Nargis is the founder of FACT, she has a BA Honours degree in Psychology from the University of the Western Cape and has successfully completed her PBL from UNISA SBL. Her career spans 27 years, 20 years of which have been at the helm of FACT. Early on in her career, Nargis held numerous senior roles at The South African Post Office; Siemens LTD; Momentum and The National Treasury. Nargis prides herself as being a mechanism for empowerment and transformation. Her passion for success has resulted in her growing a business from inception into a leading brand that is recognised by the telecommunications and engineering sectors as a supplier of choice. Her goal is to facilitate business to put economic development at the forefront of getting gender equality in Africa. There is a need for Black females to build an economic network and allow that to be a catalyst for change and social improvement. She is actively addressing this through education; upskilling and training initiatives as well as directly empowering women-owned businesses via the provision of financial and business development support services. Nargis’ through leadership and business transformation has earned both FACT and her numerous achievements over the years. Her leadership philosophy of “knowledgeable, empowering and accountability still remain the heartbeat of the organisations transformational journey accumulating several industry awards and powered by her team, she now employs in excess of 260 people who achieve great milestones epitomised by winning awards and accolades such as; FACT named in TOP 30 list for 2010 Legatum Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship, FACT recognised as a Leading Transformation Company in Africa for 2014, 2016 and 2017 by Impumelelo, FACT featured in the TOP 500 South Africa’s Best Managed Companies for 2018, FACT recognized as Best for Business Process Outsourcing in Engineering, Telecommunications and IT in the MEA Markets South African Business Awards 2018 and 2021, personally and professionally FACT CEO - Nargis Gani, has been named: Winner Top Empowered Entrepreneur of 2015 in the Oliver Empowerment Awards. Her mantra of “Everything you do in business, must be client orientated” and is the energy that operates the engine of FACT. At FACT we are at the forefront of evolutionary demand, continuously revisiting our service offering to ensure we remain relevant to our clients’ needs. We apply a simple three-point approach to our transformational journey; Expand, Retain, Attract. Everything begins with retention, stick to the knitting, and keep clients engaged through superior service delivery, we attract new customers through earning a great reputation and referral from our existing clients. To expand our business portfolio we remain relevant with the times, we listen to our clients, our business is about providing a range of outsourced professional and managed services and we strive to be better than our own last performance, a process of continuous improvement is building towards dependency on digital as a Managed Service Provider in both the client and FACT operations, we are adopting robotic processing automation to improve efficiencies in workflow management, we are creating value with digital services by introducing technology such as IoT remote monitoring solutions to augment our traditional services and most importantly build new ecosystems in our engagements, we do this to generate value in effectiveness and efficiencies, we are committing on 4IR technologies and 5G network slicing, we’re leveraging our ecosystem to build and operate private wireless networks and virtual next generation networks that uses new virtual and software defined appliances (SDN/NFV). Our mission is to move from a managed service provider to a digital services provider and we do this by empowering learning and development in digital tools and services. We are strengthening our position as an appealing employer and industry citizen implementing innovative offerings. About Nargis Gani www. ceotodaymagaine . com CEO Today Af r i ca Award s 2021 - South Af r i ca - Nargis Gani Founder and CEO of FACT www.factsa.co.za “ Everything you do in business, must be client orientated.
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