Dr. Tom Tshitangano is an experienced Digital Economy, Digital Innovation, Digital Governance, and Digital Transformation expert. Tom is an experienced ICT/TMT sector professional with more than 17 years of experience. Tom is currently working for the National Consumer Commission as a Chief Information Officer. Tom have served as a Non-Executive Director, Independent Audit and Risk Committee member and chaired ICT Steering Committees for organizations such as the South African National Accreditation System (SANAS), City of Johannesburg ICT Broadband Infrastructure Company Metro Trading Company, Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA), Bank SETA, FoodBev SETA, and Energy and Water SETA. Tom also served as a Council member, ICT Steering Committee Chairperson for the Ekurhuleni East TVET College and as an external member of the Council IT Governance Committee at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Tom has both strong technical and business background gained in IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management, Project Management, Research, Strategy, Investment Analysis, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, and Software Development. He has acted as a bridge between business and technology in various digital transformation projects at a board and operational levels. Tom experience spans across all Enterprise Architecture domains from the Business, Data and Information, Application, Integration, Security and Technology Architecture domains.

Tom worked for organisations such as Vodacom, Standard Bank Corporate Investment Banking, Rand Merchant Bank, Telkom, Cell C, PRASA and the Gauteng Department of Education.

Dr. Tshitangano also worked with a number of ICT Start-ups providing mentorship and coaching (Around pitch deck preparations, fund raising, business plans, business models, revenue models, monetisation strategies, product development and business development) embarked on incubation programmes with organizations such as Edge Growth, Softstart BTI, The Innovation Hub and Technoserve.