What's Next with Aki Anastasiou

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...

Mlamli Booi is the CEO of Sentech — a position he has held since 2015. Booi has been working in the ICT sector since 1987, and during this time he has gained experience in business leadership, engineering, policy, strategy, and management. Prior to his appointment as Sentech CEO, Booi was directly appointed to the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Council by President Nelson Mandela in 1997...

Akhona Nkalitshane is a product manager at Rectron South Africa, and Peter French is the GM for Middle East and Africa at Acronis. Nkalitshane is a cloud computing specialist who focuses on ground-breaking offerings in this area by cybersecurity OEMs such as Acronis. She has over seven years of experience in the IT and services industry, working at companies like HP and Introstat. French is a pass...

Shameel Joosub is the CEO of Vodacom and one of South Africa’s most respected telecoms leaders. He joined Vodacom in 1994, where he served as the MD until 2010. He was then appointed as CEO of Vodacom Spain before becoming the Vodacom Group CEO in 2012. Joosub has played a vital role in developing Vodacom into one of the top telecommunications companies in South Africa and has seen the company bri...

Zaheer Ebrahim is a Senior Sales Engineer at Trend Micro, and has been involved in the IT industry since 2008. He is a certified Blue Knight with extensive knowledge in the security architecture and configuration domain, and has worked at New Horizons, Secure Data, Dimension Date, and now Trend Micro. In this What’s Next interview, Ebrahim discusses the 2021 edition of Trend Micro’s Annual Cyberse...

Ryan Noach is the CEO of Discovery Health, and Eric Peacock is the co-founder and CEO of MyHealthTeam. Noach was appointed to his current position in January 2020 after serving as the Deputy CEO of Discovery Health for over five years. Peacock is dedicated to helping people diagnosed with chronic health conditions and founded MyHealthTeam because he believes we should not have to face these condit...

Paul Basson is the Chief Financial Officer at Taropa Technologies and has been with the company since 2011. He is highly involved in the company’s daily operations and high-level decision-making, ensuring that the company keeps moving forward and aligns with its customer and vendor requirements. Samantha Swanepoel is the Operations and Service Manager at Taropa Technologies. She comes from an HP b...

Robert Paddock is the Founder and CEO of Valenture Institute and the co-founder of GetSmarter. He is passionate about helping more South Africans get access to a high-quality education, and holds many positions that align with this mentality. This includes Paddock being a founding board member of Africa’s first EdTech incubator, Injini, as well as being an executive director at Cape Town education...

Dietlof Mare is a seasoned telecoms executive and the CEO of Vumatel - South Africa’s leading open-access fibre to the home operator. Mare previously held the position of executive head of direct expenditure at Vodacom, and also rose through the ranks to occupy several senior management positions. These include CEO of Vodacom Albania, managing director of Vodacom Congo, and managing director of Vo...

Michael Jordaan is one of South Africa’s most well-known and respected business leaders, and a co-founder of Bank Zero. Jordaan previously served as the CEO of First National Bank until 2013, after which he founded Montegray Capital. He has since become one of the most respected venture capitalists in South Africa, with Bank Zero and Rain among his most reputable achievements. In this What’s Next...

Anton Ossip is the CEO of Discovery Insure – a position he has held for over 10 years. Ossip is also on the board of the South African Insurance Association, and is an actuary who has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry. In his time at Discovery Insure, he has grown the business from a startup into a top South African insurer, and a global leader in shared-value insurance. Discov...

Orediretse Molebaloa is the Regional Sales Engineering Manager for Infobip, where he is responsible for the growth, strategic management, technical excellence, talent management, and internal quality of service for the company’s sales engineering department. He previously worked as an Operations Support System (OSS) Engineer at Huawei Technologies, where he was responsible for the day-to-day admin...

Tim van der Berg is the Managing Director of Galdon Data, a position he has held for almost 10 years. Van der Berg previously worked as a Senior Corporate Account Manager at NSS, where he was responsible for new business development and selling core network monitoring and traffic management solutions. In this What’s Next interview, Aki Anastasiou meets with van der Berg to discuss Galdon Data’s ex...

Peter van Zyl is the founder of Canvas Intelligence, and Archie Marincowitz is the company’s Head of Business Development. Van Zyl is a business visionary with the unique ability to combine finance and technology to solve critical business challenges. Marincowitz is a strategically-minded senior executive who has over 10 years of application development experience, as well as extensive experience...

Devina Maharaj is an experienced banking professional and the Program Head of Investec Business Online and API Banking SA. She has a Master of Business Administration from the University of the Witwatersrand, specialising in business and commerce, and was previously Investec’s Head of Digital for South Africa. Maharaj has also served in the role of Team Lead for Strategic Projects at the financial...

Sean Sanders is the founder and CEO at Revix. He is also a CFA Charterholder and a serial technology entrepreneur. As an intelligent investment management platform, Revix is an intelligent investment management platform that provides its customers with simplicity and trust. Sanders is committed to helping these customers through the provision of portfolios and bundles of the world’s top cryptocurr...

Ricky Pereira is the Dell Enterprise Business Unit Manager at Pinnacle – a position he has held since July 2017. Pereira is an experienced technical operations professional with an impressive history in the information and technology services industry. He is particularly passionate about Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and the value they offer to South African businesses. In this episode of What’s Next...

Timothy Thomas is the Country Manager at Epson Europe B.V., a position he has held since 2019. In this position, he is responsible for the Southern Africa Sales and Marketing operations, as well as driving the growth and development strategy for consumer and business-to-business operations. Thomas is well-equipped for this position, having over 18 years of experience in sales and 13 years of exper...

Brett Orwin is the EHOD of Network and Collaboration at Nexio South Africa. He has over 30 years’ experience in Telecommunications and Information Technology, where he has recently been responsible for technical sales and consulting in three distinct practices: Security, Cloud Computing, and Software Defined Networking. In this What’s Next interview, Orwin talks about Cisco Intersight and explains...

Satish Nrusimhadevara is the Vice President and Business Head for Africa at HCL Technologies, and Venicia Solomons is the Senior Security Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Nrusimhadevara is a global IT leader who has 25 years of experience in IT infrastructure and digital transformation. Solomons is an accomplished professional who has a demonstrated history of working in the information and...