The Bateleur Directors

Sam Selmer-Olsen Sam Selmer-Olsen brings more than two decades of software experience to bear on providing customers with the right solution and servicing them accordingly. His experience was gained providing technical customer support for IT companies and directing numerous software benchmarks, activities that today are used to fully utilise legacy mainframe systems at the company's client base.

Ivor Rimmer Ivor Rimmer joined the Bateleur Holdings Group in 1999 and founded the Bateleur Resourcing company within the group. As the managing director of Resourcing, Ivor brought a wealth of I.T contracting and consulting experience to the company, and represented Resourcing on the Bateleur Holdings Board. He was appointed to the position of Group CEO of Bateleur Holdings in 2001. Ivor represents Bateleur at the Information Technology Association (ITA) where he serves on the Executive Council. Prior to starting Bateleur Resourcing, Ivor served as a director in the contracting division of a major South African I.T. company.

Donald Abbot There is no technical problem that 'gets the better' of Donald. With his B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Science, he is an IBM mainframe software engineer and a pioneer in the transfer of software from one hardware platform to another. He assisted Software AG with the DB2 - NATURAL systems interface. He is proficient in communications software and a very competent technical systems specialist. This has enabled him to work in any operating system environment, understanding and implementing systems that most mere mortals would be too scared to implement. He has created products which Bateleur sell world-wide - most in the archiving world where he understands the archiving and retrieval of information. One of his most successful projects was to cut an archive process down from an estimated 522 days to 16 hours!