With over two decades of IT experience, Marko Salic has been announced as the chief executive for Smollan data and tech, leading the company’s digital and data division.

enX CIO Denish Haripal is among this year’s nominees competing for the 2025 CIO of the Year title.

With over two decades of experience driving digital transformation across the healthcare and corporate sectors, Wayne Janneker, the newly appointed CTO of the Africa Clinical Research Network (ACRN), is looking to modernise technology systems and lead the rollout of digitally enabled trials.

Sasfin Wealth head of IT Reshen Sukhram believes a unified response to cybersecurity is key to corporate survival. He stressed this at the recent CIO Day held in Johannesburg.

In a recent CIO South Africa webinar titled retail reimagined: leveraging AI for a competitive edge, Dr Prince Abudu, head of technology for AI at Cassava Technologies and Boyd Chislett, chief business officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies outlined a vision for how African retailers can gain a competitive edge through agentic AI and the continent’s first AI factory.