MIKE FREER
Mike is ZKE’s commercial director and brings 40 years experience in leading organisations in the mining, medical and entertainment industries.
Briefly, he toured the American and European tennis circuits as a professional player in the early 1980’s. Then, settling down, he joined American Cyanimid in Johannesburg, completed his B. Comm. degree and left the company during the global sale of divisions as director of the Medical Device division in 1995.
Mike developed the concept of bringing the Blues genre of music to the northern suburbs of Joburg and opened 2 live music venues called ‘The Blues Room’.
He returned to the corporate world in 1998 as director of the Vision Care division of Johnson & Johnson Medical. Then in 2001 he joined Fegen Engineering as general manager, focusing on the sale of hydraulic hammers and general engineering services into the mining sector.
In 2008, he joined Holger Wörms in a partnership at Zonke Enterprises.