Full Name : Anthony Masunga

Technology Focus Area: Shift Policy

As Managing Director, Mr. Masunga is tasked with leading the growth and transformation of BTC post listing to deliver shareholder value. He provides overall leadership to the business including ensuring adherence to the highest corporate governance standards, management of all financial and technical systems and processes, and development and management of the human resource capital.
He was previously the Company's Chief Operating Officer, Acting Group General Manager Commercial and Privatisation Programme Manager and is the founding General Manager of beMOBILE (now BTC Mobile).
He has over 20 years’ experience in the field of Telecommunications and Information Technology. Mr. Masunga holds a BSc Computer Science degree from McGill University (Canada) and an MBA from DE Montfort University (UK). He is an Alumni of the University of Stellenbosch Business School, having completed their Executive Development Programme.

Full Name :

Technology Focus Area:

FTA

Mr Aldrin Sivako

Technology Focus Area:Connectivity

Aldrin is Botswana Telecommunication Corporation (BTC), Chief Operations Officer, responsible for the technical arm of the business, being the Information Systems Division, Technology Division, and the Transformation Division. He provides leadership in implementing the Company’s Digital Strategy, leading the delivery of corporate programmes portfolio and identifying and forging relationships with strategic partners.

He is also responsible for BTC Facilities and Fleet, as well as BTC corporate security services. Aldrin is an astute Telecommunications engineering Executive with over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He is highly experienced in strategy formulation and execution, business development/product development and management, Telecommunications Technology and engineering. He was the founding Technical Executive of BOFINET from inception and was previously the Chief Technical Officer of Liquid Telecom Botswana.

He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Management College of South Africa (MANCOSA), and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) degree in Telecommunication Systems from Coventry University (UK). He is an Alumni of the University of Stellenbosch Business School Executive Development Programme, and the Africa Directors programme.

Peter Olyn

Technology Focus Area: Shift Connectivity

Peter is mandated with planning, building and managing the operational functions of the vast BTC telecommunications network. He is also tasked with developing strategic plans to transform and deploy the BTC network to achieve business targets.
He has over 20 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry. Peter holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Botswana (UB). He is also an Alumnus of the Stellenbosch Business School, Senior Management Development Training Programme.

Conrad Steyn

Technology Focus Area: Shift Connectivity

Conrad was appointed as the CTO and Head of Engineering for Sub-Saharan Africa in September 2019, Conrad is an individual with a passion for technology and people. Conrad has been in the telecommunications industry in excess of 20 years in a career that has taken him from a purely technical role, to one where he has been responsible for Systems Engineering within the Enterprise and Public Sector segments for South Africa.

Conrad is a strategic thinker , thought leader , spokesperson and subject matter expert for Cisco’s Collaboration portfolio and excels at strategic execution ,likes structure and loves working with teams to create solutions addressing the customer requirements .

Nimrod Stein

Technology Focus Area: Shift 5G

Tshepo Mongalo

Technology Focus Area: Shift Cloud

Tshepo is an experienced, result oriented Information Technology Practitioner.As BTC’s Head of IT Infrastructure, he’s charged with providing leadership for BTC IT Infrastructure department consisting of Datacenter (offering Colocation & Cloud Services), IT Infrastructure (Enterprise Network, Operating Systems, Databases) and IT Service Management.

His responsibilities also include managing process driven IT Infrastructure operations to support delivery of end to end customer solutions to create value for BTC and its shareholders. Tshepo is also responsible for driving BTC’s Digital Operational Excellence stream under the Digital Transformation Initiative. He’s currently acting as General Manager Information Systems where he’s responsible for overall IS operations as well as strategy formulation and implementation. Departments under Information Systems division are IT Infrastructure, Enterprise Systems as well as Billing and VAS.

