Yokogawa has announced the appointment of Johan Louw as managing director for South Africa (including Anglophone African operations). He succeeds Herman van den Berg, who has been promoted to head up the European and African engineering operations in Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
Johan Louw
Johan has a degree in chemical engineering and an honours degree in management of technology. He has 15 years process engineering and project management experience in the southern African mining, oil and energy sectors, and has executed capital projects for Sasol, Eskom, Angola LNG and PetroSA. He has business development, operations, design, construction, project control, financial management and information systems experience, and has worked for companies such as Anglo Coal, Weir Envig, KBR and most recently Forbes & Manhattan.
Johan brings a wealth of project management and engineering experience from projects related to key Yokogawa customers in South Africa as a basis to direct the SA operation to the next level in organisation, personnel and business development, as well as in competitive positioning.
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