Testimonials
"I have had the privilege of working with Tim O’Hanlon for more than 15 years in various capacities. As business mentor, Tim was the catalyst for the company's growth through systems design processes and face to face engagements. His constructive criticism, interrogative style, clear communication and ability to comfortably jump between enterprise systems thinking and attention to detail resulted in Tim being invited to become a non-executive director of the company."
"Tim has a deep theoretical and practical knowledge of enterprise development, compliance, governance, risk and social frameworks that would serve a board of directors well."
"One of the most significant risks today is the familiarity and ‘blind trust’ directors have in top management of companies. This results in insufficient oversight by board members, resulting in unintended, and sometimes corrupt, activities and self-interest of executive management going undetected. Despite our close relationship, Tim’s objective input came without favour. His critical mindset, principled approach and deep theoretical and practical knowledge added immense value, with an unwavering commitment to holding the executive to account."
"My experience is that Tim gains deep understanding of an organisation with a quick grasp of business operations in the context of the raison d'etre of an organisation."
"His ability to understand the underlying value drivers of the business and to influence the strategic direction of the company was exceptionally valuable."
"TOSMS followed a pragmatic and risk based approach and conducted a gap analysis of more than 70 departments that involved more than 400 staff and resulted in the identification of, inter alia, 451 impacted processes, 177 impacted systems, and more than 1 500 department and external documented data flows. The output of the gap analysis was produced in such a manner that Old Mutual was able to develop and implement privacy compliant solutions."
"I would recommend TOSMS for privacy related matters as they have a thorough understanding of the privacy legislation, its impact on operations and what is practically required from a people, process and system perspective in order to ensure compliance. TOSMS is a professional team who can tailor make approach and solutions to accommodate different business structures and requirements, and I found TOSMS easy to work with."
"TOSMS started at Alexander Forbes in September 2013 with a high level analysis of 46 business
areas that were in scope. They then assisted Alexander Forbes with detailed analysis across the
group. Details were captured and analysed on the TOSMS online assessment system that they
provided. They also built a data inventory management system during this period for Alexander
Forbes to use as part of the detailed analysis. As Alexander Forbes took ownership of the outputs of
the analysis, TOSMS’s engagement moved to a part time advisory role and ended in June 2017."
"TOSMS was professional and focused in its approach and provided Alexander Forbes with practical, workable solutions. This lead to large strides being made in our project and successful
implementations across the business. TOSMS demonstrated flexibility when working with a
business that is required to update processes often and were open and friendly at all times."
"This engagement occurred after a review of the various options in the market and a decision taken by the board that the solution offered by TOSMS was the best fit for the key criteria the bank considered essential."
"Enhancements of the regulatory governance framework is being achieved through a process of business enablement ... The combined roll-out team from the two companies is continuing to provide an exceptional level of expertise that provides the bank with peace of mind that the obstacles that such a programme will encounter along the way are dealt with in an informed and highly professional manner, under the bank's supervision."