Who We Are
Inspired by our planet’s most precious resource, we’re driven to activate the transition to sustainable water.
The way we see it, our work will be better only if the way we think is better. The answer is in innovation and collaboration.
Founded as a small family-run business back in 1989, Talbot has evolved into a highly progressive organisation, and today our team comprises of over 200 experts. We have a 35+ year track record of successful delivery of over 300 projects in 20 countries. We have worked extensively across the African continent providing support to our clients.
We acknowledge that we have a vital role to play in creating a thriving world for all who share it, and nothing excites us more.
This Is How We Deliver...
This commitment to You. Our communities. And our planet.
Mission Focused
Our greatest ambition is to lead and accelerate the global shift to water resilience and sustainable water use in industry. Our desire to know and explore, coupled with our concern for the world’s most precious resource, is our driving force.
Understanding
The value we deliver, is in our innate ability to understand your challenges and requirements. This enables our team to design solutions that deliver on the challenges around water scarcity, water security, cost escalations and how these impact your businesses.
Diverse Talent
Our highly experienced, diverse, and passionate team is unparallaled. Water strategists. Water engineers. Technologists. Data scientists. Economists. Every individual adds their own unique expertise to an impressive cache of talent.
Our Team
We owe our success to a remarkable team of strategists, innovators, operators, explorers, and creators who each bring something unique to the table.
Nontando Rambau
Optimisation and Management
Boitumelo Matshediso
TalbotAnalytics
Janine Grantham
Product Sales and Maintenance
Jutta Dedekind
Project Implementation
Micole Martens
Director Laboratories
Mike Smith
Director Project Finance and Consulting
Venetia Mitchell
Human Resources
Asheen Gaydin
Financial Manager
Carl Haycock
Chief Executive Officer
Perina Bridgmohan
Chief Operating Officer
Grahame Thomson
Director Business Development
Kam Chetty
Chairman
Our Partners
Excellence is easy to achieve when that’s what you surround yourself with. Long-term, strategic relationships with like-minded industry leaders helps us fuel our own ambition and creative thinking.
We actively seek out top-tier partners who are global innovators in their own right. By contributing their unique strengths to Talbot’s existing reservoir of deep-seated experience, knowledge and skills, these partners have become an integral part of our own and our clients’ success.
Our Clients
The fact that so many of our clients stay with us for the long haul speaks volumes. Whether we’re working with global, international or national organisations, state owned entities or municipalities, we invest in building relationships and understanding.
Our Sectors
Supporting clients in Africa, Australia, UK and Europe, we transect the boundaries of continents and extend from local through to global industries across a diverse range of sectors. These include: mining, petro-chemical, industrial, pulp and paper, FMCG, agro-industrial, automotive, health-care, financial and public sector.
Health & Safety
With safety, health and environment (SHE) a key item on all agendas within the Talbot business, we are committed to achieving a high standard SHE performance in everything we do. We strive to perform all work in line with international, national and in-country SHE legislation, associated regulations and standards while aligning with our client specifications backed by our own policies and procedures.