The TallOrder Team
Years of experience accompanied by extensive industry expertise make the TallOrder Board and management team leaders in their field and knowledge pioneers!
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Founder of CloudOne.mobi, Dana describes himself as ‘techie at heart, entrepreneur by nature’.Others call him a ‘serial disruptor’, having founded and sold three ground-breaking tech ventures since starting his first company while completing a computer science degree at UCT in the early eighties.
Since then, he has been part of every subsequent major shift in the evolution of computing. His considerable expertise and experience can be seen in CloudOne.mobi, Cloud and mobile technologies. Dana also owns the celebrated wine estate Vrede en Lust (www.vnl.co.za) in the Franschhoek wine valley.
Anna Groenewald
Chief Operations Officer and Co-Founder
With a wealth of financial, HR and operational experience in the medical, technology, accounting and banking fields, Anna takes the place of CloudOne.mobi’s Chief Operational Officer and Co-Founder, among other roles.
Highly motivated and directed by a strong work ethic, Anna leads the team to achieve a range of strategically led outcomes and targets for our products and services. Start-up as well as large corporation experience means that Anna diversifies her role as needed.
In 2000, Anna received the Rector’s Award for outstanding service at the University of Stellenbosch.
Rob Stokes
Non-Executive Director
Rob is a founder and group CEO of Quirk, a digital marketing agency established in 1999 and today one of the most awarded on the African continent.Rob brings unique knowledge and insight of successful innovation, with the ethos ‘driven by creativity, yet disciplined by results’. Rob co-authored the book eMarketing, the essential guide to digital marketing and was founding Chairman of Silicon Cape, an initiative that nurtures technology businesses in the Western Cape and beyond.
His many awards include Greatest Individual Contribution to Online Media and Marketing in South Africa from the Bookmarks Awards and Young Business Leader of the Year at the CNBC Africa All Africa Business Leaders Awards in 2013.
Willem van Biljon
Non-Executive Director
Van Biljon graduated from the University of Cape Town with a degree in Computer Science. He held engineering and research positions at LinkData, the Institute for Applied Computer Science and the National Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Van Biljon co-founded Mosaic Software. Mosaic built the Postilion payment system, the first high-end payment transaction switch for commodity hardware and operating systems (Windows). Mosaic’s investors included GE and Paul Maritz. The company became one of the top three payment processing software vendors in the world and was sold in 2004 to S1 Corp.
Van Biljon worked for Amazon.com where he, along with Chris Pinkham and Christopher Brown, led the team that developed Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Willem built the business plan for the service and was responsible for product management and marketing for the public cloud service.
In 2006, van Biljon left Amazon Web Services and later started a venture with Chris Pinkham. The company, Nimbula, was focused on Cloud Computing software and was funded by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners. In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.
After Nimbula, Van Biljon joined takealot.com, the largest e-commerce retailer in South Africa where he served as Co-CEO and CTO from 2014 to 2017.
Van Biljon is also an advisor and board member to a number of technology companies.
Van Biljon co-authored seven patents in cloud computing including “Managing Communications Between Computing Nodes”, “Managing Execution of Programs by Multiple Computing Systems”.
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