peter schmitt

Johannesburg Area, South Africa South Africa

unorthodox strategic thinker

Tenacious, curious, irreverent, entrepreneurial, passionate challenger of paradigms. Capable of holding a conversation with a CEO of a mining company about its share price, a production manager of an apparel producer about quality control, or debate with a corporate brand manager about cultural vs mindshare branding. An education and early career in engineering during the 90’s yuppie era aroused the desire to make money (saw people around making vast sums), irrespective of whether or not I would make a difference or feel fulfilled in what I did. So I charged into an early foray in marketing, then subsequently sales of enterprise business systems (which taught me a load about how business...