Advisory Panel

The Advisory Panel, which serves this community directly, is drawn from the ranks of the industry's most experienced and respected practitioners in IT and related disciplines.

Allan Dickson

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • Bachelor of Economics
  • 'Managing the information Resource' course at Harvard Business School
  • Has written and presented papers at various IT forums
  • ex-CIO of two major retail organisations and held Executive level IT roles in financial services institutions over a 40-year IT career
  • IT consultant

Focus:

  • IT and the Business - Strategy, Value, Governance and Performance
  • The IT Organisation - People, Competencies and processes
  • IT Operational performance

Chris de Wet

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • Member Engineering Council of South Africa
  • Member South African Institute for Industrial Engineers
  • Ex CIO
  • Executive Management positions in Operations and Sales
  • Business Owner
  • Consultant

Focus:

  • Sourcing Strategies
  • Outsourcing Transitions
  • Business Ownership Transitions

Gerhardt van Wyngaardt

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • Chartered Accountant (SA)
  • Dip IT (RAU)
  • H Dip Tax (RAU)
  • Advanced Management Programme (University of Potchefstroom Business School)
  • CIO of financial services company
  • Business analysis
  • Programme & portfolio management
  • Independent tax & financial consultant for 10 years

Focus:

  • The “Business of IT”
  • General IT management practices
  • IT Financial management
  • Business and IT alignment
  • Development and implementation of integrated tools that enable effective management of the IT discipline within organisations.
  • Development of practical models that enable IT management & control functions.

John Ewing

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • Baccalaureus Procurationis (BProc) UNISA
  • Registered as a legal practitioner, conveyancer and notary public by the High Court of Zimbabwe
  • 10 years experience at an executive management level
  • Business owner

Focus:

  • Contract management
  • Project management
  • Tender mediation
  • Asset management

Keith Roberts

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • Electronics engineer with broad systems and applications experience
  • Founder member of outsourcing division of major ICT Group
  • Held executive management positions and directorships of ICT companies for over 20-years

Focus:

  • Reengineering of under-performing divisions and companies
  • Creation of solid and appropriate external partnerships
  • Building strong bridges between ICT departments and the business
  • Facilitation of strategic business interventions and workshops

Steve Edwards

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • BA (Witwatersrand), 1978, H. dip. Ed (Post-graduate), 1979
  • Member of Mensa
  • 12 years in Education.
  • Competition Tribunal legal team support.
  • Chaired several large capital tenders for government.
  • Global ICT Services strategy.
  • ICT Organisation Structure and change.
  • Facilities Management.
  • Former CIO.
  • Marketing management.
  • Direct Exposure to UK, USA and Africa.

Focus:

  • Communications technology
  • eBusiness and Web delivery, Web 2.0
  • Education and technology
  • Business development and digital inclusion for SME and economic development agencies
  • Coaching and mentoring

Bernard Koch

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • 10 years fulltime experience in executive level facilitation and coaching
  • Ex Senior Manager of Accenture
  • Ex CEO of company providing Billing Systems to the Telecomms industry
  • Shareholder and Director of Civil Engineering Consulting firm: Responsible for HR, IT, Marketing & QM
  • B Bus Sc (Computing and Data Processing)
  • MBL
  • Several coaching and facilitation credentials

Focus:

  • Change Management
  • Culture Transformation
  • Applied Human Behaviour
  • Executive Leadership Development
  • Executive Coaching
  • Personal and Team Mastery

 

Daniel Marais

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • Professor of Financial Economics and Econometrics at University of Johannesburg
  • Investment advisor to IT, petrochemical and aviation industries
  • PhD

Focus:

  • Employing (and teaching) quantitative methods to illustrate future outcomes and risks associated with tactical and strategic investment decisions
  • service package pricing
  • business parameter forecasting
  • financial modelling
  • business efficiency

Hartwig von Durkheim

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • CIO of large manufacturing company
  • CIO of IT company
  • Extensive practical IT experience
  • B. Comm.

Focus:

  • IT leadership and management
  • Information strategic planning
  • Alignment of IT with the business
  • IT organisation and governance
  • IT audits and assessments
  • IT performance and value delivery.

Mike Edwards

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • Founder & CEO of BooHoo Media Consulting
  • Digital Mobile Television business development.
  • Pay TV Business Development.
  • Consulting development of Internet video streaming and HDTV (High Definition Television) products and interactive television services.
  • Former CIO of two high-profile central government departments and of a large section 21 entity.
  • Former Technology Advisor to the Ministry of Finance, Department of Finance and SA Revenue Services.
  • Former Institutional Strengthening Consultant to the Development Bank of Southern Africa.
  • Former Advisor to the Northern and Eastern Transvaal IT Forums.
  • Direct exposure to UK, USA, South America, Eastern Europe, Baltics, Russia, Ukraine, China, Korea and Africa.

Focus:

  • Media & Broadcasting business development at a strategic level
  • Communications strategy
  • Technology strategy
  • Portfolio, programme strategies and governance
  • Coaching and mentoring

Richard Watson

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • B.Sc Hon in Mathematics
  • Visionary and CEO of The Loop Operations
  • 20 years Software Architecture and Development
  • 10 years Business Analysis

Focus:

  • Innovative and pioneering use of technology in business
  • Analysis and assessment of business processes and technology solutions
  • IT Infrastructure in the Enterprise
  • Technical due diligence for transactional assurance
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