Peter began Providing Specialist Advice in 1996, working for a year with a division of Afrox as an Industrial Development Consultant, specialising in Industrial Automation. Following the successful completion of this work, Peter was retained by Data Dynamics, a Legislative Publisher that was in the process of developing Windows based Legal solutions for Commerce and Industry.

Briefly leaving consulting in 2000, Peter joined the First Rand Group in a Senior Business Development position, where he remained for 2 years, followed by a year at Electrowave (Pty) Ltd as Group Marketing Manager, specializing in the market penetration of telemetry solutions, such as ‘Bluetooth’ and GSM based technologies .

In 2003, Sound Labour Practice was formed with Chris Haralambous. This was simultaneous with the formation of Gahan Consulting.

Sound Labour Practice was a Business and Labour Law Training Company that was very successful in bringing about the understanding of Disciplinary, CCMA and Employment Equity processes in various companies. Our client list was impressive, with Pick’n’Pay, Conlog, Mr Price, FNB & Mica utilizing our services. During this time, Gahan Consulting became extremely busy and Peter was forced to leave Sound Labour Practice to Chris who still runs it under the trading name ‘Labourworx’.

During 2003, there was a clearly identified need in the market place for strategists that were able to facilitate mutually beneficial transformation in business in terms of the government’s requirement to ‘Readdress the imbalances of the past’.

With the legislation and Code of Good Practice on Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment being gazetted, many firms, both Multinational and Domestic started the scramble for access to knowledge on how to facilitate this process in a mutually beneficial way. It is in this transformation and development process that Peter and Gahan Consulting have become firmly entrenched in South African Commerce and Industry.

Over the past 5 years, Peter has successfully worked with industries as diverse as Taxi Associations, Land Claims, Multinational Pharmaceutical and Chemical Companies, The Music Industry, The Packaging Industry, the Fashion Industry, Hospitality and over 150 Small to medium enterprises.

During 2003, Peter was invited to lecture at the Durban University of Technology. This arrangement was renewed annually until present. During this process, Peter became associated with TENUSA, the Tertiary Education National Union and has been nominated to represent them at Council Level at the University.

Peter is an outstanding strategist and has the ability to see potential in any situation and then manifest it into reality. Business is measured by balance sheets and Peter’s success is reflected by increases in profit margins that have a mutually beneficial outcome for all parties involved.