Welcome

The Virtual Planet team would like to welcome Japie Leeuwner and the rest of the Leeuwner pride to our zoo. Japie bought the Gauteng and the Free State Franchises and together with his sister Stephanie they are going to build a bussiness to be reckoned with. Japie and Gerhardt recently met and since then has become friends and partners. Japie is an avid Quad biker and together with Gerhardt they enjoy hitting the trails on weekends. Be sure to keep an eye on the franchises and see which one grows the quickest. Also keep an eye on the Blog as Gerhardt will shortly announce who bought the Western Cape franchise and also the Eastern Cape franchise. Negotiations for these two is on going and should be completed soon. There is also going to be a competition amongst the franchises to see the quickest growth rate and laso daily Hit rate, all these competitions and prizes to be annonced soon.

Tamara Smith

Tammara is the Marketing Manager of Virtual Planet. Her Birthday is the 10th of Ferbruary, and she said a true lady never reveals her age, so she has not given her birth year. Your guess is as good as mine as to her age. Tamara was miss York in her younger days, a true Socialite with plenty of friends. She loves life, and likes travelling. I think she is going to be a great asset to the company,

She is in charge of bussniess whenever Gerhardt is not availlable.

We will tell you more about Tamara (Tammy to her friends) in the near future.

The faces behind Virtual Planet,

Gerhardt Koch, born on the 27 December 1969.
Gerhardt is married to Linda Louise Koch and they have two beautiful kids. A daughter named Jasmin Gale and a son called Aidan Thomas.
Gerhardt was the youngest ever cadet in the South African Air force, he joined when he was 15 yrs old, in Sept 86 intake. He turned 16 right after basic training. He was in the Air force for 6 yrs before he decided to go travelling and seeing the world. He past by and touched many peoples hearts, minds and other body parts he cares not to mention. Any way he came back to South Africa in 1997 and started working like normal people do. He worked at Mossgas for 2 yrs and the got married to Linda, they moved to Botswana where he worked for DeBeers on the diamond mines. (He will tell you some snippets about this some time). Jasmin was born in 2001 and Gerhardt went off to Angola to work on the oil Rigs, he did this not to change nappies every day and to earn some serious dollars, he was in Angola for 6 years. Aidan was born in 2006 and funny enough Gerhardt changed jobs as soon as this happened. He started working in Nigeria for more money and less work, enough time to sit and ponder about starting his own thing and thus the idea off Virtual Planet was hatched. He is described by some as a "dark horse" his wife calls him a stud, not sure if it is because he is well hung or because he wants to procreate so much. He travelled extensively in his younger days. And has a lot of memoirs, he is sure to publish an Auto-biography about his life some time.

The Birth of Virtual Planet

The Idea of Virtual Planet was born in May 2008 and so the seed grew into an Idea and the Idea
became a reality when I spotted a Virtual Tour done by Omnivision. The Tour was stumbled upon when I looked at my daugter's School web page. I followed the link and started e-mail correspondence with Heinz Oellrich, the owner and creator of all my web sites. We met for the first time on the 13th June 2008, in a coffee shop and Virtual Planet was born.