What's Next with Aki Anastasiou

Shameel Joosub is the Group CEO of Vodacom and the winner of the 2023 MyBroadband Telecoms CEO of the Year award. Joosub holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science from the University of South Africa, an MBA from the University of Southern Queensland, and an Advanced Management Program certificate from Harvard University. He has developed a reputation in South Africa as an excellent telecoms CEO and i...

Greg Smith is the co-founder and joint CEO of OneSpark Insurance. He is a qualified actuary who designed dozens of award-winning insurance products, helped start a bank, and even contributed towards creating one of South Africa’s largest Social Impact Bonds before founding OneSpark. OneSpark Insurance’s main purpose is to continuously innovate for the betterment of its clients and the pursuit of a...

Kobus Visagie is the Executive of Business Solutions at Tracker. He is an experienced IT entrepreneur who has spent the past 25 years 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 e...

Shamith Maharaj is the Executive of Data Networks at BCX and has 18 years of global telecommunications experience. He has extensive knowledge in fields like project management, network design, network activations, network operations, network management, IT management, and service assurance. Maharaj prides himself on having built strong relationships with customers and suppliers throughout his care...

Justin Hume is the Vice President of Mobile at Samsung South Africa. Hume began in his current role 11 months ago and has 26 years of industry experience overall. This experience includes serving in roles like Director of Product and Marketing, Chief Marketing Officer, and Director of Integrated Mobility at Samsung South Africa. In this What’s Next interview, Hume explains how the newly-launched S...

Wynand Theron is the CEO and founder of iTried, an IT services and consulting company that helps start-ups, SMEs, and schools protect their cloud data. Theron founded iTried to share his knowledge and passion with smaller organisations and help them build secure networks. He gained this knowledge through years of working in the ICT, hospitality, and co-working sectors as an IT manager and entrepre...

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...