Azeem Azhar is an Internet entrepreneur and investor with a background in journalism having worked previously at The Economist and Guardian. Azeem has been active developing services on the Internet since 1992, as a student. He was involved in the launch of The Guardian, The Economist and BBC web services during the 1990s; as well as having a fin-de-siecle/Internet bubble escapade with an incubator between 1999 and 2001. More recently, he was has been an investor in Powerset, New Energy Finance, Daylife, Seedcamp and Dopplr.

After training as a Hardware & Software Engineer, I quickly made the sharp turn into Online Marketing. Starting off in Online Affiliate Marketing, I ran the OfferForge US and OfferForge ZA affiliate networks. I then moved into Social Media where I ran a niche social network called Designmind.co.za, dedicated to South African architects and their peripherals.

Once I got to take on the role as Cell C's Online Marketing Manager, it was a totally different ballgame, since the scope and size of the operations kept me, and still keeps me on my toes. I'm currently responsible for Cell C's social media activities, web platforms and mobi sites.

Yoav Tchelet currently manages the Digital Channels division of Avis South Africa. He has spent the better part of the last 12 years in various digital marketing roles and projects including founding a digital agency, working with some of the largest brands in SA and abroad and has been involved in a number of internet startups locally. He co-founded Ratesdirect, a pioneer in the local lead generation industry and Noobi, the online feed aggregator and is part of the in-depth, ongoing Social Media research project - The Social Media Value Factor. A keynote speaker at Ad:Tech London in 2010, Yoav has been an Internet Media Award Nominee in 2007 and Winner in 2008 and Technology Top 100 nominee in 2008. As a Digital Marketing evangelist, Yoav seeks to spread his passion for all things Internet and writes extensively for various publications and websites and speaks at various conferences around the world.

Nadia Boucher is the Online Brand and Marketing Manager for 24.com (part of Media24). 24.com is a network of popular digital publishing brands and online services across internet, mobile and interactive TV. 24.com welcomes almost 40 percent of South Africa's online population.

Nadia graduated from the University of the North-West, Potchefstroom, in 2003 with an Honours Degree in Business Communication and Mass Media and worked in a number of marketing and project management roles in the lifestyle, restaurant and media industry before moving purely into the online trade.

Nadia is an avid believer that there is far more to social media than Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and always factors in other networks, bloggers and reviews when gathering customer feedback.

James McKay has a Bachelor of Journalism & Communication and Masters Degree in Political Philosophy from Rhodes University.

He spent 5 years at Ogilvy growing up in advertising and another 5 at JWT getting good at it.

His total marketing experience covers: Brand Strategy & Positioning, ATL, Shopper, Experiential, CRM and Digital.

James is inspired by the agency models of the future, especially Quirk's.

I play in the social media space, creating application to engage online audiences. I'm a sports fanatic and I’m currently building fantasy and casual games which have social media integration components to drive the distribution model for the product.

Paul has had an interest in the internet since programming basic text based browsers at UCT. He made the career transition from his electro-mechanical engineering education to web programming while working in London in 1999. An exciting time, where he was fortunate enough to work for TransWorld International Interactive (TWIi) a division of IMG, that owned the official web publishing rights to Manchester United, Brazil Football, British Open Golf, Wimbledon to name but a few. For TWIi he also architected and developed the early interactive TV channel NOW.com that was possibly as many as 10 years ahead of its time.

A Nike veteran, Kemi kick started his career in 1999 at NikeTown London, Nike's European flagship store.  His role?  A cashier, a role that enabled him to have constant dialogue with Nike's consumer and gave him great ammunition to secure a position with Nike's London marketing team.  In 2007 Kemi joined the Nike South Africa team as Nike Sportswear Brand Manager.  His understanding of youth culture and social media trends made him a key member of the Nike World Cup integrated marketing team, contributing to the success of Nike’s social media efforts, as well as elevating and established a successful footprint for Nike in this important emerging region.

Vincent Maher is the co-founder of Motribe, a mobile community platform. Previously he was the portfolio manager for social media and the commercial manager for mobile advertising at Vodacom, the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online and creator of Amatomu.com, the South African blog aggregator and analytics system. Before that he was director of the New Media Lab (which he helped create in 1996) at the Rhodes University School of Journalism & Media Studies, the managing director of Digital Commerce, technical director of Bitr8 and a multimedia director at VWV Interactive.

