Our Team

As a former BI Manager, Upuli brings practical experience and industry insight to her role. She understands clients’ challenges and motivations deeply, and empathises with their needs and concerns.

Upuli started her career as an SAP business analyst, specialising in SAP business intelligence. This laid the foundation for her move into a number of platforms in the data space, such as Microsoft and Qlik.

Upuli holds a Master of Commerce degree in Information Systems. At Insight Consulting, she strives to establish seamless partnerships between clients and consultants, ensuring that the solutions consistently provide maximum value.

Sean has over two decades of experience using data to guide businesses towards informed decision making. He believes that precise and insightful use of data can catalyse innovation, efficiency and business excellence.

Sean holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Information Systems from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. As Co-Founder and Joint CEO, he brings a unique combination of strategic thinking, business and analytical acumen, and a passion for using data to move organisations towards success, innovation and efficiency. He believes that resilience is the key to overcoming obstacles and turning them into opportunities.

He is committed to creating a “Win Win Win” outcome in every endeavour, where success is measured not just by individual accomplishments but by the collective achievements of everyone involved.

Charlene is the Sales Director at Insight Consulting, responsible for new business development. She holds a BCom degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa.

With over two decades of experience in IT, she has excelled in sales and business development. Charlene has a passion for people, data and problem solving. Her love for all things data began during her time as a Business Intelligence Manager.

Her collaborative approach and strategic mindset help her build trust with new clients from the first conversation. She takes the time to understand each organisation’s needs and challenges and shapes tailored solutions that drive tangible results. Charlene’s expertise lies in finance, logistics, retail, short term insurance and business analysis.

René is the Customer Director at Insight Consulting, responsible for account management and customer satisfaction. She brings over 25 years of experience in the IT industry and holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in IT from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

Her journey began as a developer in the fruit export industry and moved into systems and business analysis, which led to more than a decade of consulting in business intelligence across many functional areas and industries. In recent years her focus has been executive leadership, aligning company goals to strategic structure and direction.

She leads the Customer Pillar, which manages our existing client accounts, ensures high satisfaction, and drives retention and ongoing revenue through proactive engagement and advisory support. A strong advocate for data literacy, maturity and strategy, René is dedicated to adding business value and guiding organisations on their data strategy journey, so they remain competitive and innovative in a fast changing digital landscape.

Lee is the Operations Director at Insight Consulting. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of South Africa, which laid the foundation for a career focused on making data and technology work better for people. Believing in innovation with a purpose, Lee brings a people first approach to everything he does, helping organisations make better informed decisions and improving the way teams work with systems and information.

At Insight Consulting, Lee leads Digital Strategy and governance, designing and executing the strategies, governance frameworks and business solutions that guide our clients’ transformation. He works across the Sales, Customer Success, Engineering, Resourcing and Enablement teams to ensure integrated, effective delivery. His focus on strategic planning and process optimisation helps clients become more adaptable, efficient and sustainable in a fast moving digital landscape.

Lee is passionate about creating opportunities for others. He sees leadership as a way to uplift, not control, which is why he mentors and develops future leaders in data and technology. Whether he is guiding a team, supporting his family or contributing to society, Lee is driven by long term, meaningful impact. He often reflects on the Ubuntu philosophy: “I am because we are.” For him, it’s all about people empowering people.

Joanne is Head of Consulting at Insight Consulting, where she leads the consultants who design and deliver our clients’ solutions. Her focus is efficiency and enablement: improving how our consulting business works and giving our consultants the methods, tools and skills to deliver consistently for every client. She joined Insight Consulting in 2017 as a Business Intelligence Team Lead and became Business Intelligence Manager before taking on her current role.

Before Insight Consulting, Joanne was a System Developer and Data Scientist at Kantar TNS in Cape Town, where she built analytical tools, SQL databases and dashboards that turned market research into clear answers for clients.

She studied at the University of Cape Town and is based in Cape Town.

Julian is Head of Data Platforms at Insight Consulting, where he leads the design and delivery of the data foundations our clients’ analytics and AI depend on.

He brings more than two decades of experience in solution and data architecture. Before joining Insight Consulting in 2026, he spent 13 years at PBT Group as a Principal Consultant, including heading its Microsoft BI division, and worked as an Enterprise Solution Architect at Karabina Solutions. Earlier roles at Old Mutual, Synergy and Metropolitan Life built his grounding in business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics.

His specialities include data warehousing, master data management, data quality, big data and cloud data solutions, together with strategy, roadmaps and implementation planning.