many locations we have... Our offices abroad WHY EXPAND ABROAD? ADRIAN | MANAGING DIRECTOR Adrian joined the Entelect team in Cape Town in 2017, and was responsible for significant achievements in both business growth and company culture in the region. In 2022, Adrian moved to Amsterdam to head up Entelect Netherlands, leveraging his experience in South Africa, with ambitions to shape and grow Entelect people and services in Europe. Adrian holds a post-graduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town and has deep experience in Banking, Financial Services, Renewable Energy and Education. Ask him about his unhealthy and costly Lego addiction, or about anything else related to the Dutch operation on adrian.maritz@entelect.nl In early 2019, Entelect acquired a Dutch company to enter the European market thus creating another opportunity for our people to go and experience another country and culture. The Netherlands is an amazing place, with a rich history and a culture based on work-life balance, spending time with friends and family and celebrating people. There is so much to explore in The Netherlands (just watch out for cyclists!), and of course, it’s easy to access the rest of Europe from there. The business needs people who are passionate about technology, and with strong experience levels. Coming from humble beginnings in a South African University, we still dreamt big. We imagined having offices across South Africa, to allow great people who lived further afield to join our cause. We dreamed of punching above our weight against the big consultancies who could take on projects for big multinational customers from multiple locations. When we started seeing how successful South Africans were after they’d emigrated, we realised that our culture could transcend locations even further afield. Initially, we just wanted to prove that our way of work would succeed elsewhere in the world. Over time, we also wanted to give our people more locations to experience a different way of life. Currently, we assist with emigration between our various locations. The dream is to allow people to go and work from any of our offices for a few years, with the flexibility to return to their homes once their adventure is over, should they want to. We have some growing to do to achieve this, but we will get there! “I love the idea that Entelect is expanding the surface area that South African talent can influence” netherlands 28 PRESS START | THE LORE OF ENTELECT 27 MANY LOCATIONS WE HAVE | WHO WE ARE WHO WE ARE | MANY LOCATIONS WE HAVE