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What is Wired 4 Woman?

At BCX we are passionate about diversity and inclusion, not only in our own ranks, but throughout the South African business world and the wider community. The Wired 4 Women project is an initiative spearheaded by our Chief Marketing Officer, Mandisa Ntloko-Petersen, providing support and networking opportunities for women in tech. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is in full swing and women in the industry play a critical role in this key sector at every level. The aim of the initiative is to devise concrete ways to strengthen the female pipeline for the industry, while raising awareness of the role of women in Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

In Mandisa’s words “Our hope is to create a network where women can share experiences and stories”.

This Wired 4 Women blog will feature relevant content and showcase women in the industry who have contributed to change within their companies or the communities in which they operate. By highlighting successful women, we pay homage to their efforts within the ICT sector. We realise that technology has a major influence not just on how we run our businesses, but also on how we live and play. We want to acknowledge female decision-makers, influencers, and disrupters in different vertical markets and society at large.

Meet the Board

Nomonde Ndlovu

Head of Governance & Reporting – Absa

Nomonde is the Head of Governance and Reporting for Absa’s Group Engineering Services, one of the largest divisions at Absa Group. She is an accomplished executive with extensive experience within the tech space.

Passionate about women in business and working with young talent within the technology industry, Nomonde coaches and mentors young people to inspire them to pursue careers in technology and engineering.

Mandisa Ntloko-Petersen

CMO – BCX
Mandisa is a seasoned marketing professional who is passionate about brand strategy and content marketing. With more than 25 years in the profession, she is not afraid to get her hands dirty to get the work done.

Mandisa is an empowering leader who believes in the importance of working within a collaborative environment.

Caryn Berman

Business Development Director – Brainstorm
Caryn is a versatile, well-experienced marketing and business development professional. With 20 years in the media sector, Caryn has established the Brainstorm brand firmly in the market as the first choice for B2B marketing.

Brainstorm is the magazine for decision-makers and offers content on burning business issues that is fresh, controversial, independent and valuable.

Kelebogile Mosiane

CTO – Airports Company of South Africa
Kelebogile is the CTO at ACSA, with a career that spans across leading South African and global organisations.

Professionally, Kelebogile exemplifies South Africa’s dynamic new breed of executives – energetic, hard-working and well-networked. She is currently embracing the journey of digitising the airports with ACSA.

Itumeleng Makgati

Group CISO, Standard Bank
Seasoned IT, business, and systems integration Executive, Itumeleng Makgati boasts nearly two decades of expertise in her field. Itumeleng Makgati, Group Executive – Information Security at the Standard Bank Group provide strategic vision and leadership of the Information Security Shared Services across the Group, subsidiaries and ecosystem partners, supporting information security initiatives, the associated decision making, to protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration or misuse. She is passionate about building diverse high-performance teams that thrive in the face of adversity.

Philile Mkhize

Technology Divisional Executive, Corporate Functions – Liberty
Philile is an IT change-maker who is passionate about the convergence of technology and humanity. She is a standing Doctorate candidate specialising in Entrepreneurship.

Philile is a head judge for Technovation, a USA based non-profit organisation backed by Big Tech companies like Google and Salesforce. Technovation inspires young girls in STEM across the globe.

Khathu Sibanda

CIO – University of Joburg
Khathu is a disciplined and results-driven IT executive. Her success lies in her perceptive decision-making skill, strong ethics, natural aptitude to lead multi-cultural teams and her ability to define new strategies that drive growth.

An avid reader with a passion for family and her community, she also drives CSI initiatives for disadvantaged schools and orphanages.

Kume Luvhani

Co-founder and Executive Director – Vaxowave
At just 29, Kume made directorship at Absa becoming one of the youngest executives at the bank. Her passion for business enablement through innovation led to her co-founding Vaxowave, a technology company in 2018.

She is a passionate advocate for literacy programmes in SA, developing the youth and developing talented women in leadership. She helps to equip rural schools with essential school supplies and dedicates a large portion of her free time to mentoring young people.

Helen Nicholson

The Networking Company
Helen has been called the ‘Queen of Networking’ by many of her clients. She began her career as an accountant and has evolved into her current role of CEO (Chief Excitement Officer) of The Networking Company.

A passionate connector with international corporate experience. She has written two best-selling books, and ran the New York marathon in 2011.

Nonhlanhla ‘Noni’ Tshabalala

Virtual Channel Enablement – Absa
Noni is passionate about digital transformation and driving strategy execution.

Noni has over 10 years’ experience working across various industries, the majority gained in financial services. She joined Absa in 2013 and has risen in the ranks as a result of her commitment to excellence.

Traci Maynard

Microsoft Executive – Axiz
Traci is a results-driven executive offering a strong combination of business acumen and marketing flair. She is a motivational leader who can optimise individual performance while sustaining a strong team spirit. With valuable international network of professional relationships in the technology sector, Traci is also a persuasive negotiator.

Joni Peddie

CEO – Resilient People
As a behavioural strategist Joni focuses her work in the field of mental and emotional resilience and wellbeing in the workplace.

Besides speaking at conferences and writing books, Joni is an avid trail and road runner with five comrades marathons and six 2 Oceans ultra-marathons under her belt.

Dr Denisha Jairam-Owthar

CIO – City of Johanesburg
Dr Denisha is the Chief Information Officer at the City of Johannesburg for Metro Services. She leads many critical digital initiatives to enable the City of Johannesburg to be at the forefront of the 4IR for Smart Cities in this country and on this continent, using converging and emerging technologies. She has lead the City from a technical IT perspective to deliver on latest ERP systems technology that will enable the City to be mSCOA complaint per National Treasury Regulations, using cutting edge technology in the public sector.

Thato Sopeng

CIO African Bank
As a proven leader in Information Technology, with twenty years of experience in the field, Thato is an alumni of Rhodes University and University of Pretoria with a Computer Science and Masters Degrees. Thato has honed her skills across various domains of IT (Infrastructure & Operations, Software Engineering, IT Service Management & IT Portfolii Management). This experience was gained across several industry verticals (Financial Services, FMCG, Telecommunications and Public Sector). She s currently the head of Technology at African Bank responsible for overseeing the Branch Network’s technology strategy and enabling it with leading technologies and capabilities.

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We hope that through the creation of this platform, coupled with the annual Women’s Day event, featuring women who are positive role models, we will inspire younger women to join the ICT sector. We have partnered with ITWebBrainstorm to present BCX Wired for Women.

For Mandisa, engagement is key: “Once young women are employed in the sector, we have to keep challenging them with continuous learning and encourage them. Millennials want to hear that they’re doing great.”

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