Our Team
Our staff is made up of experts in all areas of IT support and management. Our wide range of hands-on experience and expertise is how we can offer our clients an unmatched level of service excellence.
Trusted By
Andrew Cohen
Andrew earned his BA in Studio Arts from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he also was a four-year varsity soccer player. Prior to attending UNC, Andrew played professional soccer in Brazil for Sao Paulo Futebol Clube.
Since 1997, Andrew had been the CEO and Managing Partner at EVOKE, an award-winning Digital Transformation company that partners with our clients to build modern workplace solutions for nearly every common organizational and technological challenge imaginable. In 2019, Andrew launched the EVOKE Engage division that focuses on automation and streamlining of processes. This now allows Netsurit to provide our clients with guidance and solutions on using technology to maximize ROI.
Andrew also serves on the following boards;
Red Cross (Hudson Valley): Board of Directors
People USA: Board of Directors
Pathfinder FC: Board of Advisors
An avid soccer fan and player, Andrew can be found watching or playing soccer when not in the office as well as spending time with his family.
John Iaccarino
Managing Director
John has been in the MSP business as a leader since 1987. He has been instrumental in the growth, direction, and leadership of the company. John has a BBA in Finance from Pace University. He is past president of the Big Apple Chapter, a consortium of IT leaders in the NY/NJ Metro Area.
John has always been very involved in his community. He is the former Mayor and Chairman of the Planning Board of Harriman, NY. John coached youth soccer and softball for 17 years and is former Treasurer of the Monroe Woodbury Soccer Club. John is prolific bowler with 2 perfect 300 games. He is also an avid NY Mets fan.
Louwki Coetsee
Bill Jacques
Sales Director
Bill came to Netsurit with the merger of Real Time. He has a background in field service before moving into the sales arena and playing an instrumental part for the growth of the New Jersey office. Bill has served in the past on the SMB council for Hewlett Packard and was also a past president of the Big Apple chapter, a consortium of IT leaders in the NY/NJ Metro Area.
Bill enjoys a nice glass of wine, a good cigar, and golf.
Orrin Klopper
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Orrin’s passion for business creation, people management, and customer service has been a fundamental driving force to the success of Netsurit. Armed with a Bachelor of Commerce degree (with Information Systems as an additional subject) he has also completed an Entrepreneurial Masters Course at MIT in the United States. He was also one of the founding members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation in South Africa.
Brian Cooper
Group Managing Director
Michael Ifraimov
Michael joined Netsurit in 2022 as the Vice President of Corporate Development. Michael has over 15 years of experience in the investment banking and principal investment industries, having completed M&A, debt, and equity financing transactions with over $38 billion in deal value and made investments in over $3 billion of debt and equity securities across the capital structure. Michael has worked on complex M&A and strategic advisory transactions and debt and equity financing transactions for companies across a wide variety of industries, most recently within the Technology, Media & Telecommunications sectors. Michael received an MBA degree, with distinction, from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science degree, Cum Laude, from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Steven Grobler
Henry Swanepoel CA(SA)
As Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Henry Swanepoel is responsible for all Netsurit’s financial functions including accounting, audit, treasury, corporate finance and investor relations. Henry’s career spans more than ten years of varied experience in multi-national and multi-cultural organisations. Before joining Netsurit Henry served as CFO for LAWtrust, Africa’s leading trust centre. Prior to that he served as Financial Manager for Internet Solutions. Henry earned a Masters of Business Administration from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) as well as a Masters of Taxation from Northwest University. On a personal note Henry enjoys the outdoors, is an avid golfer and loves spending time with his wife Leigh and beautiful daughters Mila and Sharla.
Shaun Davis
“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” – Muhammad Ali quote
I started my IT career in 1997, working 10 years for Sony Electronics and was responsible for looking after their African continent infrastructure and international connectivity. I then moved over to Vodacom South Africa where I continued expanding on my enterprise IT knowledge. In 2011 I joined Netsurit South Africa as a Solutions architect and worked in this position for 6 years before deciding to make the next step and took on the role as Support Operations manager. Throughout my 23 years security has always played a big role of my day to day function and has led to my appointment as Chief Security Officer in 2020.
When I am not working, I love spending time with my wife, family, friends, CrossFit and off roading.
