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THE MANAGEMENT TEAM - CBA
Corporate Business Automation boasts a high-powered team of executives at its helm. SIMON POTT – Managing Director Simon has a degree in commerce from the University of Natal and has extensive experience in managing both small and large organisations. After graduating, Simon spent 10 years with Barlows, where he reached the level of General Manager (Natal). Thereafter, he joined forces with Garry Owen to start up Cape Town Minolta. PAUL CORBETT – Sales Director
Paul has a well respected Sales specialist with 26 years experience in the office equipment business. He recently joined CBA from Canon where he was the General Manager (KwaZulu-Natal). GARRY OWEN - DirectorGarry has been involved in Office Equipment for the last 23 years, initially owning Nashua Botswana for ten years. He sold this business to Barlows before immigrating to Cape Town. During his stay in Botswana, Nashua Botswana won the prestigious Nashua Dealer of the year award for South Africa on three separate occasions. KEVIN HOSKING - Director Kevin Hosking holds a MCom degree from the University of the Western Cape. He also completed a Financial Analysis short course at the UCT Graduate School of Business and had the opportunity to complete courses at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Cape Town and the University of Stellenbosch. Kevin has been involved with corporate deal structuring and formulating breakthrough marketing and branding strategies for the past 10 years and has worked with large multinationals to smaller local businesses.
OUR SUPPORT TEAM RENEE NEL – Financial Manager Renée obtained a Higher Diploma in Cost and Management Accounting from the Cape Technikon, before joining Groves, Wilder & Co, a firm of Chartered Accountants and Auditors. During her 11 years with the company Renee rose through the ranks from Assistant Accountant, to become a shareholder and director of the company. She joined Corporate Business Automation as Financial Manager in July 2001. SARAH SWART – Operations & Logistics Manager Sarah has 22 years of extensive legal experience and has completed courses in Paralegal Collections and Conveyancing, Debt collection, Computerised Collections and the A+ computer certificate. Before joining CBA she ran the collections department at Buchanan Boyes Attorneys for seven years. She is currently studying towards her MCSE certificate and is also studying Insolvency Law. FAIZEL ROYNE – Service Manager Faizel has 25 years of Technical experience with the Konica Minolta brand having been with CBA from the beginning, some 23 years ago. Highly regarded in the industry Faizel has a formidable list of training qualifications and awards and is certainly a key member of the management team. LEN RENDA – IT Manager Len has been in Office Automation and the IT industry for more than 25 years, and started the IT division at CBA, installing and supporting the Konica Minolta range of printers and faxes.
Our relationship with Konica Minolta SA: We have been resellers of the Konica Minolta and Océ range of products the last 23 years. Konica Minolta SA , which is part of the BidVest group of companies, supplies us the products, parts, consumables, as well as training for our staff. In 2005/2006 we received the Digital MFP Dealer of the Year award, as a result of the largest sales volumes of Mono MFP’s in South Africa. In 2006/2007 we received the accolade of the overall Dealer of the Year and Production Dealer of the Year of Konica Minolta in South Africa. We have recently been awarded the Konica Minolta dealer of the Year award for 2009/2010! This is the third time we have been awarded the most prestigious award from Konica Minolta
Our relationship with HP goes back to the “Mopier” range of digital of products, and we have been building close ties with Mr. Casper du Plessis of HP SA since the recent launch of the exciting range of new HP MFP’s. The Hewlett Packard name has become synonymous with reliability over the years, and we have taken the uncertainty out of Total Cost of Ownership by including HP’s in our all-inclusive cost per page maintenance agreements. This simply takes the guesswork out of budgeting, and the traditional headaches associated with stock control and shrinkage is removed from your institution. As a result of our investment in infrastructure we do not outsource any of our technical support. We have the capacity to carry out all service and maintenance of HP products ourselves. We also constantly cross-train our Konica Minolta technical staff on the HP products. CBA was also approved as an HP Office Printing Solutions Specialist for 2010 and is a Preferred Partner.
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