Andries Louw

Experience

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  Deloitte Consulting

  Feb 1996 - Apr 1999

  Divisional Manager - Strategy

  I acted as a business strategy lead for Braxton Associates, one of the few large Enterprise Strategy specialised consulting units at the time.

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  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  Jun 1999 - Apr 2003

  Associate Director

  I managed the e-business strategy practive of PricewaterhouseCoopers and in the process created a formidable team of e-business strategy professionals that viewed e-business strategy more as business strategy than IT strategy. In the process we managed to deploy some of the largest e-business portals in Africa and the world, and changed the perception of e-business among large corporations in Africa.

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  IBM

  May 2002 - Apr 2003

  Associate Director

  I built up and managed a highly successful specialised team of IT professionals that designed, built and managed some of the largest enterprise portals of the time. Our clients included Sasol, Anglo American and Brittish American Tobacco who all later deployed these portals on a global basis.

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  Enterweb

  Apr 2003 - Dec 2012

  Managing Director

  I built up, managed and led a highly specialised IT division of the EOH group of companies. We launched f5 in Africa and built up the biggest and still most specialised application optimisation team in Africa, and helped our clients improve on the delivery of their IT systems to end users in ways not thought possible before.

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  Milotek

  Jan 2013 - Sept 2016

  CEO

  Andries is the CEO of Milotek, the company founded to develop and commercialise the Futran system, a system that is causing a revolution in transportation of bulk commodities, people and goods. Having successfully developed and demonstrated the Futran system, Milotek is now actively engaging with clients across the Africa continent. Running at a much lower cost per ton delivered than conventional systems the Futran system holds the promise of transforming haulage in the Mining industry, Public transportation in the developing world, and long distance rail transportation globally. Show less

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  Various Futran System Group Companies

  Jan 2017 - now

  Founder, Director and Head of Innovation

  Andries is the inventor of both the Futran System and the Solomons Knot Cross Beam. As founder of the 7 companies created to take these products to market, Andries acts as Director and Head of Innovation for all of them, while also acting as CEO of Podcars Africa, the people transportation business in the group.

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  FUTRAN SYSTEM HOLDINGS SA

  Apr 2017 - now

  Group CEO