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Entelect: Everything is Possible
AI-Accelerated Engineering. Global Delivery. Personal Focus.
Entelect delivers mission-critical technology outcomes while helping customers build stronger engineering and delivery capabilities, with a level of dedication that makes every customer feel like our only one.
Our Customers
Trusted by the world's leading organisations
Our Industries
We deliver mission-critical software for enterprises across industries
Banking
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Building for the pace and pressure of modern banking.
Insurance
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Engineering for an industry where accuracy is everything.
Financial Services
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Delivery that holds up under scrutiny.
Related Industries
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For the retailers, telcos, and challengers building financial services into their core.
AI Applied Engineering
Boards demand AI productivity. Regulators demand auditability. CIOs and technology leaders need reliable software delivery – without sacrificing security or governance.
Entelect has embedded engineering teams inside the world's most demanding enterprise environments, helping them embed AI across the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) – safely, at pace, with the controls required for enterprise delivery.
The Numbers
About Entelect
2,500+
People
30+
Global enterprise customers
7
Countries
13
Enterprise platform alliances
7
Centre-of-Excellence capabilities
AI Applied Engineering
Data Engineering
Product Design
Quality Engineering
Salesforce
Business Analysis
Programme Management
Data Engineering
Product Design
Quality Engineering
Salesforce
Business Analysis
Programme Management
250+
Concurrent projects
3,200+
Projects completed since 2001
4
Years running Financial Times Fastest Growing Company
<9%
Attrition rate
Our Awards
Recognised by companies
that set the standard
Best Company to Work for
2014201520162017
Fastest Growing Companies in Africa
20222023202420252026
Employer of Choice
20242025
Best Company to Work for
2025
Best Graduate Development Programme
2019
Entelect Identified in the 2025 Gartner® Tool
Vendor Identification for Custom Software Development Services Report
Customer Stories
Partnering with Banks, Insurers, and Embedded Finance Providers to solve their most complex challenges
Our 20+ year partnership with Africa's largest bank
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Our global
delivery capability
Entelect operates delivery hubs across South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, India and Zimbabwe. Our model is built to give you access to the right skills, at the right cost.
Engage directly with the team doing the work – named, accountable, native English-speaking, and expert problem-solvers.
Our onshore technical leads, architects, and product owners work alongside you in person, backed by a South Africa-based offshore delivery team.
With a deep pool of qualified and experienced engineers spread across our global hubs, we have the depth to match the right skills to your project, regardless of location.
Delivery teams are structured around overlapping time zones, enabling shared ceremonies, real-time collaboration, and faster resolution when things need attention.
Our People
Entelect Leadership
Many of their careers were started at Entelect and shaped by it – from graduate engineers to the people shaping its direction. Today, they're invested in building long-term partnerships everywhere Entelect reaches.
As Chief Executive Officer at Entelect, Shashi is driven by a clear belief: that technology partnerships should deliver real, measurable outcomes for customers. He leads the business with a strong focus on quality, innovation, and accountability — ensuring that every engagement is grounded in delivering meaningful impact, not just activity.
Shashi has built Entelect around the idea that exceptional outcomes come from empowered teams, strong engineering foundations, and a culture that prioritises continuous improvement. This translates into partnerships where customers benefit from both strategic thinking and hands-on delivery, with solutions that are robust, scalable, and aligned to real business needs.
His leadership is shaped by deep experience across both technology and business. Having grown with Entelect from its early days, he brings a unique understanding of how to scale delivery without compromising on quality or client experience. His focus on building high-performing teams and fostering a culture of care and excellence ensures that customers consistently experience a high standard of delivery.
Under his leadership, Entelect has evolved into a globally recognised technology partner, recognised through multiple Best Place to Work and Fastest Growing Company awards, and trusted to deliver complex solutions with consistency, quality, and lasting impact at scale.
Shashi Hansjee
Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Customer Officer at Entelect, Daniel is focused on ensuring that every customer engagement delivers meaningful, measurable value. He works closely with customers to strengthen long-term relationships and align technology delivery with real business outcomes – creating experiences that are not only effective, but consistently reliable and easy to work with.
He works across teams and customer environments with a deep understanding of how technology solutions are built and scaled, ensuring that innovation translates into practical impact. His approach is grounded in responsiveness, transparency, and a strong sense of accountability – giving customers confidence that their most critical initiatives are in capable hands.
Daniel’s customer impact is shaped by more than a decade and a half at Entelect, where he has progressed from software engineering into senior leadership. This journey has given him a well-rounded perspective across delivery, operations, and strategic account management, enabling him to guide both customers and teams through complex challenges with clarity and focus.
