Altron appoints two new business unit managing directors
JSE listed Allied Electronics Corporation Limited (Altron) on Tuesday announced the appointment of Chad Baker as managing director of Bytes Managed Solutions, and Leslie Moodley as MD of Bytes Systems Integration.
The latter company is a new business unit within Altron coming out of the consolidation of Bytes Systems Integration and Bytes Universal Systems.
Baker was previously vice president of NEC Africa, the African arm of NEC Corporation. Prior to that, he held senior positions at Xon, Alcatel Lucent and IBM.
Baker has completed a number of senior executive training programmes through the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and will join the group on 1 September 2017.
Moodley was formerly managing partner for IBM’s Global Business Services practice in South Africa where he restructured the practice to focus on key industries and offerings, and introduced new partners and associate partners to rebuild the leadership team.
Prior to this, Moodley was the business unit executive and consulting executive at Gijima and was also a partner with Deloitte.
He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science and completed his MBA in 1997 from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Moodley joins the group on 1 October 2017.
In their respective positions both Baker and Moodley will report directly to the Altron chief operations officer, Andrew Holden, and will sit on the Altron Group Executive Committee.