Nir Orbach

Nir is an energetic and competitive entrepreneur that thrives on turning challenges into opportunities while helping businesses leverage technology to achieve their desired outcomes.

Nir began his career working as an electrical engineer in the Transmission Projects group at Eskom, South Africa’s electrical utility. Following his passion for solving complex business issues, Nir joined a consulting firm looking to launch a practice in North America, to begin his SAP career, also relocating to the United States where he worked as an SAP Consultant on large global SAP implementations at INTEL and later IBM PC Company. Nir later worked for several years as a Senior Consultant, SAP Instructor, Project Manager, Project Director and later as Vice-President of the SAP Consulting firm Tullamore Advantage, before founding Illumiti in 2000. Illumiti was founded with the goal of delivering excellent customer value by leveraging a pragmatic approach, excellent talent, and a focus on delivering on customer commitments, thereby fostering long lasting customer relationships. Nir developed Illumiti into one of the most highly respected SAP Resellers and consulting firms in North America, with offices across Canada, USA and Switzerland. In 2020, Illumiti had revenues around CAD$96million, as the company employed about 250 people and contracted an additional 200 contractors to deliver dozens of projects and provided full software lifecycle services to its global customers who primarily leveraged SAP’s S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, and SAP BusinessByDesign solutions as key business platforms. In June 2021 Nir sold the Illumiti Group of Companies to Syntax.

Nir holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering and a MSc. in Industrial Engineering from WITS University in Johannesburg, South Africa.