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About / Dave Glass
xDave is the CEO of Electrum. He has over 20 years of experience in Enterprise Payments Software, having worked in Australia, South Africa, and Ireland. He worked as a Professional Services Manager at ACI Worldwide and S1 Corporation, before moving on to co-found Electrum in 2012, where he has played a key role in making it the leading next-generation payments technology software company in South Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from UCT and a Master’s in Information Systems from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
About / Eon Joubert
xEon co-founded Electrum in 2012 and has been instrumental in ensuring that the company delivers technology that contributes to shaping the future of payments in South Africa.
He has more than two decades of experience working with state-of-the-art payments software and has a deep fundamental understanding of the payments landscape in South Africa and across the globe.
Eon graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Science from Stellenbosch in 2001 and an Honours degree in Computer Science from the Open University in 2005.
About / Mpho Sadiki
xMpho Sadiki is a seasoned payments professional with over 14 years of experience in payments innovation and executive accountability. In addition to serving as Head: Real-Time Payments (RTP) at BankservAfrica, he spent several years in executive roles at Nedbank and joined Electrum as a Non-executive director in 2024.
Mpho received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Wits Business School in 2014 and has also graduated from two extended degree programmes abroad.
About us
Electrum is the leading payments technology company enabling innovative banks and retailers to power their payments. Since 2012, we have established ourselves as a respected software partner through our deep expertise and track record in delivering trusted cloud-native payments solutions.
Trusted by South Africa's leading banks, retailers, and MNOs
Software utilised by 4 of the 5 leading SA Banks
Solutions implemented at 6 listed Retailers
Over 4.5 billion transactions being processed annually
Designed from the ground up to be cloud-native, our solutions take advantage of the robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure offered by modern cloud computing through AWS as a partner.
Electrum is the first company on the continent to be recognised as an independent software vendor (ISV) in financial services, underscoring our commitment to delivering best-in-class, cloud-native payment technology.
Learn more about Electrum’s partnership with AWS
The Data Protection Champ badge showcases that Electrum champions the right to data privacy; respects the privacy of data subjects; is open about how we process personal information; and has committed to doing what is reasonably practicable to protect personal information.
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Since 2023, Electrum has been ranked by Financial Times as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies. In 2025, we grew to be ranked at 61 in Africa, currently making us number 23 in South Africa.
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Since 2012 Electrum has been led by some of South Africa’s most experienced payments experts. Based on a strong foundation of keeping clients top of mind, the high-functioning team has grown Electrum to become the payments technology choice for the region’s leading financial institutions.
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Electrum is founded by Dave Glass, Eon Joubert and Dirk Potgieter with the mission of finding a better way to process payments.
First company strategy getaway
Moved into Castle Mews offices
Electrum Console released to customers
Processing over 100 transactions per second
First family getaway in Mauritius
Integration to over 50 third-party service providers
Start of the Graduate Development Programme
ISO/IEC 27 001:2013 compliant
Developed training for customers
Reached 50 employees
Published first Digital Goods and Services Report
Launch of BackOffice for reconciliation and settlement
Clocked over 100,000 hours of coding
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4 billion transactions processed in 12 months
Digital Goods and Services comprises of 7 categories with the addition of Ticketing
Hosted first Open Payments Conference
Launched Electrum's Payments Platform for modernising payments
Graduate Programme extended to all business areas
100 team members and still growing
Published first Payments Report
Hosted the Open Payments Conference in Johannesburg
Developed the Fast Payments Testing Platform in partnership with BankservAfrica
Systems Operator authorisation by PASA
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As a fast-paced technology company working with some of the country’s biggest institutions, the projects we work on touch the lives of millions of South Africans every day. Our values underpin everything we do, from building great software, to nurturing strong partnerships, to supporting our client’s missions.
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