Dr Mdu Zakwe
Executive Chairman
Mdu is a Chartered Accountant with an MBA in IT & E-Commerce and a PhD in Cybersecurity Education. He is certified in Applied Cyber Security with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mdu has worked for blue chip companies such as Unilever, FirstRand, AngloGold Ashanti, EY and KPMG. He has served as Chairperson of more than 20 boards and board committees in both the private and public sectors. He has held leadership roles in professional bodies such as the Computer Society of South Africa, South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and the KwaZulu-Natal branch of the Black IT Forum. Starting out, he was a tutor at the University of Natal and a lecturer at Boston College.
Mdu can be best described as an entrepreneur who is passionate about realising the full information technology potential of business systems towards fulfilment of business objectives. He also enjoys hydroponics farming of vegetables, egg farming and growing broliers.
Regarded as one of our country’s brightest young professionals, he scooped the Black Business Quarterly Award for Businessman of the Year in 2012, and Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young Bright Minds in South Africa Award in 2013.
True to form, Mdu enjoys developing cybersecurity board games to raise cyber-risk awareness among our youth. And is currently the founding Chairperson of the Pan African Institute of Cybersecurity.
His other hobbies include running, golf, squash and road biking.
Mdu is a Chartered Accountant with an MBA in IT & E-Commerce and a PhD in Cybersecurity Education. He is certified in Applied Cyber Security with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mdu has worked for blue chip companies such as Unilever, FirstRand, AngloGold Ashanti, EY and KPMG. He has served as Chairperson of more than 20 boards and board committees in both the private and public sectors. He has held leadership roles in professional bodies such as the Computer Society of South Africa, South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and the KwaZulu-Natal branch of the Black IT Forum. Starting out, he was a tutor at the University of Natal and a lecturer at Boston College.
Mdu can be best described as an entrepreneur who is passionate about realising the full information technology potential of business systems towards fulfilment of business objectives. He also enjoys hydroponics farming of vegetables, egg farming and growing broliers.
Regarded as one of our country’s brightest young professionals, he scooped the Black Business Quarterly Award for Businessman of the Year in 2012, and Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young Bright Minds in South Africa Award in 2013.
True to form, Mdu enjoys developing cybersecurity board games to raise cyber-risk awareness among our youth. And is currently the founding Chairperson of the Pan African Institute of Cybersecurity.
His other hobbies include running, golf, squash and road biking.
