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Jaco Maritz

22nd July 2016

  

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Full Name: Jaco Maritz

Position: CFO of SYSPRO Corporate

Main Activity of the Company: SYSPRO is an enterprise resource planning software company

Date and Place of Birth: December 13, 1973, Vereeniging

Education: BCom (accountancy), University of Pretoria (UP), 1994; BCompt (Hons), University of South Africa, 1995; CA (SA), 1999; executive management development course, UP, 2002

First Job: Articled clerk, KPMG

Career History Prior to Current Position: I started out at Absa IT before moving to AST (Gijima) and then on to SilverBridge Holdings, (an AltX-listed financial services software company), after which I joined SYSPRO

Size of First Pay Packet: R1 950 a month as a first-year articled clerk at KPMG

First Job with Present Group: Current position

Value of Assets under Your Control: Not stated

Number of People under Your Leadership: SYSPRO has more than 500 employees globally

Management Style: Open-door and collaborative

Personal Best Achievement: I am happy where I am in life and satisfied with the path that brought me here

Professional Best Achievement: Working for a company like SYSPRO

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: My wife

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: I have been privileged to always work for great leaders, each of whom has taught me something different

Person You Would Most Like to Meet: I would have loved to meet former President Nelson Mandela

Businessperson Who Has Impressed You Most: All the South African businesspeople who head up multinational companies and can hold their own in a highly competitive global arena

Philosophy of Life: Time is the most precious resource – don’t waste it

Biggest Ever Opportunity: Every day

Biggest Ever Disappointment: Losing the Cricket World Cup semifinal to Australia in 1999

Hope for the Future: That we South Africans overcome our current challenges

Favourite Reading: Biographies, history and fantasy fiction

Favourite TV Programme: The Good Wife

Favourite Food/Drink: Indian food

Favourite Music: Anything that reminds me of my youth

Favourite Sport: Mountain biking and cycling (socially); I am an avid South African rugby supporter

Favourite Website: www.syspro.com

Hobbies: Spending time with my family and visiting the Botswana parks once a year

Car: Audi A4

Pets: Two white Staffordshire bull terriers and two cats

Miscellaneous Dislikes: Ungrateful people

Favourite Other South African Company: Small South African entrepreneurial companies that are doing well

Favourite Foreign Company: Disney

Married: To Elmarie, since September 2000

Children: Katelyn, 10; Alex, 8

Clubs: None

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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