Meet Our Collaborating Experts

Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) with over 15
years of progressive experience spanning audit,
higher education leadership, and digital
transformation. Currently serving as Programme
Lead for the Centre for Augmented Intelligence
and Data Science (CAIDS) at UNISA,
coordinating research commercialisation and
innovation management. Previously led
institution-wide digital transformation as CODeL
Programme Executive, managing Moodle LMS
rollout and 10M+ annual online assessments.
Also, a PhD candidate specialising in AI-driven
data governance. Proven track record in strategic
programme delivery, stakeholder engagement,
and bridging the gap between research,
technology, and measurable impact.

16+ years cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP).
MPhil Strategic Management. Cloud Architect
Lead at UNISA. Previous: Vodacom, Vumatel.

Senior Data Scientist at MultiChoice SA. Expert in
NLP, semantic search, knowledge graphs,
LSTM/Transformer models. MEng Industrial
Engineering in progress.