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Pioneered in 2008 to fill a vital gap in the African Data Environment
landscape, Teraco offers a world-class solution - based on shared IT
facilities free of restrictive vendor affiliations - and is set to
take its place as a trusted player in the global marketplace.
With 30 years' combined telecom experience, the key people driving Teraco's growth have a hard-won understanding of the industry and its
dynamics. Together with black-owned investment group, Treacle PE, they
and their partners are uniquely placed to assist leading technology
users with the challenges they will face going forward.
Teraco Data Environments (Pty) Ltd is a South Africa (SA) registered
company (incorporated on 9 February 2007) and will trade as "Teraco".
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Tim
Parsonson | CEO
After graduating from Cambridge University with a BA (Hons) in
Mathematics in 1990, Tim entered the telecommunications/technology
arena, joining management consultancy COBA M.I.D. and was given
responsibility for establishing the group's IT/Telecoms practice in
the USA.
In 1996, he was appointed MD and business development director of Long
Distance International Ltd (Europe), overseeing its substantial growth
across Europe which was pivotal in its later acquisition by World
Access Inc.
In 1998 - with business partner Tim Wyatt-Gunning - Tim co-founded
Cape Town-based telecom services provider, Storm which was sold last
year to JSE-listed telecoms provider Vox Telecom for R360 million.
Aside from his role at Teraco, Tim's other business investments
include corporate social investment consultancy CSI Africa. |
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Lex van Wyk | MD
Lex joined Telkom in 1986 where he received training in various Telco
technologies before moving to the private sector in 1997. He was
appointed Technical Manager of startup, Valuecom, where he took a
leading role in building the first SA-based Fax over IP business. (Valuecom
ultimately listed on the JSE and was later sold to Internet
Solutions.)
In 2000, Lex joined telecom services provider Storm as Operations
Manager and was rapidly promoted through the ranks. After a stint as
General Manager with P&L responsibility for the Gauteng region, he was
appointed Chief Operating Officer for the group - a position he held
until this year when the business's acquisition by Vox Telecom was
completed. Lex managed business units including Product, Information
Systems, Sales, Voice and Data Networks, Operations and HR and, under
his leadership, Storm launched an extremely successful Voice over IP
platform which has terminated voice calls for hundreds of corporates. |
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