Guest speakers

	Bradley Coward - Group CIO, Sappi Bradley began his career in IT during 1986 when he joined international management consultancy Byrne Fleming. Initially his under graduate studies had led him first into the technical side of mining and then into more and more computerisation around mine planning and economics. Subsequently he moved up the IT ladder within various industry sectors namely Group Consultant Caltex, MD within Computer Configurations Group, Strategic Executive Edcon Ltd, CIO SABMiller plc, CEO of Oryx and more recently Operations & Services Director of online gaming group Derivco (Pty) Ltd. As such he brings a wealth of business knowledge both at operations as well as at a more strategic executive level. In 2008 he was appointed to the position of Group CIO of Sappi Ltd where he has served in a transformational role for 5 years.

	Francis Cronjé - Founder & MD, Фfranciscronje.com Francis is an Information Governance Specialist with a strong legal background and years of practical experience, advising large entities on the powerful impact of POPI. Apparently, his corporate clients refer to him as the “Cleaner”... He obtained a LLM degree from the University of Oslo’s Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law, specialising in Data Protection and currently advises Parliament on POPI, where he serves on the relevant portfolio, technical & NCOP committees. He is the co-author and -editor of Cyberlaw@SA and is the IAPP’s Chairperson in Cape Town. Francis also serves as an adjudicator and appeal panellist at WASPA and ISPA. He has written numerous articles and is a regular speaker on POPI and ICT Law.

	Alpesh Patel - Chief Information Officer Africa, ABSA and Barclays Africa Alpesh Patel, a qualified accountant (FCCA), is Chief Information Officer for Absa and Barclays Africa, based in Johannesburg. Prior to joining Absa in October 2011, as CIO for Africa, Patel was head of Equities Technology, Asia Pacific, Barclays Capital, since 2009. Before joining Barclays, he held a number of senior technology roles in financial services, across multiple geogra - phies including Asia, Western Europe, and North America.

	Dawie Olivier - Head IT: PBB SA BIO and OCIO, Standard Bank Dawie Olivier has led many different teams in the design and implementation of strategies and solutions of strategic import to a number of large corporations. He has been responsible for designing and aligning IT to group as well as individual company strategies, and has been the custodian of the successful implementations of these strategies. Previous positions include CIO and GM: IT at Sasfin Holdings Limited.

	Darryl Thwaits - CIO, Tiger Brands Darryl Thwaits has been with Tiger Brands since 1994 in a number of executive roles, including supply chain, logistics, finance and IT. He has held his current role as group CIO since 2004. hwaits manages a diverse team of technical and application staff. He has a chief technical officer, chief applications officer, chief governance officer and a financial manager reporting to him, and they and he are responsible for internal SLAs, project implementation and management of third-party contracts.

	Robert Boccia - CIO, Lion of Africa Insurance Robert is responsible for the IT organisations alignment to business, and overall IT strategy formulation. Robert also worked at Microsoft as CIO (south africa), and eventually as CIO for Africa for 10 years. Driving large projects. Developing IT and business alignment strategies, and growing the IT organisation into being part of the Microsoft sales story, he lead the charge of telling the story of How Microsoft run IT for Africa, and engaged with most of the countries top IT execs through this program.

	Lemmy Chappie - CIO, Gauteng department of Transport and Public Works Lemmy Chappie joined the Gauteng department of Transport and Public Works as a Deputy Director in 1999 after having worked in the private sector and having owned his own ICT company. Chappie says he realised government needed skills in ICT to increase the pace of service delivery to citizens. He moved to the shared services team in 2002 as a Director in the role of Operations Manager. In 2004, he was appointed as the CIO of the Gauteng Department of Finance providing ICT services to all departments.

	Robert Sussman - Joint CEO, Integr8 RobCo-foundedIntegr8 in 2001. He is the Co-CEO of the group, which he organically grew over a decade to become the largest privately owned ICT Company on the African Continent. With a single investment of R 300,000-00 in 2001, Rob grew the company for 11 years and sold part of it for R 126,000,000-00. He has been recognized globally on numerous occasions, winning countless awards. Rob is a qualified Electrical Engineer who has been named as the Absa Entrepreneur of the Year, Africa’s leading Chief Information Officer of the Year multiple times over, the overall winner of the “Oscars of the ICT Industry” ICT Achiever of the year, one of the top IT Personalities of the Year and a leading Entrepreneur in the Ernst &Young Worldwide Entrepreneur of the Year.

	Frans Cronje - CIO, Adcock Ingram As CIO, Cronje is responsible for the full IT environment from infrastructure to applications. He reports to the CFO. He runs a department of approximately 35 people, with additional 25 contractors/consultants on ad-hoc projects. His direct reports include an applications manager and a technical manager. Current areas of focus include completing the migration from legacy systems onto Oracle Process Manufacturing Release 12, and implementing mobile solutions for the extensive sales force.

	Melody Fourie - Group IT Executive, Tiger Wheel & Tyre Fourie has worked in the IT industry for more than 17 years in various management and consulting roles. Career highlights have seen Fourie covering portfolios within training, business analysis, and from programming to business solutions architecture, prior to joining TWT as IT manager and later joining the board of executives. Fourie’s key long-term responsibility is to focus on planning IT initiatives to ensure the organisation does not lose sight of the importance of IT. Her portfolio has recently expanded beyond IT, to include the management of strategic business projects with a key focus on aligning IT with business requirements.

