Our Team
Directors

Samir Saban
CA (SA), RA
Qualified Chartered Accountant with over 16 years’ commercial experience in the corporate sector. Area of expertise includes corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and turning businesses around. Valuations and business planning. Held many senior positions in a few unlisted and listed companies during his corporate career ranging from financial manager to financial director. Over the last 5 years’ was the CEO of public listed entity after successfully listing the company on the main board of the JSE in 2017.

Ishmael Solomon
CA (SA), RA
Qualified Chartered Accountant with over 16 years’ experience in the corporate sector in South Africa, the USA, and the Middle East. Held various senior-level positions in several industries including manufacturing, aviation, aerospace, and defense sectors. Areas of expertise include audit, financial management, executive board-level experience, as well as business planning and turning companies and projects in distress around.

Gamied Ally
CA (SA), RA, MBA
Qualified Chartered Accountant with over 27 years’ experience in the corporate sector in South Africa and the Middle East. Areas of expertise include Internal Auditing, Enterprise Risk Management, Corporate Governance, and Internal Controls. Held senior level positions at large Multinational companies within Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Governance.
Management

Yacoub Hajwani
BCom, MBA, CISA, CRISC
Certified Information Systems Auditor with over 20 years’ experience in South Africa, the Middle East and UK. Specialist in Information Systems Auditing, Business Process and Architecture and Internal Controls. Experience at large Multinational companies within Audit and Business Process.

Nisar Tiseker
BSc (Computer Science), MBA, Masters In Information & Knowledge Management, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Business and IT professional with over 31 years’ experience in South Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. Specialist in Strategy, Architecture, Business Process Design, Programme & Project Management, Lean Six Sigma and Supply Chain Management. Experience at large Multinational companies within Information Technology and Strategic Projects.

Faaiz Abrahams
BSc (Computer Science), B.(B&A)(Hons), MBA
Business and IT professional with over 33 years’ experience in diverse industries in South Africa and the Middle East. Specialist in Strategy, Organisational Design, Business Performance Management, Business Process Design and Portfolio, Programme & Project Management. Experience at large Multinational companies within Information Technology, Industrial and Strategic Projects.

Madiny Darries
ITIL, COBIT 5, ISO 22301
Business and IT professional with over 30 years’ experience across the IT value chain having started as a computer operator for Standard bank on IBM Mainframes and reaching the position of CIO. He was the IT Director at UWC from 2002-2008 and was responsible for the transformation of the IT capability at UWC. This allowed UWC to collaborate both nationally and internationally on IT innovation within Higher Education. Madiny has worked and consulted across all sectors in the areas of IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture include National, Provincial and Local Government.