Mathew is a digital transformation executive with over 25 years of digital and IT experience.  Mathew has previously served as the CTO for Clutch Health, the Digital Growth Platform Leader for EY’s Financial Accounting Advisory Services group, the Vice President of Analytics Advisory Services for PRGX, a NASDAQ listed data services firm. Prior to that he founded, developed, and sold a business analytics company, specialized in leveraging data to provide cost reduction, process improvement and continuous control analysis. The company went on to win a British Government innovation award.  Mathew was also a Senior Manager in PwC and a Financial Strength Rating Analyst in Fitch IBCA Ltd.

Jurriaan is one of the managing directors of Intenda Europe. Prior to joining the Intenda team he was responsible for the execution of strategic risk & finance projects at several financial institutions. During his career he worked as a consultant at Capgemini and Capco where he specialized in risk related projects such as stress testing, IFRS 9, credit provisioning, financial disclosures, and regulatory reporting. Jurriaan is a certified Financial Risk Manager and holds a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence.  

Themba Vilakazi, a graduate of Boston University, was a founder member of the South Africa Development Fund in 1985. Themba was on the executive of the ANC in the USA, serving as its chair for over a decade. Upon returning to South Africa in 1996, Themba co-founded Scientific Resource Management. He has been a Director at Intenda since 2001. Themba served as Chairman of the Group from 2001 to 2017.

Intenda has operated with a commitment to ethical business standards, even in testing environments. This is vital to Intenda clients interested in the promise of technical excellence and requiring confidence in Intenda’s promise to deliver.

Anstey Reddiar, with 29 years experience in accounts management, is the Chief Financial Officer at Intenda. Anstey spent his working career in accounting and has sound knowledge of multinational portfolios and group reporting with offshore offices. Anstey joined Intenda in 2005.

Nomsa is the CEO of Blue Zebra Projects (Pty) Ltd, as well as the Executive Director of Scientific Resource Management Holdings (Pty) Ltd, an investment holding company that has invested in start-ups.

Nomsa previously served as CEO of the Graça Machel Trust, where she led a team of programme specialists who drove the Trust’s work in Women’s Economic Advancement, Children’s Rights, Nutrition and Leadership and Governance in African countries.

Nomsa has a master’s degree in Geography and Environmental Studies from the City University of New York, Hunter College and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto.

Herman Fick is a seasoned IT Guru for the past 34 years. In 1993, Herman co-founded Quantum System Integrators, a software integrator and services company. The company was sold to Q-Data in June 1996. Herman was appointed to the board of Q-Data Consulting and headed up the Western Cape division.

Herman co-founded Intenda with Etienne in 2001. Since 2007, Herman has been based in the UK and played a major role in brainstorming, designing and launching fraXses.

Jaco van Niekerk has been in the ICT industry for over 23 years, where he started as a Web Developer at Comparex Holdings in South Africa.

Jaco worked at several companies in varying roles. He joined Intenda in 2007 as Business Intelligence Lead and promoted to Chief Technology Officer for Intenda UK in 2008. His achievements include the design and development of very complex calculation and transactional engines for systems transacting over £1 billion.

Since 2012 Jaco has been focussing on the fraXses platform, ensuring that the technology can solve the data challenges in the market and that fraXses delivers on its promise.

Dean Peerless is a Chartered Accountant and spent his pre-Intenda days with various companies, including one of the big four auditing houses. Dean joined Intenda in 2015 as Consulting Manager. He spends his time at Intenda strategising on the growth of the business, with clients and new business to utilise the Intenda solutions and technology. In January 2018 Dean was appointed as Chief Executive Officer for the Intenda Group.

Dean’s vision for Intenda is to become the global leader in platform technology and utilise the technology to develop data and technology strategies and solutions for the benefit of the market.

Etienne Fourie, an MBA graduate, started his IT career 35 years ago in the South African Defence Force. Etienne built his first IT business in the eighties, specialising in niche products for unique solutions.

At the age of 37, Etienne become the Managing Director of Q-Data Consulting and a board member of the Q-Data group.

In 2001, through a management buyout, Etienne co-founded Intenda with Herman Fick in South Africa. Etienne was the group Managing Director until the end of 2017. He now serves as Chairman of the Board of the Intenda Group.