Keith Boyd

Keith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lived and worked in Africa for 37 years. He currently resides in the United Arab Emirates, where he is ideally positioned to play a key role in the company’s expansion in North Africa and the Middle East.

Keith started his working career in the actuarial department of Old Mutual, and was focused on writing and implementing IT systems to automate actuarial changes to life policies.

In 1989, Keith left Old Mutual to pursue a career in the commercial side of IT systems, subsequently being appointed to the board of DNS, and then Plessey.

Highlights of Keith’s career include running the second largest IT networking company in South Africa, as well as Plessey in Africa. He was in instrumental in cutting costs, devising and implementing a new strategic direction, and diversifying the customer base in that organisation. Keith left Plessey to start Venture Communications in 2002.

Charles Osburn

Charles has been in the IT business for over 30 years and has a wealth of experience as both a user and supplier. He has held senior management positions in the Banking as well as Manufacturing environments before becoming a co-founder of DNS, which went on to become one of the leading Network and Professional/Managed Services suppliers in South Africa.

Since the successful sale and integration of DNS into the Dimension Data Group, Charles has been involved in a number of projects ranging from Software R&D to Managed Services and Consulting both in South Africa as well as the UK and Australia.

After the integration of DNS into Didata plc, Charles took two years off to pursue some private activities in the yachting and photography world and rejoined the ITC market in 2002 and 2003 with a two year contract as CEO with a software Research and Development company, PreworX before joining Quintica in February 2005.

Stiaan Engelbrecht

Stiaan began his working career in 1981 in a technical role at Telkom, South Africa’s state owned Telecomms operator. He then moved into the commercial sector, focusing on technical sales, and worked his way through the ranks to running the sales team at Plessey. Stiaan co-founded Venture Communications with Keith Boyd in 2002.

David Pfaff

David has recently been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of the Q-Venture Group. David is responsible for managing the Q-Venture Group treasury, finances, legal matters as well as tax planning. He is also responsible for managing investor relations and leading the corporate communications team. David will be based in our London Office but working closely with the management teams in Africa, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Prior to joining Q-Venture, David was Group Finance Director at Datatec.

Ferdi Rocha

Ferdi was appointed to the position of Managing Director of Venture Communications Group in January 2009. Ferdi has a successful track record of developing businesses with strong strategic and operational structures he also brings with him an exceptionally strong commercial network.

Ingo Tuschardt

Ingo has been in the executive Business Management and Consulting game for over 20 years. His core focus has been in the areas of consulting with regards to restructuring and process implementation, ensuring that corporates achieve the goals set out when embarking on IT related projects and restructuring programs. Ingo has driven a large number of successful projects all the way from inception through to operational execution and delivery.

Ingo realized early on in its life cycle the huge benefits that a structured business approach to Service Management based on the ITIL Best Practices would bring to the South African corporate world. He was instrumental in bringing the best of breed technologies and practices to market, namely the formation of Quintica and the Marval suite of products. Currently Ingo’s role and responsibilities are ensuring that all the operational aspects of the business function in harmony and result in successful delivery of projects to our customers. Ingo is currently Managing Director: Quintica SA.

Colin Cloete

Colin Cloete is the Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa. He is a certified ITIL Service Manager & ISO/IEC20000 Consultant. In his role for Quintica MENA Colin has a specific responsibility for the increasingly important domain of how business and information technology need to work together and how to keep both Business & IT aligned.

Colin has helped to develop the company’s Service Management (SM) strategy, which included the Service approach now (now part if ITIL v3 refresh) and in his current role he is responsible for building the company’s 3-year strategy plan. He is also responsible for educating the Quintica’s customers and employees, the media and analysts about the company’s vision and strategy. In addition to evangelising, Colin works closely with the itSMF to keep up-to-date on any changes that need to be passed onto the Service Managers’ consultants and customers, thus helping to ensure that the consulting they deliver are pertinent worldwide both today and in the future. His role in defining how Service Management (ITIL), Strategic Project Delivery and Quality Management (EFQM) interrelate and complement each other has shown major interest in related camps. Colin assisted with the setting up of the Quintica ME business in 2006 after 8 years with IBM and 7 years with Rank Xerox. His focus now is to continue with this growth as well as lead the expansion drive in North Africa.

Ian Buchel

Ian Buchel was born and educated in South Africa, graduating in Materials Engineering at the university of Witwatersrand in 1986. He then left South Africa for a total of eight years working both in engineering and then banking after reading an MBA degree at Cranfield University near Bedford, UK. His experience in the financial markets includes Citibank, Cazenove Stockbrokers and Deloitte & Touche Corporate Finance. In 2000 he co-founded a corporate finance advisory boutique, which also took principle equity positions in client companies. Since this time he has served on a number of boards of companies of all sizes and in a number of industries. He sold the advisory business to a German listed global private equity firm in 2004, after which he joined a Franco-German merger and acquisition boutique as partner until he advised and then joined Q-Venture full time in 2009.