Jaco Meiring heads up digital marketing for Investec South Africa.  He has been dabbling in Internet related stuff since 1997. His areas of interest and application include, digital marketing, eMarketing, mobility and social engagement as well as integrated marketing where digital link with print, television, radio, billboards and other off-line marketing channels in order to create more engaging communication across channels.

 

Daniel Guasco, Serial entrepreneur and CEO of Groupon South Africa – a multibillion-dollar global operation, currently the fastest growing company in history.An eternal optimist driven to make dreams a reality, Daniel’s aspires to build Groupon up to become one of the leading South African based e-commerce companies.Daniel has always been an entrepreneur at heart, starting his first business at the age of 12. Daniel went into corporate for several years, working both locally and internationally in the UK and Eastern Europe. After completing his MBA in 2008, he went on to start various businesses including Twangoo which is now known as Groupon South Africa.

Michelle Atagana has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. She has been hanging around the Internet since she was 11 back in proper Netscape days and even found a way to get not one, but two degrees out it. She blogs with moderate regularity and tweets with alarming consistency and works tirelessly at memeburn.com.

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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.

Patrick Kayton has spent the better part of ten years putting ideas into people’s heads.

In partnership with his brother, Barry, he has developed a unique instructional approach which weaves analytical and creative threads into a powerful tapestry for learning and thinking. Using what they learned from instructional design, the brothers created Cognician, a web app that helps you think by asking you powerful questions. (www.cognician.com)

Siphelele is the new, dynamic Marketing Manager of SAfm. His career background dates back from the Business Development Unit of the SABC, where he worked as a Business Strategist in Gauteng looking after Limpopo and Mpumalanga Regions. He has gained extensive experience and knowledge in the advertising and media industry, worked as an Advertising and Media Consultant on clients such as: Industrial Development Corporation, Revlon, Peugeot, Nando’s as well as a Consultant for the SABC in Media Placement and strategy before joining the Group.

Juan has a long history of developing success strategies for companies in the new technology and social media sectors and his drive and ambition reflects his passion for the industry.

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.

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After consulting to SA Tourism in a number of different areas, in 2008 William joined the Marketing Team at SAT as the ‘eMarketing guy’.

Starting out as a project manager at Rapid Blue Interactive as many as 12 years ago, William has been in the digital communication space since then working as part of agencies and global companies all that time.

Joining SATourism has been a challenge in that many of the systems and platform in the business, the online strategy and the online space itself have all been changing rapidly, which means keeping your eyes open for new opportunities, getting your hands dirty to fix things, and trying to educate and motivate people to take a risk and join you on a new journey – an eMarketing journey. William has brought a fresh way of thinking and sometimes a gung-ho way of doing things to the organisation.

Nic is the co-founder of mobile-web startup, Motribe. He is a child of dead tree media having studied as a print journalist at Rhodes University in South Africa.
He moved through top media organisations in South Africa and pushed in to mobile media at the Mail & Guardian. Subsequently he ran mobile social projects for Vodacom SA, a South African OpCo. Projects included The Grid, a location based social network and Legends of Echo, a massive multiplayer online location based mobile game.

Steven has worked in the IT industry since 1994, first as a freelance Web Designer, then for CiTi (Cape IT Initiative) and then starting with Fontera in  2006 as the Lead Product Manager. Since joining Fontera Steve has overseen the conceptualisation, development and launch of successful projects both for clients and Fontera itself.  In his time at Fontera, Steve has been responsible for amongst others,  Mobimii and MMAD (www.getmmad.com <http://www.getmmad.com> ). Steve was also responsible for Textstream's Facebook apps which gained over 6 million users in a few months.

Suzanne Stokes launched into the exciting world of ‘social networking’ at the tender age of 14. A talkative teenager with a passion for mIRC and web forums propelled her to later complete her Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences at UCT. From there, an interesting mix of roles including interactive event management, spirits specialist and whisky brand manager and Online Publicist for award winning South African musician HHP proved the undeniable potential of Social Media and she has never looked back since. Suzanne is now the Brand Manager of Social Media and Social CRM for MWEB and is responsible for all corporate strategic, marketing and social CRM activities undertaken in the social media space at MWEB.

