What's Next with Aki Anastasiou

Ryan Martyn and Craig Nowitz are both directors of Syntech, a leading technology distribution company in South Africa. Martyn was born and raised in Johannesburg and has always had a passion for technology and innovation. He studied at the University of Cape Town, where he earned a BCom degree in Information Systems. Since co-founding Syntech in 2002, Martyn has been instrumental in the company’s...

Vaughn Naidoo is the General Manager of the B2B Technology Centre of Excellence at MTN. Naidoo is an experienced executive with a solid track record of working in the telecommunications, data centre, and IT industries. He has an MSc in Computer Science and is a veteran CMO, CDO, CIO, and CTO with a talent for disrupting the market. In this episode of What’s Next in Cloud, Vaughn Naidoo discusses t...

Dr Karen Luyt is a Consultant for Digital Transformation at BCX. She has held various positions in her 32-year career – from development and specialist roles to several management positions – and has extensive international experience in regions like the UK, Spain, and Australia. Luyt has also been active in the Doctoral Programme of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) – both as a lect...

Daniel Wilks is the EMEA Vice President of Solution Sales and Employee Workflow at ServiceNow. Wilks joined ServiceNow in October 2021 and leads a team of experts focused on employee experience across all business segments. He has over 20 years of experience in leadership and strategic selling of technology, including working as the Head of Public Sector Services Sales for Microsoft for over a yea...

Liziwe Maseko is the BCX Executive for Digital Software Engineering. Maseko has a strong performance history as a business leader and boasts extensive experience leading and managing various IT functions. She has been instrumental in developing, managing, and launching multiple market-leading IT products to deliver revenue and growth targets for large customer bases. Maseko has also demonstrated m...

David McDonald is the co-founder and CEO of SolarAfrica, where he leads a dynamic team that is passionate about solar energy savings. McDonald has over 13 years of experience in renewable energy project development and a BEng qualification. His technical expertise, knowledge, and hands-on approach are all instrumental to SolarAfrica’s success. In this episode of Driving Sustainability, McDonald ta...

Megan Nicholas is the Managing Director of Supersonic South Africa and has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. She has acquired numerous awards for her contributions to this field, such as Most Influential Woman in ICT in Business and Government (2016), Most Engaging Leader via the Telkom Employee Satisfaction Survey (2015, 2016), and National Female Leader Representati...

Sabahat Kazi is the President of Intelligent Enterprise at Nihilent and the Co-Founder of Intellect Bizware. Kazi has over 27 years of experience in the ICT industry, including over 24 years of experience in the SAP ecosystem. During this time, he has been involved in over 50 SAP implementations on both the customer side, and the implementation side. At Nihilent, he is responsible for its Intellig...

Antony English is the co-founder of Freedom Won – a company focused on pioneering the transition to renewable energy in Africa. In his role as a leader at the company, English is focused on steering Freedom Won towards its goals by promoting its impressive energy storage technologies. English has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town, and a Master’s...

Henri Fourie is the Head of Delivery at Mint Group, where he ensures that his clients’ modern workplace roadmaps are paved for success. Fourie brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the Microsoft 365 space and has career experience with Microsoft as a solutions sales professional in the company’s Modern Workplace division. He previously ran his own Modern Workplace business for over 6 years...

Phila Dube is the Chief Commercial Officer at Openserve and leads the network operator’s market-facing and back-office commercial operations. In this role, Dube is responsible for Openserve’s Sales, Marketing, PR, Commercial, Product and Pricing, and Relationship Management divisions. He has extensive experience in the telecoms industry, having been involved in the commercial departments of Opense...

In this What’s Next in Cloud interview, Aki Anastasiou is joined by Ahmed Mahomed and Sandile Dube. Mahomed is the Group CEO of Datacentrix and a seasoned businessman with 22 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been with Datacentrix since 2002, having joined to head up the company’s Infrastructure division. He was then named the COO in 2007 and soon took the lead as the CEO in the same...

Stephan Gilliland has over 12 years of experience in the IT industry and is the Head of Information and Cyber Security Portfolio at CoCre8 Technology Solutions – which was formerly known as Fujitsu South Africa. He has held multiple positions during his time at the company, such as a sales executive and a product manager. Stephan Gilliland is certified in sales and pre-sales across all Fujitsu equ...

