Interviews - SME Tech Guru

A day in the life of Ailyssa Pretorius – General Manager for Uber Eats South Africa

Describe your job: What do you do? Which level do you occupy within the business? How did you end up at your company? Tell us about your journey to where you are today? I am a registered Chartered Accountant and completed my degree at the University of Cape Town. I...

Changing the texture of community life in South Africa with AWS cloud

Q and A with Luke Jordan, Co-Founder of Grassroot.

Women in Tech

By Claire Carter, Lenovo’s Marketing Director for MEA, chats about the business benefits of having more women in the tech industry and why Lenovo sees this as a priority. 1. When you started at Lenovo two years ago, you had spent nearly two decades in the FMCG...

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: FUTHI CABE, HEAD OF SME SEGMENT

WesBank’s Futhi Cabe got an early foot in the small business door, selling household cleaning supplies (in his local community and at taxi and bus ranks) to help support his family when he was only 14. Now the natural entrepreneur is using his wealth of business...

A day in the life of Wayne Flemming – Founder and Managing Partner at BRANDTRUTH//DGTL Integrated Content Practice

Describe your job: What do you do? I’m an entrepreneur, a creative, a global citizen. I’m responsible to develop our business strategy and lead our team towards our transformative purpose and client-centric mission. This means that I have to build a sustainable...

#Electrifying: An interview with Jens Marquardt on the season so far and the strength of the BMW i drivetrain in Formula E

In an interview, BMW Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt talks about the BMW i drivetrain’s key role in Formula E and looks back at the six races of Season 5 to date.

A day in the life – Anusha Jogi

Anusha Jogi is the Managing Director of public relations and strategic communications agency JNPR. She has more than 19 years of experience in the communications industry and has generously agreed to provide us with a peek into her busy day. In the process, she also...

Media training: What SMEs need to know

Grace-Anne Belger is the Divisional Head Media Training Division at Meropa Communications. We spent some time with her to find out why SMEs require media training and which employees within a business needs to be empowered with these skillsets. Why do company leaders...

Interview with Bernd Gross, newly-appointed chief technology officer of Software AG IoT democratisation accelerated with quickstart approach

Bernd Gross is the newly-appointed chief technology officer of Software AG, having joined the company as part of its acquisition of Cumulocity, of which he was chief executive. Now, as the Internet of Things continues to mature, he explains how organisations can...

Q&A session with Deezer’s Music Editor for Africa – Sotiris Moldovanos

With such an interesting name, tell us who is Sotiris Moldovanos and where did he grow up? I was born in Jozi and have lived here my whole life. I’m South African with Greek heritage and as tradition goes, was named after my grandfather. You’ve held various positions...