Priyen Vallabh Branch Manager

Priyen has lived in Durban since birth. Afer matriculating at Effingham Secondry in 1996, he worked part time in his fathers business, learning about the jewellery trade. However after much deliberation he realised that his passion was not in designing or manufacturing jewellery.

In 1997, he studied Pc Engineering at Damelin & this is where his interests & involvement became apparent. After his daily lectures, he would go home & work with his P.C, often damaging something & then repairing it. For Priyen, this was a new venture, as it was an important step towards his Career advancement.

In June 1998, He accepted the opportunity to work for Clearing Support Services. Not having experince in the freight industry, Priyen was thrown into the deep end & today he can safely say that, "It is a challenging experince, because you learn new things everyday."

Priyen, still unmarried, enjoys spending time with his Family & Friends & is an avid F1 supporter of the Mclaren Mercedes team.

Roger Shaw Chief Executive Managing Director

Roger was born in England where he received his degree in Mechanical Engineering. While still living in the UK in the 1970's, he became involved with computers; the workings and potential of which fascinated him. His involvement with computers resulted in him coming to South Africa on contract with Edgars to build a distribution centre in Isipingo and set up a computerised system.

In 1985 he established his own company, Rogetronics Computer Services. Here he provided a service to clients like Standard bank, Iscor and Caltex. A turning point was reached in 1989 when he was asked to enhance an existing Customs Clearing programme. Instead he developed a new programme. This is how Clearing Support Services (CSS) was born. CSS was formed in April 1990. Warwick Butcher in Cape Town produced a wealth of information for the programme from his back ground in the freight and shipping industry. Roger is chief executive of Clearing Support Services, which covers Johannesburg and Durban areas and also extends into Zimbabwe and Botswana.

Roger is married to Carol and they have one daughter, Gail. Gail attended Rhodes University in Grahamstown where she received a degree in computer sciences but decided to do her own thing outside of CSS.

If you can tear Roger away from the computer, he enjoys sailing his 48ft yacht in Durban harbour and tinkering on his vintage sports cars when there is no formula one racing on the TV. At the beginning of the 2001 season Roger was very fortunate to have attended the Australian Grand Prix which he thoroughly enjoyed.