Bio

Andre Bresler formally trained and was initially employed as a mechanical engineer at AECI. His entrepreneurial career began when he subsequently ventured into starting, buying, and selling several engineering-related companies over a 15-year period. After exiting his last engineering business in 2007, he focused on business rescue and M&A, where he can share his personal experiences and advice as a business owner exiting, as an acquirer, and as a director with the Turnaround Management Association of South Africa. Using his frontline experience in raising finance, angel investing and brokering M&A transactions, he authored and presented numerous papers on technical topics, product commercialisation, innovation and business sales in South Africa, the UK, Spain and Australia.