Jonathan Batho Email & Phone Number

Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Durban Area, South Africa

Our technology team provides practical advice and support to businesses and assist them to harness the value of technology solutions through their commercial requirements, go to market procurement activities, contracting agreements and relevant regulatory, data protection and information security compliance.With over twenty years of global experience in technology commercial, procurement and regulatory, Jonathan has developed senior executive relationships with the major players in the IT… Show more Our technology team provides practical advice and support to businesses and assist them to harness the value of technology solutions through their commercial requirements, go to market procurement activities, contracting agreements and relevant regulatory, data protection and information security compliance.With over twenty years of global experience in technology commercial, procurement and regulatory, Jonathan has developed senior executive relationships with the major players in the IT supplier ecosystem which are invaluable to his ability to achieve optimal outcomes for clients, and to entrench appropriate executive relationships for them. Show less

La Lucia, Durban

London, United Kingdom

Jonathan founded Cite Consulting after leaving SABMiller at the end of 2009.Cite Consulting provides specialist sourcing, commercial & contractual support to organisations' IT infrastructure & software sourcing, systems implementation and business transformation programmes.Cite consulting's clients include FTSE 10 blue-chips in Financial Services, FMCG, Oil & Gas, Energy & Aerospace and public sector.

United Kingdom

Jonathan was appointed as the head of IT procurement & commercial following the SABMiller Group’s London listing. He formulated the group's IT procurement strategies based on its aspirations of efficiency & effectiveness.He subsequently led the global IT sourcing projects endorsed under the procurement strategies and required for the consolidation & cost optimisation of the Group’s global infrastructure and systems environments:o Data centreso Voice & data networkso End User… Show more Jonathan was appointed as the head of IT procurement & commercial following the SABMiller Group’s London listing. He formulated the group's IT procurement strategies based on its aspirations of efficiency & effectiveness.He subsequently led the global IT sourcing projects endorsed under the procurement strategies and required for the consolidation & cost optimisation of the Group’s global infrastructure and systems environments:o Data centreso Voice & data networkso End User Computingo Help desko SAP & Microsoft licensingHis role was later expanded to support the Group’s business transformation programme, to include the procurement activities for business process outsourcing across finance (P2P, O2C, R2R) and HR, and the sourcing of an application development & maintenance consulting partner. Show less

Johannesburg, South Africa

Jonathan led the IT procurement activities in support of SAB’s outsourcing transformation from a single Tier 1 outsourced environment to a multi-sourced best of breed supplier landscape.

London, United Kingdom

Y2K readiness preparation across the DKB (U.K.) global markets trading desks.

London, United Kingdom

Forensic auditing of failed companies.

Durban, South Africa

General corporate commercial advisory practice and associated litigation.

Finance For Executives, Finance

Sap Fi-Co Certification, Erp Software, Certified

Llb, Law & Commerce