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Lucky Masilela

24th April 2015

By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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Full Name: Mokgabudi Lucky Masilela

Position: CEO of ZA Central Registry (ZACR)

Main Activity of the Company: ZACR is the administrator of co.za, web.za, org.za, net.za and the recently launched cTLDs (city Top Level Domains) of .capetown (dotCapeTown), .joburg (dotJoburg) and .durban (dotDurban)

Date and Place of Birth: Christmas Day, Mofolo North, Soweto

Education: BSc degree in applied physics and electronics engineering from Hampton University, Virginia, US

First Job: Siemens Telecommunications, 1994

Career History Prior to Current Position: I did a three-year stint in St Croix, in the Caribbean, after securing a position at Transducer Technologies, in the US Virgin Islands. I returned to South Africa in 1993 and spent 17 years, from 1994, at Siemens Telecommunications and later at Nokia-Siemens Networks, during which period I became involved in the South African Communications Forum and became a ZA Domain Name Authority board member, prior to joining ZACR

Size of First Pay Packet: R8 000 a month, with an unlimited cellphone allowance

First Job with Present Group: CEO

Value of Assets under Your Control: The real assets under my control are co.za, web.za, org.za, net.za and the cTLDs of .capetown, .joburg and .durban

Management Style: I like to harness the best from my staff by adopting a collaborative approach

Personal Best Achievement: There have been many personal achievements I am proud of, ranging from completing a degree in the US to getting married and becoming the father to my children

Professional Best Achievement: There have been a few, but the ones that stand out are moving to the US to study applied physics and being part of a team that was responsible for the design of a community payphone that we launched in the mid-1990s

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: My mother, whom I still find myself talking to, even though she has since passed on

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: Pete da Silva, former CEO of Siemens, whom I met in 1994. He is now CEO of Jasco

Person You Would Most Like to Meet: I am inspired by uncommon heroes and by everyday people who make a difference and seldom receive recognition

Philosophy of Life: Humility. There is nothing better than to prepare the ground for others to walk on, while acknowledging that you simply cannot take anything with you

Biggest Ever Opportunity: Living in the Caribbean and doing great work while feeling like everyday was a holiday

Biggest Ever Disappointment: The sense of loss one feels as a result of the death of a loved one

Hope for the Future: That I help grow the number of .ZA domains from one-million to two-million in the next several years and that every South African citizen is allocated his or her own domain name – his or her unique space on the Web – on receiving an identity number

Favourite Reading: I read anything that I do know about – I am a seeker of information

Favourite TV Programme: I watch the TV programmes that deliver useful information at a certain time

Favourite Food/Drink: I enjoy spinach, beetroot, and whisky – simple tastes!

Favourite Music: Music is about creating a certain mood at a certain time. I might listen to my son's kwaito when I need to jump out of myself and to jazz when I am in an introspective mood.

Favourite Sport: One day I will rediscover tennis! For now, I play golf at least once a week

Favourite Website: www.registry.net.za

Hobbies: Gardening and mountain biking

Car: It depends on the day of the week

Pets: Three dogs

Miscellaneous Dislikes: Like most men, I dislike it when a certain someone moves my things

Favourite Other South African Company: MTN

Favourite Foreign Company: Siemens

Married: To Gaby, since 1997

Children: Buyani, 25; Joy, 24; Mandisa, 22; Angel, 15

Clubs: My wife and I belong to a social club called Dinoko

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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