For over 20 years the founder of Argil, Lawson Leslie, has worked with enlightened CEO’s in South Africa and over 10 countries abroad, utilizing his senior management, CEO and board level facilitation expertise to help these business leaders grow their businesses and their people with his “Closer to Customers” philosophy. Together with his partners and team, Argil have built a global reputation and track record for unlocking growth for CEO’s across a wide spectrum of business to business industries.

Before joining Argil as a Director, Graham Howard was a senior executive in the corporate world for 30 years, leading premium brands of International Companies that required value solution selling, backed up by superior service delivery and the strong long-term relationships. He brings to Argil clients significant insight from his experiences in the sugar, automotive, and heavy equipment leasing industries.

Jerry Rowles brings to Argil expertise in psychology, corporate finance and management consulting, with significant insights from a long and successful career in the Banking industry. He is also the only Argil Director with a passion for Harley Davidson…but that’s another story.

Joanne Wilson has worked at Argil Business Growth for the past 10 years and works hand in hand with Argil principals to provide clients with custom tailored, highly insightful design and analysis that informs on all internal and external Customer focussed programmes.

Mike Montocchio joined Argil with a background as a Chartered Accountant but brings to clients a unique expertise in corporate training and culture change. Mike’s passion and focus for the last 2 years with Argil has been tailoring the world-class systems and tools of GRID to establish highly motivated Delivery Cultures in Argil's client companies for their CEO’s.

Paul Blackbeard joined the company after a highly successful 30 year career with multinational organizations—much of which was with Tetra Pak - Paul offers Argil clients pragmatic insights into management, commercial and marketing challenges gained from personal experience working in Africa, Europe and America. After being a client of Argil, he has now established Argil Australia to serve clients in the Asia Pacific region.