Driven by a passion for software and problem solving, Wesley Lynch founded Realmdigital in 1999.  With over a decade of experience in the financial, business and software development industries; gained both locally and during his time in the UK; Wesley is deeply involved in producing innovative technology solutions for African and international businesses. Motivated by a strong belief that collaboration is essential for business and industry success, Wesley regularly shares his knowledge and experience through participation in various conferences and events focused on Tourism, digital content, social media and eBusiness. In his spare time, Wesley enjoys to travel with his chef wife, Sam, and their two children.

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Co-Founder of evly.com & Springleap.com. Founder of Techgater.com. Entrepreneur. Tech presenter on Radio 702, Cape Talk. Practitioner of Shaolin Kung Fu & Bagua

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Daniel attended SACS High School on a full academic scholarship and proceeded to matriculate with 7 distinctions. During his time there he won several prestigious awards, among them the Victoria and Van Staveren Scholarships and placed first in the Mintek National Science Olympiad. He decided to attend the University of Cape Town to read a BEng. in Chemical Engineering.

In 2007 Daniel founded LaunchPresence, a digital advertising agency based in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town and specializing in search engine marketing and optimization. LP grew from strength to strength and now boasts an impressive portfolio of work, with clients as far flung as London and New York.

Garth has a decade of media experience, including 3 years in the United Kingdom, ranging from outdoor to magazine advertising to digital media for both online and mobile. He currently runs the media team at Habari who are sales partners with Facebook, LinkedIn, MTV, BBC, Vodacom, Cnectd, Business Day, Financial Mail, Daily Maverick to name a few in the portfolio.

Predominantly from a traditional media background, Garth held a management position in the custom publishing division at Touchline Media for two years before recognising the need to move into the digital arena. He is responsible for monetizing the commercial partners for online and mobile for Habari Media and passing knowledge and experience to brands on how best to take their brands into digital.

Walter once farmed oranges.And cows, pigs and maize, he also taught people how to farm and grow forests. He bred a racehorse and raced it. He played Polo, provincial polocrosse and coached cricket and soccer. He ran schools and sports clubs and sports associations. He was a very keen flyfisherman and guide and is a photographer.He worked a lot in the motor industry for major manufacturers in sales and in marketing and for their advertising agencies he directed strategy and client service for the top agency in the country and worked on some of the biggest and most famous brands.He collected degrees and became the head of faculty of marketing and advertising of the major advertising school in Africa the only one to offer an international qualification.He used to be a husband and is still a father.He is an acknowledged marketing and digital thought leader, appears on TV and is frequently heard on radio and from the stage at conferences and his writing in print on paper and electronically.He knows that the analogue world has been replaced and marketing has changed. That people in this always on always connected world learn things, find things, connect, collaborate, organise and buy things in a new way. He thinks, writes, talks and teaches about brands in this new world.On the leading edge of the new world he thinks differently, his talks are entertaining, engaging and thought provoking and presented clearly with conviction. You may disagree with what he has to say, but you can’t ignore it.The world is changing and @walterpike is part of that change.He founded PiKE | New Marketing and seeing a need for skills also set up The Digital Academy the first ever to be accredited by Google.

Jamaaludeen Khan is the Founder and CEO of Jayz Internet Solutions. He has a decade of experience in building websites and forming online communities. He is passionate about the Internet, and about the possibilities now available through Web 2.0 technologies.

Being a people’s person, he very much enjoys public speaking and delivering seminars and workshops. He speaks at networking events, unConferences, and other events (across the country) on Web 2.0 and Social Media topics.

Brett has been working in the mobile environment for nearly 15 years and is deeply passionate about mobile and relevant technologies. He has worked together with MTN, Nokia, HTC and Samsung – as well as a stint consulting to a variety of mobile focused entities in SA. Mostly, he has spent his time involved in product technology and marketing initiatives, but most recently Development in the Mobile Application space for Samsung.

