Shar Akaloo
Group Managing Director at ILS-SA
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolShar Akaloo is a growth-focused business leader with 10 years of experience scaling sales, operations, and go-to-market strategies across document management, logistics, and tech-enabled services. As Group Managing Director of ILS Global and Managing Director of ILS-SA, he blends commercial leadership with product-aware thinking—driving hybrid cloud software, secure storage, AI-powered document processing, and workflow optimisation. His background includes senior regional and national sales leadership at Iron Mountain and TNT, where he built high-performing teams, improved forecasting discipline, and consistently hit revenue and profitability targets. Trained in Lean Six Sigma and sales management (Wits, Dale Carnegie), he pairs process rigor with people development to deliver measurable business outcomes. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he also has an active interest in next-gen gaming development, reflecting a wider curiosity about emerging digital experiences. Colleagues describe him as purpose-driven and pragmatic, able to translate complex technical capabilities into commercial value.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
NQF 7, Sales and Marketing -Management Development Programme (MDP), NQF 7, Sales and Marketing -Management Development Programme (MDP) at University of the WitwatersrandSales, Sales Success, Sales, Sales Success at Dale Carnegie TrainingSales and Marketing, Advanced Sales and Marketing, Sales and Marketing, Advanced Sales and Marketing at DamelinLSSMHSGreen Belt, Lean Six Sigma, In house, via TNT Black belt from Headoffice UK, Green Belt, Lean Six Sigma, In house, via TNT Black belt from Headoffice UK at TNTCertificate, Presentation Skills, NQF 3, Certificate, Presentation Skills, NQF 3 at Kwelanga training Professional SkillsUniversity of South Africa
Github Skills (10)
texture2d5
blockchain5
cryptocurrency5
sdk4
lottie-animation2
unity3d2
animation2
bodymovin1
after-effects1
lottie1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chile109/DEAL-DOC
Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 5 months
chile109/Django_Practice
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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