Steven is a technology executive and board member who is passionate about bringing people, data and governance together to achieve tangible outcomes. He has over 20 years' experience working in many roles, including Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Strategy & Consulting, Enterprise Architect, Consultant, and Coach across a variety of industries. Steve has extensive experience in working with the executive suite to simplify and align security, data and technology with strategic directives.
Steven is currently the Chief Commercial Officer (formally chief technology officer) for a leading boutique digital transformation firm headquartered in Singapore, and offices in Hong Kong, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Dubai.
Prior to his current role, Steven was the Chief Operating Officer for a leading cloud transformation organisation assisting the executive leadership of South Africa’s financial services industry navigate their cloud transformation journeys and preparing them for the cyber threat landscape.
Historically, Steven led the architectural design and adoption of a go-to-market framework across a global Telco organisation on behalf of the global services CEO. He also designed and implemented a digital transformation programme for executive management at a top 10 global logistics organisation on Enterprise Architecture, agile ways of working, cyber resilience, DevOps, Cloud migration, and Process Optimisation. Apart from that, he developed and delivered the e-Health strategy for the Ghana Health Ministry, including the cross-border engagement, cyber protection and produced the executive cyber report for the Chairman of the Bankers Association of Philippines and CEO of Philippine largest Bank.
Steven is also an established board level facilitator and thought leader with partnerships and publications with the likes of Singapore Institute of Directors, Asia Tech Singapore, South African Chamber of Commerce, Della Leaders Club and many others.
Steven has held executive leadership delivery and coaching positions, and helped grow businesses across Africa, UK, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Steven holds the TOGAF® Enterprise Architect qualification and is Certified Trainer (ExecuTrain). He has a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from University Pretoria and BSc in Computer Science from Rhodes University.
As ICDM Faculty, Steven has conducted various Cybersecurity & Technology Risk programmes for companies from different industries.
