Wilgenhof 1979-1983
BSc. Hons. Agric. Econ. 1983

Amazingly, I still live in South Africa - Kenilworth, no less, not far from where I grew up. My current business involves the publication of "The e-Commerce Handbook", a book written for non-technical business leaders who want to know how they should be harnessing the Internet and related technologies to stay competitive. I write most of the stuff and edit the rest. I used to play golf, sing, read, you name it I did it in my spare time, but now I count myself blessed to have my hands full with Helen (93), Matthew (94), Jennifer (96) and Christopher (2000).

A brief history of time:
I left Willows in December 1983, did the army thing, ending up in the Komati area of the Lowveld. From there I travelled to Israel, spending most of 1987 learning about micro-irrigation systems. Came back to SA and put irrigation into the Cat River Scheme in Ciskei, followed by a year with an irrigation equipment importer in Cape Town. Met and married Anne (nee Young) in 1990 and succumbed to further wanderlust in 1991, fetching up in the UK. I helped start a business putting in home irrigation systems in Oxfordshire and - in my spare time - paddled the length of the Thames in the rain... Back in SA in 1992 I worked for an NGO called the Triple Trust whose mission was to launch entrepreneurs in the townships. Developed a cash flow management game for township entrepreneurs modestly called "The BEST Game" which I believe is now used worldwide. In 1994 I left the TTO (alas no royalties) and started my own corporate training business. Discovered not even top management understand their management accounts and put together simulation games to teach managers how to figure out where their business is going. Meantime did further business game development work for the International Labour Organisation. Finally set up Trialogue with a mate, Nick Rockey, who had a business in market research. Our motto is "making knowledge work" something we would like to do for businesses trying to figure out the Internet. We do fast assessments of businesses and their potential markets and help them go in the right direction. You'll see from the website we also produce the Corporate Social Investment Handbook, but that's another story...