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2024 Global CEO Award Winners

Meet the Exceptional Winners of the SYSPRO Global CEO Awards 2024

Driving Innovation, Growth, and Success in the Organization!

Johan Conradie

THE PHIL DUFF AWARD

Lorna du Plessis

SYSPRO Social Impact Award

Heinrich van Tonder

SYSPRO Customer Excellence Award

Brandon Shaban

SYSPRO Sales Success Award

James Taylor

SYSPRO Values Excellence Award

Dawn Gorey

SYSPRO Leadership Excellence Award

Nino Marra

SYSPRO Innovator Award

Matthew Gordon-Box

SYSPRO Product Award

Duppie du Plessis

Excellence as a SYSPRO Brand Ambassador

Janine Du Plooy

SYSPRO People’s Award

Assem Abouelnaga

SYSPRO Learning Award

Fotini de Keizer

SYSPRO Enabling NEXT Award

Arabang Raditopole

SYSPRO Inspiration Award

Gavin Verryne

Business Performer Award
Americas (USA)

Jamie Veinot

Business Performer Award
(Canada)

Debbie Giles

Business Performer Award
EMEA (Africa)

Central & EMEA
^{Pathcare Team}

SYSPRO Relay Team of the Year Award

Ramon Christopher

Business Performer Award
APAC Asia

Paul Bounds

Business Performer Award
APAC Australia

Comments from your colleagues

Here are some of the heart-warming comments from your colleagues

SYSPRO Global CEO Awards Nominees

Johan’s extraordinary work ethic has been a driving force behind our success. He consistently puts in long hours, often working 15-16 hours a day, to overcome obstacles and assist us in achieving our goals. His positive attitude and strategic thinking have been invaluable during both the low and high times, over the past year.

Brandon has been named in Global Town Halls as being a stand-out success in key account management and sales. He’s often credited for doing great work with sometimes very challenging customers or situations and he’s well-respected throughout the company for the work he does.

I had the privilege of observing Brandon interact with a customer. His approach demonstrates thoughtful planning, keen observation, and a calm demeanour, all while maintaining a warm and empathetic attitude.

Heinrich prioritizes understanding and addressing customer needs. His dedication goes beyond mere courtesy; he takes ownership of challenges, ensuring issues are resolved efficiently. Heinrich consistently goes the extra mile to create exceptional experiences.

Heinrich is always willing to help and works beyond and above to ensure that his customers issue is dealt with, with the best understanding he can offer. This ensures a swift and seamless turnaround.

“James exemplifies a growth mindset, always seeking to add something new to the PartnerUP program that adds value to the relationship between SYSPRO and the channel. In his interactions with both internal and external stakeholders, James consistently upholds the highest standards of integrity, ensuring trust and dependability. His initiative to create a comprehensive digital branding guideline for partners is best-in-class and contributes to strengthening and protecting our brand in the market. His thought leadership has resulting in the unique SYSPRO value proposition of the “Dare to be Different” initiative that showcases SYSPRO’s unique value proposition as a company and as a product to prospective partners in a way that differentiates SYSPRO from our competitors to attract and recruit new channel partners. Through the “SkillUP” series of webinars for partners, James has provided partners with crucial, accessible knowledge and resources, promoting supplementary knowledge development aligned with our product and market.”

Lorna, keeps looking for other organisations that can benefit from the knitting she and her friends like now they are focusing on this old age home where the ladies practically have nothing, and they are going to be teaching them to knit and crochet.

Dawn is the best leader I have ever had. She is always willing to help even when she has no time to do so, she is all about her team and directing them in a positive direction, and her personality never veers off the path of bright and cheery.

Dawn has been great in executing the four areas of SYSPRO Leadership. She is definitely managing the balance to ensure that the four areas (leading self, leading people and stakeholders, leading with strategy, and leading with results) are getting communicated and delivered.

I highly recommend Nino for this award due to his exceptional ability to think outside the box and leverage emerging technologies to deliver innovative solutions. His forward-thinking approach has significantly contributed to the advancement of SYSPRO and the contributions he makes on the Research & Development and prototyping the solutions contributes significantly to product enhancements. This makes him a key innovator in my point of view.

Nino consistently brings new and innovative ideas to the table and is quite prepared to go that extra mile to ensure that a number of these ideas come to fruition.

Matt has a rare combination of technical expertise and exceptional leadership skills. His ability to engage and guide teams with clarity and purpose, while fostering a positive and collaborative environment, has been instrumental in projects. Additionally, his high sense of professionalism and great attitude, Matt consistently demonstrates the qualities of an outstanding product owner, embodies SYSPRO values and this makes him a deserving person of this recognition.

Matthew is very knowledgeable in the product direction and product future.

