Kim-Anne le Roux
Full Name: Kim-Anne le Roux
Position: Business manager: property and transport infrastructure, Africa
Main Activity of the Company: Coffey is a professional services company with expertise in geoservices, project management and international development. The company has a global footprint and creates value across the asset life cycle in the transport infrastructure, international development, oil and gas, property and mining industries
Date and Place of Birth: February 16, 1974, Durban
Education: PhD (civil engineering), University of Toronto, 2003; graduate diploma in engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, 1999; BSc (Hons) (engineering geology), 1995
First job: Engineering geologist
Career History Prior to Current Position: I have worked as a geotechnical professional for 20 years, and have spent the past nine years in a management position, where I have been responsible for the financial and technical performance of a sizeable team of geotechnical specialists through a major boom-and-bust cycle
Size of First Pay Packet: R4 583 a month
First Job with Present Group: Associate geotechnical engineer
Value of Assets under Your Control: Not stated
Number of People under Your Leadership: I do not lead a team at present
Management Style: Collaborative
Personal Best Achievement: Completing a PhD
Professional Best Achievement: Reshaping the Western Australian mining offering to cater for civil infrastructure work in response to significant market changes in the wake of the mining boom
Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: My daughter – she creates perspective. I have learnt to manage competing interests, prioritise, delegate and manage my time better
Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: Early in my career, Rene Roux, a female engineering geologist, mentored me so effectively that I was able to work with confidence in what was then a male-dominated industry. Her advice and guidance aided my professional development
Person You Would Most Like to Meet: Karl Terzaghi, the father of soil mechanics
Businessperson Who Has Impressed You Most: Gail Kelly, a South African-born Australian businessperson and former CEO of the Westpac group. Having started her career at Nedbank, in South Africa, she has been recognised by Forbes as one of the most powerful women in finance in Australia
Philosophy of Life: See the big picture, and focus on a few things at a time
Biggest Ever Opportunity: Being awarded a bursary to read for a PhD in Canada
Biggest Ever Disappointment: Not being able to attend the 1995 Rugby World Cup tournament, hosted by South Africa, as I was living in Australia at the time
Hope for the Future: That South Africa prospers well into the future with a political structure that creates a fair balance between social and economic needs
Favourite Reading: Historical fiction
Favourite TV Programme: Inspector George Gently
Favourite Food/Drink: A glass of Malbec
Favourite Music: 1980s pop
Favourite Sport: Netball
Favourite Website: News 24 – up-to-date local information and TED Talks
Hobbies: Scrapbooking
Car: Volvo
Pets: A Burmese cat
Miscellaneous Dislikes: Why do they make microwave ovens that heat up food which cools down quickly? That frustrates me
Favourite Other South African Company: Sasol
Favourite Foreign Company: General Electric
Married: To Phil de Graaf, since March, 27, 2001
Children: Michaela, 8
Clubs: Dabulamanzi Canoe Club
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