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Kgabo Badimo
Tel: (011) 266-1867
Fax:(011)266-1825
Kgabo Badimo is CEO and chairman of technology
company Spescom Datavoico. The company markets mul-
timedia voice-transaction recording products around the
world. Badimo is the former GM for public services ;md
director for strategic business development at SAP busi-
ness software. Prior to that, he was CEO of Kunjam
Telecom. Between 2001 and 2003. Badimo served as
group executive: customer relations and executive di-
rector at MTN.
He has a 8Sc in computer science from the University of
the North, an honours degree from France's Universite de
Caen and a master's in data engineering from Keele
University in the UK. He's also completed an executive
leadership diploma at Unisa and n diploma fcl business
administration at Wits Business School.
Siliso Dabengwa
Tel: (011)912-4044
Fax:(011)912-4045
Sifiso Dabengwa is group COO of MTN and serves as the
company's vice-president of the South and East Africa
region. He previously served as CEO of the Nigerian
business, where he is now director, after a stint as MO of
MTN SA.
Before joining the telecom company in 1999. Dabengwa
headed Eskom's distribution division, where he controlled
a multibillion-rand budget in a division employing 17 000
people and generating revenues of more than R20bn/year.
Dabengwa is the former chairman of the Dawn Suite Hotel
Group. He previously served on the boards of Peermont
Global and Impala Platinum Holdings.
Dabengwa is an electrical engineer by training. He ob-
tained his junior degree in engineering from the University
of Zimbabwe, and has a Wits MBA.
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Hasmukh Gajjar
Tel: (021) 555-6245
Fax: (021)529-5305
Hasmukh Gajjar is deputy CEO of Faritec. a listed blnck IT
company, a position he has held since 2003. In the same
year, he became the chairman ol the ,ia domain name
authority after spending two years as the CEO and
director of Consilience Technologies.
Gajjar trained as 3 medical doctor but moved into IT when
he established HNR Computers in 1989. He also formed
Zimele Technologies and later integrated it into Ndizani
Technologies, a consortium of five black IT companies.
Gajjar was chairman of Vodacom (1997-2000) and has also
been president of the Black Business Council. He is
director of the SA Communications Forum.
Gajjar has an MB ChB from the University of Cape Town.
left Molobela
Tel: (012) 311-2260
Fax: (012) 325-3397
Jeff Molobela replaces Shirley Arnold as Telkom chairman.
He assumes the nonexecutive role with effect from
November 2009. He has served on various company
boards and also has experience of working with state-
owned entities, having previously been on the board of
Transnet and consulted for military equipment man-
ufacturer Denel add defence solutions entity Armscor.
Other previous board positions include Africon En-
gincenng. Pnmegio. CBS Properties. Growthpoint Prop-
erties and DeciIion
Molobela also serves on the boards of Concorde Foundry
Vereeniging. N3TC and Cashbuild.
He holds a BSc Hons in engineering from Imperial College.
London University, and an MBA from Imperial College
Business School It 'he same institution.
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Paris Msshile
Alex Malhole
Tel: (Oil) 566-3003
Fax: {011) 566-3004
Paris Mashile is chairman of the Independent Com-
munications Authority of SA (Icasa). He succeeded Mandla
Langa as the organisation's chairman in 2005 after a year's
stint as its councillor.
Before joining the media & telecommunications regulator.
Mashile was the director of infrastructure & development
for the Rustenburg local municipality and has also worked
for Siemens. Rcunert and Rand Water. In the 1980s he
was a physics lecturer at the University of Botswana
before joining Amoro Technology in the US.
Mashile holds a BSc Hons in physics & electronics en-
gineering from Leeds University, an MSc in physics from
the University of Lancaster and an MSc in electrical
engineering from Washington University in St Louis (US).
His tenure as the authorities' chairman is due to end in
June 2010.
Tel: (011) 652-2126
Fax:(011)652-2130
Alex Motshwanetsi Mathole is executive director and
general counsel at Siemens Southern Africa, a position she
was appointed to in 2008 after suiting out at the hi-tech
multinational firm as its company secretary in 2006.
Mathole previously worked for Securicor. for five years. At
the time of her departure she was national human
resources director.
Mathole is on the boards of Siemens in the following
jurisdictions: SA. Botswana. Mozambique. Tanzania.
Namibia and Kenya. In 2003. she was elected chair of the
Security Industry Alliance. She also worked for Omega
Risk Solutions before pursuing her own business venture.
Mathole obtained her BJuris from the University of the
Western Cape and an LLB from Wits, and is reading for an
LLM with the same university. She also boasts a certificate
in general management from Siemens Global Leadership
Excellence Centre in Fcldafing. Germany.
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Tel: (011) 602-9007
Fax: (011) 602-9003
Mthunzi Mdwabai is CEO of Torque-IT. an IT training
company. Mdwaba. a qualified lawyer, has spent most of
his career in IT. as nonexecutive chairman of Lithatech.
