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Malcolm Larsen

F. Inst. D, B.Sc (Q.S.) Company Secretary Business Engage

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Company Secretary Business Engage Association NPC

Malcolm is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and has a degree in Quantity Surveying and Building Economics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Prior to Business Engage he has
over 30 years experience in the construction industry with;

  • Major construction companies (R.M. Douglas Construction, a UK based global company;
  • LTA Building (Natal), Basil Read).
  • Consultants (Borkenhagen & Louw Durban, TWP).
  • Smaller construction companies.
  • Freelance Quantity Surveyor and Project Manager.

He was first appointed as company director of a construction company at the age of twenty-
seven. He is now sixty-five. He has worked at Business Engage with his wife Colleen since 2011. He is responsible for;

  • All the company contractual and legal issues.
  • Chairing and minuting all the Business Engage / 30% Club Steering Committee meetings.
  • Overseeing the Board Masterclass Series.
  • Compiling the Business Engage research for the Status of Gender on JSE Listed Boards and authoring the reports.
  • Compiling the Business Engage / 30% Club Annual Reports.
  • Compiling the reports to the UN Women for the two contracts undertaken.
  • Writing all the content for the Gender Mainstreaming Awards.
  • Writing the Gender Mainstreaming Awards reports.
  • “Ghost writing” all the articles for the Sunday Times Celebrating Women supplements (70,000 of these supplements go out the Sunday after the Gender Mainstreaming Awards noting all the GMA winners).
  • “Ghost writing” articles for Sunday Times, Business Day and the Financial Mail on gender matters.
  • “Ghost writing” parts of or approving Colleen’s two books Gender Matters and The Board MasterClass Series.

He is Company Secretary of the Lonehill Residents Association and a previous founder and Chairman of Inquina Rugby Club in Fourways Johannesburg.

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