Louis de Klerk
Louis is a self-taught academic at heart, with a passion for tinkering with algorithms and puzzles. He started his career as an IT support technician, working on Novell and Unix networks. After a few years, he made the transition to the Microsoft ecosystem, where he soon specialized in database design and software development. Later Louis joined Windows Academy as a Microsoft Certified Trainer which provided fertile ground for learning new things.
Being a founder and part of the management team of Inobits Consulting for the last 16 years, Louis was a central figure in Inobits’ software development projects at enterprise customers. Often the lead developer, solution architect or quality assurance on projects, Louis has been leading delivery teams through the lifecycles of solutions at many customers. At the moment Louis is passionate about how the cloud is transforming how we design IT systems, and the accelerating rate at which these systems are becoming more reactive and intelligent. A favorite pastime is the reading of fiction, history, and philosophy.
Eugene Perumal
Eugene’s love for technology blossomed in high-school, learning Turbo Pascal and Dig Dug. His formative years in technology were spent as a technical consultant as well as a student of software design. Following this, Eugene spent many more years occupying management and leadership roles.
Having journeyed through big brands like Nashua and Sterkinekor, Eugene joined Netsurit in 2016 as a Senior Technology Advisor. He took to the Netsurit family culture and assumed the title of Client Services Manager in 2017. Eugene went on to spend the lion’s share of his tenure in the role of Client Services Executive, playing an operational and fiduciary role, before being appointed Managing Director of the Netsurit business in South Africa late in 2020.
At time of writing, he’s a work-from-home-dad with a passion for sport, music and multitasking-gone-wrong.
Nicolas Hocquet
Hud Krause
Group Executive Microsoft Services
Sarika Thakor
Sarika is a registered Industrial Psychologist who started her career working at MAC Consulting. Throughout her 3 years in Consulting she has gained skills within the Leadership Development and Psychometric Assessment areas of Industrial Psychology as well as opportunities to further develop other areas within the field. She then entered the world of HR at T-Systems South Africa as an HR Business Partner. Her role involved playing a more generalist interface between HR as a function and the various areas of business she was responsible for a further 3 years. She subsequently joined the Nesturit family in May 2017 in the role of HR manager. Her passion is people and is keen to learn more about the mechanics of business linked to people dynamics and HR elements. She hopes to make a lasting impact on the people of Netsurit and leave a lasting legacy in the awesome Netsurit culture. Outside of work her passion revolves around her son and husband.
Sharon-Lee Bloem
Professional Services Manager
Riaan Davis
Dewaldt du Plessis
“You can buy a person’s time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. However, you cannot buy enthusiasm . . . You cannot buy loyalty . . . You cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.”
Dewaldt’s journey with Netsurit started in 2003 when he joined as a Helpdesk Consultant. This was at a stage where bandwidth in South Africa became cheaper and more readily available and this was the start of Netsurit offering Remote Support to its customers. Through hard work and dedication, Dewaldt was promoted to Senior Technology Advisor in 2010, and a year later appointed as Client Service Executive leading the team of Technology Advisors. With more than a decade of experience, Dewaldt made the decision to go back into the support side of Netsurit, but this time he was leading the biggest department in the business as Support Services Executive. In 2018, Dewaldt yet again demonstrated his experience and versatility in the role of Strategic Account Executive looking after key accounts. In 2019 he took over the New Business team. When he is not working, he enjoys gardening & spending time with his wife, Jo-Anne and children, Dejan & Joné.
Barbi Goldblatt
Executive
Barbi has spent her entire career, which spans over 30 years, in various sectors of IT. Her goal is and always has been, a strong focus on her people – grow your people, grow your business, coupled with an exceptionally high focus on “Partnership for Life” with our clients, constantly ensuring our clients derive value from IT. Barbi started her career in 1984 as a Management Consultant at Ernst and Young, in 1995 she moved into the world of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Consulting in the SME market. In 2000, she sold her ERP business to EOH, and over the next 10 years built the EOH SME ERP and Managed Services business in Cape Town, where she was MD. In 2011 it was time to leave the corporate world, and Barbi joined Netsurit, to head up their Cape Town branch. This branch continues to grow from strength to strength, through the combined focus of “growing our people” and delivering exceptional client services, a strong “Partner for Life” focus.Born and bred in Cape Town, South Africa, Barbi’s love for the sea and infamous Table Mountain make her a true “Capie”.
Advisory Board Members
Adam Coffey
