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Rashika Ramlal

@rashikaramlal

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Seasoned ICT and business leader driving large-scale digital transformation.

South Africa

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior executive roles driving digital transformation and growth in Africa, with strong governance, talent development, public sector impact and measurable commercial outcomes.

I am a purpose-driven ICT and business executive with 20+ years leading large corporates, multinationals and public organisations across Africa, delivering commercial turnarounds, large P&L accountability and transformational digital services. I have led AWS South Africa as Country Manager/Co-CEO and interim Public Sector MD for Africa, setting up AWS cloud leadership in South Africa, securing multi-billion R investments, and delivering sustained high YoY growth.

I build and develop high-performing teams, launch new business units and world-class solutions (citizen engagement platforms, health information exchanges, gunshot detection, large learner management systems), and drive governance and operational excellence, including clean IT audits and corruption reduction that saved significant public funds. I hold an MBA (cum laude), BSc IT (cum laude), and multiple governance and leadership qualifications.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Country Manager & Executive Director

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Amazon Web Services

Oct 2020 - Present (5 years 4 months)

Co-CEO/Country Manager for AWS South Africa and Acting Regional Public Sector MD Africa, turning a non-performing entity to sustained overachievement with 62–79% YoY growth and securing R30.6Bn investment for AWS in South Africa (2022–2029).

P&L management Public Sector Sales Go To Market Stakeholder Management Team Leadership Partner Management

Chief Technology & Information Officer

Sentech

Jul 2018 - Oct 2020 (2 years 3 months)

Led Sentech's transformation from a broadcast signal distributor to a digital services provider, achieving continuous clean IT audits and enabling participation in the SA Connect broadband rollout; delivered e-health, e-learning and connectivity solutions.

Digital Transformation Product Development Information Security Programme Management Cloud IoT Stakeholder Engagement

Executive: Small & Medium Enterprise Business

Telkom

Mar 2016 - May 2018 (2 years 2 months)

Built and led a national SMME business unit with R6 billion P&L and 600 staff, achieving 11% ICT market share and 20% profitability by developing go-to-market, product roadmap and channel strategies.

P&L management Go To Market Channel Sales Product Roadmap Team Leadership Governance Customer Management

Executive: Convergence & Unified Comms

BCX / Telkom

Feb 2012 - Feb 2016 (4 years)

Led a R1.5 billion business unit (300 staff) to establish Telkom as an industry leader in convergence and unified communications, winning major enterprise deals and improving NPS through integrated value propositions.