Ian Puttergill, Director of Montana Healthcare Solutions.

 

Ian Puttergill is a director at Montana Healthcare Solutions, a privately held company providing technology and solutions to the Healthcare sector in Africa. Ian leads the company's efforts in providing affordable and accessible technologies to the industry.

Previously, Ian led Microsoft®'s Developer Platform group in Microsoft Africa, tasked with enabling Africa to become a global player in software development.

Prior to that, Ian led Microsoft's Startup Business Group in the Middle East and Africa. The research focused group represents the company's expanded efforts with new business models, technology solutions, and advanced research in order to solve critical pieces of the economic development puzzle in developing and developed countries.

Ian is very familiar with Emerging Markets, being deeply involved in the set up Microsoft's internal operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa between 1996 and 2003. In this role he used to oversee the company's IT assets and operations in over 90 countries.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Ian worked in the process engineering and defense industries.
Outside of his day job, Ian is a founding member of the Mobile Marketing Association (South African chapter). Ian also holds directorships at 18 Carrot Innovations and TrustaTAG Systems.

Ian was born in South Africa and graduated from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He and his family currently live in Johannesburg, South Africa.

______________________________________________________________________________

 

Sean Badal, Transnet Multimedia Manager

Sean Badal is the Multimedia Manager at Transnet, where he is responsible for the organisation's social media engagement strategy. He has an abiding passion for technology and has presented papers widely across the world, including at the University of Cambridge and the 1st Asian Information Meeting in Hong Kong. He has also written extensively for a range of publications, from the Financial Times to the visionary cyberculture magazine, Wired. He is also the author of four books.

______________________________________________________________________________

 

Gustav Praekelt, founder and CEO of Praekelt Digital

 

 

Gustav Praekelt is the founder of Praekelt Digital - a company that develops mobile solutions for emerging markets. After completing his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Philosophy, he co-founded one of the early digital interactive studio in Africa and was its technical director for 10 years.

His belief in the power of mobile phones to transform Africa inspired him to establish the Praekelt Foundation in 2006. A technology incubator that develops robust, highly scalable mobile solutions for social good, its programmes have reached over 50 million people across 15 countries in Africa.

Gustav is a passionate advocate of the idea that mobile technology should be available to all and is a frequent speaker at a variety of international conferences.

______________________________________________________________________________

 

Juanita Clark, CEO of FTTH Council Africa

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

Enginieer Sam Kundishora, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ICT Zimbabwe

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

Wayne D'sa, MTN Business

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

Emson Moyo, CTO, Gijima

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

David Meads, Country Manager, Cisco South Africa

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

Lee Naik, Accenture, Executive Director; IT Transformation and Strategy

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

Mark Walker, IDC Middle East, Africa & Turkey, Director; Insights and Vertical Industries

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

 

______________________________________________________________________________

 

Rufus Andrew, Managing Director; Nokia Siemens Network South Africa

 

Mr Rufus Andrew is the Managing Director of Nokia Siemens Networks ("NSN") in South Africa. NSN is the Global Joint Venture between Nokia Networks ("Nokia NET") and Siemens Communications. Prior to his role as Managing Director of the local company in South Africa, Rufus was the Head of a Services Business unit for East and Southern Africa. Besides assuming the governance responsibility for NSN, Rufus is also highly focused on new business development in South Africa.

He has a twenty three year career in Sub-Saharan Africa working considerably in the Broadcasting, Information Technology and Telecommunications Sectors.

He commenced his career as a broadcast engineer with then, M-Net Television. He then progressed through the broadcast signal distribution domain within M-Net /Multichoice, a Pan-African Multi-channel Broadcaster and was a key part of their venture into the rest of Africa. He later transitioned across from "technical and operations" to "business development and marketing" and was involved in initiating several ICT development projects in Sub-Saharan Africa with Orbicom, then a company of the MTN Group, a leading African Telecomms Operator. He has contributed to South African State-Owned ICT Enterprises where he served at an executive level at Sentech and Arivia.Kom, before joining Siemens Telecommunications in January 2006.

Rufus is a member of the South African Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SAIEE), Chartered Marketers of Southern Africa (CM SA), and Institute of Directors of Southern Africa (IODSA). He is a coach and mentor of recently graduated, previously disadvantaged, aspiring entrepreneurs and executives.

He has served on several ICT Industry bodies in Southern Africa including:

• Southern African Broadcasting Association (chairperson of the Technical Committee);

• South African Value-Added Network Providers Association (SAVA)

• Telecommunications Harmonisation Committee of COMESA Region (Common Market for East and Southern Africa)

• Southern Africa Digital Broadcasting Association (SADIBA)

Mr Andrew is passionate about bridging the digital divide in Africa through leapfrogging the Broadband landscape. This, he believes, will not only increase the accessibility of ICT services but will also be a key catalyst for stimulating rapid economic growth in South Africa and neighbouring countries in the region.