He is known for building trusted, enduring partnerships and for fostering a culture where customer success is central to every decision.
Daniel Manyemwe
Chief Customer Officer
As Chief Technology Officer, Matthew oversees Entelect’s delivery management, focusing on building exceptional teams and leaders while ensuring alignment, consistency, and meaningful impact across all technology delivered to customers. He translates complex needs into technology strategies – ensuring alignment across delivery, engineering, and commercial objectives.
Matthew is valued for his ability to operate in complex, high-stakes environments where clarity and decisive thinking are essential. He brings a pragmatic, customer-centric approach to decision-making, execution, and customer relationships. His strength lies in balancing technical excellence with business realities – helping organisations move from ambiguity to action with confidence.
His impact is grounded in a career that has evolved entirely within Entelect. Joining as a graduate Software Engineer after completing his BSc IT (Hons) cum laude, Matthew progressed through roles spanning development, leadership, and general management. This experience has given him a strong understanding of leading complex delivery environments while shaping strategy and growth.
Over the years, Matthew has built a reputation for leading complex projects and developing high-performing teams that deliver with ownership. Known for his strong opinions and drive to “get things done properly,” he brings energy to the organisation –galvanising teams and mentoring others. His leadership has been instrumental in scaling Entelect’s delivery capability, strengthening customer engagement, and evolving the operating model to meet growing complexity.
Matthew Butler
Chief Technology Officer
As Chief Operating Officer at Entelect, Tim is focused on ensuring that customers consistently experience high-quality delivery, operational excellence, and meaningful business outcomes. He leads the company’s operational and delivery functions with a strong emphasis on reliability, accountability, and sustainable customer success - helping customers navigate complexity with confidence and clarity.
Known for his pragmatic, execution-focused leadership style, he works closely across teams and functions to ensure that strategy translates into action and that delivery remains focused on practical, measurable impact. He is particularly recognised for stepping into difficult situations, solving problems pragmatically, and helping teams regain momentum when it matters most.
Tim’s impact is shaped by nearly two decades at Entelect, having joined the business in 2007 as a graduate software engineer and grown through leadership roles spanning delivery, sales, account management, strategy, and executive leadership. He has played a central role in helping grow Entelect into an international technology consultancy of more than 2,500 people across multiple countries and cities, while remaining deeply passionate about building strong teams, solving complex challenges, and delivering meaningful outcomes for customers.
Timothy Kroon
Chief Operating Officer
As Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand, Yatish is focused on building a region where strong relationships, high-performing teams, and meaningful delivery come together. He leads the growth and expansion of Entelect across the Pacific with a clear belief that long-term success is driven by aligning people, culture, and execution – not treating them as separate priorities.
Yatish’s impact is his ability to connect the dots across disciplines. With experience spanning engineering, product, people leadership, and executive management, he brings a holistic perspective to how organisations grow and scale. He works closely with clients, partners, and teams to create environments where people are empowered to do their best work – and where that work translates into real, lasting value.
Yatish’s journey is deeply rooted in Entelect’s own story. Joining as a graduate when the company was still in its early stages, he has spent over two decades growing with the business – taking on diverse roles and continuously reinventing himself along the way. From shaping people strategy as Chief People Officer to establishing Entelect’s presence in new international markets, his career reflects a consistent focus on building, evolving, and leading through change.
He is known for his people-first approach and the energy he brings to everything he does. Whether he’s developing leaders, navigating complex challenges, or driving regional growth, Yatish leads with authenticity, resilience, and a genuine desire to make a positive impact – creating teams and partnerships built for long-term success.
Yatish Parshotam
Chief Regional Officer: Australia and New Zealand
Customer testimonials
Hear From
Our Customers
“Entelect operates as a true extension of our teams – there's no distinction between Capitec and Entelect, just a single, unified team working towards the same outcomes. What stands out is their commitment to high engineering standards – they don't just deliver, they elevate the quality of everything they're involved in.”
“We’ve always used Entelect as the go-to partner for digital enablement throughout Vitality’s history, and for most aspects of innovation throughout the Vitality platform. Fantastic, reliable execution partners. It’s been an incredibly rewarding, beneficial experience.”
Joe van Niekerk
COO, Vitality RSA
"Being able to deliver technology change with a partner like Entelect, where our cultures align, has created a blueprint for how digital transformation should be role modelled."
Richard Hale
EMEA CIO, RGA
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