Daniel Kamau

As the director of the Northern Advisory Group of the Transport & Planning Business Unit, I lead a team of more than eighty (80) professionals in three main centres: Johannesburg, Pretoria and Bloemfontein.

My responsibilities entail:

• Strategic and operational leadership of the advisory group
• Financial Controls: responsible for revenue, profitability and working capital management for the advisory group 
• Internal operations/ business processes: including business Integrity management and compliance of advisory group activities with company policies
• Projects Management: I act as the Project Director on key assignments
• Business Development, including proposal management and Client Relationship Management
• People management: resource management and staff development

In addition to the above, I have driven the establishment of a new service offering - the rail service line - within the advisory group. This has included formulation of strategy, market research and most importantly, development of client relationships.

As the Strategic Development Co-ordinator in the Office of the CEO (Royal HaskoningDHV, South Africa) my role involved:

-Development and continuous refinement of the corporate strategy as relates to growth of the business in the rest of Africa;

-Development of sector-specific strategy for each of the business units while ensuring alignment with the corporate strategy;

-Promotion and facilitation of collaboration between the South African business and the various global entities, and locally between the business units-focused specifically on Africa;

-Championing of specific corporate initiatives such as the establishment of an office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and business development in certain key markets

As a Principal Associate at Royal HaskoningDHV , my primary role in the Transport, Aviation and Planning Business Unit entailed the following:

• Design lead on technical projects
  
• Project management on mono- and multi-disciplinary projects
  
• Project implementation in various African countries
  
• International Business Development: Market Analysis, Strategy Formulation, Client and Local Partner Relationship Management, Tendering, and Marketing.

As an Associate in the Transport, Aviation and Planning business unit, my primary function was to execute projects as one of the technical team members, under the guidance of a Project Manager and/ or  Sector Specialist.

Graduate and mid-level engineer in Traffic Engineering, Transportation Planning and Pavement Engineering.

(Elective focus on: Corporate Strategy, Emerging Markets Strategy)

(Key subjects: Pavement Engineering, Transportation Studies, Traffic Engineering)

(Key subjects: Geotechnical Eng, Structural Eng, Hydraulic Eng, Urban Eng, Physics, Mathematics)

Professionally Registered Civil Engineer