Corporate Renewal Solutions' team

Our team of turnaround specialists, business transformation experts and management consultants are acknowledged experts with significant experience of distressed and underperforming companies ranging from R10m to R5bn in annual turnover.

Clicking on a team member's photo below will take you to a new page with more information on areas of effectiveness, experience and skills, and education.

Ntombi Langa-Royds - Chair

Ntombi's key competencies in turnaround management and business transformation are restructuring initiatives, relationship building with stakeholders, designing and implementing change sustaining initiatives.

She is a change management specialist and human resources expert.

MDP (Rhodes University).

LLB (University of Lesotho).

B.A. (Law) (University of Lesotho)

David Harding - Deputy Chair

David specialises in turnaround management and business transformation.

His key competencies are change management, board stewardship, mentoring, coaching and playing an oversight role in turnaround and business transformation projects.

Honours degree in engineering (University of London).

Jan van der Walt - Chief Executive Officer

Jan is a turnaround management, business transformation and general management consulting expert.

In turnarounds, his key competency is turnaround viability assessment, and project managing emergency management, crisis stabilisation, turnaround restructuring and turnaround recovery.

Instead of or in addition to project managing turnarounds, Jan specialises in acting as interim manager of turnaround situations in the capacity of managing director or chief executive officer, or as deputy to these positions.

In business transformation, Jan's key competency is designing business transformation projects and implementing these as project manager and change management agent.

In management consulting Jan's key competencies lie in strategy, leadership, financial and organisational issues, supply chain management, and sales and marketing. These all form important components of turnarounds and business transformation projects.

Jan also focuses on strategy consulting as an area of specialisation.

MBA (Stanford Business School), where he 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).

Matsotso Vuso - Financial Director

Matsotso specialises in evaluating investments opportunities, due diligence reviews, and restructuring distressed investments.

She is an expert of legal aspects of liquidations, and specialises in client care management issues.

Qualified Chartered Accountant (South Africa).

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Bcompt/Hons (Accounting Science) (University of South Africa).

Bcompt (Accounting Science) Conversion (University of South Africa).

Bcom (Economics) (University of Cape Town).

Frans Maritz

Frans is a very seasoned management consultant in strategy, leadership, financial and organisational issues, supply chain management, and sales and marketing.

He has considerable experience of turnaround management and business transformation implementation, often as project manager.

M. Eng. (Electronic) (University of Stellenbosch).

B. Eng. (Electronic) (University of Stellenbosch).

CPFA (University of the Witwatersrand).

Garrath Rosslee

Garrath's is an expert in change management and organisation development.

He specialises in turnaround leadership, leadership alignment, executive development and general management consulting.

His key competencies are retention strategies, training, facilitation, assessment centres and career / vocational counseling, conflict resolution and process facilitation.

M. Phil in Applied Ethics at St. Augustine College.

MA (Industrial Psychology) (RAU).

BA (Honours) (Industrial Psychology) (RAU).

Bachelor of Arts (Clinical Psychology, Industrial Psychology & Sociology) (Rhodes).

Registered Psychologist (Industrial) with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (Registration No: PS0061565).

Registered Psychometrist (Registration No: PMT 00353994).

Member of the Industrial divisions of the Psychological Society of South Africa.

Anthon Meyer

In turnaround management and business transformation , Anthon's key competencies are in turnaround viability assessment, financial emergency management, crisis stabilisation and interim management.

His financial expertise includes financial controls, cash management, accounting, auditing and company formation.

Anthon is also a specialist in debtor management, estate planning, financial management, financial systems, funding support, payroll, taxation and trusts.

CA(SA).

B. Compt (Hons).

B. Com.

Stanford Executive Program - Stanford - USA.

Senior Executive Program - Wits.

Patrick von Spreckelsen

Patrick's key competencies are business process flow analysis, re-engineering, data analysis, and information technology consulting.

Microsoft Certified Professional (1999).

Current B.Com Financial Management student (UNISA).