PAH believes in collaborations and sustainable partnerships for continuous growth, resulting in improved returns for all stakeholders. The founders of PAH, Mark Harris and Jacques Crous, have unique agro-processing and route-to-market experience. Their combined experience and valuable industry relationships are utilized to offer a variety of services within the FMCG and agro-processing industry, from raising new project development capital, through to value extraction in developed agro-processing companies.
ABOUT US
Mark Harris
Registered Chartered Accountant
Mark has more than 18 years’ experience in all levels of business, as a finance and operations executive, in a wide array of industries, specifically also in the turn-around and start-up environments.
In 2016, Mark became Managing Executive: Coega Concentrate, for Famous Brands, where he was responsible for the complete Management and Strategic Development of the business unit from a turn-around position.
He is a strong leader and creative business facilitator, bringing key supply relationships and financial skills to the group.
Jacques Crous
MBA Cost and Management Accounting
Jacques is a solution-focused executive with a solid record of facilitating growth in companies. Having a strategic and lateral mind-set, Jacques has spent more than 28 years in turn-around as well as corporate environments. In his most recent position as Director General of Lamberts Bay Foods, he guided the company away from financial losses to a net profit position, by increasing turnover to over R360m annually, while receiving numerous supplier awards.
Jacques is a strong leader who believes in innovation and market differentiation. As such he brings key customer, marketing, branding, strategy and general management skills to the group.
OUR SERVICES
New Startup
Venture Support
Business Case
Development
Capital
Structuring
Route-to-market with
end product and,
where applicable,
market differentiation
Current Business
Expansion
(Value Creation)
Capital Raising and
Government / Industry
Grant Support
THE PAH BUSINESS CONCEPT
- The PAH business concept is to drive an active execution on an established merger and acquisition pipeline, as well as an effective route-to-market strategy, resulting in a significant and strategically strong group of agriculture and Agro-processing companies.
- PAH’s primary focus is to become a shareholder in these entities whereby start-up costs are reduced. However, due to the partnership, significant growth and de-risking will be achieved.
- The group driven by the founders of PAH will support diversity within the primary agriculture and agro-processing industry of South Africa.
- The ability of PAH to unlock existing and significant new business opportunities, will lead to an additional important impact on the socio-economic factors in each region of operations.
- The founders of PAH are experienced executives who have methodically researched, identified and engaged with operations where the immediate synergy of skills and ability to develop and expand the operations, are evident.
- PAH’s success will result in the creation of new jobs, expanding secondary and supporting industries, while injecting cash flow into each of these regions.
