André Van Der Veen

CA(SA), CFA, ACMA

Non-Executive Chairman

André is a senior business executive. He has served as a director of numerous listed companies and was the CEO of Johnnic Holdings Limited, KWV Holdings Limited, Niveus Investments Limited and eMedia Holdings Limited, the parent company of ETV. More recently he has been appointed as the CEO if Novus Holdings Limited and as Chairman of Nampak Limited. André has developed and successfully exited a number of businesses in the technology, entertainment and consumer industries.

Frans Meyer

PhD, M.Eng

Chief Executive Officer

Frans co-founded the EMSS Group (now Alphawave) guiding it from a consulting start-up to a Group of companies offering various products and services. He has been involved, on executive level, with a number of successful start-ups and various medium enterprises in the Group and is currently an active non-executive director of each company in the Group.

Isak Theron

PhD, M.Eng

Group Director & Director at EMSS Antennas

Isak was one of the first EMSS employees. He is one of the key technical leads originally involved with FEKO (electromagnetic software package) and later with the MeerKAT and SKA receiver contracts. Apart from his formidable engineering skills, Isak has been a business director of EMSS and the Alphawave Group since the late 1990s.

Marnus van Wyk

M.Eng

Group Director & Head of the Alpha100x Business Development Initiative

Marnus joined EMSS in 2000 as an engineer. He grew EMSS Consulting (now Alphawave Mobile Network Services & Products) from a start-up to a company with more than 50 people. He is an expert in logistical operations management and plays a critical role in the business expansion of the engineering companies in the Group.

Sam Clarke

M.Eng, MBA

Group Director & CEO of Skynamo

Sam joined EMSS in 2002 with a Master’s in Computational Electromagnetics. He founded Antenna Magus, later sold to CST-GmbH. In 2012, he co-founded Honeybee (now Skynamo), which has grown to a company with more than 100 people in SA, and now expanding into the UK markets. Sam plays a key role in business thinking throughout the Group.

Taariq Ahmed

CA (SA)

Group Financial Director

Taariq joined Alphawave in 2021. He has over 10 years experience in corporate finance with a focus on debt structuring, M&A and fund raising processes. He has built up deep insights and extensive networks through the execution of various tech deals throughout the African continent. Taariq is a qualified Chartered Accountant and completed his Post-Graduate Degree in Accounting at UCT.

Coen Bester

BSc. (Electronic Eng.), BSc Honns., MBA, PGD (Future Studies), OPM (HBS)

Non-Executive Director

Coen is an entrepreneur with 40 years of experience. He specialises in the strategy of high-tech businesses. He founded and exited his own tech company in the 1990s. Since then, he has served as business advisor and angel investor. He was actively involved in the local listing of 2 tech startups and currently serves on their boards as non-executive director.

Kgotso Schoeman

BA (Econ), ALP

Non-Executive Director

Kgotso is the founding CEO of Kagiso Capital and former CEO of Kagiso Trust. During his 20-year tenure at the Trust, he played a remarkable role in taking it from it being a general conduit grant funding agency to a development and implementing agency in the education and rural finance fields  – thereby ensuring its relevance and sustainability. He also led the design and implementation of the Beyers Naude Schools Development Programme.

Lebogang Mosiane

BCompt (Hons) CFA Level 2 candidate

Non-Executive Director

Lebo is the COO of Kagiso Capital, where he sources and evaluates appropriate investment opportunities. Before joining Kagiso in 2015, he worked at PC and the Shanduka Group. He gained extensive experience in investments and finance during his tenure as a senior associate at Shanduka where he was responsible for managing their Africa business, Private Equity Fund and monitoring investments in various sectors.