About Us
We deliver advanced solutions to government, telecommunications providers, mobile network operators, network service providers and enterprise. The comprehensive and tightly integrated offering across infrastructure, safety, communications and digital provides carrier-grade solutions with enterprise-class services, maintenance and support.
- African innovation centre
- Headquarters in South, East and West Africa
- Global NEC partnership
- World-class strategic technology relationships
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Regional partnerships across 16 African countries
Level 1 B-BBEE
Kapela Capital investment partnership
Offices across all 9 South African provinces
Our Promise
We commit to creating social value with our partners and customers. We commit to working together to create safe, secure, efficient and more equal societies to improve people’s lives.
Partnering with Customers
We are the trusted ICT and systems integration partner for a broad cross-section of African organisations because we know that delivery happens when people connect.
Further Business Goals
We work with customers to deliver solutions that meet requirements and align our best-in-class methodologies to further their business goals
Solve Business Challenges
We strive to understand key issues to create relevant solutions through expertise and services because we are dedicated and passionate about solving complex business challenges
Meet our Leadership
Non-executive Chairman
He passionately enables high touch business strategies, a skill he has developed at some of Africa’s most prestigious organisations, including ABSA, Anglo American, IBM, Deloitte, Old Mutual, Transnet, the University of Pretoria, SA Express Airways, SARHWU Investment Holdings and as the first Chairman of the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA). He is an honorary professor of Accounting and Financial Management at the University of Pretoria.
Non-executive Director
Her portfolio included Personal Loans, Woolworths Financial Services, ALLPAY, Entry-Level banking and Small Business banking. She was at Barclays Bank in London for a year and previously served as MD of Postbank.
Daphne has served as the Deputy Chairman of a Presidential Commission of inquiry into access to finance and was named CEO magazine’s most influential woman in South Africa’s finance and banking in 2017.
She has served on the boards of Mercantile Bank, Rand Mutual Assurance and on the exco of CGAP, an international organisation with headquarters in Washington DC.
A founder and the CEO
Carel is passionate about how technology is driving change in society across Africa and how organisations can innovate new solutions to the continent’s most urgent challenges. Most notably, providing safer, more secure societies, narrowing the inequality gap, producing more with less, and developing better qualities of life for all.
He formulates strategy for the group across its sub-Sahara Africa operations and leads the execution of that strategy. He is also the executive responsible for integrating the NEC XON operations as the business continues to expand its markets, market share, and scope of operations.
Executive VP
He has developed a wealth of expertise in more than 27 years of experience growing ICT organisations. His executive leadership role encompasses NEC XON’s Safety, Infrastructure, Communications, and Digital clusters supported by relationships with top vendors in their categories worldwide.
Johann spearheads NEC XON’s delivery of related solutions and automated services capabilities, deep regional innovation, and a compelling value proposition for government, carriers, mobile operators, service providers and enterprise.
CFO
He has demonstrated deep executive leadership capacities at some of South Africa’s largest commercial agriculture organisations, managed audit compliance testing, developed and grown high value distribution and reseller strategies, and serves as an executive on the board of directors.
COO
Viven has deep experience in exposing business value for customers by integrating people, technology and operational assets. Nearly two decades of experience and exposure to multiple business disciplines have nurtured his focus on value for customers, managing risks, dependencies and stakeholders.
Viven delivers a uniquely multi-industry context for best practice and governance while driving business growth, integration, and operational efficiencies.
He primarily focuses on strengthening NEC’s global markets.
Matsuki also champions the deployment of solutions for society that leverage ICT for the safety and security of communities and societies worldwide.
He has served NEC in various roles for close on 30 years and played a pivotal role expanding NEC’s core business and operations in the 10 ASEAN and India and Oceanic nations.
He was instrumental in actively developing and promoting solutions creating business models tailored to local needs.
He is a 23-year NEC veteran who works with the United Nations (UN) to contribute to achieving sustainable development goals (SDG) through NEC’s cutting-edge technology.
Maekawa in 2013 embedded himself in NEC Africa for five years to learn and gain deep insights into the business culture in sub-Sahara Africa.
He plays a pivotal role in delivering NEC’s vision for creating Smart Cities where people can live, work, and play in safety and comfort while harmonising their existence with the environment by using advanced technologies and solutions.
NEC Group
NEC XON has a close association with the NEC Group via NEC Africa. NEC Group is a 3,095 billion Yen per annum business started in 1899 and now has more than 112,000 employees worldwide. The group consists of Public Solutions, Public Infrastructure, Enterprise, Network Services, and Global biometric authentication solutions and software services.
View more of NEC’s award-winning and ground-breaking history.
NEC way
The NEC Way is a common set of values for the entire NEC Group conduct. “Purpose” and “Principles” represent why and how we conduct business. “Code of Values” and “Code of conduct” embodies the values and behaviours all members of the NEC Group must demonstrate.
We create social value by putting the NEC Way into practice.
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