Oliver Fortuin

Oliver has in excess of 27 years’ experience in the technology industry, having held various leadership positions in the ICT sector. Having been with the IBM Corporation for over 17 years, Oliver has held various executive positions including General Manager of the IBM PC business for Africa as well as General Manager of IBM South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Oliver was a Hewlett Packard South Africa Director for HP Services, and headed HP’s Technology Services group (TSG) and also served as Managing Director of Hewlett Packard South Africa.

Oliver is the former Managing Director of i1 Solutions (a privately- owned technology company) and has been director and Lead Independent non-executive director for the Ellis Holdings group since April 2011. In May 2014, Oliver was appointed Managing Director of British Telecommunications sub- Saharan Africa (BT). In February 2017, Oliver left BT to join MTN, where he assumed the position of Executive Head of Business Enterprise, effective 1 March 2017.