Tshepo has a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) with Honours in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Essex, United Kingdom. He has completed a Management Development Programme (MDP) with the University of Stellenbosch Business School. Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner, , ITILcertified,COBIT5 Implementation Certified, TOGAF 9 Certified Enterprise Architect and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Mr Cecil Masiga

Technology Focus Area: Shift Cloud

Cecil O. Masiga is a professional telecommunications engineer who has worked extensively in the ICT industry for over thirty five years. He has previously worked for Botswana Telecommunications Corporation and Botswana Railways in the telecommunications divisions of these organisations. Currently he is a Director in the Ministry of Transport and Communications working in the area of communications policy. He possesses a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics and a Master of Communications Policy. He is the country focal person for PRIDA

Mr Kenneth Stimela

Technology Focus Area: Shift Cloud

Kenneth Motshidisi Setimela is the Founder & MD of LeveragePoint, an innovative software development company based in Botswana that thrives in the development of custom made software solutions.

Kenneth has extensive corporate and regional experience in the ICT space having served at the Local Enterprise Authority & SADC Secretariat for 13 years combined. He has participated in the delivery of many ICT related projects in the SADC region including health, democracy & elections, infrastructure, education amongst others.

Kenneth's company, LeveragePoint, has recently launched an ERP solution called BusinessPoint. The solution is geared towards digitally transforming SMMEs in Botswana and the SADC region, this being the first of it's kind in the country. The solution continues to receive awards locally and regionally. Further to this, Leverage Point has secured partnerships with Banks in Malawi to provide BusinessPoint solution.

Kenneth is an alumnus of Stellenbosch University (South Africa), he holds an M.Phil in Information and Knowledge Management. He also holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Botswana. As a PRINCE Practitioner, he has used his wealth of project management in delivery of many projects in the industry.

Mr Otsetswe Frank Oabile

Technology Focus Area : Fintech & Blockchain

Otsetswe Frank Oabile, is currently Head of Information Technology in the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA), Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MFED) since May 2020.

Mr. Oabile is an Information Technology (IT) Professional with wide experience in the areas of IT Project management, and implementation of IT infrastructure including data center design and facility management.

Mr. Oabile has served at different Ministries starting with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) in 2004, where he was responsible for setting up IT infrastructure developments including implementation of business systems at Local Authorities. He later joined the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Transport and Communication in 2015 as Project Manager for the design of the Government Integrated Data Center (GIDC) which was completed and certified by Uptime Institute at Tier IV. A year later he was appointed Head of Project Division responsible for Software licensing, and Data Center Facility management for the government data centers.

Mr. Otsetswe Frank Oabile is a Computer Engineer by profession and graduated from Plymouth University, England, PRINCE2 Practitioner in Project Management and Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer (ATD).

Navin Gupta

Technology Focus Area :Fintech & Blockchain

Navin Gupta is Managing Director for South Asia and MENA region for Ripple. Navin joined Ripple following two years as Co-Founder and CEO of on-demand commercial transportation service. Navin has extensive experience in global transaction banking, payments and cash management, and strategy planning following nearly two decades working for HSBC and Citigroup across the U.S., Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and India. Navin served as board member of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) from 2011 to 2014. In 2008, he was recognized as one of "The 50 Most Promising Young Leaders" in Asia-Pac by The Asian Banker. Navin is a MBA graduate from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona. Navin is also an Art of Living teacher.

Ripple enables payments everywhere, every way, for everyone using the power of blockchain and cryptocurrency. By joining Ripple’s growing, global network (RippleNet), financial institutions can process their customers’ payments anywhere in the world instantly, reliably and cost-effectively. Banks and payment providers can use XRP to further reduce their costs and access new markets. With offices in San Francisco, Washington D.C., New York, London, Mumbai, Singapore, São Paulo, Reykjavik and Dubai, Ripple has hundreds of customers around the world.