Clare Loveridge is the Vice President and General Manager for EMEA at Arctic Wolf, and Jason Oehley is the Regional Sales Manager for South Africa at Arctic Wolf. Loveridge has over 20 years of experience in sales and channel roles at companies like Data Domain and Nimble Storage. At Nimble Storage, she was very successful in growing the business across the EMEA region. Oehley is a successful and...

Sascha Sauer is the Head of Audi South Africa and has worked at the company for 25 years. He has extensive experience in sales, planning, business strategy, and team performance management. Sauer is passionate about the South African market and strives to make Audi the premium automotive brand in the country. In this first episode of What’s Next in Motoring, Sauer discusses how he is using his 25...

Julian Liebenberg is the Chief of Cloud Platform Solutions at BCX and has more than three decades of experience in the ICT sector. Liebenberg has a talent for contextualising large services-based deals in simple business language and has a personal philosophy rooted in empowering people to achieve more than they thought possible. His specialities include Sales and Marketing, Solutions, Design and...

Morne Kroukamp is a Field Product Marketing Manager at Dell Technologies. He has worked in the technology industry for over 10 years and is passionate about working with customers to deliver successful business outcomes. He prioritises building long-term relationships with these customers that are based on trust and integrity. Brett Bygate is the Dell Technologies Brand Executive at Pinnacle ICT....

Sean Duffy is the Global Vice President of Cybersecurity GTM at NTT, a position he has held since June 2019. Duffy is responsible for the development and execution of the NTT Security GTM strategy and portfolio. He joined Dimension Data in 1999 and worked there until 2019, holding many prominent positions during this time - including Security National General Manager, Security MEA Executive, and S...

Rafe Pilling is a security researcher at Secureworks Counter Threat Unit, where he focuses on cyber threat intelligence. Pilling has over 13 years of experience in the cyber security industry and is recognised as an expert in the field. Pilling holds his Honours in Computer Science and Management Science from the University of Edinburgh and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Networking and Web Tec...

Colin Erasmus is one of the most experienced technology executives in the country and was recently appointed as the COO of Microsoft South Africa. Erasmus has worked at Microsoft for over 22 years and held several prominent positions in the company during this time. He was the Microsoft Tech-Ed and Partner Summit Event Technical Director for over 10 years before being appointed as the Business Gro...

Anton Herbst is the CEO of Tarsus On Demand and Tarsus Technology Group and has over 25 years of IT industry experience. During his tenure in the MB Technologies Group, Herbst has held multiple positions, including CEO of Advanced Channel Technologies (ACT) and Executive Director on the main board of MB Technologies Group. Herbst holds a National Higher Diploma in Extractive Metallurgy and BCom De...

Louis van Schalkwyk is the Head of Technical Operations for Digicloud Africa, a position he has held since October 2018. Van Schalkwyk is a Google-certified professional with qualifications in Cloud Architecture, Security, Collaboration, and Machine Learning. He previously worked at Grove Group for ten years, first as the Head of Deployments from 2007 and then as the Technical Presales Team Leader...

Andrew Cruise is a co-founder and MD at Routed – with the latter being a position he has held since June 2016. Cruise and two business partners started Routed to help large enterprises migrate their important applications to the cloud. They chose VMware Cloud Director for this purpose and have since built a VMware Cloud with 100% uptime. On this What’s Next episode, Cruise is joined by Lee Syse, L...

Craig Anderson is the Temenos Sales Director for the Africa region – a position he has held since February 2022. Before taking up his current role, Anderson accrued experience at a variety of prominent businesses, including Oracle, EY, and FIS. He is passionate about educating prospective Temenos clients on the benefits of the company’s banking products – such as its banking cloud product, as well...

Neal Botje is the Practice Head of Security for Dimension Data, a position he has held since August 2021. He is passionate about data privacy and information security, and has a background in problem-solving, critical and systems thinking, and protecting sensitive data for large financial institutions. Botje previously worked at XON as the Head of Information Security and Compliance for over five...