Guy Pegram is a registered professional civil engineer with a PhD in Water Resources Planning from Cornell University (USA), with minors in resource economics and development planning, and has completed an Executive MBA from UCT. He has worked extensively on strategic institutional, financial and organisational management issues in the water sector, both within South Africa and in the SADC region. Guy has also been involved in a range of water strategy processes in South Africa and internationally, including the Inkomati water allocation reform project, evaluation of IWRM strategies in SADC and water security interventions in iconic rivers internationally. He has led support to the establishment, development and restructuring of various National and Provincial Public Entities and has specialised in the issues of governance, institutional arrangements and financing for these institutions. He provided support to the establishment of the Inkomati and Breede CMAs, the first two CMAs to be established in South Africa and was the technical advisor on the development of the original NWRIA business case. Guy has considerable experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams across sectors as part of complex projects, particularly where integrated and strategic management and planning inputs are required.
guy@pegasys.co.za

Greta Pegram has degrees in environmental science, geography and ichthyology, and has studied the applicability of resource economics to water resources protection. Since co-founding Pegasys, she has focused on strategic environmental planning and management, as well as governance issues within the water and environmental sectors. Prior to that she was the environmental manager for the National Roads Agency and the provincial strategic environmental planner for Mpumalanga Provincial Government. Greta has experience in managing strategic environmental processes requiring the input of various specialists and disciplines.
greta@pegasys.co.za

Constantin von der Heyden is practice director for public sector strategy and finance in Pegasys Strategy and Development. He joined Pegasys from Oxford University, where he took a doctorate degree in geography. Constantin is an institutional and strategy specialist with 12 years’ consulting and research experience in Southern Africa, and with particular interests in strategic, institutional and economic issues in infrastructure development and the sustainable utilization of natural resources for economic growth and development in Africa. He has expertise in institutional, organisational, financial and economic assessments to support institutional establishment, business planning and financial-economic restructuring, organisational design and capacitation, policy and strategy development. Constantin has led and managed diverse teams on complex institutional, financial and economic projects in the water and transport sectors, and has worked for a range of clients including national governments, public entities, multilateral financial institutions and donors, and private sector corporations.
constantin@pegasys.co.za

Fulton Christopher Eaglin is a Principal for Pegasys Strategy and Development. He is focused on infrastructure and energy related services drawing on his large international experience base. Mr. Eaglin is active in the thermal and alternative energy infrastructure space in Southern Africa having advised corporations, governments, and multi-laterals. He has previously served as a Regional Manager for Business Development in Southern Africa for the AES Corporation, a leading international power company. In this role, he was responsible for relationships with governments, non-profit organizations, commercial banks, and multi-lateral institutions in the region as well as managing individual energy infrastucture projects such as a coal to power facility in Northern Mozambique and a coal bed methane to power project in Botswana. Prior to this role, he served as a strategy analyst for BP at its London headquarters focusing on refining and marketing in North America and Europe. He has also worked as a financial manager and non-profit director for a community development firm in Michigan, a research associate at the University of Oxford Brazilian Studies Institute, and a political campaign manager in Houston.
fultonchristopher@pegasys.co.za

Peter Koch is a Chartered Accountant, with nine years’ experience in the development sector. He has two honours degrees from the University of Cape Town, majoring in Finance and Accounting, as well as two degrees from Oxford University – the first a BA majoring in Philosophy and Economics and the second an MSc in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management. He has been responsible for managing teams ranging from audit assignments to the establishment of public entities. He has also led tasks focussing on water pricing and financial modelling for water conservation and demand management initiatives. He currently specialises in financial modelling for public sector institutions and in the formulation of related financial arrangements. Peter is also experienced in developing and maintaining financial reporting, accounting and sales systems and in conducting institutional reviews.
peter@pegasys.co.za

Ross Esson has a Masters degree in Economics from UCT focusing on the provision of financial services to the unbanked and the savings behavior of the urban poor. He has worked as an economics researcher in Australia and South Africa and hisinterests include African economic development policy and its relationship to global markets; and institutional and organisational design.
ross@pegasys.co.za

Marcia Gouws holds a Master’s degree in International Business Law from the University of Stellenbosch. Since completing her degree, she has spent three years in the academia, focusing primarily on Competition and Company law. Thereafter she worked as a BEE Legal Advisor. She has interests in the organizational development and implementation of law and policy in the fields of Law, Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Renewable Energy. She has worked on several water related projects specifically focusing on the governance and institutional arrangements thereof.
marcia@pegasys.co.za

