Mardia van der Walt-Korsten is the CEO of T-Systems SA.

In 2005, Van der Walt-Korsten was appointed as the acting CEO for T-Systems in SA, the first woman to ever hold this position. A year later, she was the official CEO for T-Systems. Under her leadership, T-Systems in SA was awarded a R1.8-billion contract for the supply and maintenance of ICT infrastructure for Old Mutual SA and short-term insurer Mutual & Federal earlier this year.

Van der Walt-Korsten has a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology and began her career working as a clinical research assistant for Hoechst UK in London. Van der Walt-Korsten was a finalist for the Boss of the Year awards in 2007, and won the BWA Businesswoman of the Year Award in 2009 in the corporate category.

Adrian Schofield is a manager at the Applied Research Unit at Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering. In this position Schofield is responsible for leading research activities focused on the ICT sector in Africa.

Schofield’s past achievements include holding the title of president at the following establishments: Information Industry SA as well as the Information Technology Association of SA. In 2000 he was also elected vice-chairperson for Africa of World Information Technology Services Alliance.

Schofield is also an active member of the Project Steering Committee of the Savant project, the Executive Council of the Computer Society of SA, and the ICT Sector Steering Committee at NEDLAC.

Hamilton Ratshefola, CEO of Cornastone Consulting, has many years' experience in the IT sector. His career includes leadership of IBM's public sector business and an executive directorship at CCH. He led the IBM public sector business from a R30 million business in 1995 to a R300 million business in 1999.

Ratshefola founded Cornastone with his partner Lufuno Nevhutalu in October 2000. Today, Cornastorne has over R200 million in revenue and R20 million operating profit. The company started with three employees and today employs over 250.

Ratshefola was named among SA's 20 most influential black businessmen.

He has demonstrated a commitment to uplifting the previously disadvantaged by providing training to at least 30 interns from the University Of Pretoria, Technology Faculty, and putting them on Cornastone’s payroll.

Tebogo Makgatho holds a BSc Genetics degree from Wits University. She also holds diplomas in project management, sales and marketing, and a Higher Diploma in business management, all from Damelin Management School.

Makgatho started her career in research at Forge Ahead. After her career as a senior research consultant, she took up a position as manager for sector skills plan and research at Information Systems, Electronics and Telecommunications Technologies (ISETT) Sector Education Training Authority (SETA). She then worked for the State IT agency (SITA), within the procurement division, as a supply chain management consultant, creating a framework for the accreditation as suppliers of enterprises committed to black economic empowerment.

She is currently group business development director at Torque Technical IT training (Torque-IT).

Terry Ramabulana has been CEO of TIS Holdings since 2006. Prior to his directorship at TIS Holdings, Ramabulana held top positions at Anglo Platinum, BCX, SAA and Nkonki Sizwe Ntsaluba. He currently holds directorships at New Concept Mining, Mash Foods, NCM and CSSA. He is also a member of IOD.

As director at Nkonzi Sizwe Ntsaluba, Ramabulana was instrumental in establishing the IT consulting function as well as the IT Audit department. In his capacity as GM for Anglo Platinum, Ramabulana established important delivery areas on information management and governance, which were key to information sharing among mines and refineries. Ramabulana has held advisory roles as a member of both the BCX executive committee as well as the SAA executive committee.

Ramabulana holds, among other qualifications, a Masters of Commerce in Computer Audit from the Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg).

As the manager of the ICT and knowledge management division for the Royal Bafokeng Administration (RBA), Dagada has implemented several projects that include ERP, document and records management and wireless broadband network. The projects that are currently underway include Multi-Purpose Community Centres (MPCCs) and business continuity and disaster recovery.

Dagada has introduced a course on ICT Governance and Risk Management at the Wits Business School (WBS). He is a Programme Director of this course and teaches Technology and Information Management at the WBS. He is also studying PhD Information Systems at the University of South Africa, with his research focusing on e-commerce and information security law.

Dagada is working with the Royal Bafokeng Institute (RBI) to ensure that teachers in schools are adequately trained to use ICT applications for teaching and learning purposes.
He is currently working on a model that would allow the wireless broadband network to generate income which will be channelled to the ICT-related community projects.