Essential Elements of Information Consultants (EEi) can help you find, understand, apply, and communicate critical business information, competitor news, and industry trends.

• We are information, research an analysis specialists! We can help you find the answers to specific questions, or help you keep abreast of trends and news that affect your industry and your customers.
• We can provide you with thoroughly researched and analysed answers to those questions keeping you awake at night!
• As an information solutions provider we want to be your trusted advisor...

EEi is a Close Corporation registered in the Republic of South Africa (2006/001800/23) and co-owned by:

Albert Cruywagen: Albert held various analysis and management positions over more than two decades in civilian and military intelligence organisations. He has been a Senior Associate with the world renowned USA management and technology consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton. Albert specialises in Strategic Enterprise Transformation, Institutional Restructuring & Organisation Design, Executive Coaching, Management of Change, Knowledge Management and Competitive Intelligence consulting. He holds postgraduate qualifications in Business from the University of Stellenbosch Business School and in Political Science and Public Law from the Rand Afrikaans University. Albert frequently lectures on various topics at Business Schools and Universities. He has comprehensive international experience and participated seminars and academic programmes in Scotland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Russian Federation and the USA. Albert is an emeritus President of the South African Association of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SAACIP) and is a member of global Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).

Johan Engelbrecht: Johan holds an Honours Degree from the University of Pretoria in Political Science & International Politics and served in the South African intelligence community for 14 years. His career started in 1981 as a junior analyst and ended in 1996 as assistant director responsible for strategic research and analysis projects. Johan served in London, UK, for two years and liaised with counterparts in most European and African countries. Apart from receiving the Researcher of the Year Award in 1992, he was also permanently involved as advisor to the South African national negotiation process (CODESSA), during which time he gave frequent presentations to interim and new government executive bodies. During 1996 he took up the entrepreneurial challenge to open his own printing business in Menlyn, Pretoria. Within eight years the business was built to one of the top ten in the city and had been bestowed with several performance awards by the international franchisor. At the beginning of 2005 he decided to return to his roots and he has since been involved in competitive intelligence and related research projects.

Janine Esterhuizen: Janine has a degree in Information Science from the University of Pretoria, specialising in knowledge management and rendering professional information services to various client groups by extracting, filtering, analyzing and disseminating vital information/competitive intelligence. She has worked on a wide variety of research projects within various industries. She retains ten years experience as an Information Specialist and was formerly employed as a Knowledge Resource Manager for a leading engineering company, where she gained extensive experience in project administration, contract-, and quality management. She is a member of LIASA (Library and Information Science Association of SA) and SLIS (Special Libraries and Information Services Group).