He completed his BSc Electrical Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1995, and after a brief role as a practicing engineer, joined the IT industry with Internet Solutions in January 1997. Starting in a sales role with Internet Solutions' commercial division, Southgate moved to the hosting team as sales manager. Thereafter, he worked for three years as GM for IS Security and Dimension Data Security, and then headed up Internet Solutions' SaaS business, before being appointed as marketing executive.
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