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CURRICULUM VITAE

Mr. Gert D. de Bruin

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE RELEVANT TO POSITION APPLYING FOR:

- Managing of Departments / Divisions / Company to reach profit targets.

- Evaluating, analysing and conceptualizing current status quo.

- Strategic planning and visioning.

- Identifying, planning, implementing value adding activities to better effectiveness and profit.

- Budgets, cash flows, cost centres, profit centre accounts.

- Due diligence studies and submissions.

- High level communications with clients, suppliers and industry.

- Production functions in Feed Mill, Dog Food plants, ensuring effective capacity utilization and

superior quality.

- Stock management, bulk and semi-bulk handling facilities.

- Commissioning of plants and or facility upgrades

- Manage Capital expenditure

- Human resources, policies and all personnel related aspects as performance appraisal, job

descriptions etc.

- Statuary compliance (to Acts: Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Occupational Health and

Safety Act, Fertilizer, Farm Feeds and Remedies Act, Financial Advisory and Intermediary

Services Act and Financial Intelligence Centre Act, Competition etc.)

- Analyse Markets and market potential, Identify market opportunities.

- Negotiations, Procurement, Contracting.

- Trade setting in specific trades of importance.

- Hedging of prices, open interests and mark risks

- Risk Management. Key person for NWK regarding FIAS

- Trading of commodities and derivatives on Safex

- Design and implement marketing and sale strategy and policies for products.

- Managing sale personnel and agents

- Adult training through study groups, farmers unions and individuals. Give technical advice to

farmers/clients on market opportunities, price risks, diversification, branch activities and

production systems.

- Serve on various industry and internal comities.

- Represent in Industry organizational Organizations.

- Labour relations and Disciplinary procedures and processes.

- Reporting to Board of Directors / Top Management

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CAREER OBJECTIVES:

- I am looking for an opportunity with an established and reputable organisation that would

offer me an opportunity to not only utilize my current knowledge, skills and experience, but

also afford me an opportunity to gain more experience and be awarded for achievements and

grow within the organisation.

- . I strive to live in and through the power of my Creator , the Godhead Three in One, in my

marriage, family, workplace, work conditions and in community life, a life according to my

believe system, to be worth full through positive attributes and to built out and enlarges my

own and my families self respect and pride and in this whole process live a thankful and as

far as possible enjoyable life in sharing and channelling to other people the goodness I am

experiencing.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

- Positive attitude, Broad on outlook

- Analytical , Opportunistic, Challenging, Critical

- Creative thinker, Problem solver, Conceptualizer, Logical

- High integrity, Reliable, Honest & Trustworthy

- Conscious of Priorities, Efficient, Competitor

- Work to high standards, Hard working, Driving, Loyal

- Persistent, Persuasive, Disciplined

- Respectful, Calm Confident, Diplomatic

- Teachable, Clever, Knowledgeable

- Team player, Caring, Motivating, Encouraging, Sensitive

BELBIN STRONG ROLES (high to low):

- Planter > Resource > Investigator > Shaper > Coordinator > Monitor Evaluator > Team

Worker > Implementer > Completer Finisher > Specialist

MBTI PROFILE:

- I – Introversion

o Receiving, Expressive, Gregarious, Reflective, Enthusiastic

- N - Intuition

o Concrete, Imaginative, Conceptual, Theoretical, Original

- T - Thinking

o Logical, Reasonable, Questioning, Critical, Tough

- J - Judging

o Systematic, Open ended, Early starting, Scheduled, Methodical

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EDUCATION, TRAINING & COMPUTER LITERACY:

Secondary Qualification: Matric

School: Lichtenburg High School

City/Town: Lichtenburg

Year: 1974

Tertiary Qualification1: B.Sc. Agric. (Animal Husbandry)

Institution: University of Pretoria

City/Town: Pretoria

Year: 1978

Tertiary Qualification2: B.Sc. Agric. (Hons) Management and Feeding


City/Town: Pretoria

Year: 1982

Tertiary Qualification3: Farming Management

Institution: UNISA

City/Town: Pretoria

Year: 1986

Tertiary Qualification4:

B. Inst. (Agrar) Hons.


City/Town: Pretoria

Year: 1987

Computer Literacy:

- MS Word (Levels 3) Damelin College.

- Power Point (Levels 3) Damelin College.

- Excel (Levels 3) Damelin College.

