Derek Taylor

Derek Taylor

Co Founder, Owner and Group COO

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  • About me

    Chief Operating Officer at PosPacLaw (Pty) Ltd

  • Education

    • Springs Technical College

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      N3 Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • CBC Springs

      1980 - 1991
      Matric Matric
  • Experience

    • 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

    • 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.

    • CJ Holdings

      Jan 2006 - Jul 2008
      Owner

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

    • 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

    • UCS Solutions

      Sept 2012 - May 2013
      DR Business Developer

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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ACISA

      Compliance Institute of South Africa
      Jun 2008