Gerhard Basson is the Process Architect for OMEM IT. Gerhard has designed and engineered systems and processes for various businesses over 20 years. He developed methodologies on the use of business rules, processes and information quality which have been incorporated into systems engineering principles.

At Old Mutual he established a reference architecture and an improvement framework, which is the foundation for business architectures for various business units. He has assisted in major process assessments and improvements utilising various ISO standards and de facto standards such as CMMI and COBIT.

He has been appointed as the national convenor for process assessment standards and represents South Africa at the international ISO meetings. He is well-versed as a speaker and is invited regularly to speak at conferences on topics such as business architecture, process-centric enterprise architecture and process improvement. Gerhard has published a series of articles with the BPM Institute and has co-authored a technical paper which was published in “Benchmarking: An International Journal” by Emerald.

Gerhard holds degrees in BComm (Financial Accounting and Business Economics), BS (Computer Science) and BSc (Artificial Intelligence and Information Science), a diploma in Missionary Work and is a certified process professional.