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	Entrepreneur.co.za Resident Experts Megan Hudson Megan Hudson is a qualified professional coach and fitness instructor. She has spent all of her working career in fields that shape the decisions people make and how they behave. One of her particular passions is unlocking the potential that all of us have in order to live a fulfilled, positive, purposeful private and professional life. Megan has extensive experience in the fields of Marketing and Advertising, and as an entrepreneur, Megan has worked successfully with both SME and corporate clients, developing hard and soft skills as required. She also assists her husband in his Engineering Solutions business, handling the financial and HR sides of the business. Earlier this year, she and her husband launched an online specialist directory service – www.tmtds.co.za – aimed specifically at the manufacturing, processing and engineering industries. This has given Megan the opportunity to put all her years in the Marketing and Advertising fields into practise as well as stretching her comfort zone into the development side of a website. Paul Janisch Paul Janisch is the strategic director of the Caird Group. The Caird Group was started by Paul and Rienzo Colpo in July of 2006. Paul’s specific role in the company is broad-based black economic empowerment and how companies can make the most of opportunities within the structure and regulations of BBBEE. Paul writes for numerous publications on the subject of BEE, and is a regular contributor to Business Day’s Real Business and the Star Workplace. He has spoken about the subject at numerous conferences and on national radio. His book 'Broadbased BEE for small business' was published in December 2005. Paul keeps a regular BEE blog at http://bbbee.typepad.com/paul_janisch/. He can be contacted at paul@caird.co.za. Ann Williams Ann currently runs 2B Marketing, an initiative to practically support SMMEs in Southern Africa with their marketing efforts (www.2BBusiness.co.za). 2B Marketing offers a free fortnightly electronic newsletter that is packed with ideas pertaining to marketing a business in this region. To receive this newsletter (or to contact Ann), simply send your full name and e-mail address to: 2Bonline@telkomsa.net with ‘subscribe’ as the subject. Brian Tracy Brian is the most listened to audio author on personal and business success in the world today. His fast-moving talks and seminars on leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness and business strategy are loaded with powerful, proven ideas and strategies that people can immediately apply to get better results in every area. Brian has a BComm, MA, and is the Chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company based in San Diego, California, with affiliates throughout the United States, and in a growing number of other countries throughout the world, including South Africa. Visit Brian's website at www.briantracy.com. Sean Tappan Sean Tappan is a co-founder of Journey Vehicle & Asset Finance Group which was established in April 2004. After many years working for large corporates, he and his partner identified a gap in the market and decided to become entrepreneurs. The Journey Group specialises in rental and instalment sale asset financing as well as various business products. Contact Sean via his website www.journeygroup.co.za or directly at sean@journeygroup.co.za Yusuf Mahomedy Yusuf Mahomedy is a ‘Work Radical’ who wears several different professional hats including reward consultant, employees’ tax specialist, coach and futurist. He assists organisations with innovative reward, recognition, performance and career offerings that drive business and personal success. A Chartered Accountant by profession, Yusuf is the author of Worksucks – Make Work, Work.www.worksucks.co.za Lauren Geiger Lauren is an editor and copywriter who has written for a variety of business enterprises. Her career has spanned working within the multinational corporate environment and within smaller consulting concerns, both in SA and abroad, as well as running her own editing and copywriting business. Also a Life and Performance Coach, Lauren is Entrepreneur.co.za’s Content Manager/Webmaster. Contact Lauren at webmaster@entrepreneur.co.za. Greg Phillips Greg Phillips has a Bachelor of Science (Honours cum laude) in computer science and is Managing Director of Flock Software Creation, a technology based company providing software and internet related services. Contact Greg via his website, www.flock.co.za. Samantha Koenderman Samantha is the founder of Flying Solo (www.flyingsolo.co.za), a website aimed at informing and connecting freelancers and entrepreneurs in the advertising and marketing industries. As a copywriter with 15 years’ experience (seven of which she’s spent working for herself), she also runs her own solo venture, Sauce Communication Creation. Samantha may be contacted at justaddsauce@netactive.co.za or via the Flying Solo website Brian Walsh Brian is the co-founder and creator of Entrepreneur.co.za. Brian is a human development specialist who has trained and studied with some of the worlds leading trainers. He is also a highly acclaimed Digital Media developer and Publisher. Brian is an expert in the field of entrepreneurship and peak performance. His vision is to become the leading authority on entrepreneurship and to develop the leading entrepreneurial development and support systems in the world. You can contact Brian at brian@entrepreneur.co.za Bendeta Gordon Bendeta is a chartered accountant and one of the early pioneers of franchise consulting in South Africa. She has advised various institutions on their franchise initiatives, including the Department of Trade and Industry, commercial banks and various franchisors. She has also served as a board member of FASA. Bendeta set up the franchise division at Kessel Feinstein Consulting, heading it as a Director for four years. She then opened her own company, Parker Gordon Associates, a franchise consultancy, which was renamed in 1998 after a change in ownership and incorporated as Franchize Directions. Bendeta initiated The Franchise Factor, which offers the only formal research statistics on franchising in South Africa. Contact Bendeta via her website www.franchize.co.za or directly at bendeta@franchize.co.za Pumulani Ncube Pumulani has spent many years in the banking industry and has gained extensive experience in finance and funding of SMME’s, BEE transactions, and BEE match-making based on a database of black professionals and deal structuring thereafter. His expertise includes structured finance, BEE funding, asset-based lending and procurement funding for SMME’s, securitisations, public enterprise funding, bank funding and tax based structuring. Contact Pumulani via www.jalacapital.co.za or directly at pumulani@jalacapital.co.za.