Management

CEO:
Craig Landsberg - MSc, MBA
craig@Acorn.org.za

Craig completed an MSc in Chemistry in 1992 (University of Natal) and joined Warner-Lambert as a senior product development chemist. In 1995, he took up the position of Area Manager (Cape) for Hewlett-Packard’s Chemical Analysis Group. Seeking international exposure, Craig joined Dionex, where he was a UK product specialist and software products. Craig then joined a marketing consulting company, Frost & Sullivan, where he worked for two years as a lead consultant within the chemicals business unit, after which he returned to South Africa to complete an MBA (UCT, 2003). Craig has also started a small-business consulting company, element8, with two MBA colleagues, and has spent six months in consumer market insights as a business manager. 

Craig joined Acorn Technologies in February 2005.

Operations Manager:
Camille Potgieter - Dip: Mgt Acc & Finance, Higher Certificate: Financial Mgt
cam@Acorn.org.za

Cam has been employed at Acorn Technologies from the start of 2004 in the position of Financial Administrator.  Having obtained a Diploma in Management Accounting & Finance,  she was employed in 1999 by Tech Ink (Pty) Ltd where she set up the admin and financial processes in the manufacturing environment.  Cam's responsibilities grew and in 2001 she took on the position of Financial Manager.  During that time she completed a Higher certificate in Financial Management on a part time basis.  She left the company in 2003 after having a baby, but has since returned in a full-time capacity as Financial Manager.