Ashley is the Oracle Country Leader for South Africa. An Engineering and MBA graduate with 29+ years of Information Technology Industry experience. His primary focus in the last 15 years has been on customer success by supporting major projects and transformations for efficiency, increased functionality, productivity and profitability. As a former CIO, he understands challenges faced by organisations in extracting the value from technology in support of business users.
Experience working with customers in South Africa and Internationally, both Public Sector and Private, Ashley has worked at IBM, HP, Microsoft and Axon Enterprise in developing his experience and industry insights.
Oracle South Africa Country Leader and Africa Commercial Sales Director
Minister Solly Malatsi
Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Republic of South Africa
Honourable Solly Malatsi is South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies and a Member of the National Assembly.
His portfolio is central to South Africa’s digital transformation, with a focus on expanding affordable connectivity, strengthening digital infrastructure and enabling greater participation in the digital economy. His work also engages with the opportunities and challenges presented by emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, and their role in public services, economic growth and inclusion.
Minister Malatsi holds a Bachelor of Administration from the University of Limpopo and an Honours Degree in Political Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Sanjay is a seasoned product development and management leader, known for building and leading high-performing engineering and innovation teams. With a strong design-thinking approach, he combines deep technical expertise with strategic vision to deliver impactful product innovation and drive organisational success.
He has extensive experience across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including Autonomous Database, Exadata Cloud Services, and large-scale cloud migration. His expertise spans Oracle Database, Real Application Clusters (RAC), globally distributed databases, and Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA), with a strong focus on high availability, resilience, and performance at scale.
Sanjay has played a key role in advancing modern data platforms through automation, containers, Kubernetes-based database operations, and dynamic scaling, helping organisations transition to intelligent, cloud-first architectures.
With a proven track record in the information technology and services industry, he brings both strategic insight and practical execution to complex technology environments. Sanjay holds a BSc in Applied Information Technology and has further developed his leadership capabilities through the Chartered Management Institute.
Sanjay Singh
Vice President, Product Development at Oracle Corporation
Bob Thome
Vice President of Product Management at Oracle Corporation
Bob has over 30 years of experience in the information technology industry. He has spent more than two decades at Oracle, leading product strategy and innovation across database, clustering, storage and high availability technologies.
Bob is responsible for Oracle’s engineered systems and database cloud platforms, including Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Exadata Database Service, Exadata Cloud@Customer and Oracle Base Database Service.
His work focuses on enabling enterprise-scale performance, resilience and scalability in modern on-premises and cloud environments.With deep expertise spanning both hardware and software, Bob brings practical insight into how organisations can architect and operate mission-critical systems in an AI-driven, cloud-first world.
As Global CTO, Francisco leads the global technology vision and go-to-market strategy delivering AI, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Database, Exadata, consulting, licensing, hardware and managed services worldwide.
His role focuses on helping enterprise customers modernise mission-critical systems, adopt Oracle AI and cloud technologies, strengthen resilience, optimise licensing and unlock business value from Oracle platforms.
He works closely with customers, sales teams, consulting teams and Oracle stakeholders to define strategic offerings, support major transformation programs, influence revenue growth, build technical capability and position the company as a trusted global Oracle innovation partner.
Francisco Muñoz Alvarez
Global CTO & Oracle Evangelist,
Miracle Consulting Group
Dr Abi Giles-Haigh
Analytics and Innovation Director, Capgemini,
Oracle ACE Director
Dr Abi is a seasoned technology leader and respected voice in the fields of analytics, AI, and data-driven transformation. As Analytics and Innovation Director at Capgemini, she helps enterprises unlock the power of Oracle technologies to build innovative solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
With a strong foundation in data analysis and SQL, Abi combines technical expertise with strategic leadership. Her recent tenure as Field CTO at Oracle sharpened her ability to craft transformative technology roadmaps, guide organisations through complex data landscapes, and inspire innovation at scale. Recognised for her ability to translate complex data into compelling narratives, Abi is passionate about using analytics to create real-world impact. Beyond technology, she is a dedicated advocate for diversity and inclusion, championing the role of women in tech and mentoring the next generation of leaders.
Her approach blends deep technical acumen with a commitment to fostering inclusive environments where data insights translate into actionable business intelligence. Through her work, Abi empowers organisations not only to thrive in today’s data-centric world but also to lead the way in shaping its future.
