BoardPAC partners with Vodacom South Africa in expanding global presence

Vodacom South Africa Enterprise Mobility Professional Services Executive Head of Department Anthon Muller and team together with BoardPAC representatives,  Principal Consultant Oshada Senanayake, Regional Sales Manager Geesh Wijenayake and Business Manager, South Africa Philip Boshoff

BoardPAC, the nation’s award-winning, multinational, paperless board-meeting automation solutions provider, expanded its global reach recently partnering Vodacom, South Africa, recognised among the continent’s leading telecommunication companies. 

Vodacom provides a wide range of communication services in Africa, including mobile voice, messaging, data, financial and converged services to over 109 million with mobile networks covering a population of over 284 million people. Vodacom is majority owned by Vodafone, one of the world’s largest communications companies.

Underscoring its commitment to become the global #1 board governance automation provider, the partnership with Vodacom enables BoardPAC to reach out to companies in South Africa and throughout Africa and empower them to move from paper-based systems towards unparalleled secure board meeting automation. Additionally, BoardPAC solutions are designed to provide flexibility and convenience to its users, while contributing to environmental conservation.

The new partnership enhances BoardPAC’s footprint in Africa and decisive expansion globally, especially in the continent through Vodacom’s strong reach across South Africa. This partnership strategy has been used in many other counties successfully, e.g. Maxis in Malaysia.  

Commenting on BoardPAC’s new partnership with Vodacom, BoardPAC Director and CEO Lakmini Wijesundera said: “Board members around the world are being held to higher standards of accountability, requiring them to evolve how they work and collaborate with peers. Through our partnership with Vodacom, we are proud to expand our presence in the African continent and look forward to helping board members leverage BoardPAC’s tools to mitigate risk and enable effective governance.”

Vodacom South Africa Managing Executive for Vodacom Business Products and Services Fatima Hassim noted, “In today’s world, conducting business requires enterprises to have increased productivity both on the road, and in the office. In fulfilling our role to connect businesses to their people as well as their customers, Vodacom, through the launch of BoardPAC, will give enterprises a natural competitive advantage, enabling businesses to always stay connected anywhere, anytime securely.” BoardPAC is a globally commended multinational that provides board meeting automation solutions to over 20,000 users worldwide. The company covers over 20 countries including India, United States, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, etc.

Emerging as a leader across the globe, the service is used by a host of Fortune 500 companies internationally as the preferred choice for Board meeting automation. The solution also enjoys the largest market share for board meeting automation in the Asia Pacific region. 

Leading corporates such as XL Axiata, Prudential, Bumi Armada, RHB Banking Group, Hong Leong Banking Group, Bursa Malaysia (Stock Exchange of Malaysia), Affin Bank, Astro, Bombay Stock Exchange, Power Grid Corporation of India, IDBI Bank, Container Corporation of India, LIC Housing Finance Limited, Colombo Stock Exchange, Carson Cumberbatch PLC, John Keells Holdings, Sri Lanka Telecom, Hemas and MAS Holdings as well as the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) are a few of BoardPAC’s success stories across the globe. 

Brining honour to the nation, BoardPAC recently received Gold for ‘Innovation in Technology Development’ at the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. This accolade was in recognition of its award-winning iPad-enabled paperless board communication and meetings solution, highlighting the country’s capabilities in this sphere.