Meet the Founders

For over 31 years, Relocation Africa has been helping businesses and their people navigate the complexities of living and working across Africa. What began in 1993 as a family business inspired by a pioneering relocation journey has grown into a leading provider of bespoke relocation, immigration, research, and remuneration solutions across more than 20 African countries.

At the heart of our success is our people-focused approach – ensuring every client, assignee, and partner feels supported, informed, and empowered throughout their journey.

René Stegmann

Founder

MBA (Strategic Marketing) – Thesis on hurdles and costs relating to expats in Africa (2000); Qualified through Worldwide ERC with their Global Mobility Specialist (GMS) programme

Experienced Director with a demonstrated history of working in the Mobility, Research and Immigration industry. An Entrepreneur at heart, with a passion for Africa. Skilled in Negotiation, HR Consulting, Coaching, Deferred Compensation, and Sales. Strong professional with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) focused in Strategic Marketing from The University of Hull.

René has run Relocation Africa in South Africa for 25 years and has a passion in dealing with International Assignees on the continent of Africa. She has developed and delivered many programs and services as diverse as migration, cultural training, and destination services on the continent of Africa. She has further started a second company, Global Expatriate Management, operating internationally but focusing on the continent of Africa, which offers Policy Development, Cost of Living Surveys, Housing Surveys, International Payroll, and Payment management. This company is now merged with Relocation Africa and formed the Relocation Africa Group.

René is foremost an entrepreneur who has many diverse business interests, and contributes to both the local South African Remuneration Industry by sitting on their committee’s South African Rewards Association (SARA), as well as infusing the Worldwide ERC with some African exposure, which has been a rewarding experience. René has recently represented the Worldwide ERC EMEA committee (2005 – 2006), ERC Global Advisor committee (2007- 2008), ERC Editorial committee (since 2006), Author for the Mobility Magazine, Speaker at the Global Workforce Symposium 2007, and sits on the SARA International Mobility Group (IMG) committee. René is the president for The International Relocation Associates (TIRA).

Andrew Stegmann

Director

BSc Engineering (UCT)  Relocation Africa Group

Andrew has been with Relocation Africa since 2002.
He qualified with a Civil engineering degree from the University of Cape Town in 1996 and went into the technology industry, becoming involved in database and web-system development.
In 1997 he joined Franklin Asset Management as the IT Manager and worked there for 3 years until 2000 where he started his own IT Consultancy business. He consulted to Coronation Asset Management for 18 months where he was involved in developing an online solution for integrating their clients’ offshore unit trusts with their local investments.
In 2001 he launched a business called GreenJAR which provided a solution for broker research dissemination into the South African Market. In April 2002 GreenJAR won the 2002 Microsoft TechEd Award for the Most Innovative use of XML globally.
In 2002 he joined Relocation Africa when he sold his stake in GreenJAR.
He qualified as a Principle Estate Agent in 2003 and in 2004 qualified as a Global Remuneration Practitioner through the World at Work.
Since 2002 Andrew has been managing the research and remuneration divisions of Relocation Africa. He is the Managing Director of the Group.