Ms Adelaide Cupido joined Pegasys as a Consultant from Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc., where she was a litigation attorney specializing in all aspects of employment law. Her work at Pegasys has included the drafting of principles for the regulation of water resources (drawing on interviews with specialists in the water sector and a benchmarking review of other African countries); assisting with the legal establishment of the SADC Groundwater Management Institute; conducting an international benchmarking review of radioactive waste management as an input into the business case for South Africa’s National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute; and assisting with the development of a strategy for compliance, monitoring and evaluation of the Department of Water Affair’s Masibambane project (funded by the EU). She is currently reading towards her Master’s in Law at the University of Cape Town.
adelaide@pegasys.co.za

Amos is a principal consultant and researcher. He joined Pegasys in May 2007, and has strategic and operational Human Resource experience including auditing and reviewing public sector HR polices and processes. He has been involved with large organizational improvement projects to implement activities such as functional analysis, organizational structuring and operational process analysis and development. He holds a BA Degree and a Labour Relations Management course and is currently doing Industrial and Organisational Psychology with Unisa. He has been involved in HR strategy development and business process mapping for a number of sector departments and project managed best practice human resource audit for the Gauteng Provincial Government. He provided strategic support to the restructuring and organizational development project in the water sector, and the Western Cape Public Transport Operating Entity. He project managed the assessment and implementation of ISO compliance within HR division of the Gauteng Department of Housing. Recently he has been involved in the business case development and establishment of public entities. His recent experience includes water sector stakeholder engagement and empowerment for the Water Allocation Reform process in the Inkomati Water Management Area, and research on stakeholder involvement in trans-boundary water resource management.
amos@pegasys.co.za

Barbara Schreiner is a Practice Director at Pegasys Strategy and Development in charge of the Water Strategy stream of work of the company. She was previously Deputy Director General: Policy and Regulation at the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, and Advisor to Minister Kader Asmal, then Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry. She was a member of the international Steering Committee of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) for two terms, and is currently on the Board of the CGIAR Challenge Programme for Water and Food (CPWF). On the GWP SC she chaired the Finance and Audit Committee and on the CPWF Board she chairs the Audit Committee. She recently led a project to draft a report to the Finance and Fiscal Commission on Water Services Pricing and Financing. She was the task leader on a project investigating institutional arrangements for financing water conservation interventions. She has written widely on water issues and has, most recently, co-authored a book with Prof Rashid Hassan on implementation of water policy in South Africa. She has also written widely on the subject of gender, water and poverty. She has an M Phil in Environmental Science (cum laude) from the University of Cape Town.
barbara@pegasys.co.za

Derek Weston is a principal consultant with Pegasys Strategy and Development, with some 20 years experience in the water sector. He has a BSc Honours in hydrology and spent much of his early career focusing upon hydrological modelling and the use of models for supporting management decisions. Derek joined DWAF in 1991 and initial work within the Department was largely focused on information management, monitoring and catchment management. In the last ten years Derek was a lead agent for the establishment of Catchment Management Agencies and Water User Associations. He has championed the understanding of resource governance, as well as institutional and stakeholder processes within the sector. He has been a central figure in developing South Africa’s understanding of Catchment Management Strategies. In more recent years he has managed a large donor funded programme focused upon community development and upliftment via water based projects. Derek has extensive experience in policy development as well as implementation support and oversight. He has been very involved in processes of stakeholder identification, analysis and participation, as well as initiatives to build capacity within the water sector. Derek has considerable experience in project management and in leading, and working in, multi-disciplinary teams.
derek@pegasys.co.za

Shingirai Chimuti has a background in civil engineering with 3 years experience in power and water services. She has a BSc in Civil Engineering and has local government experience as a project engineer overseeing water services projects for maintenance and water conservation and demand management. She has project management experience and attended courses on the NEC3 Contract offered by TCQ Strategies and PRINCE2 (Project Management) Foundation Programme presented by SNAPTECH. She has also spent a considerable amount of time on project construction sites fulfilling various roles including contract supervision and contract management. She has interests in structured finance and water sector institutional development, locally as well as in the SADC region. Shingirai is currently completing her Masters in Development Finance at Stellenbosch University.
shingirai@pegasys.co.za

Elize Coetzee is the Office Administrator in the Pegasys Pretoria Office. Elize has some 20 years experience in administration and has worked within local government as well as the private sector. Elize has a Diploma in Personnel Administration and Management.
elize@pegasys.co.za

Gladys Lefoka has been with the Pegasys Pretoria office for 4 years and is the friendly face at the reception. Beside managing reception, Gladys provides key administrative support to the office and on projects.
gladys@pegasys.co.za