RASHEED HARGEY

Rasheed has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, with Honours in Management, and has completed the Management Development Programme at the University of Stellenbosch.

In 1987 he co-founded HNR Computers where he held the position of Managing Director for a period of ten years. During his tenure the company became the largest black-owned software distributor in South Africa and won numerous awards, including Black Business of the Year in 1995 and Software Distributor of the Year for 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998. Rasheed played a significant role in the formation of the Black IT Forum in 1993 and remains a member of the Forum as well as the Institute of Directors, the American Management Association, and the Black Management Forum.

In 2006, Rasheed was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Tellumat (Pty) Ltd, a diversified technology group focusing on the Communications, Defence and Electronic Manufacturing market segments. Under his leadership the company saw impressive growth, developing and completing nine key product families and building project, engineering, development, manufacturing and servicing skills capacity. He resigned from Tellumat in 2013 to focus on his private business consultancy and his passion for disruptive technologies.