Angus Hay

Dr Angus Hay, PrEng, CEng, MIET, MIEEE, FSAIEE, was born and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has a BSc(Eng)Elec (1987) and a PhD in digital transmission (1998) from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Dr Hay joined Neotel at its inception in 2006 as employee number two, heading Strategy. He later became Chief Technology Officer, and is today responsible for Strategic Business Development. He was previously Chief Technology Officer of Transtel, the former telecommunications division of Transnet Ltd. He is a Director of the Number Portability Company (NPC), and is currently Co-Chair of the Management Committee of the West Africa Cable System (WACS).

Dr Hay was President of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) in 2010, and has served on the Council of the Institute for 6 years. He is a Fellow of the SAIEE, was chairman of its Electronics and Software committee in 2005, and received the Institute’s annual Young Achiever award 1999.

Dr Hay has written a number of papers on telecommunications, deregulation and professional mobile radio for local and international conferences and publications. He has been involved in a variety of areas of telecommunications, including mobile radio, internet, data networking, transmission, fixed-line telephony, cellular telephony and access technologies. As a postgraduate student in the early 1990s, he took part in the establishment of the Internet between academic institutions in South Africa.