Our Team
Lisbé Meiring CA(SA)
IFRS, Caseware, XBRL
Lisbé is one of the founders of Zero30 and is one of our IFRS and Caseware specialists. She is a chartered accountant with more than 20 years of experience in statutory audit and financial reporting. She worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Cape Town and Amsterdam in statutory audit and was responsible for the year-end financial reporting of a multinational company based in London as well as a listed company in South Africa before joining Touwi Consulting and later establishing Zero30.
Outside of work Lisbé has her hands full managing a busy family and finding enough shelving space for all her books.
Coffee preference: Medium strength with hot milk and no sugar.
George Meiring CA(SA)
Royalties, Projects
George is one of the founders of Zero30 and sister company Touwi Consulting and is responsible for the management of the business. He is a chartered accountant with extensive experience in the royalty environment from an audit, contractual, compliance, process and software solution development perspective and heads up all licensing related projects.
Outside of work George is a family man that likes to bake bread, fiddle with Vespa scooters and do some trail running to keep fit.
Coffee preference: Dark roast with hot milk and no sugar.
Rikkie Thomas CA(SA) (MCom)
IFRS, Caseware, XBRL
Rikkie is one of our IFRS and Caseware specialists. She is a chartered accountant with more than 10 years of experience in statutory audit and financial reporting. Rikkie believes in Henry Ford’s quote, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t – you’re right”. After completing her articles at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Cape Town she worked for a well-known South African retail company in the financial reporting environment. She also lectured financial accounting at Stellenbosch University and completed her MCom degree in 2015.
Outside of work, Rikkie loves the outdoors and spending time with her family.
Coffee preference: Medium strength with hot milk and one sweetener.
Madeleine Voges CA(SA)
IFRS, Caseware, XBRL
Madeleine is one of our IFRS and Caseware specialists. She is a chartered accountant with 12 years of experience in statutory audit and financial reporting. After qualifying and completing her articles at Mazars Cape Town, she worked in London for 3 years as a financial accountant whilst traveling and exploring Europe.
Outside of work she loves spending time outdoors with her family and whenever she can she takes a break to return “home” to the Karoo.
Coffee preference: Tea, please.
Jeanne Botha CGMA
Royalties, Management Accounts
Jeanne is a chartered management accountant with over 15 years of experience in finance. She gained valuable operational and finance experience working at a major retail company in South Africa. Since 2013 she has been involved in the royalty compliance environment for Zero30’s sister company, Touwi Consulting, gaining extensive experience in the royalty environment from an audit, contractual, compliance and process point of view.
Outside of work Jeanne enjoys baking delectable cakes for her family and friends. She enjoys a challenging hike with her husband and children and takes a daily splash in the ocean depending on the weather.
Coffee preference: Medium strength with hot milk and no sugar.
Jeanette van Vuuren
IFRS, Caseware, XBRL
Jeanette started at Zero30 as a maternity cover and after 2 years she is still here. Jeanette did her articles at KPMG Cape Town, but very quickly realised she is more suited to the operational and reporting side of a business. After spending a year at the BBC in London, she moved back to Cape Town where she spent more than a decade in logistics and retail before retiring from the relentless corporate demands.
Outside of work she spends her free time playing Lego with her two boys, reading as many books as time allows and hosting cross-cultural conversational dinners.
Coffee preference: Lots of it!