Overview
Overview
Innovative solutions for your changing needs
The way we communicate is constantly evolving. It’s why we focus on developing solutions that cater to our clients’ changing needs. Starting out as a telecommunications service provider almost 20 years ago, we’ve quickly developed to become a cloud-first, software-driven solutions company. Our innovative offerings are available across our extensive network, spanning across South Africa with main points of presence in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
Beyond our competitive voice and connectivity offerings, we also provide SD-WAN, cloud and hosting solutions that are tailored to your business needs. We understand that security is more important than ever before. It’s why our approach to security solutions is outside-in and inside-out, ensuring that you and your networks are fully protected.
We’ve built our telecom company around our ability to adapt, grow, innovate and evolve, yet one thing always stays the same; our customers’ needs come first. This is our guiding force on our journey to creating easier and more cost-effective ways for our clients to compute, collaborate, network and secure their businesses.
Meet the team
Meet the team
Our team of leaders
We believe in leaders that empower and nurture every employee, creating accomplished individuals and high-performance teams. Meet our experienced leadership team who have grown Saicom into the success it is today.
Kyle Woolf
CEO
Kyle’s background in accounting and financial management, combined with his deep understanding of how technology shapes businesses, has played an integral role in growing our offering. Responsible for ensuring the financial and commercial stability of the organisation, Kyle also handles key client and supplier relationships.
Kyle holds a Bachelor of Accounting degree from Wits University. After completing his articles at Investec where he qualified as a CA (SA), he began providing debt and equity solutions to corporates nationally.
Greg de Chasteauneuf
CTO
A serial innovator, Greg helped pioneer and create one of the country’s largest ISP’s and its first next-generation network (MPLS/NGN). Applying this mindset to our technology strategy, Greg embraces disruptive technology as he successfully drives our product development in the network, security, and cloud-hosting space.
Greg holds a diploma in Computer Science from CTI and has completed a Dimension Data Management Development Programme (MDP) in General Business Administration and Management through the University of Manchester.
David Cooke
Sales Director
With more than 20 years’ experience across a range of industries, David is passionate about leadership and management. Under his strategic guidance and mentorship, he consistently develops high-performance business professionals, while cultivating an energetic, collaborative and results-driven culture.
As a self-motivated entrepreneur, David has developed and managed several successful businesses, and led numerous dynamic sales teams within high-impact environments. A true salesman at heart he has successfully executed high-level negotiations with top enterprise customers across South Africa and beyond.
Charl van Vollenhoven
Chief Infrastructure Officer
Charl is the Head of Infrastructure at Saicom, a position he has held since June 2017. In his role, Charl is responsible for maintaining and managing the routing, switching, voice and unified communications infrastructure that is core to Saicom’s ability to deliver a world-class network and voice services to its customers.
His role requires him to identify trends and research products that will continue to evolve the company’s routing and switching network, and associated voice products. Charl believes that what differentiates Saicom from its competitors, is its commitment to delivering best of breed solutions that are secure, can scale to meet changing business needs, and providing white glove customer service.
With more than 20 years experience in voice services, he is most excited to see how unified communications is evolving and believes that as service providers are given more access to UCaaS platforms, customers can expect more value and innovation in the voice services stack.
Paul Michel
Chief Operating Officer
As the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Paul is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of Saicom. With 18 years of experience in the ISP, Telecoms and Cloud Computing industry, Paul has a proven track record of driving growth, business development and profitability in technology companies.
Paul is responsible for managing operational aspects of the business, including customer service, assurance and fulfillment.
Testimonials
Testimonials
Colin Corbett
Chief Information Officer, Bidvest Steiner
Some Company EXCO teams believe they are above dealing with you as a customer. That’s not the case with Saicom. Their team is really exceptional. They are truly market leaders when it comes to overall service.
Craig Eldridge
Technical Director, FinishTime
We are delighted to have forged a partnership with Saicom. They have done the impossible and delivered exceptional value to our business. We look forward to a long-standing and innovative working relationship with them.
Tashwill Carelse
IT Director, Rentokil Initial
Saicom’s APN solution provides a seamless connection to our network, allows us to control the data we use, and very importantly, has saved us a considerable amount of money.
