Enterprise Content & Wireless (ECW), a 51% black-owned company, today announced that Bheki Langa has been appointed as its non-executive chairman.
Langa is the executive chairman of the Mfiso Group, a company with interests in the electronics, telecommunications and transportation industries, and has been involved in the telecommunications industry for nearly 10 years.
Furthermore, Mokati Ramphele has been appointed as an executive director of ECW. Ramphele is a respected leading figure within the industry with 20 years experience in ICT, his latest international position being that of managing director of Cisco Systems for southern Africa.
"We are delighted with these two additions to our board, as they bring significant and complementary experiences to the company that are so important for our future development and growth," commented Ray Dalgarno, CEO of ECW. "With the two key focuses of the group, ie content management and application `mobilisation`, and now the strengthening of our management team, our future looks extremely exciting."
For further information, please contact Ray Dalgarno, Lava Systems Africa: telephone (011) 675 7193, fax (011) 675 4075, e-mail rayd@lavasystems.co.za.
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ECW is the merged entity of Lava Systems Africa, Lava Systems Mobile (LSM) and KeyTools (Pty) Ltd.
The Lava Systems Africa (LSA) team originated in the late 1990s with the objective of becoming a premier supplier of enterprise systems based around knowledge management, document management, records management, image management, collaboration and workflow solutions. The emerging demands that were identified included government process re-engineering, supply chain co-ordination, customer relationship management, e-government and B2B processing. In support of these business aims, the technology platforms chosen had to enjoy a proven global track record and adhere to open Internet architecture standards and developments. LSA is a South African-based company dedicated to the sales, marketing, support and consultancy founded upon the Livelink product suite from Open Text, a product that the staff have been involved with since 1998. LSA`s user base embraces customers from both the private and public sector and includes organisations such as Bateman Projects Limited, Alexander Forbes, the Gauteng Provincial Government and the National Social Security Fund of Uganda.
KeyTools is that company which concentrates on the marketing, sales and support of the mobile software systems and business solutions and that also offers the capability of `hosting` such a business solution.
Lava Systems Mobile (LSM) is a company focusing on the development of mobile applications and tools; and was originally created in 2005. Later that year, it was absorbed with KeyTools, a well established mobile applications software developer with international links.
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