Chetty, an economist and business management graduate, was formerly CEO of the Cape Winelands District Municipality. Chetty also spent five years as a senior institutional specialist with the World Bank, and led the team that won last year's ZK Mathews Award for South Africa's best municipality.

Chetty begins with EDS South Africa on 1 September, and will work closely with current CEO, Cortie Burton, a US expatriate who will remain within EDS South Africa for the rest of the year.

Chetty joins EDS at a time when it has just renewed its infrastructure support agreement with Afrox for a further five-year term, as well its IT outsourcing and SAP support agreement with Nissan.

EDS South Africa, which is part of the global EDS corporation, last year sold 20% of its local shareholding to the black economic empowerment consortium Koketso Gravitas.