Rudi Dreyer

Technology Focus Area :IoT

Chemical Engineer with a Masters Degree in Realtime Optimisation with 29 years’ experience in implementing advanced digital technologies in a variety of market sectors. Over the last 3 years he specialised in developing digital transformation strategies that are self-funding and where every initiative shows a quick return on investment. He was part of executive team that developed the 4Sight Enterprise5.0 strategy. He currently serves as the Chief Business Environment officer at 4Sight.

Specialities: Realtime Optimisation, Advanced Process Control, Business Growth Strategies, Digital Transformation

Nelson Disang

Technology Focus Area : Shift Cloud

Nelson is responsible for directing BTC’s overall Information Systems (IS) strategy to ensure that the company’s IS investments are aligned to the strategic business initiatives. He develops IT governance frameworks, policies and ensures implementation that enable the efficient and secure utilization of BTC Information Technology platforms.

Nelson has been in the Information Technology (IT) industry for 15 years and has in-depth knowledge and expertise in IT management, IT strategy planning, development and execution, risk optimization, resource optimization and benefit realization. He has held various positions in numerous companies namely; Huawei Technologies-Botswana, Mascom Wireless, and most recently Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) where he was Head of IT department.

Nelson has a Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering from Clarkson University, New York, United States of America. He is a certified Balanced Scorecard practitioner with the Balanced Scorecard Institute, a certified COBIT practitioner and a professional member of ISACA. He has undergone Management Development Programme and Senior Management Development Programme with the University of Stellenbosch.

Full Name : Andy HyunJoo Lee

Technology Focus Area: Shift Policy

Andy HyunJoo Lee has over 20 years’ experience in Telecom industry, of that 7 years as Global Business Executive Director at KT (Korea Telecom).
Currently, he is responsible for conducting global business team such as ICT, Energy, Smart City, Security, Heath Care, Media and Communication area.
Prior to his current role, Andy was Director of Cloud Business Team. He led product management teams and created & developed cloud business model such as server, storage, DB, CDN. He also optimized the Commercial & Internal Cloud system of KT’s Cloud business for operational excellence & cost saving
Andy holds a B. A. in Economics from The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA and a MBA from IE Business School, Madrid, Spain.

Professor Joseph Monamati Chuma

Technology Focus Area: IOT

Joseph Monamati Chuma, PhD is a Professor of Telecommunication and Wireless Communications and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST)

Prof Chuma completed a BEng degree from University of Nottingham UK, an MSc from University of Essex in UK, Master of Business Administration (MBA), from University of Botswana and PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from University of Essex in UK. His research was focus on, compact single and dual mode dielectric resonator filters for mobile communications. The research work was supported by Nokia Telecommunications Ltd, Camberley and led to successful results in the development of dielectric loaded filters.

Prior to joining BIUST, he had served as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at University of Botswana. He also served as a reviews editor for the Botswana Journal of Technology. He is serving as a board member in the Parastatals Organization in Botswana such as being the current Deputy Chairman of Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) Board, the Chairman of Professional Assessment Committee of the Electrical and Electronics Discipline, Engineers Registration Board (ERB)and the Registration Committee of ERB.

His professional membership includes: Professional Engineer (Botswana Engineers Registration Board), -Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, -Senior Member of the Institute of Engineers and Technology (IET), UK, -Member of Botswana Institute of Engineers (BIE)

He also serves as a postgraduate and undergraduate external examiner in a number of universities. His industrial experience includes being a Telecommunication Engineer with Botswana Civil Aviation Department.

He has authored 4 academic books and over 80 peer reviewed journals and conference publications. To his credit Prof Chuma has two patents. His research interests are in the design and fabrication of Microwave components including filters and antennas for mobile and satellite communications, wireless communications and Electromagnetic field problems.

Monica Jasuja

Technology Focus Area: Shift Fintech & Blockchain

Monica Jasuja is a Vice President at Comviva and heads the Product Management for the company’s flagship Digital Financial Solutions Division. She and her team are deeply passionate in building next-generation digital financial platforms that deliver exceptional scale and value to the payments industry.

