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ABOUT THE JOURNAL PAGE 10 CONTRIBUTORS Jeff Gilmour For the last 15 years, Jeff has been assisting networking bodies, national committees and stakeholder groups as well as sector training through implementation of best practices. -Development and implementation of management systems, ensuring sound decision-making. authorities, national standards bodies, government -Designing departments and employer bodies in areas of aligned to the fiduciary responsibilities of a board collaboration, generation of national standards of directors. and qualificatio ns and the formalisation structures of good governance directly of agreements. Jeff is currently the president of the Association More recently, Jeff has been integrally involved in of Residential Communities (ARC), director of the the residential community industry, having headed Community Associations Institute SA (CAISA) and up very successful action committees in two large executive member of the Residential Community residential estates in Gauteng. He has also served Council (RCC). He is also a member of The World as chairman of the board of directors of one Congress of Community Association Management of the largest golf estates in Gauteng and has (TWCCAM) and the Foundation of International pioneered best practices as executive manager Community Associations Research. He received for the Homeowners’ Association. the CAI Rising Star award in 2010 for Community Jeff’s passion, commitment and competence Association Leadership. as a community development practitioner have resulted in the following, which are demonstrated in published case studies: -Realising savings of over R3 million per annum Richard Kelland Richard Kelland is a civil engineer turned golf estate clubs through integrated land use, while creating developer. He graduated with a B.Sc. Eng (Civil) a unique and open community lifestyle and from the University of Cape Town in 1977 and investment opportunity for property owners the his successful career has encompassed elements world over. His two developments, the Matumi of development Golf Estate in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga and Victoria consulting, entrepreneurial construction, project Country Club Estate in Pietermaritzburg, where he development is estate manager, are testament to this. engineering and and economic management. These skills have all converged, almost logically for Richard, into the process of putting together large scale Richard was one of our first CMCA-certified estate residential property developments, from concept managers in the industry. He is an active ARC to implementation. member and KZN Regional Chapter leader, and is the inaugural chairperson of the recently formed As a lifelong golfer, Richard is passionate about Residential Community Council (RCC). Along with the South African golf culture and how the game his many colleagues in the industry, Richard is continues to be played in a country that has committed to making a positive contribution and produced so many amateur and professional enhancing industry success, recognition and self- world beaters. His developments are aimed governance. To this end, Richard is currently at preserving this rich ethos by establishing participating in development of programmes that permanent revenue streams for traditional golf will significantly increase the value added to the