Summary
Cillie Malan is a Business Development Manager with 12 years of experience bridging engineering, research and commercialisation across defence, telecommunications and IoT. She progressed from systems engineering at CSIR to driving market development and partnerships at Hashtag IoT, blending hands-on hardware/software understanding with strategic go-to-market execution. With an MBA in Finance and a B.Eng. in Electronics, she specializes in integrated systems, futures thinking and business models for Industry 4.0. Cillie is comfortable translating complex technical requirements into viable value chains and services, and she actively builds both software and hardware solutions. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, she brings a rare mix of technical depth and commercial acumen that helps research outcomes reach industry impact. An underappreciated strength is her ability to spot new telecommunications service pathways before they become mainstream.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Pretoria
Afrikaans, German, English