Ocular Technologies Founding CEO Pommie Lutchman on the real consequences of The Sun International CEO SleepOut™
Think the fact that technology entrepreneurs frequently operate in the virtual world means they can't quite relate with humanity? Let the Founding CEO of Ocular Technologies Pommie Lutchman convince you otherwise.
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Founding CEO of Ocular Technologies Pommie Lutchman has a thought or two: “I did the inaugural one last year: it wasn’t so much the cold that affected a lot of people, but it was more the discomfort. We slept on a 6mm corrugated cardboard for the evening.”
Pommie expands further of the importance of their involvement in The Sun International CEO SleepOut™: “As a company, we’ve been trying to get involved a lot in social community projects: we adopted a school in Alexandria where we did some training for them, because I think education is really important and really suffering in this country right now.”
Pommie is the founder and CEO of Ocular Technologies, the Chairman of the Board at the Contact Centre Management Group or CCMG (the registered professional body of the South African Contact Centre industry) and the Chief Innovation Officer of OcularCloud™, Ocular Technologies' Cloud Solutions division. Ocular Technologies is a progressive and innovative multi-million Rand organisation that provides Customer Experience platforms, Contact Centre Technologies, Workforce Management and Social Media Integration solutions to the Southern Africa region.
In a career that spans over two decades, Pommie has played an in integral role in the Business Development and Integration Services divisions at Siemens Enterprise Networks, and, was instrumental in the implementation and management of the MultiChoice Distributed Call Centre network in the late 1990’s.
A finalist in the “Top Black Male Entrepreneur” category at the 2011 Impumelelo Empowerment Awards, Pommie features regularly on the South African speaking circuit, providing Thought Leadership insights and advice on topics such as The Consumerisation of IT, Social Media in the Enterprise, Contact Centre Best Practices and even Generation Theory.