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Meet the Team
From humble beginnings back in 2016 Locstat has grown from strength to strength by demystifying complex technologies and helping businesses apply state of the art techniques to their current systems or building more efficient systems from the ground up.
We’re committed to solving the skills shortage, complexity, long implementation times, and high costs of implementing solutions for:
High Volume Transaction Monitoring ⋅ Real-time Operational BI ⋅ KYC ⋅ Customer360° ⋅ Fraud/AML Detection ⋅ Recommender Engines ⋅ Risk Early Warning ⋅ Compliance Monitoring ⋅ Preventative Maintenance ⋅ Event Processing for SMART / IoT solutions and Geospatial Analysis for a range of industries
It surely is a monumental task and here’s some of the talent behind the push to achieve those goals.
Hallam Ford
COO & IO
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Ryno Goosen
CEO & CTO
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Sanjay Daya
Co-founder & CMO
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Tom Glover
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Lawrence Devonport
Chief Service Delivery Officer (CSDO)
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Waldick Herbst
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)
Shifa Salih
Marketing
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Russell Arnott
Data Engineer
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Nduduzo Doctor Nkosi
Geospatial Analyst
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John Paul Rightford
Senior Architect and Software Engineer
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Adriaan van Der Walt
Senior Architect and Software Engineer
Freddie Herbst
VP Enterprise Sales
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The latest news
Find out more about what we’re up to at Locstat, the latest developments to our core products and services as well as staying up to date with industry news and trends.
Graph – the infinite power of relationships
The basics of graph technology are that each entity (e.g. person, place, object) is characterised by a node, which is connected by an edge to another entity. The edge represents the relationship between them. Each…
What’s the point? The rise of the platform
Many blogs comparing point solutions with platforms have been written by someone linked to a platform-based company – as is this one. Evidently, there’s an inherent bias, which I’d like to address up front. Relatively…
To evolve or stagnate? That is the question!
Hamlet’s soliloquy, in the Shakespearean play that bears his name, essentially questions the value of life. “To be, or not to be, that is the question”, he begins as he waxes lyrical about our powerlessness:…
UDAP or CDP? Which will you choose?
Customer Data Platforms (CDP) are on the rise. Perhaps you are even one of the 78% of surveyed companies that the 2018 Forbes Report identified as having or in the process of developing a CDP. The…
The ultimate mother: supply chain intelligence
Regardless of sex, as a supply chain manager you need to be the ultimate mother at all times. You need to know everyone’s schedule (and not just your kids’!); ensure that everybody and everything is…
Manufacturing + intelligence = magnificence
A production manager’s headache As a production manager in manufacturing, there is increasing pressure from the executives higher up to increase efficiency, reduce costs and provide feedback on measurable outcomes such as CPUs and…
The Power Of Graph
Are you struggling to achieve your company goals with your existing technology? Do you want to ask complex questions of your data and receive timely insights and intelligence? In the ‘Top 10 Data and Analytics…
No data point is an island: the power of graph!
In 1929, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy proposed the concept of six degrees of separation: “that any two individuals could be connected through at most five acquaintances”. This idea grew from a belief that the modern…
Hiding in plain sight
“I can’t see you, so you can’t see me!” Do you remember that childhood misconception? The idea that if you close your eyes then you’re invisible. Unfortunately, fraudsters are not that naïve and nor are…
50 million data transactions a day with Cassandra
We were privileged to be invited by the DevOps.com community to discuss Locstat’s unified data analytics platform at a webinar sponsored by our partners DataStax. The three main topics were: How did Locstat decide what open source technologies…