Andile Ngcaba

Overview

Andile Ngcaba is chairman, founder and majority shareholder of investment group Convergence Partners and is also the Executive Chairman of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa, a subsidiary of the Dimension Data plc Group. Through Convergence Partners, Andile is also involved in significant new communications infrastructure projects across Africa including Seacom (the first undersea fibre optic cable system serving Africa's East Coast) which was ready for service on 23 July 2009, the first private sector satellite in Africa (Intelsat New Dawn) which was launched on 22 April 2011 and a recently announced new joint venture to bring high capacity, long-haul terrestrial fibre to South Africa (FibreCo). Andile was previously Director General of Communications in the first democratically elected government of South Africa in 1994. He left Government in 2003 to pursue a career in the private sector.