Kim-Anne le Roux

4th December 2015

  

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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

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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