Andy Searl
CEO, BPESA

Andy has a strong background in management consulting having worked for leading global and local firms since 1998 in the fields of strategy, business architecture and change management. Having specialized in business services, Andy has played an active role in the growth and development of the Global Business Services (GBS) sector in South Africa since 2003. 

His involvement in the sector has included various initiatives to market South Africa to target offshore regions, initiatives to implement a skills supply chain in the country to ensure a sustainable supply of skilled people for jobs in demand, and initiatives to create an environment in which the workforce can up-skill, re-skill and future-skill itself to increase its competitiveness. 

Andy has also been instrumental in mobilizing the sector role players locally and internationally to collaborate and jointly contribute to the creation of a trading environment that is inclusive and offers real value to foreign and local companies doing business in South Africa. He is passionate about the power of people in business performance and believes in the correlation between the worlds of sport and work. Andy is educated in South Africa with a B.Comm, HDE, and MBA.


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