Ziaad Suleman is the SVP \u2013 CEO: SA & Botswana of Cassava Technologies operations for South Africa and Botswana. He is an accomplished C \u2013 Suite business and technology leader, with his experience spanning over 25 years in the technology industry. He is responsible for the country’s leadership, strategy, and operations across the Cassava portfolio of companies including Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Africa Data Centres, Sasai Fintech, Liquid C2 Cloud and Cyber Security and Cassava AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ziaad has a proven track record of driving business success through the enablement of technology solutions. He is a solution driven leader with a keen interest in digital transformation.
Before joining Liquid, Ziaad was the Group Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and an exco member at iOCO Technologies, formerly the EOH Company, for 3 \u00bd years from July 2021. Before that, he was a Director and the Head General Counsel for IBM Africa for 6 years before being promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO) for IBM Southern Africa, a business he served and grew throughout his 13-year stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over and above iOCO, Ziaad represents South Africa as the SA Chair of 4IR and the Digital Economy on BRICS+. He is also a non \u2013 executive Director of : CollectiveX (the national initiative to solve the digital skills deficit), Southern Africa Philanthropy Foundation and Geeks 4 Learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ziaad completed his schooling at St. Johns College, Johannesburg, earning his undergraduate and postgraduate honours degree in Law (distinction) from the University of Natal. He also has an MDP Business Management degree (distinction) from GIBS Business School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his spare time, Ziaad enjoys sport (golf, squash, padel tennis) and collects sports memorabilia and vintage toys.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":7576,"template":"","team-cat":[51],"class_list":["post-7575","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team-cat-operating-ceos"],"yoast_head":"\n