55
YEARS
1964 - 2019
TEAM
Inaugural Chairman
and Founding Member
Late Prof. Carl Klopper
Qualifications: D.Sc (QS) - University of Pretoria | BA - Unisa | Certificate in Arbitration - Association of Arbitration
Professional: Founding member | 59 years professional quantity surveyor | 12 years professor at University of Pretoria | Introduced M.Sc degree at University of Pretoria
Managing Director
Carl Ridgard
Personal: Married | Father of 3
Interests: Adventure motorcycling | Outdoors | Triathlon | Travel | Feasibility studies | Maximising investment yield
Qualifications: Matriculated at Menlo Park High School (1997) | B.Sc Hons (QS) - University of Pretoria (2002) | Certificate in Arbitration - Association of Arbitration (2007)
Professional: Joined KMA (1999) | Managing director since 2014 | Registered professional quantity surveyor (Pr. QS 3741) | Associate of the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa) (No. 1908)
Director
John Ridgard
Personal: Married | Father of 3
Interests: Classic cars and motorcycles | Any sport | Reading autobiographies | Contract disputes | Project management
Qualifications: Matriculated at Afrikaans Hoër Seunskool (2001) | B.Sc Hons (QS) - University of Pretoria (2011) | Member of Golden Key International Honour Society (for academic achievements)
Professional: Joined KMA (2004) | Registered professional quantity surveyor (Pr. QS 7599) | Director since 2011
Director
Thabiso Nkoana
Personal: Married | Father of 2
Interests: Soccer | Reading | Music | Financial control | Final accounts
Qualifications: Matriculated at Himalaya Secondary School (2002) | B.Tech (QS) - Tshwane University of Technology (2011)
Professional: Joined KMA (2016) | Director since 2016
Bookkeeper
Thea Ridgard
Personal: Married | Mother of 3 | Grandmother of 9
Interests: Religious studies | Interior design | Family
Qualifications: B.Ed - Unisa
Professional: Joined KMA (1990)