Job Mokgoro has an outstanding history of service in South Africa that is closely aligned with ECIAfrica's development philosophy. With a Masters and Honorary Doctorate in public administration from the University of Toledo, Job served with the University of Bophuthatswana for 10 years before becoming a lecturer at the University of the Western Cape. Since 1994, he has played a significant role in the transformation of South Africa. In January 1994, he moved to the Development Bank of Southern Africa, where he was the Associate Director of the Centre for Policy Analysis and Information. In April of the same year, he became the first Director-General of the North West Province where he managed a R7 billion budget and was tasked with rationalising and integrating three government administrations into one North West Province. From the end of 1999 until January 2003, Job served as the Director-General of the South African Management Development Institute. Since then, until January 2006, he was the Managing Director of Job Mokgoro Consulting where he focused on issues of local government development, intergovernmental relations, and institutional transformation. Job has published widely in the areas of public management, public policy, and public-sector transformation.

Golden Mahove is an enterprise development specialist with more than 15 years of experience. He has designed, managed, and implemented international development programmes throughout Eastern and Southern Africa involving small enterprise development, sub-sector analysis, voucher programme design, implementation and evaluation, programme impact analysis, and small enterprise strategy development and feasibility studies. Golden was instrumental in the design of the framework for agri-input systems for Africa in 1999 with the International Fertilizer Development Center. He also has small enterprise development and business linkages expertise, connecting large firms with small enterprises through market assessments, opportunity identification services (through sub-sector analyses) and credit guarantee mechanisms. Before joining ECIAfrica, Golden was an Agribusiness Manager for CARE International where he managed a staff of 90 and an annual budget of US$7 million. He also led CARE International's leadership development programme in Zimbabwe. He is an experienced trainer, having taught at the Springfield Centre in Scotland on the role of market intermediaries in promoting market access for small enterprises. Golden holds an MBA from the Zimbabwe Open University.

Benjamin Feit is a specialist in public sector management, having been involved in the design, implementation, management, and monitoring of international development projects worldwide. For the past 15 years, Benjamin has been involved in projects related to infrastructure delivery, decentralisation, local government reform and municipal finance, legislative and civil society strengthening, and institutional capacity building. Before joining ECIAfrica in 2005, he worked for its parent company DAI, where he served as Deputy Team Leader for a $36 million local public administration reform programme in Romania, managing a staff of 70 and four field offices. Benjamin also conducted design missions and provided technical and managerial support to municipal reform programmes in South Africa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia. He designed and managed a successful multi-year programme to strengthen the national parliament of Armenia. Prior to working for DAI, Benjamin served as the USAID Democracy and Governance Advisor in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he provided strategic advice and managed a $5 million annual portfolio of U.S. Government grants and contracts in legislative governance, nongovernmental organisation institutional strengthening, political processes and electoral assistance. In addition to his work in Eastern Europe, Benjamin worked throughout West and East Africa with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Benjamin holds an MA in International and public affairs from Columbia University.

Peter Mabe has more than 20 years of experience in accounting, finance and tax functions working in various industries in South Africa. He has a proven ability in understanding and adapting to the ever-changing dynamics and challenges of business while ensuring that processes, procedures and systems are in place and followed in pursuance of overall business objectives. At ECIAfrica, Peter oversees the finance function, including overall management of cash flow, income statement and balance sheet. In addition, Peter manages ECIAfrica's human resources, information and communications technology and office administration, contracts, and certain compliance issues related to further empowering and transforming the company. Before joining ECIAfrica, Peter worked for a variety of multinational companies including Lucent Technologies, Total Oil Company, National Sorghum Breweries, Shell Oil Company, and Consol. His expertise varies from delivering annual financial statements and introducing key processes, policies and procedures to streamlining the management and activities of the organisation. Peter holds a BCom degree from the University of the North, an MBA from the University of Witwatersrand, and an H. Dip in tax law from the University of Cape Town.

Gloria Victor recently joined ECIAfrica as Human Resources (HR) Manager. She brings over 14 years of experience within the HR field. Before joining ECIAfrica, She was Regional HR Manager for Standard Bank. Her responsibilities included implementing the recruitment and selection of staff, managing the implementation of diversity and transformation action plans, and representing the Bank at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and at disciplinary enquiries. Gloria has extensive expertise in negotiating with unions on behalf of organisations. She worked as a Group HR Manager for Amalgamated Healthcare, a company with a staff complement of 350 staff members, where she established an HR Resources department and generated HR policies and procedures for the organisation. Gloria also served DeBeers Consolidate Mines as Training and Development Officer, overseeing training administration for a staff complement of more than 360 employees. Gloria holds a BTech degree in human resources management from Technikon SA and has a Master's Degree in business leadership from the University of South Africa.

Sipho Dayel is a public policy, HIV/AIDS, and capacity building expert with more than 15 years of experience in development and governance projects and in increasing levels of management. At ECIAfrica, Sipho manages an array of public sector management projects such as the development of a white paper on transport for KwaZulu-Natal Province; the development and implementation of an HIV/AIDS policy and strategy for the South African Football Players Union; a compliance assessment of Thuthuzela Care Centres, which are located in hospitals throughout the country to support victims of sexual abuse and violence; and a capacity assessment of the national Department of Housing in managing multiple year business plans. Before joining ECIAfrica in 2005, Sipho served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa where he grew the budget from R30 million to R100 million. Sipho is completing his master's degree at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Public and Development Management.