CEQURUX PEOPLE

Alan Barrett, CEO:

Alan Barrett joined CEQURUX in 1999 as one of the founding partners. Prior to that, he was in charge of the backbone network at UUNET SA, one of South Africa's largest ISPs. Alan Barrett earned an M.Sc.Eng degree in 1987 at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, where he has taught classes in several computer and network related subjects. During 1990 and 1991, he played a key part in the first true connection of the South African universities network to the global Internet. In 1993, he was a co-founder of TICSA, which was South Africa's first commercial Internet service provider, and which subsequently grew and changed into UUNET SA.

Chris Old, Director:

Chris Old is a technical director at CEQURUX and responsible for customer services, including support, training and installation. He joined CEQURUX from his position of founding partner at Citadel Data Security, where he developed some of the software that was acquired from Citadel by CEQURUX. He has worked in the IT sector since 1991, spending 4 years as a freelance programmer/network consultant. In this time he has had a wide range of experience from developing large TCP/IP networks and teaching C/C++ programming.

Paul Nash, Director:

Paul Nash provides CEQURUX with his advice and assistance on a number of topics, including sales and marketing, engineering, and requirements definition. He joined CEQURUX in 1999 as one of the founding partners. Paul graduated from Stellenbosch University in 1983 with a Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering. In 1987, he formed a private consulting company, Free Range Computer Systems. In 1993, he co-founded TICSA, South Africa's first commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP). He has developed software for newspaper typography, networking, television data broadcast, and other purposes, and has done much consulting on network design and implementation.

Dr. Graham Wheeler, Consultant:

Graham Wheeler obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town in 1993, and shortly thereafter co-founded Citadel Data Security, which was sold to CEQURUX Technologies in September 1999. Graham was responsible for most of the software that makes up the CEQURUX Firewall, and although he is no longer an employee, he still provides us with the benefit of his experience and expertise.