his consulting experience has been gained with international consulting firms, including the likes of A.T. Kearney. This experience covers areas such as business strategy development, through to the operations optimisation. His work has covered the entire spectrum of business assessment, improvement agenda-development to the implementation of the agenda, to realise tangible benefits.

In addition to his extensive industry experience, Eugene has significant international working experience, having conducted assignments in South Africa, Tanzania, Congo Brazzaville, Reunion, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, India, Ghana and the United Kingdom

After initially studying law at the University of Stellenbosch, Eugene returned to the same institution to complete an Honours Degree in Business Administration. In addition to these degrees he has also attended numerous courses, such as:

Marketing Management – Damelin School of Management

Quality Planning – Juran Institute

Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Assessor Course– Juran Institute

Executive Course in Managing Manufacturing – IMD

Executive Course in Corporate Strategy – MIT Sloan School of Management

Apart from his work in developing industry strategies, Eugene has particular interest in competitive strategy development, creativity, skills development and the development of multifaceted solutions to complex problems.

Ria brings her unique technical, analytical and concept development skills to the melting pot of issues facing our clients, thus ensuring absolute rigour in the identification of issues and analysis of data to support, or reject, the hypotheses we develop in our solution development process. Having participated in the issue analysis, Ria masterfully provides structure to the potential solutions, ensuring completeness of the focus and effort.

Having initially qualified as a Chemical Engineer, Ria soon added an Industrial Engineering degree to her credentials. A PhD in Engineering Management ultimately followed.

Ria’s career includes spells in, amongst others, the steel, telecommunications, beverage, and education industries. Apart from her line management and consulting experience, she also lectures and is currently involved at the School of Business Leadership at the University of South Africa where she teaches the Operations Research course.

Ria is known for her passion and commitment to the identification and solution of issues and problems and tirelessly pursues the quest for the solution, leaving no stone unturned in the process.

Jan brings extensive business and consulting experience to our clients. Having studied Philosophy at the postgraduate level, he added a diploma in theology to his credentials, followed by a Masters degree in Business Administration. During his time at the University of Stellenbosch he was elected as the Chairperson of the Student’s Representative Council.

Apart from a stint as a Minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, Jan has worked for a major chemical company as a training consultant where he was involved in assessment centres. He has also, at senior management level, worked for one of the major milling companies in South Africa where, apart from his normal functions, he was intimately involved in trade union negotiations in a most unstable period in the history of South Africa. Subsequently he worked, again at senior management level for the largest transport utility in South Africa where, amongst others, he was involved in negotiating changes to the Labour Relations Act with the largest trade union in South Africa. As a result of the changes taking place in the utility, he visited West Germany to gain knowledge of the unification process between the West and East German transport utilities. During his tenure at the transport utility he was instrumental in establishing a social investment/equal opportunity program for the organisation.

Jan subsequently ventured into politics (amongst others as a Member of Parliament) where he gained invaluable experience in portfolios such as finance, public accounts, trade and industry, as well as arts and culture, while he also attended international investment conferences and visited the parliaments of several European countries

After a number of years in the political arena the call of the business world became overwhelming and he consulted to one of the premier banking institutions on strategic alignment, before taking up a senior position in credit management, with active participation in business planning and risk assessment of enterprises.

In the late 1990’s Jan began to actively consult, covering areas such as Human Resource and business strategy, strategic and competitive intelligence, business ethics and corporate governance. He has in the recent past worked with clients in chemicals, financial services, retail, fast moving consumer goods, transportation and insurance industries.

Jan has spoken at numerous seminars on strategy, organisational performance and corporate social responsibility. As a Member of Parliament he often interacted with a wide range of interest groups on socio political issues and CEO’s of companies while raising funds for the election.