Derek Taylor

Experience

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  LCS Group

  Jul 1996 - Aug 2006

  Co Founder, Owner and Group COO

  New start-up business aimed at providing a specialised messenger and logistical outsourced managed service to Legal, Accounting and Financial institutions. Services included general document delivery both locally and internationally, all local Municipalities for rates figures, clearance certificates, South African Revenue Services for Transfer Duty and document submissions, the High Court for all notices, service and filing of documents and Sheriff of the Court, Registrar of Close Corporations for new CC and Pty (Ltd) formations and Master of the Supreme Court for estates and other document submissions. Show less

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  Rates-on-Line (a Division of the LCS Group)

  Jul 1996 - Aug 2006

  Co Founder and Owner

  Specialist "on-line" web based service for applications, obtaining, rates clearance figures, Clearance Certificates, Transfer Duty and Valuations.Private consultancy firm which assists with City of Johannesburg billing / accounts errors or issues.

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  CJ Holdings

  Jan 2006 - Jul 2008

  Owner

  New Start-up: Development and Management of high end FMCG Business located in Cape Town.

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  ContinuitySA

  Jul 2008 - Jun 2012

  Business Development Manager

  Responsible for leading the sales effort of Business Continuity Management, IT Continuity, ICT, Managed hosted Solutions including replication, bandwidth, advisory and BCM training within the geographic territory. Revenue objectives were met through implementing effective sales strategies in delivering the suite of ContinuitySA solutions to C-Level Management and at Board level. Effective solution selling skills were utilised to position the business value that these services can deliver to the operational risk line of business. Sales were both direct and driven through proactive cold calling, networking and existing base clients. Show less

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  UCS Solutions

  Sept 2012 - May 2013

  DR Business Developer

  Responsible for new business, lead generation and cradle to grave cycle sales.

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  CEB Maintenance Africa (Pty) Ltd

  May 2013 - Mar 2015

  Business Development Manager

  Responsible for new business generation, sales, strategy and revenue growth over the short, mid and long term

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  Decision Inc

  Jun 2015 - Jul 2015

  New Business Executive

  Access to the right information is critical to decision making in today’s modern business environment - sound decision making requires more than just information. Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics dates back to at least the 1860s with the first formal offering emerging in 1989 as an umbrella category for applying data analysis techniques to support the business decision-making processes

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  PosPacLaw (Pty) Ltd

  Jul 2015 - now

  Chief Operating Officer

  Day to day operations in all aspects of the business operation including: Strategy, performance management, financial management, supplier and partner management, systems integration and measurement tools.