Thembani Bukula

Mr. Thembani Bukula serves as Chief Executive Officer of PowerX Proprietary Limited. Mr. Bukula is an Advisor of greenTEK ventures Sarl. He served as Managing Member of IJANGA Consulting Service, focusing on specialised engineering projects and a Director of Business Development at Bytes Managed Services. Mr. Bukula served as Full-Time Regulatory Member of Electricity at National Energy Regulator of South Africa from 2005 to 2016. He has over 25 years of experience. He serves as the Managing Director of various companies including NETFA, the South African Bureau of Standards – Testing and Conformity Services and Ljanga Consulting Services. In March 2004, Mr. Bukula was appointed as the Managing Director at National Data Systems - Specialised Services. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director of National Laboratories Association. His career started at Yelland Engineering as Design Engineering. He then joined M & E Design as a Project Engineer before joining Eskom in 1993 as Transmission as Technical Services engineer. Mr. Bukula was seconded to KEMA, The Netherlands in June 1995, where he worked as a test engineer and in 1997, he was appointed as Technical Services Manager (Kwazulu-Natal and Free State Region) where he was responsible for the operating, maintenance and refurbishment of the Eskom - Transmission national grid. During this period he served on the High Voltage and Substations Research Steering Committees to evaluating and analysing research projects as well as providing technical expertise to Mozambique Transmission Company (MORTRACO) projects. In 1999, he was promoted to head the National Performance & Technical Audits Division of the Eskom - Transmission Group. In 2001, he joined the National Electrical Test Facility (NETFA - SABS) as the Divisional Managing Director, responsible for the transformation of the test laboratories into commercial viable entities and in June 2002, he was promoted to be the Managing Director of the SABS Testing & Conformity Services. He then formed IJANGA Consulting Services in 2005 where he conducts consulting services for specialised engineering projects including Chinal North West Power 765kV commissioning and maintenance planning project, implementation of Quality Management Systems and various design and/or technical evaluation or appraisal projects. He has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of GAIA Infrastructure Capital Limited since June 1, 2017. Mr. Bukula graduated with BSc Engineering from University of Natal and Post Graduate Diploma in Engineering Business Management from Warwick University. He is a registered Professional Engineering with a Government Certificate of Competency (GCC).