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Werner Kapp
Chief Executive Officer
Werner started in the IT industry in the mid 90’s and joined Dimension Data in 2000, in its services division. He was responsible for the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Gauteng businesses respectively, achieving significant client experience, revenue and people growth during his tenure in these roles.In 2015, he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer for Dimension Data Middle East and Africa, with accountability for all business operations in Southern Africa, East Africa, and the Middle East. Werner has a law degree from the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, a Masters in Business Leadership from the UNISA School of Business and he completed the NTT Global Leadership Development Programme at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is passionate about what technology can achieve for economic and social growth and loves the daily challenge of engaging clients and employees of diverse cultures across the continent.
Werner is married to Claudette and they have two daughters and a son. In his spare time he likes running.
Zellah Fuphe
Chief Corporate Governance Officer
Driven by a passion to help change the behaviour of people to benefit society, Zellah has found her niche in her role at Dimension Data. After starting her career in HR, Zellah gained a wealth of knowledge and expertise in a diverse number of roles and industries, and served on the boards of various companies. Zellah looks forward to using her experience to contribute to enabling sustainable growth of the Dimension Data group, through sound business principles and ethical conduct in line with her personal values.
Setumo Mohapi
Managed Network & Collaboration Services (MNCS) Executive for MEA
Dr. Setumo Mohapi is an experienced leader with accolades and achievements from various positions in the public and private sectors. In July 2019, Setumo re-joined Internet Solutions as Managing Executive to lead the company in the next chapter of its growth story. From April 2020, he has taken on the role of Chief Go-To-Market Officer for Dimension Data.
With his experience, expertise and strong leadership skills, Setumo is focused on shaping the company’s success by delivering unparalleled connectedness and digitisation capability for South Africa and the wider continent.
Michaela Voller
Chief Human Resources Officer
Michaela is passionate about using tools, tech and robotics to transform employee careers into worthwhile experiences. She believes that by adopting technology and creating solutions using robotics to do mundane tasks, you simplify business processes, and improve the employee and ultimately customer experience. She is most excited when people are given the ability and time to do work that inspires them and enables them to focus on the more creative and analytical aspects of their work.
Manelisa Mavuso
Managing Director, MWeb
Manelisa brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in business having worked in various senior executive roles in IT, telecommunications and banking for leading blue-chip organisations in the region. He is very passionate about the technology opportunity across the region and the potential it brings for development and innovation. In this role, he would like to grow MWeb’s positioning as the leading ISP in South Africa.
In his previous role, Manelisa was the Senior Vice President: Marketing, MEA for NTT Limited.
Barry Curtin
Chief Financial Officer
After qualifying at KPMG in Johannesburg, Barry spent the early part of his career in the financial services industry in London. After joining Dimension Data in 2009 as the commercial lead, he was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer for the Middle East and Africa at the age of 35. Much of his focus is on the execution of Dimension Data's global strategy which seeks to transform it's operating model, adopt shared services and digitise certain operations and business processes. Barry strives to be involved in successful M&A activity across the DD Group.
Jay Reddy
Chief Digital Officer
Having spent most of his career at Dimension Data in KwaZulu-Natal, Jay maintained sustainable year-on-year growth for the company by leveraging the successful relationships built within the brand.
Jay relocated to Johannesburg in 2014 to take on a MEA wide role within the Company in select go-to-markets and eventually across all go-to-markets.
Over the past 4 years Jay has been instrumental in the planning and execution of the One Dimension Data operating model – the consolidation of the various brands into a single Dimension Data brand.
Since April 2021, Jay was appointed as the Chief Digital Officer responsible for driving the company’s digital transformation, operating model simplification, Digital platform strategy and is a core member of the strategy planning team.
Jay is also responsible for the execution of Dimension Data MEA’s mid-term strategic objectives and initiatives and target operating model ambitions.
Prior to this, Jay was the Chief Technology Officer for MEA.
Nompumelelo Mokou
Managing Director - Southern Africa
Nompumelelo’s core philosophies she lives by are to have faith and courage in all seasons and to never be afraid of challenges no matter the size or complexity. Nompumelelo is a Chartered Accountant by profession but has always been known for her love for business. She joined Dimension Data in 2016 as the Gauteng Senior Finance Manager for the Managed Services business. Three years later, she was appointed Intelligent Customer Experience Executive and in April 2021 Nompumelelo was appointed Managing Director, Southern Africa.
Michael Abendenon
Global Data Centre (GDC) Executive for MEA
Michael joined the Dimension Data family in 2000 as a Sales Specialist and held multiple roles such as Client Manager, General Manager and Managing Director for Southern Africa. Michael was appointed as Sales Executive in 2020 and was key in leading and bringing together multiple sales teams and systems as one unified sales organisation during the rebrand and consolidation of Dimension Data’s subsidiaries in 2020.
Michael enjoys working with clients to understand how their business operates and believes in working with your peers as part of a team to solve business challenges and drive results. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing sports, being outdoors and travelling.
Mohamed Hejazi
Managing Director - Middle East
Mohammed started at Dimension Data in 2011 as a senior client manager. In 2014 he was appointed General Manager of KSA, Middle East where the business saw significant growth under his leadership. Mohammed went on to fulfil the role of Managing Director for Saudi Arabia & Bahrain and later when the Dimension Data group consolidated the Middle East region as one, Mohammed was appointed to lead the region.
Richard Hechle
Managing Director - East and West Africa
Richard has over 20years’ experience in leading and managing organisations across East Africa. Having joined the Dimension Data company in 2015, Richard now holds the position of Managing Director, Dimension Data East and West Africa and is responsible for integrating and growing Dimension Data’s business in these regions.
He has been instrumental in the adoption of a new business strategy that has since witnessed the company adopt a solutions oriented approach that layers Value Add Services on connectivity to deliver on a wider product offering that includes cyber security/resiliency, cloud services and business continuity management among other solutions. Richard is Kenyan and lives in Nairobi with his wife and three children.
Alan Turnley Jones
Managed Cloud & Infrastructure Services (MCIS) Executive for MEA
Alan joined Dimension Data in 1999 as a Regional Services Executive and played a key role in the Account Management team’s strategy in the development of opportunities. He then became Group Director of Managed Services where he led a team responsible for the development, documentation and on-going management of best practices, capabilities and services in IT Outsourcing and Managed Services. Alan is now the Executive for Services where he leads service delivery across the Dimension Data group.
Andy Dikobo
Public Sector Executive
Andy joined Dimension Data in June 2012 as Client Manager for the Public Sector responsible for looking after the City of Tshwane and the City of Ekurhuleni. Within the year Andy was promoted to manage the City of Johannesburg account. In 2017, Andy was promoted to the role of Public Sector Executive, Middle East and Africa, overseeing strategic capital projects in ports, rail, road and BRT infrastructure throughout Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Despite Andy’s large focus in East Africa, he also has strategic responsibilities in country, particularly around the 4IIR, the WOAN and 5G policy discussions in South Africa.
Andy holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Johannesburg. His background, experience and exceptional leadership skills makes him a key asset to the Dimension Data business.
