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).