François Jacot-Guillarmod

Jacot studied at Rhodes, and was a member of the first Computer Science class in 1970, started by Professor Rolf Braae and Dr Howard Williams. After graduating, he worked for Armscor at Atlas Aircraft Corporation in Kempton Park,  for Anglo-Vaal at their head office in Main Street, Johannesburg, and for Infoplan, again at Atlas. At the end of 1984 he returned to Grahamstown, working for Mike Lawrie as a systems programmer on the Control Data Cyber mainframes in the Rhodes Computing Centre. In 2002 he was appointed as Director of the Rhodes IT Division.