Monica has more than 20 years work experience across four geographies. She is a consumer-focused product management professional with techno-commercial proficiency, she has efficaciously designed, developed and launched products that delivered remarkable value.Armed with excellent team building capabilities, she has been successful in growing and scaling high-performance teams and leading several cross functional units, including Product Management, Business Development, UX Design and Experience, Engineering, Marketing, Legal and Operations, spanning Fortune-500 companies and emerging start-ups.

Prior to Comviva, she worked at MasterCard India in multiple roles over six years. She rose amongst the ranks during this time, from managing a product line to heading digital payments. Her last role in this company was spearheading a new vertical for large digital players and emerging fintechs, whilst leading initiatives across sales, business development, product and other cross-functional areas, such as Legal, Marketing and Policy. Prior to this stint, she worked with PayPal as a product manager for global Initiatives, managing various product lines for nearly a decade.

She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Delhi University and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

Outside the boardroom, championing diversity in the workforce is a cause near to her heart. With a sharp emphasis on lessening the gender gap at the workplace, she has rallied around multiple causes such as #WomenAtWork, #Girls4Tech and STEM. She is a well-known online influencer and featured in the top 10 of Women in Finance Power 100 / Fintech Finance GOLD Power List, which recognizes top Fintech influencers globally. Monica has been ranked Top 3 Fintech Influencers in Asia and Yourstory’s 100 Digital Influencers of 2020, apart from being recognized as the “Top 50 coolest women in Product” by Inc42

Professor David Norris

Technology Focus Area: Shift Connectivity

Professor David Norris holds a PhD Degree in Quantitative Genetics and Animal Breeding from the Michigan State University, Michigan, USA. He read for his MSc in Animal & Forage Science at the University of Reading (UK). He holds a BSc – Biology & Physics obtained from the University of Botswana. He has attended a number of leadership and professional programmes including Strategic Leadership, Multi Stakeholder Strategies and Processes, Change and Process Management. His Competencies include: Innovative Teaching & Learning; Research Development and Innovation; Higher Education Administration and Management.

He is an experienced leader, researcher and lecturer, having served in different capacities in Botswana, the United States of America (USA) and South Africa. Prior to joining the University of Botswana, he was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor responsible for Research and Innovation at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST). Before serving at BIUST, he was Director of the School of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He has held a number key positions at the University of Limpopo - he joined as senior lecturer and rose through the ranks to full Professor. He has also served as Assistant Professor at Austin Peay University, USA and worked for the Government of Botswana (Ministry of Agriculture) as Senior Research Officer.

Professor Norris has published extensively in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised and co-supervised a number of Masters and PhD Students, as well as serving as an external examiner for various regional and overseas universities. In addition, he has served as a reviewer and member of editorial boards of numerous science publications.

Professor Norris is currently serving as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Botswana.

Bongani Kraai

Technology Focus Area: Shift Fintech & Blockchain

Bongani Kraai is a seasoned banker with over 15 years’ experience in the industry. As Channel Implementation Head, Bongani assists local and multinational corporates transition from traditional banking practice to secure online processing, using the Bank’s flagship electronic platform.
In addition, Bongani works closely with Standard Bank Group to collaborate with Fintechs in understanding current and future trends, with a view to predict and deploy relevant transactional solutions, geared to meeting the ever-evolving client needs.

Calvin T David

Technology Focus Area: Shift Big Data,Analytics & AI

Calvin is a seasoned business strategist and management information systems specialist with a career- spanning wide in the banking sector. He has extensively developed exceptional research skills, business experience interactions and innovation.
Through business engagement and conceptualization, He has developed advanced key core competencies and exceptional skills development in strategic business management

Eran Shapiro

Technology Focus Area: Shift Connectivity

Eran has over twenty years of experience in devising and bringing to market Communication and IT solutions for operators and enterprises.