Courses attended:

- Investment in Excellence (IIE) - Pacific Institute

- Work of the role - Kaya Consulting

- Disciplinary Chair person, Investigator, Compliant - SA Labour

- ADP Option trading – Drew Markson, Sue Goll

- Technical Market Analysis – Share direct

- AMD Trading - Safex

- Sorghum Malting - CSIR

- Marketing - MAST SA

- Group Dynamics, Creative thoughts, Lecturing - Senwes

- Management Principles and Techniques - Senwes

- Kepner Tregoe - Handling grievances, Discipline in the workplace - NWK

- Extrusion of Soya to edible Protein - Extru Africa – CFAM – UNW

- Extrusion of Aquatic Feeds, Dog Food, and By-- Extru Africa – CFAM – UNW

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Employer 1: VKB Landbou (Pty) Ltd

Position 1: Manager Grain: NTK (Limpopo)

Date: February 2015 to date

City/Town: Modimolle

Duties:

- Management of the Grain Department in Limpopo (9 silo complexes and a two traders)

- Financial reporting to CEO, Budgets Strategic planning,

- Ensure optimal grain management in silo's and optimizing capacity utilization, physical grain

management to ensure good and best practices,

- Ensure compliance to statuary- legal- internal policy and work procedures

- High level negotiation of deals and contracts.

- Define framework for traders to do physical trading, hedging and contracting

- Organisational represent on Industry Committees like Agbiz, JSE Agri technical etc.

- Ensure high level communication to client basis

Employer 2: Profert Holdings HQ

Position 1: Commodity and Derivative Trader

Date: September 2013 to December 2014

City/Town: Vryburg

Duties: - Derivative trading – strategies, value adding strategies on market movement– long- medium-

and short term

- Intraday/week trading

- Hedging strategies for affiliates (FeedPro)

- Physical trading – Agent for affiliates

- Ad hoc input in New Project Development

Reason for consider leaving: Company refocus - core activities – trading - will be phased out

Employer 2: FeedPro (affiliate of Profert Holdings)

Position 2: CEO FeedPro

Date: February 2011 to August 2013

City/Town: Vryburg

Duties:

- Turnaround strategy for FeedPro at Vryburg – focus areas, change management,

restructuring in functionality, upgrading facilities , resolve bottlenecks to free capacity, change

total workforce culture, mechanizing labour inefficiencies and lower strike risks.

- Ensure the national and international vision of Profert for Feedpro.

- Determine the viability of satellite plants in border countries and Africa.

- Identify business opportunities in related industries where value adding can be achieved.

- Do submissions and Report to Board of directors..

Reason for leaving: Transferred to holding company Profert

Employer 2: FeedPro (affiliate of Profert Holdings)

Position 3: National Marketing Manager

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Date: July 2010 to January 2011

City/Town: Vryburg

Duties:

- Put marketing and sale strategy in place which include development and restructuring

functions and activities, continues adjustments thereof to ever changing market requirements

and circumstances.

- Price policy and guidelines. Budgets, Systems and procedures

- Personnel training and motivating.

- Revive Costumer services – culture change , continues evaluating and revaluating.

- Promotion, Advertising and Communication strategy, Revamp Feedpro Logo and Brands.

- Technical support and coaching of marketing team.

- Evaluate and suggest plant improvement, market penetration possibilities.

- Get direct involved in the Dog Food industry and marketing. Advising on Raw material

procurement

- Reporting to CEO.

Reason for leaving: Promoted to CEO of FeedPro

Employer 3: NWK (Pty) Ltd.

Position 1: Manager: Grain Marketing

Date: February 2000 to June 2010


Duties: - Manage Division to reach profit targets

- Focus areas: Procurement, Contracting, Hedging, Sales, Arbitrage, Risk management of all

open interests, Structured deals.

- Determine strategy which includes restructuring of activities, continues development and

adapting/changing to market requirements and technology and client preferences.

- Enlarge market share and specific focus on silo capacity utilization.

- Hi level negotiations with buyers of grain and other role players

- Represent on Industry organizational levels (Commodity Forums, GSI, SACOTA etc.)

- Design and implement unprized delivered contracts/structures as well as remote trading

systems for producers.

