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Tenacious

vcardAndre Bresler

Beheerder partner
Airport Office Park, Freight Rd.
Ground Floor, Runway 01
International Airport
Cape Town 7525
About

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.

Success

As a Managing Partner of Benchmark International's South African offices, Andre finds the success and growth of his team truly rewarding. Andre and his team have worked on an array of companies across multiple industries. They have been very active internationally and have sold one in every three of their client's companies to overseas buyers.

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Inzichtelijk

Education

The University of the Witwatersrand - BSc, Mechanical Engineering

Wits Business School - Management Advanced Programme

Experience

As an entrepreneur, turnaround specialist and seasoned M&A professional, Andre brings to the transaction table a very broad generalist knowledge of multiple industry sectors and a keen understanding of business opportunities and acquisitions that will benefit all parties. Furthermore, having built strong relationships with corporate acquirers, private equity and family offices, Andre has gained insights into the strategies of some of the most successful organisations and individuals, both locally and internationally. 

The Benchmark International process is unique in its ability to transition options into choices; the journey to a sale is a dynamic one where the multitude of options can paralyse choice and it is only by engaging different buyers - each with their own synergies and strategic motives - that choices are crystallised. Andre explores the options that empowers clients to find the choice that is right for them, their families, their staff and their businesses. 

Passion

For ten long years, Andre watched as a family member struggled to sell a lucrative engineering concern. It seemed astonishing to him that the true value of that business could not be unlocked through traditional methods. Extensive research and a healthy curiosity led him to identify a process powerful enough to deliver maximum value for both buyer and seller. His journey led him to Benchmark International, a company built by entrepreneurs, servicing a market of entrepreneurs.  Having discovered his excitement lay more in disposing of companies than running them, M&A became an obvious career choice.

Gedetailleerd

Besluitvol

Andre (onze dealleider) was bij ons tijdens de onderhandelingen en de laatste fase van het sluiten van deals, en kende de juiste mensen aan de juridische kant, zodat we de contractfase konden bereiken. En we zijn erin geslaagd de vertrouwelijkheid tot het einde toe te bewaren. Dit vonden wij erg belangrijk omdat we geen kriebels wilden creëren bij onze klanten. We hadden het gevoel dat we het hele proces onder controle hadden en dat gaf ons vertrouwen. *
Derrick Mulligan
Phambili Interface
* translated
Het project werd zeer goed beheerd. Het was erg stressvol en er komt veel meer werk bij kijken dan we dachten. Andre [Bresler] was de hele tijd bij ons. Ik zou jullie aan iedereen aanbevelen, ik zal zeker dezelfde weg bewandelen als ik weer een bedrijf kom verkopen. *
Lee Hodgins
Aquamarine
* translated
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