Team

Meet our senior executives...

Daniel Chalef, CEO

Daniel is an entrepreneur, technologist and part-time guerilla marketer whose career has included senior management, business analysis and engineering positions at software, Internet and telecommunications companies. As the CEO of KnowledgeTree, Daniel has led the company to its position as a recognized innovator in cloud-based document management solutions. Daniel brings passion and enthusiasm to the KnowledgeTree team and is an avid commentator on document management and industry trends.

Previously as CTO at Jam Warehouse, and earlier in his career Daniel headed up enterprise content management and workflow software implementation projects for premiere global retailers and consumer goods companies including Tesco PLC, Britvic PLC, and Foschini Group.

Daniel is a graduate of the University of Cape Town, with an honors degree in business science and information systems. Follow Daniel's regular blog posts on content management and open source software. Follow Daniel on Twitter: @danielchalef

John Thorne, COO

John brings over 15 years of experience in the IT sector to his role as COO of KnowledgeTree. In this time, he has started, raised funding for, and grown four technology companies. Most recently, John founded Jam Warehouse, a South African systems integrator. Under his leadership as CEO, the company expanded from 4 to 60 employees and revenues grew an average of 80% year over year. Prior to Jam Warehouse, John also founded one of South Africa's first commercial internet service providers, Dockside Internet. He grew that firm from 5 people to 80 people over three years before selling the company. In addition to an MBA from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, John has a medical degree from the University of Cape Town and formerly practiced rural hospital medicine.