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Panel of CXO Advisors

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.

Terry White

Principal CIO Advisor

Credentials:

  • Author of three books on the management of IT
  • ex-CIO of a large manufacturing company
  • consultants’ consultant in Information Technology
  • MCom in Information Technology.
  • Member of Mensa

Focus:

  • Leadership, innovation and strategic technology management.
  • ICT budgeting
  • ICT management
  • ICT value
  • ICT cost management
  • Benefits realisation

Bernard Koch

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • 10 years full time 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

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

Peter Tobin

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • 25 years of experience in the IT industry as supplier, customer and consultant
  • qualified PMP and PRINCE2 Practitioner
  • MBA and Doctorate in Knowledge Management
  • experienced management educator and facilitator
  • extensive management of IT-related research
  • published over a dozen academic research papers

Focus:

  • Portfolio, programme and project management
  • Knowledge management
  • ICT strategy
  • ICT service management and delivery

Craig Terblanche

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • Founder Solve IT Management Consulting
  • Founder MarketWorks Advisory
  • Entrepreneur with a passion for business development and the effective use of technology.
  • B-Comm (UNISA)
    • Business Management and Information Systems

Focus:

  • Leadership and Technology Management
  • Governance
  • Programme Management
  • Practice and Business Management, particularly in ICT.

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

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

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

Sandy Purbrick

Principal Advisor

Credentials:

  • B-Comm ( Marketing & Economics)
  • 30 years of industry experience on both the supply and demand side of ICT Industry.
  • Executive Director of Companies for 20 years.

Focus:

  • Internal IT as a Business
  • IT  Strategy, Organisational Structure, Process & Roles
  • Responsibilities & performance
  • IT Management Mentoring
  • Effective Outsourcing Management- From Strategy to Contract Management
  • Service "Go to Market"- packaging, marketing and sales.

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

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.

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

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