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Dirk le Roux

Dirk le Roux

Managing Director Afrozaar / Baobab Architect, South Africa

Dirk is a South African tech entrepreneur who has been involved in launching start-ups that offer enterprise, development and consumer based products. Dirk is a tech-junkie, gadget fan, coder and mobile specialist and he has an astute business mindset to identify opportunities that can contribute positively to a market in need.

In 2010 Dirk co-founded Afrozaar.com, where he provides a leadership and technical specialist role still to this day as Managing Director. Afrozaar.com is a professional enterprise mobile app development start-up that has been focusing on delivering scalable app solutions to the media publishing industry across all worthwhile platforms. Afrozaar’s Baobab product, that is being launched at World Publishing Expo 2012 is the ideal enterprise ready solution for large publishing houses with multiple sources of content needing to be aggregated and distributed to open SDKs at native app platform level. Baobab is compliant across all major app platforms and has a number of redy built app platforms for license.

In his spare time away from technology, Dirk loves to spend time with his family; playing poker
and braai'ing with friends.

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