Reason for leaving: New job opportunity at Feedpro

Employer 3: NWK (Pty) Ltd

Position 2: Manager Noordfed Diverse Products

Date: October 1998 to January 2000


Duties:

- Due diligence studies on dog food, malt, chic-chic, and a few other projects. (Market related

needs/requirements/potential, industry and process studies, plant requirement, capital

requirements etc.) Also on Knick-knacks, beer powder and mayonnaise.

- Responsible for contracting Engineers Company for Dog food and Chic Chic mixing and

packing unit to build the facilities. Commissioning the plants.

- Set and implement admin systems, best practices and statuary compliance controls.

- Do product development, determine specification settings, design new and redesign current

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brands, Act 36 registration, packaging materials etc.,

- Marketing (launch and re-launch brands, negotiate floor space in chain stores, handle supply

and sell contracts with clients and distribution channels)

Reason for leaving: Promoted to Manager Grain Marketing


Position 3: Manager Noord Wes Voere

Date: January 1995 to October 1998


Duties: - Ensure profitability of the business, Budget targets, corrections of deviations, ensuring

customer satisfaction, do strategic planning and develop the business short, medium and

long term in the marketplace

- Manage facility and equipment upgrading and expansion.

- Do all day to day industry aspects in relation with policy, strategy and business plan.

- Serve on the AFMA Board of Directors.

Reason for leaving: Transferred to Noordfed Diverse Products as Manager


Position 4: Nutritionist

Date: May 1988 to December 1994


Duties:

- Do formulation of rations, set optimal specifications for different animals and production

phases and do Product development

- Negotiate raw material prices and do the buying for just in time stock levels

- Report the cost of rations and manage margin effect on sales budget

- Deliver nutritional advise to clients and support the marketing team

- Do quality control and is responsible for statuary compliance of Act 36 of 101)

- Member of the AFMA Technical Committee

- MARKETING MANAGER (TEMPORALLY)(1990 -1991)

- Responsible for marketing actions, reaching sales budget and all client services.

- PRODUCTION MANAGER (TEMPORALLY) (1994 -1995)

- Responsible for production functions budget, capacity utilisation targets, increase effectivity

(time studies) handle all labour relation matters, implement 3X 8 hour shifts, also responsible

for maintenance and the delivery vehicle fleet.

Reason for leaving: Promotion to Manager Noordwes Voere

Employer 4: Senwes

Position 1: Head : Livestock advisory Services

Date: May 1983 to April 1988

City/Town: Klerksdorp

Duties:

- Responsible for Advisory Centres in Klerksdorp, Bloemfontein, Kroonstad and Bultfontein.

- Give self hi-level advice and coordinate other advisors to primary producers, study groups

and farmers organizations in the total Senwes area.

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- Do animal branch planning, cash flows, and give strategic input to Credit department in

evaluating credit applications.

- Do pioneering work in developing spread sheet calculation modules with hard coded

formulations and executables – also on farm ration formulations for feeding and feedlotting

Reason for leaving: Better job opportunity as Nutritionist at Noordwes Voere

Employer 5: Department of Agriculture

Position: Senior Researcher

Date: January 1981 to April 1984

City/Town: Warmbaths

Duties:

- Involved in system- research regarding projects in cattle, feedlot, veld grazing, and pasture

grazing trails at Towoomba and Mara Research stations

Reason for leaving: Better job opportunity at Senwes Klerksdorp

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Christian Names: Gert Dawid

Surname: de Bruin

Birth Date: 2-January-1957

Age: 59

Gender: Male

Nationality: RSA

Employment equity: White

Marital Status: Married

Number of Dependants: 3

Health: Excellent

Smoking: No

Disabled: No

Residential City/Town: Modimolle

Email Address: [email protected]

Landline Number:

Cell Phone: 082 577 0150

Languages: Afrikaans

English

mailto:[email protected]

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CONTACTABLE REFERENCES:

Name: Jan Grobbelaar

Company and Position: Ex - NWK – Operational Director

Tel: 082 323 6151

Name: Dennis Coetzee

Company and Position: NWK – Group Manager – Human Capital

Tel: 018 633 1000

Name: Michael Dippenaar

Company and Position: New Life Prayer Centre - Pastor

Tel: 079 525 3192

Name: Dirk Opperman (Ex Profert)

Company and Position: Agri Economist – Agri Delight and Agri Projects

Tel: 082 418 1225

Name: Dawie Senekal

Company and Position: Christian Life Church - Pastor

Tel: 083 287 0107