Speakers

Emson Moyo
Chief Technology Officer - Gijima AST

Emson Moyo is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Gijima. In this role he is responsible for the technology strategy of the organization, enterprise architecture, project management and information management. Emson has 21 years experience in the ICT industry working for multinational companies in Sub-Sahara Africa. Emson holds B.Sc. Honors degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, M.Sc. in Telecoms Engineering and MBA. He is currently a doctoral student in the DBA program of Gordon Institute of Business Science and his research area is in leadership and innovation.


Jamalludin Helmi Hashim
Head of Graduate Studies - Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Terengganu Malaysia

Joined UiTM in 1996. Prior to that, he was working as an Accountant in several Public Listed companies including Terengganu Development and Management (TDM) Berhad, Larut Tin Field Berhad and Land & General (L&G) Berhad. He is a Chartered Accountant (C.A) by profession. His area of interest is Costing, Management Accounting and Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) tools, with focus on application in the Public Sector. His special interest is the Activity-Based Costing (ABC) application in the non-profit organization including higher education institutions (HEI).


Julie Tomlinson
Director Sybase - South Africa, an SAP Company

Julie has been a member of the Sybase team for sixteen years. During this time, she has been strategic in developing and maintaining the company’s pre-sales, product management and product/corporate marketing portfolios. She is currently a director of the company and heads up the Enterprise Mobility division. Julie holds a BComm in Business Information Systems.


Manoj Bhoola
Country Manager - HP Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking Hewlett-Packard Company

With a background in computer science and marketing, Manoj has been in the IT industry for over 25 years. He joined HP’s Enterprise Business in 2009, as the Country Manager for HP Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking.
Before joining HP, Manoj held a series of positions in multinational corporations such as Microsoft South Africa, managing business units specialising in servers and tools. He also held management roles in other highly regarded companies such as Tongaat Hulett Sugar, WordPerfect and Novell.
As a veteran in the industry, Manoj has a reputation for providing deep insights into market trends. He was a lecturer in Durban at M.L. Sultan Technikon specialising in Computer Science and Mathematics.


Mark Saacks
Managing Director - Numara Software South Africa

Mark Saacks has been involved in the IT industry for over 24 years, and the IT Help Desk and Service Desk sector specifically for the last 10 years. Mark graduated from UCT in 1984 with a B Bus Sc Honours (Data Processing) degree. He subsequently held IT positions at Old Mutual Investments Division, Maskew Miller Longman (a leading educational publisher), and the Seeff Organisation (a premier property group).
To date Numara Software South Africa has supplied solutions to over 500 organisations throughout Africa. With the Numara FootPrints service desk management solution and the Numara Track-It! IT help desk solution, the company is focused on addressing the service desk requirements of any organisation.


Monique Ferreira
Software Asset Management Lead (SAM EPG Lead) - Microsoft SA

Monique Ferreira has been involved in Software Asset Management for the last nine years. In the nine years Monique has worked with a number of partners and customers in developing their SAM Offerings and Competency, with a focus on ISO 19770-1 on SAM. Monique has her Microsoft certification for SAM, she is accredited by the Federation Against Software Theft as a SAM Manager and Auditor and is ITIL certified for SAM. Monique joined Microsoft in December 2007 as the SAM lead for enterprise customers and partners. Her focus is to drive and improve the maturity of SAM with customers and partners.


Patrick Price
Principal Consultant - CA Southern Africa

Patrick Price has over 30 years of experience in the information technology field in a variety of technical roles. Patrick has worked for large national and international companies both in South Africa as well as in England and the US. Patrick is bilingual; he speaks English and Afrikaans. Patrick has received various awards at CA, including a number of overseas trips for performance and has been with CA Service Management solutions since October 1995. Patrick is currently responsible for all CA Service Management solutions from a pre-sales perspective at CA Southern Africa. Patrick is a certified ITL V2 Manager as well as an ITIL V3 Expert.


Vaneshree Reddy
Inventory and Asset Manager - Siemens IT Solutions and Services

Vaneshree Reddy is the Inventory and Asset Manager at Siemens IT Solutions and Services. She has extensive horizontal and vertical knowledge in Service and Asset management. Her asset management experience over the past 6 years includes implementation of numerous asset projects including transition of medium to large customer integrated solutions. Vaneshree has several International certifications which include; Bachelor of Commerce Degree, ITIL V3 Expert and ITIL V2 Software Asset Management Practitioner. Prior to joining the dynamic Siemens team, Vaneshree worked 8 years at IBM where she gained in-depth experience in Service Management. At Siemens, she was instrumental in developing and implementing the first ITIL aligned processes, specifically the IT Asset Management lifecycle.


Vernon Vlok
Business Development Manager - Numara Software South Africa

Vernon Vlok started his career in IT service management with BOE Bank in 1997 as the Acquiring Help Desk Supervisor, a modest start to a vocation that in no time sky rocketed. By 2000, with Nedbank having acquired BOE Bank, he was the youngest ever, Electronic Portfolio Manager to be employed in this field in Africa and responsible for a client base, generating an annual turnover in excess of R140 million.
He joined Onsoft (Pty) Ltd as Marketing Manager in October of 2005 and with the appointment of Onsoft (Pty) Ltd as the official Numara Software African Agency, in 2007, took up the role as Customer Services Manager for Numara Software Africa. He now fills the role of Business Development Manager with the same company and has witnessed its growth from the modest reseller it started off as to the recognised Brand it is today.


Volker von Widdern
Managing Director - Risk Consulting Middle East & Africa, Marsh

Volker’s responsibilities include the strategic development of the MRC business units, and the implementation of management practices that support the global MRC strategies. In this role he has participated in various acquisitions, practice developments and global projects such as the review of client facing IT platforms. Volker is a member of the MRC Global Senior Leadership Group, based in the EMEA region, representing certain global MRC projects. He is actively engaged in the development and rollout of the specialist skills sets for specific consultancy practices in South Africa, Africa and the Middle East,


Wale Arewa
CEO - Xperien IT Asset Management

Wale Arewa is a graduate of the University of Greenwich UK, in 1999 he founded Xperien IT Asset Management, since then Xperien has become the leading service provider for IT Disposal in South Africa. He has developed expert solutions for several corporate clients in the South African financial services & legal sectors. With 17 years of experience in the IT Asset Recovery industry he enjoys developing best practice, sustainable and environmental responsible solutions.