	Dominic Cull - Chief Executive Officer, Ellipsis Advisory Services Dominic Cull specialises in regulatory issues in the electronic communications industry, acting as the regulatory advisor to, inter alia, the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) and the Wireless Access Providers Association (WAPA). He is also a long-standing independent adjudicator for the Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (WASPA) Dominic has extensive experience in dealing with ICASA.

	Kris Tokarzewski - CIO, Discovery Health Discovery’s business strategy is growth through innovation and therefore IT’s top priority is to design and deploy innovative solutions. Discovery is investing considerable resources to maintain a wide gap between itself and its competitors. As a result, Discovery’s systems are deployed in different markets and are being ‘internationalised’ to accommodate specific overseas requirements.

	Bram Schreuder - Group IT Manager, Arcelor Mittal Bram started working in the Steel Industry (Iscor at that time) in 1987 in the Process Automation field, in 1995 was seconded onto the Saldanha Steel project to establish a new Greenfield steel plant on the West Coast of South Africa in Saldanha Bay. Responsibilities included Tender evaluations for the Level 2 process automation systems, ICT systems and services establishment and the recruitment of support staff. In 2008 he was appointed as Group Manager Information Management for ArcelorMittal South Africa. Responsibilities include a distributed environment with services delivered at 5 main sites spread across the country and covers the full spectrum of IT services namely ICT, SAP, MES and Process Automation.

	Shawn Fisher - Head Information Management, Anglo Platinum Fisher joined Anglo Platinum in June 2010 as Head of Information Management. Previously, he served as the Head of Information Management at Sasol Nitro and held various other Information Technology positions during his 15 years at Sasol. Fisher also has extensive experience in business management and plant operations. He holds a BSc Honors degree in Computer Science as well as a National Diploma in Chemical Engineering. Outside of work he enjoys hiking, camping and golf.

	Nerushka Deosaran - Associate, Norton Rose Nerushka Deosaran is an associate in the technology team. Nerushka joined the firm in 2010 and specialises in information technology, e-commerce and privacy. Nerushka has experience in drafting various IT related contracts, such as outsourcing agreements, services agreements and licence agreements. She has worked on contracts dealing with the handling of cash and the cash services industry. She has also been involved in various data privacy matters.

	Dr Mariana Carroll - Head of Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence, Deloitte Mariana Carroll is leading the Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence within the Risk Advisory division of Deloitte. She is working closely together with Deloitte Consulting, Audit and Tax to provide an integrated cloud computing market offering. Mariana has completed her PhD in the field of IT Governance and Risk Management with specific focus on Cloud Computing and Virtualization through the Meraka Institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

	Rabelani Dagada, Head of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Sebata Institute of Consulting Rabelani Dagada is a Development Economist and published author. He lecturers Information Technology & Knowledge Management at the Wits Business School of the University of the Witwatersrand. He occupies senior positions in corporate South Africa. Amongst others, he is a Head of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) at Sebata Institute of Consulting and Development, President of the Computer Society of South Africa and Chairperson of its Board of Directors. Dagada has authored and co-authored books in the fields of eLearning, technopreneurship, telecommunications, and information system and is the Winner of 2008 ICT Visionary Award. He received the Award “in recognition of foresight and achievement in transforming business by adopting and implementing leading-edge technology.”

	Russ Opland - Associate Director, Ernst & Young Russ was an Associate Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) South Africa, leading their national privacy practice. He has over 10 years of hand’s-on information privacy and security experience as a Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Information Security Officer developing, implementing, and leading programs for extremely large, complex, and prestigious organizations in the United States. He has particular expertise in the health care and higher education sectors, and also in the public sector. Russ is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). He received his Masters degree in Public Health from Saint Louis University, and bachelors degree from Vassar College.

	Dr. Stephen MnCube - Chairperson, ICASA

	Rocky Gwewera, Senior Manager: Enterprise Architecture Development, Sasol Described as a ‘big picture’ thinker with a strong appreciation for the value that can be released when technology and business strategy are properly aligned, Rockwell Gwewera comes to Sasol after spending three years at the South African Post Office (Sapo) to establish and build the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team into an organisational resource as he did at Sapo. Currently working with a team of Six architects and a knowledge-base coordinator, Rockwell is rapidly creating the capacity necessary to assist Sasol to better plan and utilise its technology resources. Rockwell’s academic career has provided him with a strong intellectual foundation which he brings into all his work. With both a BSc (Information Systems) from Rhodes University and an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science to his credit, Rockwell understands the value of designing systems that work for an organisation, but also applying the necessary management prowess to ensure that people understand and support the changes that are necessary. Rockwell brings to any organisation experience in diverse industries such as telecoms, banking, mining and health care. Time spent in the Enterprise Architecture team of a large resources company has developed in him the understanding of the role that a well-structured and resource EA team can play in a complex organisation and enabled him to see in practice the benefits that can be derived.

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