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DIRECTOR AND CHIEF ECONOMIST, ECONOMETRIX
DR. AZAR

JAMMINE

Between 1970 and 1975, Dr Jammine was employed as Investment Analyst at Senbank and
subsequently at Stockbrokers Martin & Co, now JP Morgan, during which time he completed
a B.A. Honours in Economics, Cum Laude, part-time at Wits. In 1976, Dr Jammine completed
his M.Sc in Economics at the London School of Economics, followed by his PhD at the London
Business School after which he was awarded a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the school’s
Centre for Business Strategy. In order to pay his way whilst working on his PhD, Dr Jammine
used his knowledge of six languages to conduct numerous international business consultancy
projects in Europe, North America and the Far East, covering a wide variety of industries. Dr
Jammine returned to South Africa in December 1985 to take the position of Director and Chief
Economist of Econometrix (Pty) Limited. He has occupied that position ever since.

Dr Jammine has published a number of articles in international strategic management journals
and is co-author of “McGregor’s Economic Alternatives”, “Trends Transforming South Africa”
and “Mindset for the New Generation on South Africa”, all published by Juta. Dr Jammine’s
contribution to McGregor’s Economic Alternatives was used by the ANC as a setwork in the
organisation’s internal training programme prior to taking power in 1994. Dr Jammine has
presented papers on the South African Economy at conferences in Washington, New York,
London, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Paris and Phuket. Dr Jammine is also a non-executive director of
Federated Employers Mutual, A M B Holdings, Netcare, GHG (in the UK) and Iron Fireman. He is
a member of the Board and the Finance Committee of St Mary’s School, Waverly and a member
of the Council of the Independent Schools Association of South Africa (ISASA). Dr Jammine has
recently been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Innovation.

GROUP CEO, TARSUS TECHNOLOGY GROUP
MILES

CRISP

Miles is currently Group CEO of Tarsus Technologies Group, a private IT Distribution business
serving the African region. The Tarsus Group employs some 1200 people. Prior to that, Miles
was CEO of SecureData Ltd, an Information Security company listed on the Johannesburg Stock
Exchange before being acquired by Tarsus Technology Group in March 2014. Before that he was
Group CEO of O’Keeffe & Swartz Consulting (Pty) Ltd, a group of enterprises employing some
800 people in the business of direct sales of simple insurance products to the public and related
administrative services.

Miles was previously with Deloitte & Touche (14 years) where he led various teams and initiatives,
in South Africa and outside of South Africa. Miles was member of the Deloitte South Africa Exco
for 5 years. He led his division in the EMEA region for 6 years. Miles cut his teeth before then
with a ten year stint at Anderson Rochussen Crisp, a professional practice that he co-founded.

Miles grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe and was a student for four years at Rhodes University in
Grahamstown. He also served in the South African Infantry for two years in the seventies.

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