Ronald Powell

Ronald Powell has over two decades of work experience in the IT industry. Ronald currently holds the position of VP - Director of Cloud and Infrastructure Offerings (GTM) at Injazat, where they lead the development and implementation of innovative Cloud-First and AI-Ready platforms. Prior to this, they worked at eHosting DataFort as the Director - GTM Solutions Architecture & Delivery Engineering (Field CTO), where they played a key role in sales, operations, and strategy development. Ronald also has experience as a Director - GTM Solutions Architecture (Field-CTO) at Dimension Data Middle East and Africa, where they focused on identifying new business opportunities and driving revenue growth. Ronald has also worked at Netsurit as a Principal Enterprise Architect, at Microsoft in various GTM Practice Manager and Lead roles, at Altron as a Senior Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations Manager, at Standard Bank Group as a Senior Enterprise Solutions Architecture Lead, at BUI - Microsoft Gold and Azure Expert MSP Partner as an Information Systems & Infrastructure Operations Manager, at Novon Crop Protection Chemicals as an IT Manager, and at CENDANT MEMBERSHIP SERVICES - BRITISH AIRWAYS EXECUTIVE CLUB as an ICT Systems Support Manager. Ronald has demonstrated expertise in areas such as cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT service management, infrastructure architecture, and digital transformation.

Ronald Powell's education history is as follows:

- From 2023 to 2026, they attended Golden Gate University and obtained a Doctor of Business Administration degree in Leadership & Strategy.

- In 2023, they completed an Executive Certification Program in Leadership and Management in New Age Business from Wharton Executive Education, which is part of the University of Pennsylvania.

- From 2014 to 2017, they pursued a Master's degree in Information Systems Management (MBA for IT) at the University of Liverpool.

- In 2014, they also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Information Systems Management from the University of Liverpool.

- Additionally, in 2014, they obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Information Systems Management from the same university.

- Prior to their higher education, they attended Princess High School and obtained a Senior Certificate in English, Afrikaans, Science, Technical Drawing, Electrical, and Maths in 1992.

In addition to their formal education, they also obtained various certifications in different fields. Some notable certifications include watsonx.ai Technical Sales Intermediate and watsonx.data Technical Sales Intermediate from IBM in 2023, AWS Partner certifications from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2021, and Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner certification from IBM in 2021, among others.