Andre Lanser

Andre is a consulting trainer as well as a corporate finance practitioner and he has delivered courses around the world in the areas of Credit, Corporate Finance, Valuation and Financial Modelling both for Corporates and Banks. Andre originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant, completing articles with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He started his career with a subsidiary of Commercial Union, involved in the steel manufacturing industry. His experience ranged from systems implementation, credit assessment of the highly risky construction industry customers, heading up the finance functions to successfully turning the business around and then selling the company through a trade sale. He later joined Commercial Union in the investment back-office function, reengineering the investment back office and later headed-up a team who implemented a new investment management system for both the back office and the front office. His commercial experience includes restructuring and turning around a Steel Manufacturing operation, consulting to a Pharmaceutical company involved in medical devices for both Government and Private Hospitals and an in depth knowledge of the citrus industry, consulting to South African Airways and extensive work at Hanover Acceptances property company, Dorrington in London. His career then spanned over 15 years in the Venture Capital and Private Equity arena, where he has gained a vast amount of experience in the corporate analysis and valuation field. He is a specialist in developing and training finance related courses, including corporate credit related topics, credit analysis and cash flow analysis with a special focus on the banking sector, derivatives, and financial modeling courses. His training experience spans a period of more than 15 years. For DCGT Andre has successfully written/delivered courses for clients such as Arrow Pharmaceutical, Shell Oil, IBM, Komercni Banka, Societe Generale, Fortis Bank, Raiffeisen Group, Islamic Development Bank, Banco Santander, Standard Bank, Westpac, Commercial Bank of Qatar, Bank of Cyprus, ING, Bank of Cyprus, Rabobank, Eurohypo, Standard Chartered, Erste Bank and numerous others throughout the globe. Specific work in the Gulf Region: Islamic Development Bank, Saudi Airline and SABIC in Saudi Arabia. Financial reporting and IFRS training to banks in the Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait, which include Noor Islamic Bank, NBK and QNB. He is a trainer for the South African market for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in IFRS.