Our Team
Our team consists of a number of seasoned executives. Many are veterans in their respective industries and disciplines. Some in the team are turn-around artists, many are specialists in some of the disciplines commonly sought, but all of us are extremely experienced and competent with an all-consuming desire to help and assist other executives and entrepreneurs and share the experience we have gained. We all genuinely care about adding value, sharing our experiences and ultimately the success of your company, and have the T-shirts and scars on our backs from having run businesses ourselves. So we love to get stuck in with you – we are hands-on fixers! Yes we have been blessed with many successes, but also some failures. It is the failures which often represent themselves with the biggest learning curves and growth opportunities. We have paid the school fees, and want to share this experience and expertise at affordable rates with companies, large and small, especially entrepreneurial ones.
Too often we have observed and experienced ourselves the frustrations in dealing with professional services firms – accountants, legal or strategy consultants. Their assignments seem to take on a life of themselves and go on forever, and will end up costing you a small fortune! Our team has no such ambitions and we are happy to engage quickly and efficiently.
Chris Van der Sande
(MBA, Dip IT, Dip Business Management, Dip management, certified commercial property broker; Member of the Institute of Directors SA)
Chris has more than 35 years’ experience in executive positions across multiple industries within large global enterprises but also local SMME and start-ups. Ever the entrepreneur, Chris is the founder and CEO of The Interventionists, a concept he has developed, tested and refined over several years until registering the company in early 2020.
He has successfully delivered acquisitions, disposals, mergers, fund raising, turn-arounds, and start-ups and negotiated multiple complex transactions at operational, commercial and legal levels. He has built up an enormously extensive personal and corporate network, much of which he leverages as and when needed to successfully deliver projects.
The Interventionist has successfully built up an extremely diverse network of experienced people and firms who are available at short notice on a contract basis. Only as and when certain specialised knowledge and expertise is required are they contracted into a project to deliver their respective value. They do so at very affordable rates, which enables us to keep our overheads low and our rates affordable. We have yet to come across a challenge which our combined skills are unable to address. In the unlikely event that such a situation were to arise we will honestly tell you and refer you to somebody that can better assist you.
Examples of our recognised, accredited and industry leading expertise & networks:
- Accounting and auditing firms;
- Company Taxation advisory;
- IT professionals;
- Communications experts;
- Law firms (Company and contract law);
- Business Development, Marketing, PR and Social Media experts;
- POPI and PAIA Acts industry specialist;
- Operational Management and efficiency experts;
- HR, IR, BBBEE, mediation consultants;
- Etc.
