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Business Profile : Dale Pudney
Dale Pudney is a business model specialist with diverse experience from start-up ventures through turnarounds and large corporate strategy. He has been assisting clients achieve profitable growth through focussed business advisory and leadership services since 2001. He has an MBA (focus on entrepreneurial strategy) from UCT (2000) with an exchange programme at the University of Washington (Seattle) as well as a B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (1st Class Honours) also from UCT (1993).
He established and grew Venture Concepts Strategy Consulting from start-up to sale and was a service provider to Umsobomvu Youth Fund, Business Partner Mentors, FNB Enterprise Partners, FNB Scion, APDF of the International Finance Corporation and other strategic partners. He then went on to be a co-founder of Turnaround Partners, a specialist BEE turnaround consulting group before establishing a business brokering franchise that concentrated on professional services for medium sized business sales. He simultaneously embarked on a number of turnaround projects and interim management assignments.
His published works include “eBay.com – Profitably Managing Growth from Start-up to 2000” (European Case Clearing House at Cranfield University, UK), “Confusing the role of Manager and Leader – An overview of how business failure can be fixed with effective leadership” (Business Day 13/12/04), “Predicting Financial Recovery – Application of the Z-Score to design turnaround strategies” (Business Day 21/02/05), “Moving from Management to Leadership – Medium sized businesses often fail due to lack of leadership” (Executive Business Brief, 04/05), “Reading Between the Lines of Financials - Regular diagnostics can be a source of superior returns in a private equity portfolio” (Acumen, Q3 2005).
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