CORPORATE STRATEGY

Introduction

Oakwell Holdings has adopted and strive to achieve the vision of its founder member, Mark Paulsmeier, which is to establish the most exclusive and dynamic international private investment group in the world.

However, to achieve this ambitious goal any investment group has to be extremely resourceful and self reliant in terms of having available substantial venture capital and human recourses expertise as well as access to global lucrative business opportunities.

Therefore, Oakwell Holdings’ unique but rather simplistic corporate strategy was specifically designed and developed to secure success, profitability and sustainability.

It entails that Oakwell identifies, invites and offer partnership opportunities to independent and most prominent, influential, successful and resourceful professional consultants and venture capital funders - the global economy has to offer - to participate with Oakwell in its corporate activities as partners.

Associate partner members of Oakwell Holdings are registered in one or more of its three core divisions:

• Oakwell Associates – the venture capital financing division of Oakwell Holdings.
• Oakwell Corporate – the corporate consultancy and advisory services division of Oakwell Holdings.
• Oakwell Investments – the corporate investments division of Oakwell Holdings.

Corporate philosophy

Oakwell ascribes its success to a simple yet effective philosophy. The pooling of resources of like-minded individuals who adhere to core principles not only accelerates the creation of individual wealth, but also accelerates all associate partner members’ professional, intellectual and business growth.

These principles and their results are:

• All associate partner members of Oakwell are professionals in their own right – to ensure integrity and specialized expertise within the group.
• All projects are provided by Oakwell associate partner members – to limit the risk associated with the unknown and to speed up the decision-making process.
• All professional services to approved projects are provided by Oakwell Corporate – to secure absolute commitment and dedication and retain wealth within the Group.
• All financing of capital projects are provided by Oakwell Associates – to control financing costs and increase profitability.
• The coordination of group activities, project management and support services are provided by Oakwell Investments and Oakwell Corporate respectively – to lock in efficiencies.

Corporate strategy and business model

The business relationship between Oakwell and its associate partner members is one of mutual benefit:

Oakwell Holdings provides its associate partner members with indirect access (use value) into an effective and efficient global intellectual infrastructure. The individual associate partner members enjoy access to business opportunities, corporate resources and business referrals from an international corporate network which significantly increases their financial, intellectual and business growth. As a result associate partner members’ business interests benefits from rapid expansion without the normal extravagant advertising, marketing and other related cost associated with business growth.

Oakwell’s corporate strategy and business model provides its associate partner members with the following specific benefits:

• That independent consultants, venture capital firms and entrepreneurs, as associate partner members, can retain their preferred corporate individuality, identity and flexibility that is provided by their anonymous corporate status and not succumb to the disadvantages of a corporate hirargy structure - in their quest to access lucrative business opportunities or recourses which is normally only available to multinational or large corporations.
• Have access to lucrative business opportunities and ventures sourced through a global partner network in more than 68 countries, which is normally not accessible to an individual firm or consultancy not having an extensive international office infrastructure.
• Have access to venture capital resources that can be structured to perfectly match individual and project needs.
• Have access to comprehensive corporate expertise, advice and guidance from more than 105 000 partner colleagues in 68 countries.
• Receive valuable business referrals from a partner network of approximately 105 000 professionals in 68 countries, without having extensive advertising, marketing and diverse infrastructure expenses.
• In theory have thousands of local offices with representation in 68 countries, providing new business and local information, without having the burden and expenses to establish such office and administrative infrastructure.
• Option to participate in preferred and selective projects only. This provides the opportunity to associate partner members to carefully select business ventures of choice that will be most suitable to support individual financial, intellectual and business growth goals and objectives.

In turn, the associate partner members provide Oakwell with valuable and extensive corporate expertise and resources. Oakwell’s success is a direct result of this corporate strategy and its corporate philosophy which brings together venture capital funding, viable projects and corporate expertise and resources in a unique and dynamic way.

Furthermore, part of the success and competitiveness of this corporate strategy is resulting from the inexpensive way Oakwell’s corporate activities are managed and maintained. As every associate partner member has its own individual consultancy firm, venture capital firm or other related business, the corporate activities is run and operated through the associate partner members’ collective office and administrative infrastructure, allowing Oakwell Holdings and its associated partner members with literally thousands of global local offices and representation in 68 countries without the applicable capital expenditure for such infrastructure.

Success history of corporate strategy and business model

Oakwell’s corporate strategy and philosophy is hardly a new concept, but in fact is a corporate network philosophy, practice for centuries all over the world.

What is however unique is the passion that Oakwell created for this concept and philosophy, combining with the strict values and principles from Mark Paulsmeier which led to the enormous success of Oakwell Holdings, clearly evident in its Group Achievements.

This effective and successful corporate strategy and business model was also the direct result for the exponential international growth of the Paulsmeier Inc. Group. The Paulsmeier Inc. Group’s collective international corporate interests has grown from a humble business group of 100 business executives in Africa to a global private investment group comprising of 250 000 professional consultants, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, etc., within a period of four years – with a turnover exceeding $8-billion for the previous financial year.

By merely applying the effective corporate strategy and business model that subscribes to the principle of the pooling of resources, to achieve common goals, amongst like-minded and dedicated visionary professionals, Oakwell Holdings and the Paulsmeier Inc. Group’s rapid and robust growth, and success have stunned both friends and adversaries in the international corporate community.

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