DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS EVENT WITH MTETO NYATI

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS EVENT WITH MTETO NYATI

UCT GSB ESP with Mteto Nyati

Date:

21 September

Time:

17:30 for 18:00

Venue:

Protea Hotel

Balalaika

Email:

info@gsb.uct.ac.za

 The UCT Graduate School of Business in association with  PwC and Webber Wentzel is proud to present; Mteto Nyati, Managing Director, Microsoft South Africa who will be speaking on:

"Overcoming leadership challenges"

This regular and well-attended event in the Johannesburg business calendar offers our guests the opportunity to interact with prominent business, political and social personalities in South Africa and the opportunity to broaden your business and social networks at the post-presentation cocktails. Seating is limited and it is essential that you book, so please advise as soon as possible if you wish to attend.

SPEAKER PROFILE

Mteto Nyati is Managing Director of Microsoft South Africa, the local subsidiary of the world’s largest independent software company. Since taking up the position in September 2008, Mteto has emerged as a strong and articulate advocate on the use of technology to address government’s service delivery challenges, improve educational outcomes, and make businesses of all sizes more productive and profitable.

Mteto has been the driving force behind Microsoft’s massive Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Programme, which will see the company spend R500m to grow several small black-owned software companies over the next seven years. He believes strongly in employee engagement and empowerment. This approach saw Microsoft South Africa win the Deloitte’s Best Company to Work for Survey in 2010. Before joining Microsoft, Mteto spent 12 years at IBM, where he held a series of senior executive roles. When he was on an international assignment with IBM in Paris, he was named one of Yale University’s World Fellows of Global Leadership for 2004.

He matriculated from St John’s College in Umtata in 1980. In 1982, he was given a scholarship by Afrox to study Mechanical Engineering, and achieved a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Natal in 1985. His interests include cycling, travelling, writing (he is a published columnist), reading and coaching.