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History of Exactech...

Exactech was founded in 2007 by Antonio Pooe (pronounced ‘Pow-weh’) and the primary focus was Cyber Forensics.

In January 2008, the Fraud Prevention and Detection focus was established by Mario Fazekas and was aligned with the Cyber Forensic service solution to bring a more holistic approach to Fraud Risk Management.

In March 2011 we further expanded our services to include Information Security solutions. Through this leg of the business, we now offer ethical hacking/attack and penetration testing, application/database/network security audits, general vulnerability assessements and compliance consultancy work.

This service is branded “Ukuphepha”, a zulu word meaning “to be safe”.

Profiles of Exactech's X-Co...

Profile of Antonio Pooe

EXACTECH was founded by Antonio Pooe, who has a wealth of experience in forensic investigations, fraud prevention and information security. He is currently serving as the group's CEO.

His experience includes working with law enforcement, attorneys and corporations locally and internationally in the fight against computer fraud. He has also teamed up with training institutions locally where he offers training workshops on issues relating to Computer Forensics and Fraud Prevention. He served 2 terms on the board of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE SA).

Antonio also has experience in the banking sector where he continues to share the responsibility in the introduction of new technologies to address information security needs at one of South Africa's leading local banks. He has been involved in digital forensics and information security consulting projects across the public and private sector, throughout Africa, the middle east and Europe.

He is a popular speaker at many anti-fraud conferences, such as the international IIA-SA & ACFE Fraud Conferences, where he is consistently rated amongst the top speakers. He also speaks at various in-house fraud seminars as well as for the IIA CPD training courses in South Africa

He holds a Master's degree in Information Technology Management (University of Johannesburg) and is currently pursuing a PhD Information Systems degree, specializing in Digital Forensics and also holds numerous certifications in training relating to Digital Forensic Investigations from local and international institutions, including the United States Secret Service, Guidance Software (USA) and AccessData (USA).

Profile of Mario Fazekas

Mario Fazekas is a Director of Exactech Fraud Prevention Solutions & he is a Certified Fraud Examiner.

He has over 18 year’s fraud prevention experience, including managing a fraud hotline that averaged over 500 calls per year, creating fraud awareness programs, evaluating ethics policies, reviewing cheque payment systems and training directors, managers and staff to fight fraud effectively.

Mario served for two years on the board of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, South African Chapter, from 2004 to 2006.

He is a sought-after international speaker and has delivered hundreds of fraud awareness presentations and has trained thousands of client employees. He has developed unique training materials and hosted public and in-house workshops for many private and public sector clients, some of whom are as follows:

 Botswana – Trained Standard Chartered Bank managers plus presented various public workshops as well as presenting the CIMA Fraud Master Course

 Canada – Trained the IA dept of Alcan

 France – Trained the IA dept of Pechiney (Alcan)

 Malawi – Presented fraud workshops for clients of Alexander Forbes

 Mauritius – Trained members of the Mauritius Economic Crime Office in 2001 and then provided a 5-day forensic auditing course in 2011 for the Mauritian Management Association

 Namibia – Trained members of ICAN (Institute of CA’s of Namibia) & presented public fraud workshops

 South Africa – Presented Fraud training seminars for CIMA, SAICA (SA Institute of Chartered Accountants & fraud prevention courses for the IIA-SA as part of their CPD accreditation and Learnership program. In addition he has spoken at many IIA and ACFE fraud conferences

 Tanzania – Provided fraud awareness training for Tanesco and other utilities

 USA – Fraud Discovery Institute presenter

 Zambia – Presented training courses for CIMA as well as public workshops

 Zimbabwe – Presented fraud awareness workshops for Price Waterhouse clients

Profile of Stieler van Eeden

Stieler is the Information Security Director. He gained publicity in 2000 whilst working under the handle of “aktor” for breaking into the web sites of a number of high profile South African companies, including the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Computicket (Online events booking facility) with the objective of finding employment within the industry and improving the state of Information Security within South Africa.

He has also appeared on numerous television and radio programmes, IT Magazines including Carte Blanche, NBC (Singapore) and 3rd Degree.

The passion Stieler demonstrated for the industry resulted in successful employment with Ernst & Young in 2000 whereby he turned his skills towards protecting those networks which he previously tried to compromise. Whilst at Ernst & Young, he performed successful Attack and Penetration assessments at leading companies within South Africa , as well as abroad. In addition he has also utilised his in-depth knowledge of cyber threats and cyber criminal communities to uncovering and investigate high profile cybercrime cases.

In addition, whilst at Ernst & Young Stieler gained a wealth of experience and were exposed to a broad spectrum of Information Security assignments, including Risk Assessments, Assurance Reviews, Compliance Assessments, Forensics Reviews, Information Security Architecture and Internal/External IT general control audit engagements.

Stieler continues to be a regular speaker at conferences and seminars around the topics related to information security, trends, and threats facing organisations.

Profile of Dave Volschenk

The group's COO, David Volschenk had been with one of the Big 4 auditing firms prior to joining Exactech. He has more than 20 years experience in the IT, IT Risk and Auditing, IT Governance and Information Security environment.

He has been providing consultancy services for local multinational corporate entities and also travelled extensively for international projects and assignments, having worked in Africa, a number of European countries, the Far East and Australia.

He has a Myers Briggs indicator of INTP and profiled as assertive, friendly, very flexible, thorough and committed. He consistently meets tight deadline schedules in dynamically changing environments, and is equally effective working independently or as part of a team. David is a certified CISSP and CISA, holds a diploma in Internal Audit and commenced with a MCOM degree, but never completed this due to family problems at the time.

David has provided services to clients in a broad range of industries which include government, telecommunications, retail, mining, financial services, petroleum and energy and parastatals.

The services provided range from technical support, quality assurance and auditing services in predominantly mainframe software and application environments, performing and managing controls and compliance assessments for operating, database and application infrastructure, providing control implementation consultancy for control frameworks, business continuity and disaster recovery process development, developing information security frameworks and IS Organisations, data quality and data integrity services, policy, standard and procedure development, business process development and the development of performance indicator frameworks and dashboards.

Profile of Jacques van Rensberg

Jacques is a Director responsible for the Computer Forensics department. In 1987 he joined the South African Police Service which he left in 2008 whilst holding the rank of Captain. During his time in the SAP he did uniform investigations and was also in Crime Intelligence Gathering.

In 2002 he joined the Cyber Crime Unit Gauteng, where he served as acting commander. He was involved in numerous criminal investigations ranging from multi-million rand fraud, computer security incidents to child abuse and child pornography.

He started consulting in the private sector in 2008, where he was responsible for conducting computer forensic investigations as well as developing and presenting training courses in Computer Forensics.

Jacques has been involved in the computer world since 1986 and has received training in various computer operating systems, Microsoft and Linux, as well as technical aspects such as Networking, A+ Technician and Internet.

He has also received training in computer fraud and various training in computer forensics, ranging from crime scene management to mobile and handheld forensics.

Jacques has assisted major banks, large corporations, legal practitioners and law enforcement with computer forensic investigations and litigation support. He has testified in numerous criminal, civil and disciplinary actions.

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