Managing Director

Thomas du Sart

Tommy (as he is fondly known in the Printing Industry) grew up on the Westrand in Johannesburg and currently lives in Glenvista in the South, with his wife Karyn and their six children.

Coming from a disadvantaged background, Tommy was very limited to any formal education. This however did not deter him of other opportunities at his disposal and he started his printing apprenticeship at an early age in 1974.   In 1989, Tommy joined Ren-Form as a Factory Foreman and it was evident then that this was the start of a historic chapter in his life. The year 1990 was the beginning of what was to become the steppingstone for greater things and in 1996; Tommy bought 100% equity from his partner.

Procurement and HR Director

Eric du Sart

Eric, together with his brother Tommy grew up in the Westrand in Johannesburg, a proud husband and father to three daughters.  As an avid golfer Eric also is the proud owner of 7 racehorses and in his younger days represented South Africa in Hockey, played club cricket and football and nominated for SA Coloured Team.

Started his career in print in 1970 as a general worker and due to the times of our country at that time was limited to moving up the ranks.  However, this did not deter this determined person and he soon made his mark and became a Collator Operator.  1982 saw Eric go to America for training in his trade and on his return he moved to Cape Town where he became a Foreman at one of South Africa’s foremost companies. Whilst gaining experience in the Trade with various companies throughout the years Eric remained steadfast in gaining experience and the want to excel in what he does.  In 1992, he was working as a Foreman at Ren-Form on an ad hock basis.  During this time, he was made an offer by Tommy to join the company.  In 2011, he occupies the title and position of Procurement and HR Director and is living proof of “good things come to those who work hard and has ambition and faith”.

Chief Operating Officer

Albe Naude

Albe is married with 2 children and has been exposed to sales for 24 years positions varying form Sales Director to Managing Director.

After completing his military service, Albe started his career with the Global Giant NCR where he was a Systems Engineer.  Expanding on his sales and management skills he then moved into a challenging sales position at Teraoka were he proved himself invaluable and was in no time working his way through the ranks.  In 2001 Albe was promoted to MD of Teraoka and he stay with the company for the next 9 years until deciding to spread his wings and look for more challenging opportunities.

Sales Director

Jean-Pierre du Sart

JP as he is known in the Sales and corporate circles is married with 3 children.  He is an enigma when it comes to securing long-term contracts with major blue chip corporate customers.

JP started his career after graduating with a HND in Electrical Engineering at Siemens as Project Manager and continued with various multi million rand projects and sales opportunities for the next 27 years.  In 2004, JP was seconded to set up a sales division by Tommy du Sart, his brother.  He played a major role in securing business for Ren-Form locally and African continent.  JP deals and contracts can be associated to major deals happening in Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya, not wasting any time JP secured major various international projects and contracts and today he is well known for his local and global ambassadorial sales abilities.

Marketing Manager

Erika Hearnshaw

Erika joined Ren-Form in October 2011 and is married with 2 children and lives in the South of Johannesburg.  With 15yrs of print experience, of which 8 is in digital print and marketing it goes without saying that this is her true passion and level of expertise.

Joining Home Journal Press a Commercial Printer in 1998 was the foundation and starting block for Erika’s printing career.  Seeing a shift in the litho market towards digital, Erika decided to take a leap of faith and joined Xerox in 2001.  Specializing in Digital Production, Erika was the Production Colour Specialist driving Digital, VDP, 1to1 and Direct Marketing in Corporate, Advertising and GA markets.  In 2004, she moved to Dubai where she was a partner in a Relocations company which she later sold and joined Costa Coffee as the Business Manager for the MEA region.  After returning to South Africa in 2009, Erika found herself back in the print industry by joining Burlington Dataprint as the Digital Sales and Marketing Manager.  Wanting to gain further knowledge and looking at expanding and specializing in her specialty Erika decided to join Ren-Form.

Factory Manager

Duane Taylor

Duane is married with 4 beautiful children and lives in the South of Johannesburg. Duane started his career in 1980 as a collator assistant for Moore Paragon Business Forms and worked there for 6 years.  By the time Duane decided to seek out new opportunities, he was working as a collator operator.

Duane joined CPC (later became Manifold Data Forms) as a collator operator, he was given the opportunity to advance and better himself and went on to become a fully fledged Machine Minder.   With his reputation as one of the better Minders in the industry, Duane once again felt it time to progress and joined Ren-Form in 1996 as a Machine minder.  Systematically working his way up ranks Duane was promoted to Factory Foreman in no time, proving to all that he was in a league of his own.  Cementing that he is a superb leader in his chosen field, Duane was promoted to Factory Manager in 2010.

Pre-Press Manager

Reuben Chinnamunian

Reuben is married with 2 daughters and lives in the South East of Johannesburg. Started his career in 1981 as an apprentice Photo lithographer at CPC (Computer and Prestige Colour Printers). Completed NPC1, NPC2 and NPC3 at ML Sultan Technical College.   In 1984 Reuben became Repro Foreman at CPC for 1 year before moving to New Standard Printers as a Photo lithographer in 1986.

In 1992, he enrolled for night school at the Print College for a DTP course to better his future prospects.  All this paid off as Reuben was not long after that promoted to Head Designer.  He decided to broaden his horizons and in 1998 moved to Ultra Litho as a DTP operator.  In 2001 Reuben was promoted to Team Leader because of his dedication and knowledge gained throughout his career path.

Sheet-Fed Production Manager

Nishen Murthi

Nishen is our youngest team member and by choice a single gentle giant.  Nishen  lives in the West-Rand and joined in the print industry in 1999 as a machine assistant at On Time Printers.  During this time he was promoted to assistant production planning, and  in 2002 he joined Shereno printers as a estimator also involved in planning and purchasing.

In 2004 he was offered a position at Ince outsourced comm dept as an estimator and buyer.  Nishen has many talents and is hungry for growth and being the best in his chosen field.  He soon saw an opportunity for growth at Ren-Form and became the senior estimator.