SNG Grant Thornton will be at the #MiningIndaba2022 and we have collaborated with NextGenOpX!
We are expanding our Advisory services and will be bringing a new and unmatched consulting model to the mining industry, combining the highest calibre of independent consultants in the industry with the scale, credentials and resources of our firm, leveraging additional synergistic value through integration.
NextGenOpX is a management consulting company focusing on integrated operations, primarily within the mining industry. They are a global business, who have done major projects across the world, and have a very strong local footprint in South Africa. SNG Grant Thornton works with NextGenOpX in an integrated way, to provide a better service to clients in the region, leveraging additional synergistic value through integration.
Yugen has over 20 years of experience in various senior finance and consulting roles across different sectors of the economy. For the past 15 years, Yugen has serviced the following ENR companies including De Beers, Anglo American, South32, Sasol, Total SA, Energy Intensive User Group (EIUG), RBN and AB InBev. Yugen is a self-motivated individual, who truly believes that the faith of our country is in the hands of our people, and with our passion and drive to build sustainable businesses surely we can start winning the war on unemployment, educating our children, gender equality and start turning our economy into the superpower its meant to be.
Oupa is the Head of Advisory Services at SNG Grant Thornton. Oupa is also a registered internal audit professional with more than 17 years of internal audit, IT audit, IT management and risk management experience in both the public and private sectors. He worked for organisations like Mpumalanga Office of the Premier, De Beers Group, and Vodacom before joining Grant Thornton. He headed up divisions such as IT Audit, Revenue Assurance, IT Advisory and Enterprise IT. He consulted a variety of clients in the following industries; insurance, manufacturing, state-owned companies, national and provincial government, local government, mining, telecommunications
Andy Sherring is an industry-leading expert on integrated operations and a founding partner and CEO of NextGenOpX, a management consulting company specialising in integration. A key thinker on the "next-generation operating platform," Sherring has played a pioneering role in many ground-breaking new initiatives, including leading the design and delivery of the Rio Tinto Operations Centre in Perth, the first of its kind in the world. He has developed a unique and comprehensive approach to helping businesses integrate their operations more effectively, built around an intimate understanding of operations and organisational culture from forty years of diverse global mining experience.
He is the Regional Partner and MD Africa for NextGenOpX overseeing project delivery of business-wide business solutioning projects, integrated operating platform implementation and PMO services. Werner is a senior executive within the mining industry with 25 years of experience at Anglo American Platinum in both strategic and operational roles in South Africa, internationally and across various disciplines.
11:10 Panel – Technology Adoption in the Mining Supply Chain
12:00 - Future of Work: with the impact of the pandemic how are mining companies adapting to the new normal, creating vital employment, and utilizing technology?
Speakers:
09:05 – Andy Sherring, CEO -NextGenOpX- Connectivity and Integration
09:50 – Andy Sherring, CEO -NextGenOpX Pty Ltd – ‘Don't Digitise Your Rubbish’
A global management consulting company specialising in integrated operations
