Kevin Maika    

Job Title: ICT Manager

Role in GALVmed: Works with colleagues to identify the most beneficial technologies for the end user,
in particular SMS and mobile technologies. He is also responsible for the implementation and
management of Huddle as a Cloud Computing platform for GALVmed.

Kevin ensures that the GALVmed website remains accurate and that it is regularly updated. He is responsible
for building and contributing content to GALVmed social networking sites and stimulating blogging, ensuring a regular supply of this material through the co-ordination of ‘story producers’ from or close to livestock keeping communities.

Joined GALVmed: May 2010

Nationality: Motswana (Botswana)

Relevant career highlights: Kevin has worked as an ICT Officer for FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation),
in the unit of Regional Animal Health Centre for Southern Africa, which offers support to the SADC (Southern African Development Community) region’s livestock sector with a specific focus on Trans-boundary Animal Disease control. He has also carried out extensive work in website and system development with a clientele that includes the Botswana Innovation Hub and the Embassy of Brazil in Botswana. Other notable
achievements include being engaged by Investec Bank in Johannesburg, South Africa, undertaking the automation and testing of the Cross-Asset Trading system using Worksoft Certify.

Interests: Kevin is a huge football and basketball fanatic with his favorite teams being
Manchester United and the Los Angeles Lakers respectively, which ultimately keeps him indoors most of the time.

He also has keen interest in technology and spends most of his free time reading about the latest and upcoming technology, particularly in the computing and mobile phone categories.