Stuart Macgregor is the Chief Executive Officer of the South African company, Real IRM Solutions (www.realirm.co.za). Through his personal achievements, he has gained the reputation of an Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance specialist, both in South Africa and internationally.

Macgregor participated in the development of the Microsoft Enterprise Computing Roadmap in Seattle. He was then invited by John Zachman to Scottsdale Arizona to present a paper on using the Zachman framework to implement ERP systems. In addition, Macgregor was selected as a member of both the SAP AG Global Customer Council for Knowledge Management, and of the panel that developed COBIT 3rd Edition Management Guidelines.

Macgregor co-authored “IT Control Practice Statement – PO9 Assess Risk” and “IT Control Practice Statement – M1 Monitor the Processes” which are published on www.isaca.org. He has also assisted a global Life Sciences manufacturer to define their IT Governance framework, and a major financial institution to define their global, regional and local IT organisational designs and strategy. He was also selected as a core member of the team that developed the South African Breweries (SABMiller) plc global IT strategy. Currently, Macgregor is consulting to South Africa’s national electricity supplier on an Enterprise Architecture and Knowledge Management assignment – “the future towards Knowledge Management”.