Complete Profile: Ant Brooks.
Ant Brooks is one of the founding members of the Future Foundation, a South African-based organisation specialising in Internet and communications policy and the administration and support of non-profit organisations and associations.
Complete Profile: Ariel Graizer.
CEO and President: Camara Argentina de Internet (CABASE)
Complete Profile: David P. McClure.
David P. McClure is President and Chief Executive Officer of the US Internet Industry Association, an organization he founded in 1994 as the primary US trade association for broadband and the Internet.
Complete Profile: Dr Leslie Cottrell.
I left the University of Manchester, England in 1967 with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics to pursue fame and fortune on the Left Coast of the U.S.A. I joined SLAC as a research physicist in High Energy Physics, focusing on real-time data acquisition and analysis in the 1990 Nobel prize winning group that discovered the quark. In 1972/3, I spent a year’s leave of absence as a visiting scientist at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and in 1979/80 at the IBM U.K. Laboratories at Hursley, England, where I obtained United States Patent 4,688,181 for a a dynamic graphical cursor.
Complete Profile: Jaap Scholten.
Jaap is a director at eNetworks, a medium sized ISP based in Cape Town. He graduated from the Cape University of Technology in Electrical Engineering, 1987.
His working background spans 20+ years in computer networking, from the Arcnet era to where we are today.
After a brief spell at broadcasting, he worked for Rio Tinto as a network engineer in the 80′s and then joined Dimension Data from 1989 to 1994 as Technical Manager, working mostly on WAN technologies, including the advent of Cisco into the country.
Complete Profile: Jack Unger.
Jack Unger is sometimes called the “grandfather” of the wireless ISP industry. Since founding Wireless InfoNet (now Ask-Wi.com) in 1993, he deployed one of the first wireless ISPs in the world (1995), trained over 3500 wireless industry personnel, served over 3000 client companies and wrote the first fixed wireless broadband industry handbook, “Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks” – published by Cisco Press in 2003.
Complete Profile: Juan du Toit.
As the Head of International Business Development and Marketing for MXit, Juan has been responsible for driving Africa’s largest, and most successful, mobile social network’s expansion into Latin America, South East Asia and continental Africa. He has achieved this by developing strategies aimed at unlocking the company’s growth in these regions and by forming sound business relationships with some of the world’s top telecoms companies.
Complete Profile: Lt-Colonel Juliette Whelpton.
Juliette has been a member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) for twenty two (22) years, and has eighteen (18) years experience in Crime Intelligence.
She joined the South African Police Service (SAPS) in 1989. During her career she obtained the National Diploma: Police Administration, a BA degree in Police Science as well as a BA HONS in Psychology. During 1994 she was admitted to the Commissioned Ranks of the SAPS.
Complete Profile: Maggie Verster.
Maggie is a passionate School 2.0 (social media) activist for teaching and learning and believes that educators need to incorporate social media tools into their teaching strategies in order to effectively engage a new generation of learners. She has delivered numerous papers, keynotes, conducted workshops and developed resources to assist teachers to effectively use ICT and social media for professional development and in their classrooms.
Complete Profile: Mike Lawrie.
Mike matriculated at SACS in 1957, and then served as a computer technician with ICL. He earned his National Engineering Diploma at Cape Tech in 1961, and graduated with a B.Sc (Hons) degree in mathematics at Rhodes University in 1969. He took up the post of Computer Manager at Rhodes University in 1971, and was soon deeply involved in multi-access computer networks. He earned his Masters degree at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1978, in the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He ran the Uninet network from 1994 until its closure in 2001.
Complete Profile: Mike Stopforth.
Mike Stopforth is an entrepreneur, writer and speaker who helps companies extract value from Web 2.0 trends and technologies to create smarter, more profitable businesses.
He heads up Cerebra, South Africa’s leading social media company which enjoys relationships with local and global brands – Toyota, Samsung Mobile, ABSA, GIBS, Microsoft, Vodacom, Touchline Media and more. These companies have used Cerebra to connect more meaningfully with their consumers outside the corporate firewall, and harness the full potential of employees behind it.
Complete Profile: Peter Coroneos.
Peter Coroneos was formerly chief executive of the Internet Industry Association, the national trade association for Internet commerce, content and connectivity in Australia. In addition to his role as primary industry advocate, political strategist and spokesperson for the IIA, Peter drove the IIA’s policy development work and instigated the formation of specialist taskforces to leverage member expertise in diverse legal, economic and technical areas.
Complete Profile: Richard Mulholland.
Richard kicked off his career as a rock n roll roadie, operating lights for bands such as Iron Maiden and Deff Leppard. From there he started SA’s largest presentation firm Missing Link, and co-founded 21Tanks, SA’s first perspective lab.
Complete Profile: Sean Riley.
Sean Riley began his career at Credit Suisse in London, where he developed tactical applications for the bank’s derivatives team. In 1999 Sean founded and sold his first tech business, E-data Trading Solutions, to a listed South African company. During this period Sean developed and released E*Trade South Africa – a South African solution for the US based online share trading business.
Complete Profile: Steve Song.
Steve Song is the Founder of Village Telco, a social enterprise whose mission is to make starting a telephone company as easy as starting a wordpress blog.
Complete Profile: Theo Kramer.
Theo has been involved in the electronics, software and telecommunications industries since the early 80s. He started his career with the Philips group of companies where he started as an electronics technician in the electronics development laboratory and finished of as a senior development engineer at Philips Telecommunications. Projects that he worked on included participating in the software development of electronic PABXs, and the development of a standalone intelligent Modem used for the remote maintenance of these PABXs. During 1987 he left Philips and formed a partnership to develop one of the first object oriented systems for the ERP market. This software is still in use today at several large manufacturing concerns.
Complete Profile: Wayne D’Sa.
Wayne started his career off at MTN Business (then known as UUNET) in Customer Services and Support, when he joined the company in 2002. From here, Wayne moved into the Sales Department and 8 years later, appointed as the Sales Manager for New Business bringing with him a solid understanding of MTN Business’s brand pillars.
Complete Profile: William Stucke.
Councillor Stucke was appointed in November 2009. He a founding member and Chairman of the African Association of Internet Service Providers Association. Councillor Stucke comes from a mining background, in project management.
William played various roles, from commissioning a Gold Plant (Project Engineer) to automating two underground Diamond Mines (Project Leader). He was part of De Beers’ biggest research project to date, that developed a completely automated diamond sorting house (“FISH”), using a number of in-house developed new technologies.