As Director, Business and Technology Ventures at Spacecom,Eran heads strategic planning and designing of innovative satellites and satellite based services.Eran and the rest of the Spacecom team are deeply involved in enabling solutions for affordable service digitalization using satellite to African regions where there is limited or no connectivity. These solutions offer great scale, flexibility and value to African communities – and we are proud that we can contribute to Africa digital transformation.

Mukund Shastri

Technology Focus Area: Shift Big Data & Analytics

Mukund has over 24 years of IT experience in Analytics. He currently plays the role of Chief Data Science Officer at Comviva, India.

His specialisation is strategizing to implementation on AI and data science solutions for customers under digital transformations and data monetisation.

He played leadership roles in building large scale solutions on AI / Analytics, Machine Learning, Big data, Data warehousing, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architectures.

He played significant roles in establishing large scale Predictive, Prescriptive and descriptive Analytics solutions for Telco’s around the world for over 18 years to drive revenue growth, retention, Loyalty and customer experience across all processes of Customer Life cycle management in Telcos . He is a member of TMForum.

Being Mechanical Engineer by education from well-known National Institute of technology, India he is certified on Big Data, Cloud, Data Science and Machine Learning and TOGAF Areas and PG Diploma in AI / ML from Amity University.

Mr Thari Pheko

Technology Focus Area: Shift Connectivity

Mr. Thari G. Pheko is the founding Chief Executive and Member of Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) Board having been the Chief Executive of the sector specific regulator Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA) for six years prior to its dissolution on 31 March 2013. He successfully managed the transition from BTA to BOCRA, which a wider integrated ICT regulatory mandate. Mr. Pheko served in a number of consultancies, including Consultancy on the Information Society and ICT Development Strategy and the formulation of the National ICT Policy for Botswana. He previously held board membership of Botswana Post and was a part-time lecturer in Management Information Systems at University of Botswana. He was President of Botswana Information Technology Society and also a Commissioner of the Botswana National Commission for UNESCO. Mr. Pheko is an ICT Consultant and on serves on Boitumelo Foundation.

He holds a BSc. (Hons) in Business Finance and Economics from University of East Anglia, UK obtained in 1983 and an MSc. in Management Information Systems obtained in the same university in 1986. He attended numerous Executive Management Programs from University of Cape Town, University of Kent Canterbury, Rutgers University and other professional institutions.

Mr. Machel Sekwakwa

Technology Focus Area: Shift Connectivity

A Chemical Engineer graduate from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Australia. Has worked in numerous industries (Automotive, Food and Mining) for over 19 years holding different roles. Mr Sekwakwa graduated in 2002 before joining Bosch In Germany as a Graduate Trainee for a year.

He then joined NAFTEC in Kanye for a year before moving into Mining in 2005 to work as a Metallurgist in BCL in Selibe Phikwe. In 2006 he Joined Tati Nickel as Senior Project Metallurgist. In 2008 he joined Debswana as a Process Engineer and has held different Managerial Roles since then. He is currently the Head Of Business Improvement Innovation & Technology based in Debswana Corporate Center.

Mr Pontsho C. Pusoetsile

Technology Focus Area: Shift IoT

Pontsho has worked for over 24 years in various organisations, both as an ICT practitioner and HR practitioner. He started off by working for BCL and Debswana mining companies, before moving into the ICT consulting area with AST Botswana and TSG Botswana. He later moved and headed the IT Section at the Office of the President, before moving to the Banking sector (as an HR practitioner) with Standard Chartered Bank Botswana. Afterwards he moved into consulting with Consult IT, SQL View (of Singapore), Pro Facilities Management and ETC Systems. Currently he is in the public service coordinating Government efforts aimed at taking public services online. Pontsho has consulted in most sectors of the economy; being Central Government, Local Government, Private Sector, Health Sector, Education Sector, Agricultural Sector, Systems Architecture, Process Reengineering, Facilities Management, Change Management, Program Management and Leadership Development.

Pontsho also has business interests in Online Services, “Leadership and Entrepreneurship Development”, Property, Cultural Tourism and Mixed-Use Farming.

