SOUTH AFRICA-ITALY SUMMIT

Hamilton Ratshefola

Country General Manager - IBM South Africa

Country General Manager, IBM SA. Mr. Ratshefola joined IBM as a graduate and trainee System Engineer in 1990. He worked as a mainframe Systems Engineer in the banking and retail environment before moving into Sales in 1993. He was promoted to management in 1995 and later moved to lead the Industry Team in Travel & Transportation in 1997. He worked on assignment in the UK, Italy, Denmark and the US. Following this, he returned to South Africa to lead the IBM Public Sector Business. In 2000 Hamilton co-founded Cornastone, a successful IBM Business Partner. He rejoined IBM South Africa in June 2013 as Executive Sales & Development reporting to the County General Manager.