Nigel Van Tura

Regional Director, Southern Africa, Core2Africa Networks

A seasoned Technology and Business Executive (sorry, done with configuring) with extensive international experience across a number of major industry verticals ranging from Service Providers, Mobile Operators, Government, Enterprise and Channel Operations. Over 20 years experience in a number of technical and leadership roles, directly and indirectly managing people, across many diverse cultures. Very comfortable and extensively experienced at engaging from Technical to Executive and CXO levels within High-Tech Corporations like Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, H3C/3Com and HP and its associated customer base. Made a lot of mistakes, and learnt lots!!!

From early days in a very technical environment, evolving to technical pre-sales and consulting to technical marketing and business development across the Middle East and Africa territory. Comfortable dealing with very simple and small to multi-million dollar complex projects within various verticals, performing various types of roles towards delivering with consummate success on customer requirements.

An industry proponent in the area of multi-vendor integration and advocate of “no one solution set fits all” as an understanding has been obtained over the years that customers are all very unique in terms of business perspectives and technology requirements.

Have seen the early stages of the Internet and am blessed to have contributed to a technology revolution that has fundamentally changed the way we work, live, and play in a "connected world".