Ronnie Apteker

HISTORY
Mr Ronen "Ronnie" APTEKER founder of Internet Solutions (IS), South Africa's first Internet Service Provider is a very well respected business man and entrepeneur in South Africa. Born in Cape Town on 19th August 1967, Ronnie Cum Lauded his Master of Science degree at the University of Witwatersrand in 1994.

Having been part of a successful team running SA's bigesst internet services, Ronnie Apteker was awarded South Africa's Top business man in 2004/2005. Ronnie is an active author and writer for the Business Times and various entrepeneureul magazines. Ronnie also sits on various boards and committees within South Africa and is involved in many charity organizations and fundraising initiatives. Internet Solutions was founded in 1993 at the end of South Africa's apartheid regieme and the beginning of the DOTCOM boom in Silicon Valley. With this timing came Ronnie and his Internet Solutions team;

INTERNET SOLUTIONS HISTORY
Internet Solutions founded - 1994
IS installs the first fibre optic link (64 kbit/s) from South Africa to Sprint in the USA via SAT-2 - 1995
IS forms Trusted Network Solutions, South Africa's first network security business - 1996

Dimension Data acquires 25% of IS. IS launches the Ananzi search engine. IS commercial (e-Commerce) and ICON.Staff complement exceeds 100 - 1997
IS rolls out its first international PoP in New York and launches South Africa's first Internet-based VPN service.Dimension Data acquires the remaining 75% of IS - 1998
1000th Corporate customer connected.IS launches South Africa's first multi-layered Hosting service - 1999
IS Installs first 45 Mbit/s T3 international link to the USAVRAS and VISP divisions commence operations - 2000
IS Merges with OmniLink, creating South Africa's leading Network Service company.IS reaches a capacity of over 100 Mbit/s of International bandwidth.South Africa's first MPLS VPN launched.

PUBLISHED FILMS

Crazy Monkey: Straight outta Benoni - Director
Victor Chicken - Executive Director

[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0032557/bio Ronnie Apteker on IMDB]

BOOKS WRITTEN
Do You Love It In the Morning? - Co-Author with Jeremy Ord

INTERNET SITE INITIATIVES & ONLINE PROJECTS
[http://www.wantitall.co.za/ Online Shopping] WantItAll is one of South Africa’s largest online shopping stores, specializing in a product range similar to Amazon.com. Founders, Justin Drennan, Ryan Drennan and Terence Murphy started WantItAll in 2006 with one goal in mind – making online shopping accessible in South Africa, while being supported by Google. This is exactly what happened, and now thousands of online users are reaping the benefit of great innovation. WantItAll, in co-operation with Amazon, currently, brings over 14 million products to the South African market, delivering each and every product to the customer’s door, without the use of the South African Postal Service (SAPO). This was strengthened by Amazon’s choice not to ship to South Africa, making WanItAll a soul provider of this nature in South Africa.

[http://www.vottle.com/ Online Classifieds] The Vottle project is an online classifieds community site based in South Afirca. It Allows individuals to network online and to buy and sell goods. The site was founded in 1996, and to date has over 5000 classifieds adverts.

OTHER ARTICLES AND SOURCES
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