Meet Our Team
Liza Harmse
Founder & Managing Director
Liza is a Chartered Accountant CA(SA) with 23 years’ experience in the financial services industry.
Her experience ranges from enterprise wide risk management, credit approval for lending to SME’s, to project finance, and for the last 10 years she has been specialising in Risk Finance (self-insurance, cell captive and UMA’s) environment. Her last position in corporate environment prior to entering the consulting space in 2019, was that of MD of a short-term insurance cell captive licence with a turnover of R2.7bn in gross written premium.
She has experience in managing teams of people with varied specialities and experience. She is both strategically minded, but practical in the application and implementation of systems and processes.
Liza’s abbreviated profile is available for download here.
Erik Harkema
Head: Actuarial
Erik is a qualified actuary with more than 25 years’ experience. His experience ranges from pricing, product development, data management, data analytics to claims optimisation.
Before joining Evening Flame Management and Consulting he was Head of Pricing and Head of Central Analytics at two large South African short term insurers. He assisted in building pricing models for personal lines and cell captive products and reduced claims spend and claims fraud by applying predictive models. Currently he is consulting for another large insurer embedding a Data Governance Framework and creating their Data & Analytics strategy.
He has successfully managed teams ranging from actuarial specialists, BI specialists to Claims and Data generalists.
Erik’s abbreviated profile is available for download here.
Harry Pretorius
Head: Compliance
Harry is an Admitted Attorney and Notary Public, Certified Compliance Professional and Ethics Officer with a proven track record of leveraging legal, compliance and ethical risk management expertise to deliver mission critical results for various multinational organisations and is constantly alert to opportunities to rectify and improve risk management, business systems and compliance procedures.
Harry exercises strong commercial judgement that aligns seamlessly with industry-relevant legislation, regulation and ethics. Harry’s core strength lies in initiating, developing and directing various legal, compliance and regulatory functions in an organisation along with building highly motivated personnel to sustain and advance these areas.
Harry’s abbreviated profile is available for download here.