Huge Group on Tuesday announced the appointment of Ken Jarvis, previously chief information officer (CIO) of the South African Revenue Service (Sars), as a non-executive to its board of directors from September 1.
Speaking to ITnewsAfrica.com, company CEO, Anton Pogieter, said the appointment of was an exciting phase for the group.
Jarvis was heralded by the Huge Group as being involved in the turnaround of Sars from 2002 to 2006, as well as spending a decade with IBM.
Jarvis’s experience includes massive project rollouts, consolidation exercises and transformational initiatives. His documentation of Sars’s information technology (IT) strategy was rated number one in worldwide Thought Leadership by Gartner, and Jarvis was the winner of the 2004 ICT Leadership award, and was voted the Public Sector CIO of that year, said the company.
Jarvis currently runs his own company, Jika Africa.
The company also appointed Don Tredoux, founder of Orion Telecom, also in a non-executive capacity, in August.
The Huge Group Ltd, listed on the JSE’s Alt-X board on the 8th August 2007, began as a consolidation between corporate telecommunications giants TelePassport and Centracell and is evolving into a formidable diversified telecommunications group with the pending acquisition of 59% of iTalk Cellular.
