What's Next with Aki Anastasiou

Wynand Theron is the CEO of iTried, an IT services and consulting company that he founded to help start-ups, SMEs, and schools protect their cloud data and build a secure business. He is an experienced IT manager and entrepreneur who has worked in the ICT, hospitality, and co-working industries. Theron also has extensive knowledge in data security and networking communication infrastructure, as we...

Titilayo Adewumi is the Regional Sales Director for West Africa at SAP and is responsible for managing the Sales portfolio for the West African Region for both General Business and Large Enterprises, ensuring quarter on quarter achievements. She has over 10 years of experience working in Information Technology, Public Health, Financial Services and Telecommunications industries in both Canada, Swe...

Dr. Ayotunde Coker is the Chief Executive Officer of Open Access Data Centres. Dr. Coker is one of the leading players in the development of the data centre industry in Africa and is Chairperson of influential industry group, the Africa Data Centres Association. Before joining OADC as Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Coker led Rack Centre to becoming a household name in Nigeria and a leading brand in...

Videsha Proothveerajh is the CEO of LexisNexis South Africa. Proothveerajh is a corporate leader who stands at the forefront of the dynamic South African technology space. Prior to joining LexisNexis SA, she was the Data Centre Group Director for EMEA Territory and the GM for Intel. She recently won the prestigious Woman in Tech award at the Africa Tech Week Award 2022 ceremony. In this episode of...

Stanley Dube is the Head of Cloud ERP at SAP Africa. Dube leads a team that inspires SAP’s customers to envision the full potential of digitalisation of their business processes. His team helps companies understand the path to harnessing the synergies of digitized value chains. Prior to his current role, he was a Senior Solution Advisor supporting inbound logistics sales processes across Africa an...

Colin Banks is the Industry and Customer Advisory Lead at SAP Africa, and Kwena Mabotja is the Global Director for Purpose and Sustainability Marketing and Solutions at SAP. Banks has worked at SAP for over 10 years and is passionate about helping SAP customers drive innovation through the use of the latest technologies. Mabotja is focused on cementing SAP’s commitment as an enabler and exemplar o...

Mpho Matsitse is the Head of Industry and Value Advisory at SAP Africa. In his role, Matsitse leads a team of highly talented industry and value advisors across the SAP Africa region. This high-performing team acts as trusted advisors to SAP Africa’s customers by offering a value-based engagement approach that helps customers advance their adoption of leading SAP technologies to unlock new busines...

Hardeep Sound is the Regional Director at SAP East Africa, a position he has held since October 2019. Sound previously worked as a Consultant at Deloitte in Kenya, and then as a Technical Trainer and Infrastructure Consultant at InfoSys in Ethiopia. He joined Microsoft as a Senior Consultant in 2003 and went on to become the Specialist Sales Unit Manager in 2010. Sound also worked at Oracle in Ken...

Scott Thwaites is TikTok’s Head of Business Partnerships for Gaming and New Markets in the Middle East, Turkey, Africa, and Pakistan (METAP) region. As one of TikTok’s first employees in the METAP region, Thwaites has been instrumental in designing and implementing business structures to generate revenue in these markets. Prior to his appointment at TikTok, Thwaites worked as the Head of Global Pr...

Makgosi Mabaso is the Telkom Consumer Broadband and Smarthome Managing Executive, a position she has held since July 2021. During her career, she occupied several roles within the IT ecosystem – including being the CIO of Faritec – before moving into the commercial side of the telco industry. Mabaso has now been with Telkom for over 10 years and held various other senior positions during this time...

MyBroadband editor Jan Vermeulen interviews Binance co-founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao ('CZ'). CZ discusses why he believes it's in regulators' best interests to licence cryptocurrency exchanges and allow local banks to work with them. He also gives examples of real-world uses of cryptocurrency outside of payments that markets like South Africa with already-mature payments infrastructure could bene...

David Behr is the CEO of Liquid Cloud and Cyber Security. He is a leading internet pioneer and entrepreneur who founded ZOL in 1995 and grew it into Zimbabwe’s largest ISP. He joined Liquid Intelligent Technologies as an Executive Director in 2012 through the acquisition of ZOL, and is responsible for building Liquid’s Cloud and Cyber Security businesses across Africa. Under Behr’s guidance, these...

