Allan Dickson is the independent chairman at redPanda Software. He has more than fifty years of experience in the IT industry and holds qualifications in Economics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Information Resource Management from Harvard Business School.
Dickson is one of the most experienced retail systems people in SA. His retail systems experience spans Clothing and Textiles (as CIO at the Edcon Group), FMCG (as IT executive at Woolworths) and Furniture (as IT director at Ellerines Group).
He has a proven track record of delivering major IT-driven transformation in the South African retail and banking sectors and has been particularly effective in building 'bridges' between IT and the user communities it serves.
Dickson adds gravitas to the entrepreneurial fleet-footed executive team at redPanda Software and regularly shares his experience and expertise in strategic, project and operational management with them. As a recognised expert in building capability and releasing capacity in organisations and people, Dickson is an invaluable asset to the redPanda Software group.
