Leadership
Directors
Executive Management
| Stanton Jandrell - Chief Executive Officer | |
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Stanton started his career at Altech Data as a product manager for communication products, shortly after completing his Marketing qualification. He headed up 3Com's regional structure for South Africa (SA), Namibia and surrounding countries. Stanton joined Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed Frontrange Solutions in 1998 and was responsible for the regional operations as well as for developing a channel program. Stanton was appointed to the SA board and oversaw management practices across all the new business units and headed up the Fraxion unit amongst others. Stanton participated in the management buy-out of Fraxion and as Chief Executive Officer is responsible for all the strategic growth of the business. |
| Mark du Plessis – Head: Research & Development | |
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Mark began his IT career at Old Mutual PLC as a software programmer after completing his Degree in Economics at the University of Cape Town. In 1994 he co-founded IDS, a company that developed custom applications. IDS was acquired by Frontrange Solutions in 1997 and Mark took up the role of Chief Software Architect. He was drafted into the Development team in Colorado USA to head up the development of the next release of the product. On his return to South Africa Mark was appointed Chief Technology Officer responsible for development practices of all the incubator companies. Mark participated in the management buy-out of Fraxion and is responsible for all the product development as Head: Research and Development. |
| John O’ Callaghan – Chief Financial Officer | |
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After completing his BCom PGDA at the University of Cape Town, John qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Ernst and Young. He subsequently joined a public private sector partnership responsible for establishing one of the first successful software incubators in South Africa. John went on to start his own auditing practice, servicing over 150 clients. He joined Fraxion in October 2005, and as Chief Financial Officer, he looks after the finance, legal, human resources departments and assumes general operational responsibility. |
| Ferdi Ladeira – Non-Executive | |
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Ferdi completed a BSc and started his career as a co-founder of Workgroup Systems. Ferdi developed the inventory management system that helped establish Workgroup as the largest distributor of Microsoft Products in South Africa. Workgroup was sold to Datatec and Ferdi, with some other members of the executive team founded Frontrange Solutions in 1995. Frontrange listed in 1998 with Ferdi taking up the role of Chief Information Officer for the global operations. Ferdi is responsible for strategic product development at Fraxion, and as Chief Information Officer, is responsible for strategic systems implementation. |
Executive Management
| Daneël Cilliers - Head of Professional Services | |
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Daneël completed a BCom Honours in Informatics at RAU (now University of Johannesburg). In 2006, he was appointed as a SAP Business One Consultant, responsible for project rollouts. Backed by diverse project experience, Daneël joined the Fraxion Professional Services team in 2010. He has subsequently completed a host of successful Fraxion project implementations across multiple industries and multinational companies. In 2011, Daneël was promoted to Head of Professional Services and manages a team of consultants responsible for projects, support and product optimisation. Daneël is actively involved in Fraxion implementations and brings his expertise to bear in local and international product deployments. |