Meet the CIO
Meet the CIO is a podcast series produced and published by TechCentral and published monthly. We talk to IT leaders across South Africa about the role of technology in their organisations.
4 Episodes
Meet the CIO | The Capital Hotels' José Soares – from gamer to director of IT
José Soares, director of IT at The Capital Hotels, Apartments and Resorts, fell in love with computers when his dad brought home a Sinclair ZX81. Through a series of upgrades – from the Commodore 64 to early Apple machines and eventually his first PC – Soares developed a passion for…
Standard Bank Group CIO Jörg Fischer – mission-critical IT
At more than R23-billion/year, Standard Bank Group has the biggest IT budget of any company in South Africa – and quite possibly in the whole of Africa. The man charged with ensuring the continent’s largest financial services provider is spending that money optimally is group CIO Jörg Fischer, who is…
Investec's Shabhana Thaver: 'It’s not all about the tech'
Meet the CIO is presented by Wipro. --- There is much more to being a chief information officer than being an advocate of the latest technology. In fact, articulating a vision, and architecting it, is critical. That’s according to Shabhana Thaver, CIO at Investec Specialist Bank, who is the guest…
TymeBank's Bruce Paveley on building a digital bank
Meet the CIO is presented by Wipro. -- Bruce Paveley says that when he moved from a senior IT role at Standard Bank in 2017 to the then-nascent start-up digital bank TymeBank, it was “a really big shock”. “You go from five buildings in the middle of Joburg, multiple floors,…