Steve Sidney graduated from the Witwatersrand Technikon with a Higher National Diploma in Electrical Engineering Light Current and went on to make a career for himself in the area of Test & Measurement. Initially he worked for Fluke South Africa, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of the American company. Thereafter he started his own business, which was ultimately sold to Altech, a large multi disciplined JSE Listed Electronics/Telecomm's corporation. Steve was subsequently appointed the Managing Director of Altech Instruments in the mid 80's, a position he held until 1997. After spending some time in a recruitment business, he elected to begin a management-consulting practise. All along, he has been actively involved in laboratory as well as accreditation issues. Steve was appointed a Board Member of both the NLA as well as SANAS in the early 90's and is currently the honorary Treasurer of both organisations as well as the Manager of the National Laboratory Association. In this role he is an active member of a number of organisations such as Eurolab and ILAC's Laboratory Committee (LC) and Accreditation Issues Committee (AIC), in all cases representing the view of the laboratory stakeholders.
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