Andile Ngcaba - Convergence Partners (Chairman and Founding Partner)

Andile Ngcaba is the Executive Chairman of Dimension Data Middle East & Africa (DDMEA) and also the founder and Chairman of Convergence Partners Investments.

Andile has actively been involved in public policy development at National, Continental and Global levels through his activities on various bodies including the ITU, ICANN and the African Union. He continues to serve in an advisory capacity to a number of national, regional and international policy making bodies in the technology and science sectors.

Andile’s latest venture is the establishment of The Cortex Hub in East London, South Africa which will be competing globally in producing IT entrepreneurs who are able to develop local and global solutions. The hub took in the first contingent in January 2015.

• Andile serves on the boards of a number of the Convergence Partners’ portfolio companies, these include:
  Seacom, the first fiber-optic submarine cable to serve the East Coast of Africa. The focus is on increasing Africa’s access to affordable, accessible broadband services; and
• New Dawn Satellite Company, Africa’s first private communication satellite service. This Company focused on ensuring and supporting Africa’s continued growth of broadband services with a purely African footprint.