Brett has been working in mobile media and mobile marketing and advertising for 15 years all over the globe – engineering, implementing and selling mobile operator infrastructure from London to Mongolia. After a decade in London, Brett headed back home to Johannesburg, to start his own mobile media agency. Brett now gets to use his extensive experience in the South African and African mobile media market Heading up Mobile Ad sales for Google South Africa. Brett has recently been elected as the South African MMA Co Chair for the next year where our goals are to grow the Mobile Marketing market space, focusing on measurements, Standards Guidelines and Education. Brett is also passionately involved in the Mobile Monday Johannesburg Council for the past year, where we bring industry minds together and explore innovation. Brett's passions are family, freedom, the frenetic buzz of developing mobile technology, fine humour and, occasionally, a round or two of golf.

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Thibaut has been active in the mobile, telecom, software world for the past 10 years as an all-rounder from the research labs, to the telecom shelter, from core network to core OS, from photons to airwaves and from product management to community strategy. 
Over the past few years has been heavily engaged in the migration of the mobile industry towards a more open and community led approach to development and innovation,especially active in developing the Eclipse and Symbian communities but also supporting operators and OEMs devise their developers program.
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Hannes is the Chief Executive and Founder of Fundamo (www.fundamo.com). Fundamo is the leading supplier of technology for mobile banking and payment deployments. With clients on four continents and offices in Cape Town and Singapore, Fundamo technology runs millions of transactions each month. He is the author of a widely read blog on mobile banking and an active participant in mobile banking conferences. Having launched the first mobile banking solution in 1999, Hannes is often seen as the pioneer of mobile banking. Before Fundamo, he held executive positions in large financial services companies, as well as being a co-founder of a very successful technology start-up company. He consulted at some of Africa's largest corporations (including Banks, Telco’s and Retailers).

Bradley Shaw is the Managing Editor for 3i Publishing the publishers of the Africa Telecoms Magazine, having been involved since inception of the company and the magazine. Bradley is involved in the monthly editorial planning for the magazine and is actively involved in ensuring that the editorial content remains of the highest quality. Bradley is also involved in Business Development for 3i Publishing taking care of key African and International clients. Bradley was also a Judge at the 2011 Global Mobile Awards and judged the category for Best use of Mobile for Social and Economic Development.

 

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I am simple Zulu boy hailing from Durban KwaZulu Natal who is currently in search of a woman that can cook samp and beans the way my mom used to. Professionally, I’m the Facebook National Account Manager at Habari Media. My job is to evangelise and spread the word about how brands can leverage Facebook’s ability to enhance social connections to connect with their customers in a real and authentic way. Most importantly, my job is to help brands move social media from being an isolated execution, into a well structured strategy that is informed by the brand’s larger overall marketing strategy. I also get to spend copious amounts of time on Facebook and call it work…

Alan is the founder and CEO of World of Avatar (www.worldofavatar.com), a developer of mobile applications for Africans. Between 2003 and 2006 co-founded five companies in the mobile telecoms sector. In 2006 appointed managing director of iBurst, the third largest wireless broadband network in South Africa. In April 2008 published Don’t Panic, persuading South Africans to come home. In June 2008 founded The Trust, an NGO focused on assisting charities access skills and capital. . In 2009 nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Alan is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA.)

First National Bank (FNB) recently appointed Yolande van Wyk as the new CEO for Smart Services. Yolande and her highly skilled and dedicated team are responsible for the development of innovative alternative banking solutions a well as FNB’s eMoney business.

New sales manager to drive Acer's smartphone business
Acer South Africa appointed Gwen Goodwin as the Sales Manager for South Africa for its Smartphone product range, Gwen also manages the country’s boarder lying South Africa, Gwen was appointed by Acer Africa to bring their Smartphone division in line with its strategy to grow this new business in South Africa.
Gwen joins Acer with 15 years of telecom and IT experience, she has extensive sales, management and technical skills, and has a deep passion for the mobile telecoms market.
Gwen has worked with many blue-chip clients during her career, including financial service firms, logistics companies, food beverage manufacturers and the large Telecom networks.
Gwen comes with extensive skills in the Telecoms space with expertise of Private Networks,LAN’s and WAN’s (VPN),Satellite Connectivity, Voice over IP, Hosting, Network Security, ADSL Platforms and has extensive knowledge in the Mobility industry.

Dr. Roland Beckmann-Kunz joined Etisalat Group in April 2009 and is responsible for the Content, VAS and Data business across its footprint. Before, he served as SVP Content and Digital Commerce for Vodafone Germany, where he ran the most successful digital content business in Europe. He has been nominated for the Global Mobile Awards at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona.