He is well respected within the ICT sector and has served as the President of the Botswana Information Technology Society (BITS) as well as the Deputy Chairman of the Business Botswana ICT Sector Committee. Pontsho has also served in the HRDC ICT Sector Committee, and as a Board Member of Legal Aid Botswana. He has also served in the advisory boards of many local Universities.

He has taken time to restore Setswana using online tools; which extended to assisting Google with translations between Setswana and English. He has also served in boards of various NGOs dealing in matters as varied as culture, social welfare, community development, youth development and empowerment, citizen empowerment, tourism and leadership development.

Mr. Norman Moleele

Technology Focus Area: Shift IoT

Mr. Moleele holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic Management (University of Derby), Post Graduate Diploma in Law majoring in conciliation and arbitration (University of Namibia), Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Milpark Business School), and Certificate in principles of Business & Management (Wits Business School). Mr Moleele has senior management experience and capabilities in strategic modelling, leadership, business development (including monitoring and evaluation, training and mentoring), strategy formulation, change management, Small, Medium, Macro Enterprises (SMMEs) development, customer service, stakeholder management and building strategic relationships, excellent communication, presentation and engaging capabilities and banking.

Mr Moleele has risen through the ranks with Business Botswana ( Formerly BOCCIM) working with the private sector for over 25 years as ; (a) Field Officer; (b) Regional Manager; (c) Deputy Executive Director; (d) Membership Management Director; (d) Private Sector Development Programme (PSDP) Director- on secondment. In his previous roles Mr Moleele has led managed and supervised a good number of senior managers and professionals and other numerous employees.

His responsibilities at Business Botswana include amongst others; driving the overall strategy, risk and management of Business Botswana focusing on Private Sector growth and Social development, research policy and advocacy, establish international partnership, provision of membership service, business development and contribution to accelerated economic growth agenda for the private sector. Mr Moleele sits on the following boards;

• Vice Chairperson of the Botswana National productivity Centre (BNPC) Board
• Rural Development Council (RDC)
• Economic Diversification and Trade Council (EDTC)
• Botswana Bureau of Standards Council
• SADC Private Sector Forum (SPSF) (Currently Secretariat)

Mr Thapelo Kalake

Technology Focus Area: Shift IoT

Thapelo Kalake is the Shared Services Director at Water Utilities Corporation, having taken up the role 5 years ago. An industrial engineer by training, his passion has always been optimal execution and delivery of stakeholder expectations. For most of his professional life he has been at the helm of operational delivery units in the organizations he served, and it is here that he came to appreciate the importance of having effective enabling structures in delivering overall organization performance.

At the heart of his responsibilities at WUC is the used of ICTs to drive corporate digitization and service delivery. This is done through increased availability and used of data for the support of quantitative decision making. In his view, the primary mandate of his department is to stay ahead of the curve and predict where the business and services need to be in the future and capacitate the support functions to be able to provide such capabilities when they are required.

From the start, Thapelo has always championed the need to have the dispersed connectable assets within WUC to be interlinked and managed to allow for single point of management and truth. It is because of this that the organization migrated to in-memory computing, a development that brought with it marked improvements in transmission and transaction speeds, real-time and low latency connections to the corporate ERP, and as such paved the way for the corporation’s current digitization drive on the customer facing front and of the internal management capabilities.

Thapelo is a former Board Member of Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority where he chaired the Board’s Regulatory Committee. He is also the former chairman of the Universal Access and Service Fund, where through his leadership the funding model was developed and implemented, and flagship projects such as Botswana Hotspots were conceptualized and delivered.

An Alumni of both Western Michigan University (USA) where he graduated with an BEng. IE and University of Botswana where he earned his MBA, Thapelo believes that in execution one learns more than in pure conceptualization. The key should always be not to lose sight of the bottom-line, “Act now, and if you are going to fail, fail fast and move on”.

