Ferdie Lochner

Background

About Ferdie Lochner

I am an experienced company director, independent trustee, advisor, roving CTO, and specialist in technology law, business development, legal support, board secretarial support, governance, risk management and compliance. Through serving as Director for fiduciary and legal services at the Indevaldi group of companies, I present to the SME sector a bouquet of alternative legal services ranging from guidance on regulatory compliance, legal questions rooted in technology, director duties, shareholder rights and relationships and family trusts, through drafting and reviewing of documents and wills to contract management and winding up of estates. A doer and enabler by nature, my core value statement is to leverage my extensive experience and wide range of qualifications and skills to help create an environment towards accomplishment of organizational strategies and objectives within the four corners of the law. Among several degrees awarded to me are a MA degree in Geography, a M.Tech degree in Business Sciences, and a PhD in Business Management and Administration (Technology Management) awarded to me by Stellenbosch Business School. I was also awarded a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree by the University of South Africa, and having been accredited as mediator by the University of Cape Town founded the automated dispute resolution platform at I remain active in the academic sphere, among others as PhD supervisor, reviewer, contributor, and moderator for the masters degree courses of Technology Ventures and Business Process Management at the Namibian University of Science & Technology. As an associate for the Institute for Futures Research at Stellenbosch Business School I authored around 20 papers mainly on technology futures for this Institute, but also composed papers and essays on topics ranging from the death penalty to credit regulation and many others, some of which are published in shortened versions under my LinkedIn profile or on academic platforms such as Researchgate and Academia. Among my many interests are the art of lifelong learning, the law, the Circle Economy, sustainability, entrepreneurship, the Namibian arids, the history of the Civil Rights movement, modern military history, San rock art, the philosophy of technology, birding, bird and landscape photography, mountain biking and obstacle racing.