Tim joined Sirdar in 2013, having worked in asset management and the IT industry for 26 years.

Tim is passionate about education and making complex technical problems understandable to businesspeople. He has extensive personal boardroom experience having held the role of shareholder, director and manager of various privately-held and family-owned businesses. This supports his understanding of the benefits of implementing a board, what it really means to be a director and how to ensure optimal performance as a board. He believes that by harnessing Sirdar’s unique methodology, clients have massive potential to make a positive difference where they operate.

After all, every director has the potential to impact between one and five businesses directly, meaning every business can potentially impact thousands of livelihoods – ultimately fulfilling Sirdar’s promise of meaningful economic impact. Tim enjoys meeting entrepreneurs and understanding their stories to help them overcome challenges and take their businesses to the next level, whether through facilitating workshops and programmes or acting as specialist interim chairman on their board. He practices what he preaches as is made evident by his involvement with clients such as Apex Cordset Technologies which is expanding rapidly and made almost same profit as in the 2019-2020 tax year, and at iWMS where profit was nine times higher than any prior year – both during COVID times. During his tenure as independent chairman at WeThinkCode_, campuses have been expanded and they have gone from having two of the founders as CEO to a new and independent CEO. Tim remains relevant by learning, applying and teaching over and over.

He also reads up on business and governance almost daily and regularly attends relevant events and webinars. He believes that learning is a lifelong experience – a concept that has driven his life for as long as he can remember. Tim holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science Honours in Engineering (Naval Architecture) from University College in London.