Mark Neville

Principal Business Analyst

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Mark Neville is a business analyst with 35 years of experience, much of it in IT and telecommunications, and more recently focused on the challenges of AI strategy and governance. He is a systems thinker, solution designer, solution analyst, financial modeller, project manager, and technical writer. Mark combines broad industry and business experience with projects at all levels of government. Over the last thirty years, he has been involved in project governance, change management, enterprise architecture, and project performance management through his work in ICT, telecommunications, transformation through “smart city” and IoT projects, digital inclusion and e-government, public sector management, and technology skills development. He has worked for a range of government entities, providers and users of telecommunications, and private companies and partnered with Global Resources, a California-based firm which has done extensive work funded by the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) for government entities in South Africa. Prior to this, he worked for several listed multinational companies in Africa and the UK, as a project-based contractor for small to medium-sized businesses, and as an early contributor to several start-up businesses or new business initiatives. He has a marketing background, developed while working for publicly listed international companies in both Africa and the UK. He has previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry as marketing manager of a chemicals (adhesives and sealants) manufacturer, marketing director of a division of Siebe PLC, and project manager of an FMCG foods business. Mark holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town, specialising in the management of technology.