Patrick has a total 23 years of professional and business experience: in Information Communications Technology, business administration and entrepreneurship. Patrick’s current specialty is Project Management, Business Analysis, and Entrepreneurship consultancy and training. Patrick is a qualified Chartered Secretary and Administrator (C.I.S. Zimbabwe) and the holder of a first degree in Business Studies and Computing Science and a Masters degree in Business Administration. Patrick has ICT and business administration experience with companies such as Anglo American, Zimbabwe Leaf Tobacco, Teleaccess Zimbabwe and the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (I.E.C). Patrick has been an entrepreneur since 2003 establishing viable companies, notably Infoage IT & Telecomm Solutions (ICT), Comquip Projects cc and Maxim Consulting Services (Project Management) that thrived for several years.
Professor Jephias Gwamuri is former Director of Research and Innovation at Great Zimbabwe University. Among other qualifications, Professor Gwamuri holds a BSc in Physics & Electronics from Cuba, a Masters in Lasers and Applied Optics from NUST and PhD in Material Sciences and Engineering from Michigan Technological University, USA. He is a specialist in Materials Science and Engineering, and has coordinated a number of projects including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) funded RAF-8040 Zimbabwe project and the Regional Environmental Initiative Network (REIN) – Africa funded Biofuels Project. He has co-authored several research articles, technical reports, a policy brief and a contribution to a book chapter. Prof. Gwamuri has received some awards towards his research work including the ICTP-African LAM network award, The Most Outstanding Scholar Award (Michigan Tech) and the researcher of the year awards at NUST. Prof Gwamuri has led and collaborated in various solar PV and 3D printing projects including; Open – Source 3D printers for development, solar PV Microgrids, 3D Printers for education, PV systems optimisation, Energy Storage, Electric Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence, and IOT driven system, among others and has vast experience in grants and project proposals writing and management, Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property management and Commercialisation.
Prof Gwamuri is an active Reviewer (Journals and Conferences) as well as program accreditations. He has also supervised students’ research projects (BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD) and examined students’ thesis (BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD) mostly as an external examiner. Prof Gwamuri is a member of; the International Network on Appropriate Technology (INAT), Society of Photonics Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), Optical Society of America (OSA), among others.
A holder of a first degree in Business Studies and Computing Science and a Masters degree in Business Administration, Tavengwa has a total 23 years of professional and IT management experience in Information and Communication Technology. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and is Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT). Currently a board member for the Project Management Institute Zimbabwe Chapter and responsible for communication. Tavengwa has held senior ICT positions in companies such as Zimbabwe Alloys Limited, Bindura Nickel Corporation, Freda Rebecca Gold Mine, Greenline Lodges, Bindura Estates and ASA Resource Group Plc. He brings in a wealth of experience in information technology oversight and governance.
Mr Pedzisai assumed the role of Executive Director and Chief Strategist when he founded the company in 2020. He has a wide range of experience in business and in technology having worked in the ICT field for three decades across two continents. He held roles as IT Manager at Zimbabwe Alloys Ltd between 1999 and 2001, IT Manager of Hippo Valley Estates also 2001, before leaving for the United States of America where he worked his way up the ranks at Progeny Software ending his tenure in a position of Chief Technology Officer responsible for architecture, design and development of a genetics research management software used by medical research universities and institutions in the USA and throughout the world. He also worked on a host of software development and systems integration projects including an ADA project for MasterCard International and a systems integration project using microservices technologies at WGU university in Utah, USA.He has also had a long term stint at Ford Motor Company Credit Division developing and maintaining a large suit of mission critical microservices used to drive the operations of Ford Credit. Mr Pedzisai holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Studies and Computing Science from University of Zimbabwe and a Masters Degree in Electronic Commerce from Illinois Institute of Technology at Chicago, USA.
Moreblessing is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). She assumed this role from February 2021 promoted from the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) which she had held since the company’s inception in February 2020. She is a qualified Chartered Global Management Accountant (CIMA United Kingdom) and she holds a Postgraduate Executive Diploma in Computerized Accounting from the Zimbabwe Institute of Computerized Accounting (ZICA). She is also a holder of a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Accounting and a Master of Commerce Degree in Applied Accounting, both from Great Zimbabwe University.
Miss Paidamoyo Rimai is the Chief Operating Officer of the company. She assumed this role in February 2021 after being promoted from Business Analyst which she had held since February 2020 when the company was formed. She is a holder of a Bachelor of Commerce Degree majoring in Information Systems. She was also heavily involved in the founding of QATCTECH, having worked diligently and shown herself to be a major player in the creation and implementation of the Iris LAPP platform which is now one of the flagship services/platforms in the QATCTECH suite of services. QATCTECH also boasts another highly competing platform – Iris CAMEL an online deductions submission platform greatly thanks to her immense contribution in the creation and adoption of the products across the country.