Experience

Cybersmart

• South Africa
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  A Fibre Network Owner (FNO) manages and owns your fibre optic connectivity infrastructure. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) manages how you receive the internet services over the FNO's infrastructure, and further manages the speed and data frequency, we do both. Cybersmart (founded in 1998) is a leading, privately owned, first tier Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Fibre Network Owner (FNO) in South Africa. With Data Centres in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban, our fully meshed metro fibre networks are powered by premium Cisco equipment. This combined with our international bandwidth capacity on the EASSy and WACS undersea cable systems, enables us to guarantee the quality of our network. Cybersmart has a diversified, national client base of blue-chip corporates, industrial companies, small and medium sized businesses, educational institutions and home users. Our well-defined connectivity service mix caters precisely to the varying needs and budgets of our clients. We also service a wholesale client base of wireless service providers and other internet service providers. Cybersmart’s Open Access Fibre Network opens the door for other ISPs to access our fibre infrastructure and precincts, thus enabling them to reach new clients and grow their businesses.Cybersmart continues to build out its own fibre infrastructure and where we don’t have our own fibre in the ground we make use of that of other Open Access providers. We are able to offer our clients high speed layer2 services, fibre rings, route redundancy, circuit redundancy and speeds of up to 100Gbps. Cybersmart has earned a reputation for innovative offerings and has consistently been ranked among the top ISPs in South Africa by MyBroadband. We continue to disrupt the telecommunications industry and offer our clients flexible solutions with a personal service approach that sets us apart from other providers.



Kazang

• South Africa
• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director & EXCO member

  • Mar 2011 - Feb 2017

• Executive Chairman

  • Mar 2011 - Feb 2014

  Kazang is a leader in prepaid value-added services (VAS) in southern Africa. We help shop owners, traders and other entrepreneurs to increase sales and profits, and to grow their businesses. All of this by simply giving shoppers access to prepaid products and services that are needed and used every day.We trade through a network of 35,000 active devices in South Africa alone, where we process over 1.5 million transactions daily. Our vendors, many of them located in informal, rural and peri-urban areas, earn income with each transaction they process via our Kazang point of sale (POS) devices.Our products and services include airtime, data bundles, electricity, international airtime and electricity, DStv payments, 120+ bill payments, money transfers, supplier payments, and gaming top-up vouchers.We are constantly expanding our bouquet of products and services to provide our customers the best offering possible. This also extends to payment methods as customers are now able to pay for goods with cash or card, thanks to our Kazang Pay functionality.We have recently also extended our offering, as part of the Connect Group to provide automated cash vaults to our qualifying vendors. This ensures their hard-earned cash stays secure and allows them to become a hub for cash deposits, top-ups and more. We are also looking into providing small-scale lending options to our bigger vendors to assist them in running their business efficiently.Kazang currently operates in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia. We are part of the Connect Group of companies which provides solutions for businesses to grow and boost their profits.



Paycorp Holdings

• Business Development Executive: Africa & Paycorp Group EXCO member

  • Apr 2014 - Sep 2016

  Paycorp is an end-to-end payment solutions provider with best-in-class capabilities across ATM services, merchant acquiring and micro and bill payments. Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, Paycorp's centralised processing and technology hub provides payment solutions in 9 countries. Paycorp is an end-to-end payment solutions provider with best-in-class capabilities across ATM services, merchant acquiring and micro and bill payments. Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, Paycorp's centralised processing and technology hub provides payment solutions in 9 countries.



Teim Ventures

• Chief Operating Officer

  • Mar 2004 - Feb 2014

  Angel Investment and Venture Capital Company. A private equity partnershipfounded in 2004 investing in a spectrum of early stage start ups as well as mature businesses in need of re-invigoration. Our co-investors and partners included Brenthurst Private Equity (Oppenheimer Family’s equity fund) and HBD Ventures (Mark Shuttleworth’s equity fund) among others.Some notable investments included Saicom Group, Clicks 2 Customers / Incubeta Holdings, Saicom Voice Services, Interjet Group (Maintenance and Avionics).



Saicom Group

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Mar 2010 - Feb 2011

• Chief Operating Officer

  • Mar 2004 - Feb 2010

  Southern African pioneers in GSM Payphones and Electronic Vending Service Provider, Kazang Super Dealer, Talk4Less, Copac Data Solutions, Saicom Mozambique, Saicom Malawi.



Kya Towers Investments (Pty) Ltd

• Financial Director & Sales Executive

  • Mar 1989 - Feb 2004

  Property Investment, Development & Construction. Pioneers of the mixed use mini-factory and micro premises concept in the greater Midrand/Kyalami area, South Africa. Our portfolio included Richards Drive Property Developments, Midway Commercial Park, Crescent Heights Commercial Park, Industry Road Development, Gallagher Micro Park, Gallagher Corner Commercial Park, Kyalami Business Park, Kyalami Shopping Centre, Grand Prix Business Park, Eagle Park, Kyalami Heights Business Park, Kyalami Riverside Towers, Kyalami Woods Commercial Township, Kyalami Valley Estate, SHGT Property Holdings, among others.



Forz Construction

• South Africa
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Mar 1989 - Feb 2004

  Construction - For over 30 Years, Forz Construction has Provided Excellent Services, Quality Builds, & Client Centered Solutions to a wide spectrum of industries. Construction - For over 30 Years, Forz Construction has Provided Excellent Services, Quality Builds, & Client Centered Solutions to a wide spectrum of industries.