CEO of Silverstone Solutions, Buckle is a B.Com Informatics graduate from the University of Johannesburg and a founding member of the South African Council of the Mobile Marketing Association.

Prins Mhlanga is Managing Executive of Vodacom’s South Africa Digital Media space. What that means is that if you’ve ever used any kind of communication device available, chances are very good that Prins’ portfolio has affected the world in the palm of your hand through mobile banking, advertising, content delivery or purchases.

He joined Vodacom South Africa in 1998 in marketing but his involvement with the Wireless Application Service Providers since 2003 has alleviate the network take a leading role in the enabling of Content purchases and delivery by third parties.

GSM Telecommunications Professional since 1994 with strong focus on financial performance management and game changing Innovations within the Industry. Highly experienced across various areas of the business, these include:
• Strategic Management and Operations Management, including Organizational Design and Structure, Simulation Models, Capacity Planning, Project Management (PERT and CFM), Just in Time Inventory, Quality Management, Compensation, Job Design

Robert has worked in the mobile industry since 1999.

He created J2ME Polish, the Open Source framework for mobile application development in 2004 and founded Enough Software to commercialize it. Today, J2ME Polish is the quasi standard for mobile Java development, comnmercially licensed by Nokia, Motorola, Qualcomm, Huawei and many more. As a service provider, Enough Software nowadays develops applications for all major platforms. This means that Robert has a first-hand knowledge of the fragmented mobile ecosystem- not only as a manager, but also as an experienced programmer who still enjoys coding whenever possible.

In his spare time he enjoys the company of his friends and family. Other spare time favorites are going to concerts of soul, ska or punk-rock bands and playing around with his old computers like Atari 400, Comodore 8296 or MCS Alpha 1.

Garmap Head of Mobile and Content, with the overall responsibility of running the Garmap Mobile and Content departments. Having started in March 2008 we have grown our Garmap for Mobile Navigation install base from only a few thousand to 100K+ in South Africa only.
Prior to joining Garmap I was employed for five years working at Leaf International Communication, having spent two years heading up Leaf’s African expansion, selling to mobile operators and partners in sub-Saharan African. Before I took on the African expansion role I was Leaf’s executive account manager on the MTN account looking after the http://www.mtnloaded.co.za portal, at time it was the largest mobile portal in Africa with over one million subscribers.

Simon Barber is currently CTO of ThoughtFaqtory, a unique software development company based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is best described as eclectic with an insatiable appetite for challenging the impossible.

Renier manages the Stellenbosch office and is also a shareholder in the Omniscience group.  Amoung other apps, 4i developed the hugely popular Powertime app, which allows you to buy your electricity vouchers through the app, ensuring you are never left in the dark.

Quality Software Development. I'm passionate about it.
Whether I'm training, consulting, or coding, I believe that it is a core part of crafting great software. Not just quality code and design, but also great user experience.
I try to spread this passion wherever I'm involved in projects and course presentations, maybe overdoing the sermons a bit at times...
For years I have been mostly involved in big Java-based systems, and more recently moving more and more into the mobile space, especially the attractive smartphone (iOS, BlackBerry, Android) playground.

A self-motivated technologist who can manage successful projects with confidence and certainty. Steer product strategy in business aware manner with continuous attention to technical excellence. Dirk is Afrozaar’s integration and hosted solution architect that does not stop until IT works. Dirk is an industry leader with a great reputation locally and internationally. Implemented Projects for: Old Mutual, Sanlam, Pick ‘n Pay, Metropolitan Life, ICG, Old Mutual, T-Systems Versant JDOGenie product architect (Java Data Objects implementation of SUN’S JDO specification) Eclipse plug-in architect for JPA implementations. Member of SUN Microsystem’s JPA Specification Expert Group.

Currently heads up Training and Consultancy at Quiver Tree House, which involves Mobile Marketing Training (Tier 1 Mobile Marketing Certification)  and Mobile Marketing consulting in compliance and regulations, currently focusing on The Consumer Protection Act.

Also is the Chairperson for Advertising Guidelines of the Mobile Marketing Association of South Africa and is the co-Chairperson of Mobile Monday an international mobile networking event.

