Nick Binedell

Prof Nick Binedell is the Founding Director and Sasol Chair of Strategic Management of the Gordon Institute of Business Science, established in January 2000, by the University of Pretoria. After an initial career in the industry in the Mining and Manufacturing sectors in sales and general management in the Barlow Rand Group, Prof Binedell has focused his career for the past 20 years in business education.

In 1998 Prof Binedell was invited to establish a new business school focused on meeting the individual and corporate needs of business in South Africa. The school has rapidly established itself as a leading business school in South Africa with a strong focus on partnering with leading South African corporates and providing a high level of local and international business education. It was previously ranked as one of the top 40 global executive education providers by the London Financial Times.

Prof Binedell is a determined traveller and explorer. His earlier roots included extensive travel and by the time he was ten he had lived in Zimbabwe, Germany, Yemen, Kenya, South Africa, and Britain. He has spent five years in the United States and in the past three years has travelled to Sydney, Shanghai, Dubai, Prague, Budapest, Lagos as well as European and American cities.

Prof Binedell’s area of expertise is in the field of business strategy formulation and his academic and consulting work, although dominantly in South Africa, includes work in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

Qualifications

• PhD (UW)
• MBA (UCT)
• BCom (RU)

Core Discipline

• Strategy

Work Experience

• Professor (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Dean (Gordon Institute of Business Science )
• Visiting Associate Professor (University of Washington)
• Deputy Dean (University of the Witwatersrand)
• Acting Dean (University of the Witwatersrand)
• Director (University of the Witwatersrand)
• Lecturer and Senior Lecturer (University of the Witwatersrand)
• Teaching Assistant (University of Washington)
• General Manager (GEC Equipment (Pty) Ltd)
• Executive Assistant (Cape Asbestos (SA) Pty Ltd)
• National President (AIESEC International)

Significant Achievements

• President’s Distinguished Teaching Award (University of Washington)
• Selected Boeing Scholar Academic Performance on PhD programme (University of Washington)

Teaching/Coaching Experience

• Strategic Implementation (Gordon Institute of Business Science )