Who is the boss?

Lusion Technologies is the brainchild of Joshua Yudaken who established the business in early 2003. Since its inception Joshua has teamed up with Jaco van Wyk with the goal of taking the business to the next level and creating one of the most respected and trusted brands within the South African web hosting industry.

Jaco van Wyk

Jaco (26) started his studies at the University of Pretoria in the field of Computer Engineering. He however graduated in 2005 with a degree in BIS Multimedia.

While studying Jaco started up his own creative media agency called 4Design Creative Media. The company grew rapidly over the years and serviced some of the largest commercial, government and academic institutions in the country. With clients such as First National Bank, The Competition Commission, Volkswagen, Neotel, The Department of Housing, and The Department of Science and Technology to name but a few. Academic institutions including Tshwane University of Technology, University of Limpopo and University of Pretoria also makes use of their services. 4Design Creative Media was featured on Summit TV, on a show called Startups, which showcases some of the most successful small businesses in South Africa.

Jaco moved into the field of web hosting in 2004 when he decided to explore its passive income potential. Teaming up with Joshua he set out to market and grow Lusion Technologies amongst web development companies and freelance designers. This proved to be extremely successful as Jaco had built up many contacts within this industry. Using his knowledge in usability design, functional testing, branding and marketing, Jaco assisted Joshua in creating Lusion Technologies flagship reseller hosting software and sourcing South African design and development businesses to utilise this software and increase their bottom line. Up to now, this system has been extremely well received.

Find Jaco van Wyk on LinkedIn.

Joshua Yudaken

Josh (21) is currently a third year student, studying a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town.

Josh has been involved and passionate about computer programming since he was introduced to it, at the age of eight. In the thirteen years since then he has continually challenged himself with new projects using different technologies. His first big hit was an online game “HackWars” that he wrote at the age of fifteen. "HackWars" quickly grew getting hundreds of thousands of visitors. He unfortunately coudn't afford to keep it up any longer. The income from the game was used to start up Lusion Technologies Website Hosting in 2003.

He has been involved in the computer olympiads, winning a silver medal at the International Olympiad in informatics (IOI). Instead of participating in the IOI the following year, he opted to take structured leadership training gap-year with a local youth movement. During the year, with the release of Facebook platform for applications, he created a few socially spreading Facebook applications in his spare time. Facebook applications include Send SMS which was installed by over four million people worldwide.