Contactable Leadership
Identity for enterprise is the position. Identity as growth infrastructure is the thesis. The Integrated Identity Platform is what Contactable's leaders built — and the standard they keep setting for the category in Africa.
Our leaders
The people who turned "compliance check" into growth infrastructure — and built the Integrated Identity Platform making it operational across Africa's enterprises.
Shaun Strydom
CEO, Founder and Chief Futurologist
Twenty years building secure systems.
Believes identity is the foundation of trust.
Jason Shedden
Chief Operations Officer
Keeps the business running like clockwork.
Every promise to a customer is one we keep.
JP van Loggerenberg
Chief Technology Officer
Shapes product direction with deep understanding of customer needs and market demands.
Pieter de Jager
Chief Information Officer
Drives growth across financial services and telecommunications sectors globally.
Anita du Preez
Chief Legal and Risk Officer, DPO
Expert in regulatory frameworks. Ensures Contactable meets standards across jurisdictions.
Latest thinking
Shifts & Signals — what's changing in identity, what it means, what to do now. Where Contactable's leaders publish the thinking that's redrawing the category.
No enterprise set out to build a patchwork. They built responses, with the best tools available at the time.
The real shift coming isn’t digital identity wallets — it’s interoperability.
Identity underpins every digital interaction, customer relationship and product decision — yet it rarely makes the growth agenda.
For years, the digital identity debate assumed banks would drive adoption. The evidence now points elsewhere.
From “fantasy” to reality: the state of RICA implementation today.
While everyone was fixated on AI hype, South Africa quietly made its biggest leap in digital identity and payments in more than a decade.
Whether you're navigating FATF grey-listing or thinking through reusable identity — the people building Africa's IIP are the people to ask. Strategic conversations, partnership questions, press enquiries. Not a sales pipeline. A real conversation.
