Mr. Rodney de Koch has joined ICOZA as its newly appointed Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. de Koch has been in the IT industry for the last 20 years. He started his IT career in operations in the early eighties. Over the years he served in multiple IT capacities from programmer, Unix technical specialist, business analyst, pre-sales consultant, product specialist, product manager, sales executive and sales & marketing manager.

Mr. de Koch left the shores of South Africa for a number of years working abroad. He also had a spell in the Middle East as a senior management consultant for IBM, based in Saudi Arabia. In 1999, Mr. de Koch moved to London in the capacity as European Sales Manager focusing on the European ISP/ASP market. He relocated to Paris, France focussing on ISP/ASP solutions within companies such as France Telecom, Societies Generale, Deutsche Telecom, Credit Agricole, Renault, KPNQwest, Vodafone, One-2-One and British Gas. Upon his return to South Africa, Mr. de Koch was assigned from SITA to the position as Director: Business Information Planning and Integration, and for short periods, acting CIO for the Department of Foreign Affairs. In his last assignment at SITA he served as acting manager for Systems Analysis and Design for SITA-Civilian in the Business Solutions and Architecture section.