The Team

Alana Bond - Managing Director

Alana Bond is a founding member of Bravura Consulting and currently serves as its Managing Director. Prior to joining Bravura she spent over 3 years at the Johannesburg office of Accenture, an international management consulting company.

Since working at Bravura Consulting, Alana has been involved in developing new BEE strategies for a number of clients across several industries.  Some of her work includes the following projects:

• With Anglo American, she is currently developing policies and procedures, frameworks, global strategies and implementation programs for Local Procurement, which focuses on the participation of businesses within the mining communities in the mine's supply chain.
• For Bravura's client base, she identified the key implications of the change in government's Preferential Procurement Regulations and how businesses could use BEE to their strategic advantage, as well as identifying the legislation's short-comings, and made recommendations on how Government could think about procurement more strategically.
• With a prominent mining company, she developed strategic thinking on the alignment of the Codes, Mining Charter and Minerals Code.
• For a large BEE investment group, she utilised her extensive knowledge of BEE Ownership requirements to improve the ownership score for the underlying investment, thereby preventing the unwinding of a lucrative deal.
• For clients such as Bell Equipment, Alcatel-Lucent and The Bond Exchange, she improved their score prior to verification by several levels and developed an integrated BEE strategy linked directly to their business objectives.
  
• For Holding companies such as Wiehahn (construction sector) and Grindrod (logistics and shipping), with multiple subsidiaries, she:

– Calculated scorecards at business unit level and developed tailored
   strategies for each business unit
– Built a consolidation model to consolidate all business unit scorecards
   into 1 Group scorecard
– Developed group-wide initiatives for each element of the BEE scorecard
• She evaluated calls for a review of the Codes and developed strategic thinking on what the Government should do regarding these issues.
  

Prior to Accenture, Alana obtained a Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town, with majors in Accounts and Finance and Honours in Finance.

Ledile Shadung - Consultant

Ledile Shadung is a Consultant at Bravura Consulting.  She joined Bravura recently after having spent over three years at Credit Suisse Standard Securities (CSSS) in different fields within the business.

During her time at CSSS she obtained a good understanding of financial markets through exposure in equity research analysis, trading, sales trading and prime broking.  Her roles included, but were not limited to:

• Compilation of valuation sheets and monthly reports
• Research and analysis
• Financial modelling
• Overseeing department reporting
• Resolving client queries

In the time that Ledile has spent at Bravura Consulting, she has worked on projects and proposals for the clients including Anglo American, Vanguard, Wiehahn, and Royal Bafokeng Holdings.

Prior to joining CSSS, Ledile participated in Standard Bank's Banking Group Program, while studying for her degree.

Ledile is passionate about giving back to the community.  She is one of the founders of Senakangwedi Career Guidance and Development Initiative (SCGDI) where she holds position of General Secretary.  SCGDI is a non-profit organisation that strives to uplift the level of education in rural schools through information sharing and increasing learners' practical exposure in their relevant fields of study.

Dawn Mokhobo - Non-Executive Director

Dawn Mokhobo serves as an Independent Non-Executive on the Board of Bravura Consulting.  Her career spans across both the public and private sectors with her work earning her a reputation of strategic thinking and leadership particularly in the areas of human resources development, equal opportunities and organisational development and change.

She was also the first Black woman to be appointed on the Management Board of Eskom, as Executive Director in charge of Growth and Development.

Prior to Eskom, Dawn worked for several organisations including Anglo American, the then Bophuthatswana Agricultural Development Corporation and also successfully ran her own Public Relations and Development Consultancy.

Her work over the years has earned her several awards and accolades:

• 1993 South African Business Woman of the Year
• Invited to serve as one of the Independent Electoral Commissioners who supervised the country's first democratic elections
• Invited by the Minister of Safety and Security to serve as Chairperson of the high-powered Promotions Committee for the South African Police Service
• Nominated as the Chairperson of UN Special Committee of Experts appointed to address the global issue of Women and Senior Economic Decision Making

Dawn currently serves on an array of Boards, including Altron, Engen, Wesizwe Platinum, Sabvest, Massmart, Gidani, African International Advisors, Partnership Investments and Kwanda Capital Investments.

Dawn holds a BA Social Science from the University of the North (now University of Limpopo) and a Programme in Strategic Transformation from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Stellenbosch.

Xolile Rubushe  - Analyst

Xolile Rubushe is an Analyst at Bravura Consulting.  He joined Bravura Consulting after spending one year involved with various business activities, including business consulting for SMEs and projects in the transportation and construction sectors.

Xolile has developed a number of competencies through his work experience and business activities, including:

• Research and analysis
• Financial modelling
• Project budgeting skills
• Drafting proposals for tenders
• Networking skills
• Developing innovative ways to increase business and evaluate new markets

Xolile has participated in a variety of business experience programmes hosted by Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse & Coopers and PKF, while completing his degree.

In his time spent at Bravura Consulting, he has worked extensively on research projects as well as developed his data analysis and evaluation skills on client projects including Anglo American, Bell Equipment and RMD Kwikform.

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