Sampie Pienaar

Managing Director

Sampie obtained B Com (Hons) in 1979 at RAU where he acted as vice chairman of the House committee and Treasurer of the Student Representative Council. In 1980 he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He specialised in computer auditing and consulting and is a member of the Computer Society of South Africa. After completing his articles in 1982, he spent a year as a senior lector at RAU, where after he returned to the audit profession as a partner in an audit firm.

He also acted as consultant for projects for various listed and non-listed companies, banks and parastatal institutions.

In 1991 he established a computer services company and since 1999 operates NuPayment Solutions (Pty) Ltd as a joint venture with Absa.

Currently he is involved with various developments and business ventures that include a golf and driving range, a debtors management company and a credit reference bureau.

In 1981 he started rugby refereeing and retired from active refereeing in 1995 as a Pirates League at the Golden Lions Rugby Union. From 1997 tot 2002 he also acted as Chairman for the Golden Lions Rugby Referee Society and presently is a life member thereof. In 1999 he was elected as a Vice President of the Golden Lions Rugby Union and in 2004 appointed as Chairman of the board of directors of Ellis Park Stadium (Pty) Ltd.

Keith Wrede

Operations Director

Keith was a senior consultant and director during his consulting days with ITAS Services. IT experience spanning more than 20 years. Keith was based in Port Elizabeth, Durban and Cape Town and was responsible for the support of the client base and staff in these coastal regions. He moved to Gauteng in 2000.

Since 1993 Keith has been involved at the implementation of various integrated systems at corporate clients. He specifically specializing on the financial areas and has a vast experience in this field, including banking and cash flow management systems.

Since 1999 Keith has worked as operations director of NuPay. He has been involved in growing this company from a start up to the huge success it is today. Vast experience has been gained in the transaction-acquiring arena. Areas of responsibility including:

• IT
• Technical operations
• Call centers
• Staffing of the above
• Budgets, development of management reports and statistics

Candice Frank

Sales & Marketing Director

Having spent a year working overseas, Candice joined Itas Services in 1994. In 1995 the need arose to start a marketing division and Candice was appointed to start and develop the division, mostly concentrating on public relations and development of new clients and existing clients.

When NuPay was started in 1999, Candice took over full responsibility of the sales and marketing aspects for NuPay. The department has two distinct functions, namely sales and client retention and relations. This had proved to be a very successful department.

Candice was appointed a director of NuPay in 2003.

Areas of responsibility currently include:

• Sales & Marketing
• Customer Relations and Retention
• Staffing of above
• Sharing of Company Human Resources Duties
• Work Skills and Employment Equity
• Collaboration on Budgets

Candice is currently studying towards a B Com Marketing at Unisa.