Mr Tshoganetso Kepaletswe

Technology Focus Area: Shift Cloud

Mr. Kepaletswe has extensive knowledge and experience on telecommunication and broadcasting regulation. He is one of the founding staff members of Botswana Telecommunications Authority (Now Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority), where he has been involved on various issues of communication regulations for over twenty (20) years. He is currently involved on cybersecurity issues guiding the establishment of a Communication Computer Incidence Response Team (COMM-CIRT), Leading the Project Team carrying out the National Cybersecurity Risk Assessment of the Critical National Information Infrastructure and the Deputy Project manager for the National Cybersecurity Strategy project team.

He is responsible for implementation of the Electronics Communications and Transaction Act regarding the accreditation of secure electronic signature providers and the implementation of Electronics Record (Evidence) Act about the certification of the electronic records systems.

Mr. Kepaletswe obtained his B.Eng. Telecommunication Systems Management and Design from the Anglia Polytechnic University & Cable and Wireless College, United Kingdom and MSc. Telecommunication and Information Systems from University of Essex, United Kingdom. He is a Registered Professional Engineer with Botswana Engineers Registration Board (ERB) and a Member of the Botswana Institution of Engineers (MBIE), Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (MIEEE) and Member of ISACA.

Dr Omaru Maruatona

Technology Focus Area: Shift Big Data, Analytics & AI

Dr Omaru Maruatona is the founder and CEO of Aiculus.
Omaru started his career with Debswana diamomd company as a systems engineer at Jwaneng mine. Before founding Aiculus, Omaru was a consultant in cybersecurity architecture at PwC Australia. Omaru has also worked at Computershare as a cybersecurity engineer, prior to which he worked with Westpac bank Australia in applied Artificial Intelligence.

Mr Rohit Maheshwari

Technology Focus Area: Shift Big Data, Analytics & AI

Rohit is responsible for delivering business growth through innovation and product strategy at Subex. He leverages his expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI), analytics and digital services to contribute to Subex’s solutions. Prior to this, Rohit was the Head of Subex’s Business and Solutions Consulting Group (BSCG) and has over 20 years of rich experience in delivering solutions and consulting to telecom operators across the world. Before joining Subex, Rohit worked with companies like Crompton Greaves and Kirloskar Electric Company.

He is a graduate in Electrical and Electronics engineering from University of Mysore.

Mr Edward Wicks

Technology Focus Area: Connectivity

BTC Chief Commercial Officer

Edward oversees the commercial arm of BTC, directing and driving performance in the Dynamic Marketing, Enterprise Sales, Consumer Sales and Quality of Service functions within the organisation.

He is responsible for the delivery of the Company’s commercial strategy. Edward has been in the telecommunications industry for more than 25 years and has in-depth knowledge and expertise in most aspects of telecommunications. This includes Commercial Management, Strategic Marketing, Product Development, Business Development and Distribution. He has held various senior positions and directorships in numerous companies. As a strategic consulting expert, he has also been involved in launching two new mobile networks. Edward holds a (Honours) degree from the University of Edinburgh.

Mr Paul Williams

Technology Focus Area: Connectivity

Paul Williams brings 33 years of ICT experience to the African market.

Paul is currently employed as the Country Manager for Fortinet – Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Islands, Fortinet is the No 1 Cyber Security company in Africa.

Paul studied as an Electrical Engineer and comes to this emerging market with a wealth of experience in Networking Design, Implementation, Architecture and Strategy and a breadth of other ICT skill with a new focus on Cyber Secuirty industry.

Paul come with a wealth of knowledge on the ICT operational side, Project Management, P&L models, Business Intelligence modelling, Programming and a functional understanding of OPEX and CAPEX models in relation to ITIL, ETOM and other commercial business framework strategies.

Paul Williams has been employed by for some recognized large international companies like Altech, IBM SA, BCX, Dimension Data, Cisco South Africa, Openet and Allot Communications.