Dumisani Moyo is the Marketing Director at SAP Africa, where he is responsible for leading marketing efforts across the South, East, West, and Lusophone Africa regions. Moyo is also a member of SAP Africa’s Senior Leadership team and the EMEA-South Marketing Leadership team. He has extensive sales and leadership experience in the technology sector and was previously the SAP Head of Sales for South...

Hylton Kallner is an actuary, business builder, and the Chief Executive Officer of Discovery Bank. He has been a part of the Discovery ecosystem since 1996, and he has served in multiple executive positions during this time. Kallner began his Discovery journey as a key part of various marketing, actuarial, and strategic projects before becoming the company’s Chief Marketing Officer in 2006. He the...

Emad Haffar is the Head of Technical Experts for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa at Kaspersky. He is responsible for managing and guiding a team of system engineers whose goals are to support and grow Kaspersky’s enterprise business in these regions. He oversees large strategic projects and has direct involvement in planning, designing and consulting activities for complex solutions across the...

Mohammed Manjra is the CEO of Zoom Fibre, a fast-growing and agile fibre network provider that will pass 100,000 endpoints by the end of June 2022. Manjra has been in this role since November 2020 and was awarded the South Africa CEO of the Year Award by CEO Global in 2021. Prior to his appointment at Zoom Fibre, Manjra was approached to start Vumatel in 2014, with the goal of deploying the first...

Ryan Ramawoothar is the Executive Head for Software at First Technology. He is an experienced business executive with 16 years of experience in the IT industry who has spent most of his career in cyber security and business management roles. Ramawoothar has a strong background in SaaS platforms, cloud technologies, and security, and is highly skilled in go-to-market strategies and market shifts. H...

Gareth Friedlander is the Deputy CEO at Discovery Life - a position he has held since January 2020. He joined the Discovery ecosystem in 2008 and has since held various positions at the company. Friedlander started this journey as an Actuarial Analyst, before becoming the Head of Life Technical Marketing in 2010, and then taking up the role of Head of Research and Development at Discovery Life in...

Stephen Coull is the Sales Director for Keyrus South Africa, where his leadership skills are helping to accelerate the growth of the technology consultancy. Coull believes that the most important elements for success are for businesses to have a true understanding of the issues their customers face, and for them to have an intimate knowledge of the technology solutions that can solve these issues....

Boland Lithebe is the Accenture Security Lead for Africa. He has extensive experience within the African security industry and is passionate about helping Accenture’s clients reduce their risk. Lithebe believes this is incredibly important in the face of the ever-increasing cybersecurity threats that organizations must manage. In this What’s Next interview, Lithebe discusses how businesses have ha...

Kobus Visagie is the Executive of Business Solutions at Tracker. He is an experienced IT entrepreneur who has 25 years of experience converting IT strategy into integrated solutions that give businesses a competitive advantage. Visagie has extensive technical knowledge of IoT, SaaS solutions, supply chain management, logistics, and various other technology industries. He uses this knowledge and ex...

Nitesh Singh is the Managing Director for Communications, Media, and Technology at Accenture South Africa. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry, and is focused on delivering digital business transformation to maximise scalability and performance in organisations. He has worked in a number of operations in Africa and has developed clear acumen of the contracting and governance process...

Kgomotso Lebele is the Managing Director and Technology Lead at Accenture in South Africa. In this position, Lebele is responsible for guiding Accenture’s multi-disciplinary teams as they transform and implement resilient modern architectures for their clients. Lebele previously led growth and sales in the South African region both for Accenture’s Resources group and for its Health and Public Serv...

Werner Kapp has been at Dimension Data since 2000 and is now the CEO for the Middle East and Africa region. He served as a regional executive for 15 years before becoming the company’s Chief Operating Officer in 2015, and finally taking the reins of Dimension Data in April 2021. As the Dimension Data CEO for the MEA region, Kapp has been instrumental in delivering integrated solutions to clients a...

Kagiso Khaole is the Head of Mobility Operations at Uber Sub-Saharan Africa. He is passionate about transforming how people and goods move across cities and is focused on building Uber into the biggest earnings platform in Africa. Khaole compares his management style as “akin to cartography”, as he is able to lead teams into unknown territories, help them find their “True North”, and - using both...