Episodes 12
Avg. Duration 47m
Activity Highly Active
Since Aug 2024
Latest Episode May 2026

Outreach Signals

Open to Sponsors

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Months
Format
Episodic
Consistency
81%
Hosting
rss.iono.fm

Contact & Outreach

About This Podcast

Meet the CIO is a podcast series produced and published by TechCentral and published monthly. We talk to IT leaders across South Africa about the role of technology in their organisations.

Podcasting 2.0 Features

alternateEnclosure episode person season source updateFrequency

Explore Statistics

Recent Episodes

Absa CITO Johnson Idesoh on AI, cyber and the future of banking

May 28, 2026 38m

Meet the CIO is brought to you by NTT DATA -- Johnson Idesoh, group chief information and technology officer at Absa, says AI in all its forms – generative, agentic and the AI now being wielded by…

Healthbridge CTO Anton Fatti on the future of digital health

Mar 23, 2026 45m

Anton Fatti, chief technology officer of HealthBridge, says the doctor-patient relationship must remain at the centre of digital transformation in healthcare, even as AI reshapes how medical…

Meet the CIO | Inside the JSE’s tech engine with CIO Tebalo Tsoaeli

Feb 02, 2026 47m

Technology sits at the heart of modern capital markets, and nowhere is that more evident than at the JSE. In the latest episode of Meet the CIO, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sits down with Tebalo…

How BDO’s Khaya Mbanga is preparing the firm for an AI future

Nov 17, 2025 34m

Welcome to season 2 of Meet the CIO, TechCentral’s podcast series that dives into the minds of South Africa’s top technology leaders. Meet the CIO is brought to you by NTT DATA – where global…

How Marijke Guest steered Nedbank through an IT crisis

Jul 30, 2025 56m

When Nedbank realised early last year that its mammoth core banking overhaul and modernisation programme was going awry, it turned to Marijke Guest for help. Guest, CIO of Nedbank Corporate and…

Schalk Visser on Cell C's big tech pivot

May 13, 2025 39m

Meet the CIO | Schalk Visser on Cell C’s big pivot Schalk Visser has worked in telecommunications for more than 20 years, first at Telkom, then at Vodacom and now at Cell C, where he has served as…

Yosheen Padayachee's unconventional journey into tech leadership

Apr 23, 2025 52m

Yosheen Padayachee, group IT director at Tsebo Solutions Group, is our guest in this episode of TechCentral’s Meet the CIO. -- Yosheen Padayachee was named as one of the top 100 most influential…

Meet the CIO | Kerissa Varma on what it takes to be a top CISO

Mar 10, 2025 43m

Being a chief information security officer (CISO) in 2025 is a daunting role, but one that TechCentral’s guest in this episode of the Meet the CIO relishes. Kerissa Varma, who was recently appointed…

Meet the CIO | The Capital Hotels' José Soares – from gamer to director of IT

Nov 13, 2024 57m

José Soares, director of IT at The Capital Hotels, Apartments and Resorts, fell in love with computers when his dad brought home a Sinclair ZX81. Through a series of upgrades – from the Commodore 64…

Standard Bank Group CIO Jörg Fischer – mission-critical IT

Oct 07, 2024 1h 5m

At more than R23-billion/year, Standard Bank Group has the biggest IT budget of any company in South Africa – and quite possibly in the whole of Africa. The man charged with ensuring the continent’s…

Investec's Shabhana Thaver: 'It’s not all about the tech'

Sep 10, 2024 56m

Meet the CIO is presented by Wipro. --- There is much more to being a chief information officer than being an advocate of the latest technology. In fact, articulating a vision, and architecting it,…

TymeBank's Bruce Paveley on building a digital bank

Aug 02, 2024 37m

Meet the CIO is presented by Wipro. -- Bruce Paveley says that when he moved from a senior IT role at Standard Bank in 2017 to the then-nascent start-up digital bank TymeBank, it was “a really big…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Meet the CIO have?

Meet the CIO has published 12 episodes since August 2024, covering topics in Business, Management.

Is Meet the CIO still active?

Meet the CIO is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 47m.

How do I contact Meet the CIO for sponsorship or guest appearances?

Sign up on Grep.FM to access contact details for Meet the CIO, including email and social media links.

Similar Podcasts