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Saal de Jager

11th September 2015

By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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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

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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