Soureecom Tecor and Talknet Africa. He holds other
prominent positions and is national chairman o' the Black
Information Technology Forum. He has also been
legal services manager at Southern Sun and CEO of
Pnmedia Music.
Mdwaba was reappointed by the minister of labour to the
Social Plan & Productivity Advisory Council of Productivity
SA. He is also an approved member of the governing body
of the International Labour' Organisation. His achievements
include winning the 2008 Top Black Businessman of the
Year award, while in 200? he led Torque IT to win the
Best Skills Provider accolade. He has a BA LLB from Wits.
Tel: (011) 295-9683
Fax: (011) 294-9683
Nombutelo "Pinky" Moho'i's appointment as managing
director of Telkom SA marks her second stmt with a
company she first joined in 1994. She first joined the
telecom giant as GM of the payphone business. Her
acumen catapulted her through the ranks and in 2000 she
look over as the chief sales & marketing officer but left in
2005. the same year m which she had been widely tipped
to become CEO. Between 2006 and early 2009 she was
director of group strategy & corporate affairs at Nedbank.
her first financial services appointment.
An engineer by training. Moholi has held various leadership
positions in the hi-tech and telecom industry and served at
GEC. Siemens and Matla Trust. She has a BSc engineering
(electrical & electronic) degree from UCT and completed
the strategic marketing management programme from
Harvard and a senior executive programme from Stanford
Business School. She is a director of AVI.
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Sebiletso Mokuiie-Matanane
Benjamin Mophatlane
Tel: (011)691-7069
Fax: (011) 691-7127
Sebiletso Mokone-Matabane is CEO of state-owned multi-
media and telecom company Sentech.
She serves on the presidential commission on information
society & development and the supervisory board of the
Co-operation Framework on Innovation Systems between
Finland and SA. Mokone-Matabane is deputy chair of the
Unisa council, chair of the Market Theatre council and a
member of the SA Council for Space Affairs.
She was co-chair of the IBA (forerunner to Icasa). project
manager of the tertiary education support programme and
has served on several government-appointed task teams.
Mokone-Matabane holds a BA in political science, an MSc
(radio & television) from Syracuse University and a PhD
(educational administration) from the University of Texas.
In 2004 she won the Black Business Quarterly's Busi-
nesswoman of the Year award and in 2007 was named
SA's most influential businesswoman in ICT.
Tel: (011) 266-5986
Fax: (011)266-5501
Benjamin Mophatlane is CEO of JSE-listcd Business Con-
nexion, one of SA's largest empowered ICT companies.
He started his career at KPMG before establishing a
company called Software Connection. Its name was later
changed to Business Connexion after it merged with
Seattle Solutions. In 2003. Business Connexion bought a
stake in a predominantly white IT company. Comparex
Africa, in a move seen at the time as one of the most
significant in the IT sector.
Mophatlane has been presented with many awards, in-
cluding the IT Personality of the Year 2002. He is a
member of the Black Management Forum, the Black
Information Technology Forum and Electronic Industries
Federation of SA.
He holds a BCom degree from the University of Pretoria.
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Peter Moyo
Ttiami Mtsltal
Tel: (Oil) 783-3824
Fax: (086) 541-9871
Peter Moyo is chairman of the Vodacom Group. He is also
executive director and shareholder of investment firm
Amabubesi Group. Moyo has extensive experience in the
financial services sector and started Amabubesi with
partners Sango Ntsaluba and Thabiso Tlelai. The company
has investment interests in firms such as Pinnacle Tech-
nology Holdings. Oigicore Fleet Management. Basil Read.
Growthpoint. Stallion and Enaleni.
He is chairman of the audit committee of the office of the
auditor-general and a nonexecutive director at Transnet.
Liberty Group and Liberty Holdings.
This chartered accountant's career includes stints at Old
Mutual SA. where he spent eight years — five as the
deputy MD. After leaving Old Mutual he joined Alexander
Forbes as group CE. Prior to joining Old Mutual he was a
partner at Ernst & Young, where he also served on the
national executive committee.
Tel: (011) 676-6000
Fax:086-503-1106
Thami Mtshali is executive chairman of iBurst. a provider
of wireless telecommunications in Africa. Mtshali. who
cofounded the ICT firm in 1997. started out as its COO
before assuming his current position seven years later. He
is also the chairman of "Burst Africa.
Before venturing into the telecommunications industry
where he has served in several roles. Mtshali was in the
petrochemicals industry. He worked at Sasol after spend-
ing a few years at Goodyear in the US. Texaco New York
and Foster Wheeler in Texas.
Mtshali is a trustee of the Jacob Zuma P.DP Education
Trust and a cofounder and trustee of the Hugh Masekela
Academy & Entertainment Centre in Johannesburg.
