A stickler for quality assurance, Christelle Horne initially trained and qualified in a medical discipline.  After nine years in the forensic pharmacy environment, Christelle took up a position within the Group, assisting with the establishment of the Call Centre in 1999 and formulating standard operating procedures for the company to work towards ISO accreditation.

As Director: Finance and Administration, Christelle manages the quality assurance and group administration portfolios. Call centre standards, including the protection of the whistleblower and conformance with the Protected Disclosures Act, falls within her portfolio.

Before moving into the private sector, Reg Horne gained thirteen years experience in the South African Police Service (SAPS).  Reg completed the SAPS Advanced Detective Course and applied his expertise in criminal investigation in the Serious and Violent Crimes Unit.

On recognizing the growing demand in the private sector for an investigations service that could fill the gap between the service the SAPS were able to provide, and the service that the market actually needed, Reg established Justicia Investigations in 1992.

Reg’s further vision to include role players within an organisation to acknowledge and evaluate their own risk factors, where the honest could be a mechanism to act against the dishonest without fear of reprisal, led to the establishment of Whistle Blowers (Pty) Ltd in 2000.

To this day, Reg hand picks call centre personnel and individually trains every operator on interviewing and questioning techniques.

Conrad Van Der Merwe joined the South African Police Force in 1985 and was subsequently selected to join the National Intelligence Service where his outstanding skills set the foundation for him to become Project Manager of Covert Structure in 1994, and then Specialist Covert Collector in sensitive covert operations.

In 1999, Conrad joined the Group and holds the position of Regional Director: Gauteng.  Conrad’s expertise in the field of intelligence gathering has proved invaluable in the service offered by Whistle Blowers.

A seasoned businessman, John Keyter holds a BSc Economics (London) degree. After holding a number of executive management positions in a variety of industries, John moved into the security sector as Chief Executive Officer of a large national security group.

In April 2004 John joined the Executive Board of Whistle Blowers (Pty) Ltd as CEO of the Group. John’s business expertise and leadership strengths equips him to guide the Group from a business and strategic perspective.

John is a well known, prominent speaker on the topic of whistleblowing internationally.

Dale Horne joined the Group in 2003 in a crime prevention capacity in the retail sector. Having gathered valuable experience in intelligence gathering over a number of years, he was seconded to the fraud hotline call centre in 2005.

Dale took over the operational reigns, initially as General Manager, during which time he led the way towards Whistle Blowers receiving Ethics SA Accreditation in 2010. In addition to offering a local call centre destination to international clients, having travelled internationally extensively, Dale has expanded Whistle Blowers worldwide with the establishment of an Indian call centre operating in the required dialects for ease of disclosure in this market.

Dale’s fresh, forthright approach subsequently led to his inclusion at executive level as Director: Operations early in 2011. Dale has daily hands on approach, managing call centre operations, client retention programmes and marketing of the concept, dealing closely with clients and sharing his knowledge of internal marketing and implementation programmes.

Laurie was born and educated in Harare, Zimbabwe. She immigrated to South Africa to attend Rhodes University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, with majors in English and Speech and Drama. Realizing that the world of the Arts was an interest rather than a passion she entered the commercial world as a Personnel Consultant, managing the Temporary Employment division of a large recruitment agency.

Finding that her strengths lay in communications and marketing, Laurie entered the office automation industry, managing a Corporate Accounts portfolio for Rank Xerox.  Laurie relocated to London, where she worked for one of the larger presentations bureaus, selling computer peripherals for corporate in-house production.

Africa’s pull was too great and Laurie returned to Johannesburg three years later, re-entering the recruitment industry to recruit for the IT and Pharmaceutical industries.

Wanting a new challenge in her life in line with her undoubted people skills, Laurie decided to make a major change and entered the growing, demanding Security Industry where she sold holistic security solutions for a national security service provider.

In February 2004 joined Whistle Blowers as Client Liaison Manager, playing a pivotal role in client personnel concept training and implementation.