Dr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is the founder of First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics Ltd (Fasmicro) which is developing medical devices, microchips and other technologies in Nigeria. He holds two doctoral and four master’s degrees including a PhD in electrical & computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, USA and MBA from University of Calabar. He graduated as his class best student from Federal University of Technology, Owerri (Nigeria), in 1998, and spent years in Diamond Bank Lagos. An Adjunct Professor of engineering, Babcock University (Nigeria), Ndubuisi authored Nanotechnology and Microelectronics that received IGI Global 2010 Excellence in Technology Research ‘Book of the Year’ Award

Steven Preston is Co-Founder and a Mobile Specialist at Cobi Interactive, the first South African technology company to offer custom software development for the full range of mobile platforms including iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian and Android. After completing his BSc (Honours) in IT and Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Management at UCT; Steven Preston joined the mobile VoIP startup Yeigo Communications. At Yeigo, Steve took up the position of Business Development Manager where he spent his time developing Yeigo's business relationships and sales strategy. Steve left Yeigo in 2008 and began contract software development, primarily for the boutique asset manager Mergence Africa Investments. In August 2009, Steve co-launched Cobi Interactive and has nurtured the company through a first phase of self-sustained growth; with a number of national media agencies, technology companies and well-known entrepreneurs enlisting their services. Cobi also developed the first and ninth placed entries in the Nokia Calling All Innovators – Africa 2009 competition. As a mobile specialist at Cobi, Steve focuses on iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Nokia Widget and software development. He also consults on implementing mobile strategies and how to effectively harness the various mobile technologies.

Wilter is a serial entrepreneur that is passionate about business models and innovation. His key focus is to generate new business models to disrupt existing industries and to then iteratively validate them through execution.

He previously founded Yeigo which was one of the first mobile VoIP companies to launch a solution into the enterprise mobile VoIP space. He formulated the company strategy and vision and then recruited two co-founders to aide in driving the company forward. 

Subsequently they raised angel funding and grew the company to 12 employees. He exited the company in October 2008 after a majority share was acquired by another company.

Currently he is serving as CEO of Virtual Mobile Technologies, a mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) backed by Mvelaphanda Group.

Yaron Assabi is an entrepreneur with a passion for ICT. He has been consulting in the ICT industry for the past 20 years in the US, UK and SA.

He founded the Digital Solutions Group (DSG) in 1998 which focuses on relationship marketing solutions using multi channel commerce. In 2000 he sold a 51% stake to iTouch prior to their listing on the FTSE and expanded internationally into the UK and Australasia. Due to the market crash in late 2001 he purchased the group back and refocused on the SA market.

Yaron served as the ICT strategist for the Nelson Mandela Foundation and is currently formulating the strategy for the 46664 global communities.

He has been involved in raising awareness and fund raising to fight HIV AIDS .

In 2005 he served as the technology director of Contact in Gauteng and (www.callcentres.co.za) a NPO focused on promoting the BPO&O industry in the region and DSG is still a sponsor of CIG.

DSG was recognised as a Top Technology 100 enterprise and won several innovation awards in the contact centre, mobile and e-business industries. DSG was awarded the Public Sector Innovation award for the most effective use of IT within government jointly with the IEC for its work for the Elections 2004-2006.

DSG was also recognized for its work for National Credit Regulator (NCR ) in 2008 wining the public sector innovation award .

Yaron is a sought after consultant and speaker on thought leadership subjects involving technology and new business models.

He provided strategy to Investec Securities on their ebusiness strategy and formulated the ebusiness strategy for Telesure which led to the launch of an insurance aggregator www.hippo.co.za

He is currently working with United Against Malaria to formulate their digital strategy .

DSG recently won a contract to become Discovery Health mobile partner and build their mobile health applications .

DSG launched a subidary in Kenya called Digital Mobile Kenya which is 49% owned by Capital Group and has engaged with Smart Apps to build a unique MHealth Ecosystem

Arthur Charles Van Wyk, a native Capetonian, is the CEO of Fluence New Marketing, a specialist digital marketing & communications agency based in Durban, South Africa. He is also the social media columnist for Airport Magazine and Founder of offline business social network SCHMooZ 2.0. He got hooked on the web when - as a BCom student in 1995 - he successfully put an HTML page together for his faculty. Arthur is passionate about people, technology and information and nothing energises him more than helping business owners use those 3 things to propel their companies forward and upwards.