Andile Ngcaba is chairman, founder, and majority shareholder of investment group Convergence Partners. Through Convergence Partners, Andile is also involved in significant new communications infrastructure projects across Africa including Seacom (the first undersea fibre optic cable system serving Africa's East Coast) which was ready for service on 23 July 2009, the first private sector satellite in Africa (Intelsat New Dawn) which was launched on 22 April 2011 and a recently announced new joint venture to bring high capacity, long-haul terrestrial fibre to South Africa (FibreCo). He was previously Director General of Communications in the first democratically elected government of South Africa in 1994. He left government in 2003 to pursue a career in the private sector n businessman and has devoted most of his life and career to the field of technology, in particular communications. He joins us as a guest in this week’s edition of the leadership dialogue.