Saal de Jager
Full Name: Salomon Hercules Francois de Jager
Position: CEO and president of PiLog Group
Main Activity of the Company: PiLog Group, with a footprint that covers South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, Russia and the US, is a leader in Master Data quality solutions based on ISO standards to ensure governance in enterprise resource planning systems
Date and Place of Birth: June 24, 1955
Education: BEng (Hons) (mechanical and industrial), Stellenbosch University, 1978; MEng (industrial), University of Pretoria, 1982; PhD (industrial engineering), University of the Witwatersrand, 1993
First Job: Industrial engineer at Iscor
Career History Prior to Current Position: I worked for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the then Iscor before founding Industrial Systems Engineering in 1988 and cofounding Paradigm Systems Technology in 1988, of which I was divisional manager: industrial, responsible for the development and implementation of acquisition logistics systems for the South African Air Force and the South African Navy, and maintenance management systems development and implementation in plants, nuclear utilities and mines. From 1996 to 2010, I was CEO of PiLog Systems and PiLog Data
Size of First Pay Packet: R362 a month (net)
First Job with Present Group: Founder, CEO and president
Value of Assets under Your Control: Assets, data content and software systems intellectual property rights estimated $1.5-billion
Number of People under Your Leadership: 300 to 500, depending on contracts
Management Style: I am a strategic leader who closely monitors and measures performance
Personal Best Achievement: One-day 100 miler endurance horseback race and winner with Laska
Professional Best Achievement: The building of the Paradigm Systems functional team from zero to more than 100 top professionals in their field, many of whom are now running their own businesses
Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: My mother, who taught me to see the real things beyond the physical things
Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: Professor Robert Reinecke (Stellenbosch, 1978), who transformed my vision from local to global
Person You Would Most Like to Meet: JJ Hurtak and his Academy for Future Science
Businessperson Who Has Impressed You Most: Anton Rupert
Philosophy of Life: Live the experience to experience the experience of experiencing
Biggest Ever Opportunity: Taking PiLog from a local company to be the reference globally for Master Data quality solutions that will remove the traffic lights in the silos of corporate data for transparent, quality decisions
Biggest Ever Disappointment: Not paying the required attention to build and extend the family farm activities in Ficksburg into an empowered profitable concern
Hope for the Future: That we give our people hope that can lead to faith
Favourite Reading: The Bible and spiritual books like Gary Zukav’s Seat of the Soul and Eckhart Tolle’s Power of Now
Favourite TV Programme: News, history and National Geographic
Favourite Food/Drink: Pepper mustard seed New York cut Godfather steak served by Eddie with coffee and Laphroaig afterwards
Favourite Music: Beethoven, Pink Floyd
Favourite Sport: Horse and other endurance events
Favourite Website: Travel search sites, such as kayak.com
Hobbies: Spending solitude and quality time in nature
Car: 1989 Izuzu KB250 LDV (not for sale)
Pets: Wild doves enjoying the sky
Miscellaneous Dislikes: Sloppy laziness and inefficiencies
Favourite Other South African Company: South African Breweries
Favourite Foreign Company: Rockwell Automation
Children: Francois, 30; twins Muller and Coenrad, 27
Clubs: Zwartkop Golf Estate
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