Lungile is an experienced executive with business and IT leadership expertise that has acquired over two decades of experience. He has held leadership roles that spans across business and technology consulting, financial services, entrepreneurship and enterprise information technology.

Lungile has enjoyed numerous career achievements including the fast progression to Partner at a Global Consulting firm, CEO at Diebold to avert a devastating labour unrest, COO at his own startup company and now Group CIO at Sasol in charge of both IT and Digital.

Over the last few years at Sasol, Lungile set his sight to transform a traditional IT organisation to a Digital IT organisation, whose purpose is to actively support the digitalisation of the company. Lungile has in his tenure inspired the introduction of no-regret technology enablers, working across enterprise and operational businesses to identify, qualify and support digital initiatives. He has championed the introduction of new ways of thinking and working (IT-Digital Operating Model), new ways of delivery (Envision2Delivery Framework) and a clearer differentiation of IT-Digital capabilities including the ability to source these capabilities quickly. Lungile has been pivotal in tackling IT and OT security convergence head on and managing the political challenge to “align first”. Once this is achieved the next move is to synchronise standards and architecture plans to build in an IT | OT Cyber resilience for the organisation.

Over Lungile’s career in IT he has come to realise that one foot needs to be in the present and one in the future almost all the time. The world is changing and there is need to ensure that organisations and its people are equipped with the agility to change course when needed, acknowledging that our experience can sometimes be the hindrance than an enabler.