Commonwealth Investment Guarantee Agency Ltd. (CIGA), London
1997 and 1998
Executive Chairman
- Creating political risk cover to promote investment in Commonwealth countries
- Negotiating with Commonwealth country governments and major global reinsurers to create political risk cover for a credible investment environment
Clean Diesel Technologies Inc. and Fuel Tech NV, London and Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Chairman,/Chief Executive Officer
Mar 1995 to Dec 1997
- Company backgrounds: US NASDAQ-listed global environmental companies in the field of air pollution control (six company offices around the world on three continents, with 200 installations worldwide)
- Providing the technology for the reduction of noxious emissions from power stations, municipal waste incinerators, industrial plants, diesel engines, etc.
Picardi Properties Ltd. & Picardi Investments Ltd., C.T. – Non-Executive Director
1980 to 1984
Groot Constantia State Estate, Cape Town – Non-Executive Director
1975 to 1984
Durr Estates, Cape Town
Non-Executive Director – 1974 to 1984
A Founder/Managing Director, with his three brothers – 1969 to 1973
- Pioneered a sophisticated multiple-manager, multi-branch property company
- Qualified member of the Institute of Estate Agents; Institute of Housing; Institute of Valuers (Appointed Honorary Life Member); Appointed Sworn Appraiser and a Justice of The Peace (J.P.)
Ben Wiese Publicity (publisher’s representatives), Cape Town
Non-Executive Director – 1969 and 1970
Director/General Manager – 1967 and 1968
- Represented three daily newspapers, published and represented 18 specialist magazines and periodicals
W.R. Grace Ltd, Cape Town –
Marketing Representative (Southern Africa) – 1964 to 1966
- Marketed chemicals to the canning and building industries.