Pierre Spies

Chief Executive Officer, Alviva

Pierre Spies is Chief Executive Officer of Alviva, in the role since July 2016.

Alviva Holdings, formerly Pinnacle Holdings, is a technology group whose subsidiaries include the distributors Axiz, Pinnacle and Tarsus Distribution. It sold Datacentrix to Convergence Partners in 2024.

In the job

  1. Spies became sole chief executive of Pinnacle Holdings while founder Arnold Fourie moved to the role of non-executive chairman. Source

  2. Convergence Partners completed its acquisition of Datacentrix from Alviva after the Competition Commission and ICASA approved the deal. Source

  3. Tarsus Distribution, an Alviva subsidiary, announced that chief executive Emile Burger was stepping down, with Emmanouil Revmatas as interim chief executive. Source

Career before

  1. Chief executive, Tarsus (subsidiary of MB Technologies)
  2. Chief executive, AxizWorkgroup (Pinnacle Holdings)
  3. 2015Deputy CEO, Pinnacle Holdings
  4. 2016Joint CEO, Pinnacle Holdings

Sources

  1. techcentral.co.za
  2. techcentral.co.za
  3. techcentral.co.za
  4. techcentral.co.za
  5. engineeringnews.co.za

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