Our Team

Arnold Pouwels

Project Management | Execution | Commercial

Arnold Pouwels bring extensive on-the-ground experience delivering projects in remote and frontier environments across Africa. His leadership is shaped by practical execution, where accountability, planning, and respect for the people delivering the work determine outcomes. Arnold focuses on stabilising operations, aligning commercial structures with delivery realities, and leading teams through complexity and change. His approach balances contractual discipline with sound judgment under pressure, ensuring projects move from plan to reality with integrity and consistency.

Gareth Booth

Project Management | Execution | Commercial

Gareth Booth is a civil engineer with over three decades of experience delivering infrastructure, industrial, and engineering projects across Africa and international markets. With a strong foundation in project and construction management, Gareth has led projects from early studies and permitting through design, construction, operation, and closure. His leadership is grounded in safety, technical control, and stakeholder integrity, ensuring projects are executed efficiently, responsibly, and to the highest professional standards. 

Doug Hardy

Project Management | Architectural | Commercial

Doug Hardy has over 40 years of experience in the built environment, with a background in architectural technology and project management. His work spans residential and town-scale developments, master planning, and sustainable projects

Doug has experience in modern building methodologies across Africa, ME and Europe. He brings a design-informed and commercially grounded perspective to project leadership, ensuring that planning intent, buildability, and long-term value are aligned throughout the project lifecycle. 

Petrie van Niekerk

Business Development | ERP Systems | Supply Chain & Logistics

Petrie van Niekerk provides A2L Africa with a strong commercial and systems-driven capability, focusing on business development, ERP integration, and supply chain oversight. His background spans digital development, manufacturing support, and construction-adjacent industries, with hands-on experience in production workflows, logistics coordination, and process optimization. Petrie’s role ensures that systems, data, and logistics directly support efficient and reliable project delivery, particularly in remote and operationally challenging environments.

Ephraim Dlamimi

Estimating | QS | Commercial

Ephraim Dlamini is a respected construction professional with five decades of experience in the industry, bringing precision, reliability, and deep commercial insight to A2L. With a strong background in quantity surveying, estimating, and commercial management, he supports cost certainty, accurate forecasting, and disciplined commercial control, underpinned by his long-standing industry experience and professional registration with EAAES.

Awalandwe Dlamini

Communications | Stakeholder Engagement | Brand & Reputation

Awalandwe provides A2L Africa with a focused communications and brand capability that supports effective project delivery and stakeholder confidence. With experience in public relations and brand management within construction and project-driven environments, she manages corporate and project communications, reporting, and brand consistency. This ensures that messaging aligns with operational realities on the ground; while strengthening engagement with clients, partners, communities and institutions and reinforcing A2L Africa’s commitment to disciplined, transparent delivery.

Simon Chilambe

Procurement | Logistics | ERP

Simon Chilambe is an experienced supply chain professional with over 10 years of experience across procurement, logistics, and ERP-driven operations, having managed complex, high-value supply chains across retail and construction environments. At A2L, he strengthens procurement, logistics, and systems integration, supporting cost control, supplier performance, and operational visibility while translating strategic objectives into practical, reliable supply chain solutions that underpin effective project delivery.

Willem Steyn

Procurement | QS | Logistics

With a quantity surveying background and experience across North-West Zambia and West Africa, he brings a practical, site-based understanding of procurement and planning in remote operating environments. His expertise spans materials procurement, logistics coordination, and.ERP systems, enabling accurate cost control, effective forecasting, and seamless integration between commercial, procurement, and site teams to support reliable project delivery in complex locations.

Ralph Futcher

Project Management | Site | QA

Ralph Futcher is a highly experienced, site-based construction professional with over two decades of experience delivering building projects across Africa, including Ivory Coast, eSwatini, Zambia, and South Africa. Detail-oriented and deeply grounded in site operations, he brings a thorough understanding of building construction from foundation to completion, with strong capability in interpreting drawings on site and translating design intent into accurate, high-quality execution across residential and multi-storey commercial developments.

Mkonzi Ngoma

Commercial | Cost Management | Project Management

Mkonzi Ngoma is a commercially focused construction professional with experience across cost management, contracts administration, and project delivery in Southern and West Africa. He supports projects through disciplined cost control, procurement oversight, and contract management from pre-contract through to completion. With a strong technical and software-based foundation, postgraduate training in construction management, and practical experience under JBCC, FIDIC, NEC3, and GCC contract forms, Mkonzi brings clarity, reliability, and execution-driven support to multidisciplinary project teams.