Stafford Masie
Stafford Masie has been in the IT industry for more than 15 years and has assumed numerous roles throughout his career. After completing his tertiary computer science studies in Israel in the early 90’s, he returned to South Africa. On his immediate return he worked for numerous companies, namely; Telkom, and Dimension Data. Thereafter Stafford started his own consulting and engineering services company which was later acquired. Looking for further challenges he then joined a multinational enterprise software company called Novell and after 9 months in South Africa he moved to the United States of America where he spent several years working at their corporate head office in Utah. Stafford was responsible for global partnerships and corporate technology strategy and had responsibility for numerous international territories – namely; Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Venezuala), Middle East, Sub Saharan Africa and Southern Europe. Stafford played a significant role in the open source software arena in the USA and returned to South Africa in December 2003 to assume the role of country manager for Novell South Africa. Stafford has since joined Google and was the country manager for Google South Africa. Being in this position and more than qualified as a talent on this subject, Stafford made a conscious decision to begin speaking in order to reach as many people as possible. Stafford Masie Presentation's and Workshops Stafford’s presentation and workshops range from discussing the impact that technology is having in societies, cultures and history to disclosing present day and short term technological trends. His remarks and demonstrations always intrigue the audience, giving them a thorough understanding of what exactly is happening “out there”, how to take advantage of it, and what to watch out for and always leaving them in awe. His target audience is everyone: the technology geeks will find it insightful and the non-IT folks will finally get an understanding of it all and where it’s all going. Stafford Masie has been rated as the most powerful presenter in South Africa, using real life stories to demonstrate the effect that technology will have in our lives and most importantly in our businesses. If you think technology has nothing to do with your business, THINK again. This presentation can be used in every field that you can imagine from Snow blowing to Leadership Strategy. “ If I knew he was that good I would have paid double” Raymond Ackerman “Stafford is a Super Star speaker”
Michael Jackson Versus sticking to particular topics or categories of subject matter, Stafford Masie prefers to tailor his content per client and per vertical business sector; this simply to ensure greater relevance and value to the audience, with the most impact.
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