Mr Richard Vaka

Technology Focus Area: Connectivity

Mr Vaka is a livestock farmer in Boteti Sandveld Area 4B near the Central Game Reserve. This is a remote area and there is no modern infrastructure such as power, cell phone network and roads. The closest settlement is Kedia which is adjacent to Lake Xau.

The power problem was solved by using solar systems for both boreholes and the homestead. The communication problem was a challenge until BTCL introduced VSat. VSat has been a blessing, he uses whatsapp voice or video calls to keep in touch with suppliers, Veterinarians, family and friends. Access to the internet enabled him to use BAITS, attend virtual meetings, research, and do banking. In short VSat has taken away the remoteness of the area.

Dr Aubrey Pheto Mokotedi

Technology Focus Area: Big Data,Analytics & AI

Dr Aubrey Pheto Mokotedi joined the Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI) in June 2015 as a Researcher in the Information Systems and Technology Division. He has been leading several software development projects in various industries including tourism, law enforcement and healthcare, playing the role of both technical lead and project manager. In these roles, his responsibilities included overall project leadership, solution architecture and development as well as infrastructure design and deployment.

Dr Mokotedi graduated from the University of Botswana with a BSc in Computer Science Degree. After completing his undergraduate degree, he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as a trainee Information Technology Consultant. He later joined the University of Botswana as a Staff Development Fellow in the Department of Computer Science. He obtained both his MSc in Information Systems Engineering and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. During his tenure at the University of Botswana, he taught various undergraduate and postgraduate courses including programming, human computer interaction and web engineering.

Mr Suresh Chintada

Technology Focus Area: Shift Big Data, Analytics & AI

Suresh is the CTO of Subex, and brings with him a wide ranging leadership, managerial and technical experience of over 27 years. Prior to Subex, he was worked with companies like Motorola, ARRIS and CommScope, where he built and scaled large global software engineering, professional services and technical support services operations, serving Industry verticals like cable, telecom, mobile and wireless networking.

Suresh holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Osmania University and Post Graduate Diploma in software enterprise management, from IIM, Bangalore.

Mr Mr Vinod Kumar

Technology Focus Area: Policy

Vinod Kumar is the MD and CEO of Subex. He is responsible for leading the strategic direction for the company and driving its execution by fostering the right culture of leadership and talent development. Prior to becoming the CEO and Managing Director, Vinod served as a COO of Subex where he spearheaded several initiatives that helped the company engage with its customer as a long term strategic partner. These initiatives, in turn, helped Subex emerge as a global leader in Revenue Management space.

Mr Ogone Mothowagae

Technology Focus Area: Policy

Ogone Mothooagae
Ogone is a Technology and Business Transformation leader with over 15 years experience in driving innovative teams to transform client businesses into high performing outfits, across various industries.
With his intricate understanding of business and technology trends, Ogone has also proven to be expert at building strong, motivated teams that are result-driven. As a PRINCE2 Practitioner, he has broad experience in ICT Project’s,
Chief Executive Officer at Stencil Technologies
Corporate Governance and Board Participation:
Botswana Stock Exchange || Botswana Railways (Vice Chairman) || Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) Trust (Vice Chairman) ||
Portfolio and Service Management (PPSM) with emphasis on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Strategy formulation, Technology Advisory and End-to-end Implementation of Transformational Systems Integration (SI) projects in line with the organisational strategic direction and policies.
Prior to assuming his current role, Ogone held the role of Managing Director - Adapt IT Botswana. Throughout his career in various executive positions, Ogone has harnessed key skills in Organisational Operations Management, Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics (with BIG DATA as a focus area) for insight-driven decision making. His responsibilities have included driving organisational profitability and playing pivotal roles in cross organisation program/project delivery. As a thought leader in ICT and business transformation, Ogone has had numerous speaking engagements as key note speaker and has written several opinion papers in optimising business functions through cutting edge technologies. He is an avid advocate for organisational integration.