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Leading with heart, scaling with technology | Building high-performing, people-first teams across Emerging Markets @ Anaplan | Cultural Change Enabler | EQ Advocate | Passionate Gastronome

📍 United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated November 2026💼 2 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor & Board Member
Jan 2017
AppCentrix is a managed services company providing real-time visibility of independent data across the technology landscape and translating it for decision makers to support their strategic journey of digital transformation. Established in 2010, AppCentrix has offices in South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. AppCentrix appeals to executives seeking to benefit from the power of hindsight today – those who understand the cost of not knowing now. We deliver understanding and insights from data capturing technologies for digital and business transformation. We move businesses from understanding “what is happening?” and “what will happen?” to “what should we do?” and ultimately Understanding Now. We do this through a single, unified view of the entire ICT estate, and empower leaders to shape and move their organisation to deliver extraordinary results. We have installed our services on more than 6,000 sites across 45 datacentres and gather more than half a billion metrics a day for analysis and management insight.
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2022
Managing Director - EMEA South (SEMEA)
Apr 2022
Vectra AI, Inc. is the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks. When modern cyber attackers bypass existing controls, evade detection and gain access to customers’ data center, campus, remote work, identity, cloud, and IoT/OT environments, the Vectra AI Platform sees their every move, connects the dots in real-time, and stops them from becoming breaches. With 35 patents in AI security and the most vendor references in MITRE D3FEND, organizations worldwide rely on Vectra AI to see and stop attacks their other tools can’t. For more information, visit www.vectra.ai.
2017
Investor & Board Member
Jan 2017
AppCentrix is a managed services company providing real-time visibility of independent data across the technology landscape and translating it for decision makers to support their strategic journey of digital transformation. Established in 2010, AppCentrix has offices in South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. AppCentrix appeals to executives seeking to benefit from the power of hindsight today – those who understand the cost of not knowing now. We deliver understanding and insights from data capturing technologies for digital and business transformation. We move businesses from understanding “what is happening?” and “what will happen?” to “what should we do?” and ultimately Understanding Now. We do this through a single, unified view of the entire ICT estate, and empower leaders to shape and move their organisation to deliver extraordinary results. We have installed our services on more than 6,000 sites across 45 datacentres and gather more than half a billion metrics a day for analysis and management insight.
2015
Several Start-Ups
Angel Investor
Aug 2015
2007
Area Director - Partners, Alliances and Enterprise MEA
2007
Juniper Networks is leading the revolution in networking, making it one of the most exciting technology companies in Silicon Valley today. Since being founded by Pradeep Sindhu, Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres nearly 20 years ago, Juniper’s sole mission has been to create innovative products and solutions that meet the growing demands of the connected world. Juniper Networks is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with over 9,000 employees in 50 countries and nearly $5 billion in revenue. Our customers include the top 100 global service providers and 30,000 enterprises, including the Global Fortune 100 as well as hundreds of federal, state and local government agencies and higher educational organizations. At Juniper Networks, we believe the network is the single greatest vehicle for knowledge, understanding, and human advancement that the world has ever known. Now more than ever, the world needs network innovation to connect ideas and unleash our full potential. Juniper is taking a new approach to the network — one that is intelligent, agile, secure and open to any vendor and any network environment. To learn more about Juniper, our products, and our vision for the decade ahead, visit our site at https://www.juniper.net. Acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2025.
2002
Partner Business Management, Mid Market Sales, and Regional Partner Strategy Leader
2002
Every company has a mission. Whats ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesnt diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.