Aidan joined SEACOM as Head of Business Development in early 2009. Previously in management consulting, Aidan developed and implemented a number of launch strategies for mobile operators in the Middle East and Africa. He also worked in South Africa consulting to several Financial & Government institutions in fields including Lean engineering and Risk management. A South African, Aidan holds a Business Degree from the University of Cape Town and a Masters in Business Administration from the ESADE business school in Spain.
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Alison Gillwald is the Director of Research ICT Africa, a 20 African-country ICT policy and regulatory research network which is now hosted by The EDGE Institute in Johannesburg and funded by the International Development Research Council (IDRC). She has been responsible for raising funds and directing this multi-million rand project with the purpose of developing on the continent the data and analysis necessary for evidence-based ICT policy and effective regulation. The programme, now in its seventh year, covers countries in North, South, East and West Africa. She also convenes an ICT policy and regulatory executive training course in the Management Programme in Infrastructure Reform and Regulation, University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business.
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Andrew has worked in the telecommunications field for over 20 years. He started working with BT in 1987, where, in the infancy of the Internet he introduced a number of commercial services, including telebetting and teleshopping on PRESTEL, the UK’s dial-up view data service. He also worked in the cable & satellite TV division for BT at a time when BT owned 50% of MTV Europe (which they sold off believing it had no future) and several regional cable TV operations.
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Badian Maasdorp joined Hofmeyr (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) in 1998 and is a Director in the firm’s Finance, Projects and Banking practice. He became a Director in 2002. Badian is also an Associate of the South African Institute of Financial Markets.
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Sibanda obtained the degrees of B.Com and B.Com (Hons) in Economics from the University of South Africa as well as an MSc (Econ.) from the University of Hull (UK). He also holds a Certificate in Competition Law from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Before joining ICASA he held the position of Chief Director: Regulatory Policy and Legislative Development at the Department of Trade and Industry where he was responsible for, among other things, the review of competition policy, consumer protection legislation and company law.
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Derek Wueppelmann has over 5 years of experience in the front lines of the Anti-Spam industry. Derek joined Roaring Penguin Software in 2004 as a sales engineer handling pre-sales technical support. He currently manages the pre-sales technical support for Roaring Penguin as well as designing and developing extensions of the CanIt software for client customizations. Prior to joining Roaring Penguin Software Derek was a software developer for CNW Group specializing in Internet based applications.
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Dominic specialises in regulatory issues in the electronic communications industry, acting as the regulatory advisor to the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) and the Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) amongst others, and lectures telecommunications law to wide-eyed masters’ students at UCT. He has extensive experience in dealing with ICASA and has been closely involved in the development of the regulatory framework under the Electronic Communications Act.
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Angus Hay is the Chief Technology Officer at Neotel. Previously Dr Hay was the Chief Technology Officer at Transtel. Angus is well known in the telecoms and broadband community, and is a regular conference speaker at events related to telecoms and ICT.
Qualifications:
Dr. Hay completed his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of [...]
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Richard completed his Bachelor of Engineering degree at the University of Natal in 1997, and then joined Telkom as a junior engineer under Telkom’s Center of Excellence program in 1998. He then continued studying at the University of Natal for the next 4 years towards his Doctorate in 3G Communications.
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Ewan Sutherland is an independent telecommunication policy analyst. He is a research associate of the LINK Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand and also of the CRID at the University of Namur.
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Fiona has over 30 years’ experience in high school education, having taught in state and independent schools in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In 2007 she “retired” as Principal of Holy Family College, Parktown, Johannesburg.
She is currently employed by UniForum SA to coordinate the Co.Za Cares project, an innovative, social investment programme whose main focus is the provision of computer laboratories, IT training for teachers and interactive learning materials for under-resourced South African schools.
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Greg is a co-founder and the managing director of Switch Telecom, a next generation telco. Having always had a passion for the Internet and related technologies, he first got involved in Internet Service Provision in 1996 when he formed CyberSurf Technologies, an ISP based in Durban.
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Joe Botha (32) studied Industrial Engineering and Computer Science at Stellenbosch University. He worked as developer and senior systems engineer for IOL.co.za and Amazon.com. He is a start-up junkie, a founder of five technology companies and an old dog of SA telecoms and open source. He is a maverick with a love for design and innovation. His passion is being an evangelist for a few disruptive revolutions: free software, guerrilla networking, social media, lifestyle design, decentralisation and democratisation.
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Karen Wrege, co-founder of KB Enterprises LLC and founder of Wrege Associates has twenty years experience in implementing high stakes, complex government auctions of non-tangible assets. Beginning in the early 90’s, she developed the first combinatorial auctions for the US government, selling non-performing loans from defunct savings and loan companies for the Resolution Trust Corporation.
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Malcolm Kirby is one of the founders of Muvoni Weltex the specialist mechanized trenching company responsible for the DFA metro roll out and one of the founders of DFA. He has more than 20 years experience in the Data Communications and Telecommunications industry.
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Mike Silber is an admitted attorney and Policy and Special Projects Specialist at Neotel. Mike is also a Director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as an appointee of the country code Names Supporting Organisation, the first South African and only the fifth African to hold such a position. Mike is a former regulatory advisor to the Internet Service Providers’ Association and is also a non-executive Director of the .za Domain Name Authority. He is also a founder member of the Internet Society (South African Chapter).
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Rick Shera is a partner at top niche corporate, business and Information & Communication Technology law firm, Lowndes Jordan, based in Auckland, New Zealand (www.lojo.co.nz). Rick has a Masters degree in copyright and internet law from Auckland University, New Zealand. He heads up Lowndes Jordan’s IP/ICT team which acts for telcos, ISPs, new media companies, webdesign houses, software licensors and network providers/integrators as well as providing IP and ICT advice to business and corporate clients.
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Steve Song is the Shuttleworth Foundation’s Telecommunications Fellow. His brief at the Foundation is develop innovative initiatives to drive down the cost of access to communications infrastructure in South Africa and to promote a better understanding of its impact on social and economic growth.
MTN Business is dedicated to making your business a success, and as a Tier-1 Internet Service Provider operating one of South Africa’s most technically innovative, reliable and secure Virtual Private Networks, MTN Business is able to offer you comprehensive and integrated network service solutions that meet your business’ unique needs.
Neotel is South Africa’s first converged communications network operator, dedicated to improving the way South Africans communicate.
The ISP platform for Web 3.0. Data reinvented. Your business reinvented?
Global Technology Associates, Inc., manufacturers of firewalls that have lead the market in price/performance since 1994.
Vox Telecom Limited is a leading alternative, independent telecom operator, providing voice and data services to the Southern African market.
SpamTitan creates an email appliance server, real or virtual for your gateway. Ideal choice for ISP’s, allowing you to offer your customers the best email protection, with specific functionality designed for enhanced managed email offerings.
NetDay is a non-profit organisation that focuses on the installation of sustainable technology solutions in schools.
Avuxeni Computer Academy is becoming the premier provider of computer training to teens and older in South Africa.
Internet Solutions (IS) is South Africa’s most established and experienced Converged Communications Service Provider.