Duppie is exceptional when it comes to helping everyone out with their technical requirement. He helps staff in all departments and in the regions, gives great help and advice on the forums and is very dependable and reliable. He goes out of his way to deliver in areas that could easily be ‘not his job’ and cares about making everything he does a success. He works long hours and doesn’t take his frustrations out on anyone else.

Helps solve issues on tickets before the even get to Central. Has a great all round knowledge and is happy to share it. Gets involved with tickets in the evenings/on his own time. A great resource.

Assem has been on a leaning quest since his arrival at SYSPRO early in 2023. He has used every resource he can find from structured learning as well as reaching out to experienced SYSPRO employees for help and guidance. He has made his and SYSPRO’s growth aligned and we all benefit. Thank You Awesome Assem!

Assem has been with us for about 1.5 years and he has learned a lot about SYSPRO through LearnIT and training during work and off work hours! True dedication to learning!

So one thing I’ll say about Jamie is his commitment to becoming our professional product manager is ongoing efforts to ensure success on every single release that we have is amazing. He shows up at customers. He shows up at our events and he just puts a lot of passion into the product. He loves all things product is a superb evangelist of syspro and he’s a true credit to syspro.

Seeing Arabang and a few other ladies running around the SYSPRO building, into basement parking down the back of the building, when I leave, the office park, she is motivating others to run with her, staying fit, going on to complete the Comrades Marathon is exceptional.

Arabang is humble and modest and yet she does this amazing thing of running the Comrades Marathon, one of the toughest and most inspiring marathons in the world. She doesn’t brag about her achievements, but just quietly gets on with it, training hard and achieving so much. If she can run the Comrades, what can the rest of us do?

She is always there to talk to about any difficulties you might have and can always be sure when you ask for help she will do her best to do so.

They embody the spirit of collaboration and are true champions for their fellow team members.

Drives Change: Successfully implements strategies to achieve organizational goals, taking colleagues along.
Inspires Improvement: Fosters a culture of continuous improvement and empowers others to adapt and grow.
Delivers Results: Demonstrates a strong track record of achieving measurable business outcomes.
Demonstrates Leadership: Exemplifies exceptional leadership skills, inspiring and motivating teams to embrace change.

This is for everyone who has been working on PathCare – the services people (from EMEA, APAC and Partner base) on-site working with the customer, the support teams helping with bugs and troubleshooting, Technical Services team who have been working with the customer to optimize the SYSPRO WebUI. This is a true cross organizational team working together for a customer who is helping to push the boundaries of what SYSPRO can do.

I am excited to nominate Jacques Mouton, Shane Meerholz, Duppie du Plessis, and JP van Loggerenberg for the SYSPRO Relay Team of the Year Award in recognition of their outstanding teamwork and collaboration on the WEBUI Solution for the Pathcare project. This team exemplifies the spirit of cross-functional collaboration, consistently bridging functional and business boundaries to deliver exceptional results on a complex and challenging project.

Since joining SYSPRO in early 2024, Debbie Giles has made remarkable contributions that resonate across our team. She quickly established herself as an invaluable member, consistently surpassing expectations and delivering exceptional results. Her work with clients like Premier Fishing, EYA Bantu, and On The Dot has been nothing short of exemplary, embodying what it means to add true value and foster loyalty—qualities we all aim to emulate.

“Gavin is a true champion of customer success, consistently going above and beyond to ensure that every customer feels valued and supported. His commitment to understanding customer needs and delivering tailored solutions has resulted in exceptional outcomes and long-term partnerships. It is because of Gavin that we had so many customers willing to travel with us and speak on our behalf at our recent Spark customer roadshow. With a focus on continuous improvement and innovation, Gavin has consistently driven customer satisfaction and business growth. His dedication to excellence has not only strengthened relationships but has also set a new standard for what customer success should look like.

Gavin always goes above and beyond for SYSPRO and its customers. He effectively leads his team to deliver the best possible outcome to customers. His positive attitude inspires colleagues, and he is great to work with!

I would like to nominate Ramon Christopher for the Business Performer Award. He has been instrumental in building customer relationships and confidence in SYSPRO even though majority of our customers are being supported by channel partners. This has led to a gradual increase in AM ILF revenue. He is a team player and often coordinates and motivates the team members to give their best!

The turnaround process in Australia required a significant reduction in Sales resources. For the majority of 2024 Paul has been the only sales and account management resource in the region. During this time he has successfully concluded 8 new logo deals, which represents all the new logo sales in the region for the year, coming from no sales in 2023. At the same time Paul has engaged in account management activities and impacted up and cross sell revenue. Whilst based in Sydney, Paul has successfully operated in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, with significant travel effort required.

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