Digital health leadership, built on three decades of technology.
I work across digital health, technology strategy, transformation and complex programme delivery — bringing more than three decades of technology experience in Africa.
Digital health & programme leadership
Senior Program Manager at Jembi Health Systems (2022–present), leading multi-donor programmes across sub-Saharan Africa while combining delivery, financial management, resource planning and technology-enabled innovation.
What I’ve built and led
AI-powered RFP & Proposal Pipeline
An end-to-end workflow for opportunity ingestion, AI categorisation, partner matching, bid/no-bid scoring and proposal generation.
Building the commercial Internet
The 1993 TICSA / Internet Africa story: a 64 Kbps international link, four customers and the practical work of building an ISP.
MTN Business / Verizon integration
Technology leadership through the integration of Verizon’s African operation into MTN Business.
Technology & Product Strategy
Consulting across telecom, ISP and FinTech, including cloud migration, product business cases, due diligence and Agile teams.
From the early Internet to digital health.
Building and scaling the Internet
TICSA · Internet Africa · UUNET · WorldCom / Verizon Business
Technology leadership at MTN Business
CIO / Head of ISP Services · IT strategy, integration and transformation
Consulting and VAST Networks
Consulting (2014–2016) · VAST Networks, Head of Operations, full-time (2016–2018)
Consulting and digital health
Consulting (2018–2022) · Jembi Health Systems, Senior Program Manager, full-time (2022–present)
Ideas, lessons and observations
Founding the first commercial ISP in South Africa
The 1993 start of TICSA: a 64 Kbps international link, four customers and the hands-on work of building the network and business.
Growth from Internet Africa to UUNET SA – 1996–2003
Moving from network engineering into product, business development and African operations as the Internet business scaled.
The Consolidation Years – Verizon Business – 2004–2009
Working through global telecom consolidation, commercial strategy, technology leadership and the transition to Verizon Business.
Post acquisition – Life at MTN Business
Technology leadership through the migration of the African operation into MTN Business and the challenge of integrating different technology and operating models.
Shadow IT and informal support
An argument for recognising the technology already being adopted outside formal IT structures and using it to accelerate organisational change.