SANDTON CHRONICLE
Week ending 2 July 2010
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Accsys honoured with tech award BUSINESS REPORTER SANDTON based national payroll supplier Accsys received the Technology Top 100 (TT100) 2009 Minister’s Award for Sustainability. The award, hosted annually by Da Vinci Holdings and the Department of Science and Technology in association with Eskom, which forms part of the TT100 programme, looks to recognise and reward achievers within the technology sector. At the award ceremony, Accsys went head to head with other companies including Allied Technologies Limited, Bell Equipment Company South Africa (Pty) Ltd and Hazleton Pumps (SA) (Pty) Ltd. The award recognised the company’s ongoing system development and solution integration, service and support in human resources, payroll administration, time and attendance management, as well as access control. “We are honoured to receive this award which indicates the
recognition from industry and government of the company’s advancement and contribution. Recognition like this is a strong commendation which we hope will continue in the future,” said Teryl Schroenn, chief executive officer of Accsys. “Accsys has demonstrated consistency in growth and has proven that focus, service and dedication leads to success,” said Deirdre Marcus, executive director of TT100. sc@caxton.co.za
Moving up… RMB private banker Gareth Kin has seen his hard work pay off after moving up the corporate structures in an incredibly short period of time.
From rags to riches
Winner… chief executive officer of Accsys, Teryl Schroenn, collects the Technology Top 100 2009 Minister’s Award for Sustainability.
Alliance partner of the year BUSINESS REPORTER WOODMEAD-based Document Accounting Solutions (DAS) announced that Equitrac Corporation had been named the Xerox 2009 Alliance Partner of the Year. DAS is the agent for Equitrac, a global print management and cost recovery company. Xerox Corporation’s global
business group said Equitrac’s continued contribution to Xerox, its customers and the printing industry had earned it the award. It was presented at Xerox’s annual business partner conference. “This recognises the significant investment in marketing initiatives and support that Equitrac gives to the Xerox solutions business team and the global sales channels,” said
Noel O’Dwyer, vice president of marketing and strategic alliances at Equitrac Corporation. By forming an alliance with Xerox, Equitrac helped companies like KeyBank reduce printing costs by more than $2 million and eliminated more than 110 million pages of print from their offices each year. sc@caxton.co.za
ABED AHMED BANKER Gareth Kin of RMB Private Bank is no stranger to the ‘hard work pays off’ motto. Kin drew himself into a rags to riches story that took him from a temporary entry level position to a private banker in under three years. Dreaming of working in the financial sector, Kin completed his matric at Fourways high school and studied for a degree in investment management at the University of Johannesburg. Once completed, he signed a small short-term contract with Sandton’s RMB Private Bank entry level operations centre which quickly became permanent. He was promoted to the
Sanlam business awards entries now open BUSINESS REPORTER LOCAL businesses can now go head to head in the Sanlam/ Business Partner Entrepreneur of the Year Competition. Entries are only open to owners of emerging, small and medium businesses (sme’s) who can enter in any of the three
categories: Emerging Entrepreneur (business younger than three years old) Small Business Entrepreneur (turnover up to R20 million) and Medium Business Entrepreneur (turnover greater than R20 million, but less than
R200 million). Category winners receive R20 000 while the overall winner can win R100 000 cash and be awarded Entrepreneur of the Year. Initiated in 1989, the award gives recognition to individuals who run successful sme’s.
structured lending division after which he took up the position of private banker. Living the single life at 25, Kin has enough time to complete his honours which he studies parttime. “I always set myself goals and, in the short-term, I intend studying towards a Chartered Financial Analyst degree. Once qualified I’ll set myself further goals.” Kin said he wanted to remain within FirstRand Group as he believed it had a solid structure which suited him. “My philosophy in life is perseverance equals goals. Work hard at what you do, never give up, and you’ll achieve what you have set out to achieve.” abed@caxton.co.za
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