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| OUR TEAM | VBX is headed up by a highly skilled and qualified team of IT industry professionals who bring many years experience to the mix. Key to our success is the unique combination of sales, technical and development skills that our management team represents, as well as having been involved in all aspects of the IT industry from Linux and voice, to networking and hardware. | | | DIRECTORS | Management
Peter Retief - Chief Technical Officer and Chief Executive Officer
Peter holds a BSC degree and is a qualified CCIE. He is extremely well known in the networking and telecommunications arena, having worked in Mpumalanga and subsequently in Africa for the past 16 years. He is a qualified Cisco professional and has been responsible for building the VBX products to da Prior to VBX he was the Regional Chief Executive for Africa at Business Connection, where he deployed NGN telecommunications and Internet gateway solutions in Ethiopia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Nigeria and Eritrea.
Brian Hyson - Sales Director
Following a business opportunity, Brian moved to Nelspruit, Mpumalanga in 1978, and began an office equipment company called Lowveld Business Machines. During this time Brian and his team built the business into the leading office equipment and subsequent IT company in the area. Lowveld Business Machines was eventually sold to QData in 1995 - now Business Connexion. Brian is one of the founding members of VBX Communications (Pty) Ltd and currently holds the position of Sales Director. Outside of his business life he is very involved in the local community of his home town Nelspruit, where he was instrumental in building a school, Uplands College, of which he was the first Vice Chairman of the Board. Brian has also been President of both the Nelspruit and White River Rotary Clubs and has sat on the Board of the Tourism section of the Chamber of Commerce.
David Miller - Chief Operating Officer
David has a degree in Economics and Marketing from the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, and a PDM Business Administration from the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Business. After completing his studies he moved to London and worked in the banking industry for several years. After moving back to South Africa he held a number of sales/relationship roles before starting and successfully running his own marketing business for three years. He has extensive experience in the fields of sales, marketing and account management. Suited to the small business environment he considers himself an entrepreneur, and his responsibilities include sales, marketing, account management, general management and the strategic direction of VBX.
| | | DISTRIBUTION | John Ros
John has a number of qualifications in O&M and Business Systems. After many years in the corporate world specialising in Information Technology, he moved to IT Com
| | | TECHNICAL | Jacques Coetzee – VoIP Pre Sales/Engineer
Jacques has a diploma in Electronic Engineering and various trade certifications ranging from prominent software to hardware suppliers and business processes. He has been involved in the Information Technology arena for seventeen years, beginning with Wide Area Technologies and Solutions, progressing on to Customer Relations, IT Management, Professional Services, Project Management, Software Auditing, Operations Management, Business Development and finally VoIP Pre Sales and Engineering. With this vast spectrum of involvement within the IT industry he has gained invaluable insight into best practices, business risks, and his technological core focus area - VoIP Technology.
Sean David – Senior Systems Engineer
Sean has a Systems Engineer Diploma from The Zone and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) (MCP+I), as well as completing numerous Linux, security and virtual private networking (VPN) courses. Sean has over 10 years IT experience and was the Network Administrator for the South African branch of a large fortune 500 IT company. Sean has more than 2 years of VoIP technical experience, ranging from small to large corporate systems and call centres.
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