[ezcol_1half]Abdul has worked in IT for most of his career and was appointed as the Group IT Director for the TBWA Group in February 2017. Prior to his role he was the CIO for Skynet Worldwide Express where he owned the relationship between IT and business. He is responsible for driving business IT value in the enablement to achieve profitability and efficiency.[/ezcol_1half]

[ezcol_1half_end]Prior to his current role, Abdul was the Group IT executive for the Santam Group responsible for overall IT service delivery for the specialist businesses as well as emerging markets which include Africa, SE Asia and India. Abdul also worked for SAP where he was involved in the first implementation of the SAP core banking platform in Africa.[/ezcol_1half_end]