Vred von Ketelhodt

An accomplished and diversified Executive Level Professional. Offering in excess of twenty years’ experience across a variety of challenging Financial and Private Equity Senior Leadership/Management functions with a proven ability to streamline business outcomes with across-the-board proficiency within the following business clusters: Strategic Business Planning | Financial Management | Business Valuation and Development | Mergers and Acquisitions | Investment Research and Analyses | Return on Investment [ROI] | Initial Public Offering [IPO] | Design, Execution and Control of Strategies, Vision, Systems and Policies | Capacity and Stakeholder Relations | Organisational Transformation | Leading Client Services | Project Management | Staff Management, Guidance and Mentoring | Skills Development. Furthermore possesses a forward-thinking mind-set to build strategic partnerships and focus on Stakeholder’s Value. Equally maintains a track record of growing company’s profitability, driving results and providing tangible management solutions to organisational challenges.

• multidisciplinary solutions to complex challenges and opportunities in the metals, mining and natural resources sector, participating in scoping, pre-feasibility and bankable feasibility studies
• corporate finance expertise including financial modelling to the feasibility study of a poly-metallic mining
• negotiating the use of exclusive rights to proprietary technology for a particular application in Sub-Saharan Africa
• procuring seed funding together with the subsequent VC [Venture Capital] funds for a technology start-up company
• supporting providing expert knowledge vis-à-vis business, development and financial modelling for industrial projects
• offering strategic guidance and operational support to shareholders for the acquisition of mining & metals assets

Advanced Diploma in Corporate Finance; University of the Witwatersrand, 2002

Master of Business Administration; Heriot-Watt University, 2001

Graduate Diploma in Engineering [Mineral Economics]; University of the Witwatersrand, 1993

Certificate of Competency for Mine Managers; South African Government, 1993

Bachelor of Science in Engineering [Mining]; University of the Witwatersrand, 1989