Mtshali has a BSc in chemical engineering (cum loudc) from
Tuskegee University and an MSc from Akron University.
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Andile NRcaba
Inana Nk,mz;i
Tel: (Oil) SSO-5330
Fax: (ON) SS0-S32I
Andile Ngcaba is chairman of Convergence Partners and
executive chairman of Dimension Data Middle East &
Africa. Convergence Partners is Ngcaba's exclusive in-
vestment company with an interest in the telecom-
munications, media and technology (TMT) sectors.
Ngcaba, a former department of communications DG. and
businesswoman Gloria Serobe were lead figures in the
Elephant Consortium, which in 2005 controversially ac-
quired a 6.6% stake in Telkom.
Ngcaba helped establish the Digitisation & Remanu-
facturing Institute of SA. a nonprofit computer-recycling
project in East London.
He holds an MCom in information systems from Wits, an
honorary doctorate from Fort Hare and has also obtained
management diplomas from Stanford and the National
University of Singapore.
Tel: (011) 256-6300
Fax:(0ll)805-8S99
Inana Nkanza is the MD of Sun Microsystems SA. the local
subsidiary of the US computer and software company.
Nkania has more than a decade of experience in the
technology industry. He joined Sun Microsystems in 2008.
after the company's announcement that it was developing
a new strategy to expand into emerging markets. SA forms
part of thi; new sales region.
Prior to joining Sun, Nkanza ran his own IT company.
iLayo. which he started in 2002. Before that he
was business unit manager for BMC Software at MGX.
and sales manager at Computer Configurations
Holdings. He has also worked in various positions
at CA (formerly Computer Associates) and Q Data (now
Business Connexion).
Nkan?a has a diploma in computer science.
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Mieto Nyali
Tel: (011) 361-7225
Fax: (Oil) 361-8486
Mteto Nyati is the managing director ol Microsoft SA.
He joined the company in 2008 after a 12-year career at
IBM He was a director of IBM's SA operations, director of
IBM Global Technology Services for South & Central
Africa, director of small & medium business (5MB)
channels for Europe. Middle East and Africa at IBM's
European headquarters in Paris and. before that, head of
the 5MB and telecommunication business units at IBM SA.
He has also worked for Afrox and Tastic Rice in various
engineering capacities.
Nyati holds a BSc in mechanical engineering from the
University of Natal and an MBA from Wits University. He
was awarded a Rhodes scholarship in 1985 to study
engineering in Germany but could not take up the
scholarship because of his mother's ill health. A published
columnist, he was in 2004 named one of Yale University's
World Fellows for global leadership.
Tel: (01 I) 234-9604
Fax:(011)234-9603
Puven Ramasamy is group CEO of Amava Holdings, a
technology investment company, with a specific focui on
SA intellectual property development. He is also nonex-
ecutive director of Peopletree Holdings. DnS Telecoms.
HR-Focus Holdings and the Thuthukani Investment Con-
sortium. Ramasamy is also an alternate director of Fujitsu
Technology Solutions.
Prior to this he worked in the merchant banking industry
for Absa Corporate & Merchant Bank. Societc Gcnerale.
the International Bank of Southern Africa and Mercantile
Bank.
Ramasamy has a BCom degree and has passed the first
cwo levels of the chartered financial analyst qualification.
Puven Ramasamy
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Ouma Rabaji-Raseihaba
Tel: (012) 311-4785
Fax:(012) 311-4753
Ouma Rabaji-Rasethaba is chief of corporate governance
at Tolkom. She )oined the company as group executive for
regulatory affairs in 2006.
Before moving to Telkom, she was special director of
public prosecutions in the Asset forfeiture Unit. She is a
former deputy head of the unit and acted as CEO of the
National Prosecuting Authority. Previously, she worked as
Gauteng regional manager for the Road Accident Fund.
She has served on many commissions of inquiry and was a
member of the Gauteng task team that drafted the new
legislation for the provinces.
Rabaji-Rasethaba is an admitted attorney of the high court
and has practised as an advocate. She has a BProc and LLB
from the University of the North, a higher diploma in
company law from Wits and an LLM in constitutional law
from the University of Pretoria.
Jeff van Rooyen
Tel: (011)804-0850
Fax:(011)804-0855
Jeff van Rooyen is CEO of Uranus Investment Holdings, a
broad-based black empowerment company which invests
in the 1CT and financial services sectors.
He is a former CEO of the Financial Services Board and
was a partner in auditing firm Deloitte & Touche. In 2006
he was appointed a nonexecutive director at MTN. He
also sits on the board of Pick n Pay stores. Exxaro
Resources and Sentula Mining.
He serves as a trustee of the International Accounting
Standards Committee Foundation.
Van Rooyen has a BCom and BCompt (Hons) from Unisa
and is a chartered accountant.
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