A highly experienced business leader with a wide array of expertise covering change leadership; organisational design and development; strategy enablement and execution; communication; stakeholder engagement; and shared business services development and facilitation. She has significant corporate and operational management
experience. René has specific skills in the broader trading, distribution and logistics arenas and has operated successfully as group chief of staff, executive director and chief executive of group services, within a multi-billion Rand, JSE listed entity. She is a social entrepreneur,
involved in capital raising projects for social enterprises and is also currently developing her own exciting businesses in certain technical and professional service-related spaces. René is a director of Evalution Capital and an Evalution Matrix group shareholder. She holds
BCom and BCom Hons degrees in Industrial Psychology from the University of Johannesburg, an MBA from WITS and completed a leadership course for senior executives at Harvard Business School.