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Dr. Mariana Carroll is a passionate advisor and academic focusing on emerging technology opportunities and trends.
Dr Mariana Carroll
Dr. Mariana Carroll is an enthusiastic technology advisor and academic. She has a passion for consulting and training services and solutions around Emerging Technologies. She consults on major projects for large corporates across the globe, advising on cutting-edge research, insights and solutions with a strong focus on Africa.
During her tenure at Deloitte she launched and steered the Cloud Computing Centre of Excellence, as well as a research and eminence unit called Deloitte TechSights Africa. Mariana currently facilitates the CIO Transition Labs at Deloitte.
Mariana completed her PhD in IT Governance and Risk Management and is a regular guest lecturer at South Africa’s leading universities. She has a Post-Doctoral Fellowship and serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the University of Pretoria: Informatics Department. Mariana is an alumni of the ISACA SA Board. Her research interests include Emerging Technologies, IT Management, IT Governance, IT Strategy and IT Effectiveness. She is an eminent speaker and author with articles published in conference proceedings, both locally and abroad, on the topics of Cloud Computing, Virtualization and IT Auditing.
Mariana built her professional career on the belief that knowledge and transformation are the two fundamental building blocks of any successful organisation and strives to add value to people by helping them excel at work.
Michelle Carroll is a Business Intelligence specialist with a key focus on information gathering, data analysis and project management.
Michelle Carroll
Michelle Carroll completed her Bachelors and Honours Degrees in Quantitative Risk Management at the North West University in Potchefstroom. She worked as an Analytics Consultant at Revenue Science part of the Cyest Corporation, where she specialised in providing analytics service offerings and solutions to clients by leveraging leading trends in Big Data and Data Sciences.
Michelle has worked with major Blue Chip clients in Telecommunications, Banking and Media. She is passionate about information that can be shaped into intelligence which in turn drives informed decision making. She enjoys being part of a progressive team where innovative thinking and collaboration solves problems and lead to the achievement of holistic goals.
Michelle’s major strength is to facilitate the process of information gathering, analysis and project management, creating insights through statistical tools and methodologies that deliver results by empowering key stakeholders in the business.