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ESTATE NEWS
ENTREPRENEUR

My wife, Jane, and I relish the frame, a conference keynote speaker neighbour, Europe and the Antipodes.
opportunities to travel around our recognised the lack of communication
planet, along with the enriching times skills of my highly specialised team, Following a successful decade in
we spend with an ever increasing and challenged us all to join Toast aviation I was looking for a new
internationally based family – one of Masters to improve this. For my sins, challenge and in 2008, energy seemed
the symptoms of being South African. and having taken up this challenge, like a worthwhile one, albeit then not
Several of our adult kids have sought I eventually became the president of a mainstream or everyday topic of
new ventures overseas, with more Sandton Toast Masters and started discussion. It seemed that we would
looking to greener pastures in the looking at communication and life in a need to look after our own power
near future. different way. security in the near future, and a short
decade or so later, here we are.
I once read that people are expected Next came the sale of computer
to have a few major career changes main frame services, once I found A friend of mine, Craig, was
across their working lives as I have that I could actually talk in front of considering energy audits for friends/
done – more possibly now with humans! This skill, with my lifelong clients. We discussed how we could
life expectancy increasing. I started love of aviation, led me to selling Lear make a difference in peoples’ lives by
my working career at the age of 16 Jets and other Bombardier aircraft. designing energy and power systems
(1979) in electronics and diagnostic The look of ‘non-comprendo’ on to reduce dependence on municipal
computer fault-finding. From there, a my colleagues’ faces when I told supplies, reduce carbon footprints,
sister company offered a new life in them about this career change was and ultimately offer independence
main frame computer engineering, priceless! from Eskom (specifically).
where customer support and work
ethic were non-negotiable. Aviation is an exciting and aspirational So started the journey of GreenHouse
industry that took me to far-flung Energy Consulting and its growing
parts of the world, from most of success, in step with the ever-
the technical internals of the main Africa to the Americas and their cold increasing energy crisis we witness

GreenHouse is helping alleviate
While focussing increasingly on ”
our country's energy crisis

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