Delano is the General Manager, SimbaNET Limited and has previously served with Oracle Corporation as the Director in charge of the Public Sector for Africa and sitting within a Centre of Excellence team based out of Europe.
Delano brings transformational change through industry leadership in Banking,Telecommunications, and Public Sector through transformational projects within the region. A Business Architect at the core, he has exceptional ability in providing unique insights into implementing sustainable and efficient revenue streams and monetizing existing structures through unique business models built from years of engagements in working across the African
continent.
Delano has more than 23 years of experience in management and valued relationships across the
African Public Sector portfolio. He incorporates real-world experience and strategic thinking into modern practice built upon tried and tested business models. His experience spans business, sales and technical fields. As an alumnus of Strathmore Business School he brings a wealth of knowledge into complex challenges that face many businesses and recommends technology solutions to resolve the same.
As a visionary implementer and Cloud Architect, Delano has been directly involved in evangelizing the uptake of technologies such as Cloud Computing in the East African region since the year 2008 and more recently has successfully initiated several National Universal Healthcare platform projects across African countries including Nigeria, Togo and Zimbabwe. A familiar and friendly face to the regional business community he maintains a respected role across the spectrum and leverages key relationships in both the private and public sectors.
He has previously worked in Hitachi Data Systems where he assisted in developing road maps for National Healthcare Platforms and Clinical Repositories. He has also worked at IBM and served in the Business Partner layer including most recently as Business Manager, Data Center and Application Infrastructure at Seven Seas Technologies and Line of Business Manager, Data Center Services at Dimension Data.