About Plinqx

Plinqx builds technology that helps businesses connect systems, orchestrate complex processes and safely adopt AI.

What started as a Salesforce-native integration platform has evolved into a broader vision: make it easier for organisations to connect the systems they already rely on, automate how work moves between them, and give AI and agents governed access to take meaningful action.

Today, that vision is delivered through Plinqx for Salesforce and Hypha.

Two products. One philosophy.

Most organisations already have the systems, data and applications they need. The challenge is connecting them, coordinating how work moves between them and introducing AI without creating another disconnected layer of architecture.

Why Plinqx exists

Enterprise technology should work together without creating more complexity.

Our focus is practical: reduce unnecessary complexity, make enterprise capabilities reusable and help organisations adopt AI with control and visibility built in.

Plinqx for Salesforce

Native integration, orchestration and agent enablement.

Connect external systems, automate cross-system processes, expose external data and enable approved AI capabilities — directly inside Salesforce.

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Hypha

Governed orchestration for enterprise AI and agents.

Connect systems, APIs, models, agents and reusable skills through a governed execution layer with identity, permissions and observability.

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Meet the Team

The talented individuals behind Plinqx are dedicated to making integration simple, powerful, and accessible. Get to know the people who are building the future of business connectivity.

Jacob Taljaard
Jacob Taljaard
CEO & Founder

Strategic, innovative, and relentlessly customer-focused, Jacob brings more than two decades of consulting, architecture, and entrepreneurial experience to Plinqx.

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He began his journey by co-founding CloudinIT, a cloud solutions company that grew quickly and was later acquired by Deloitte New Zealand.

Across those years, Jacob developed a reputation for identifying technology gaps, simplifying complex systems, and guiding enterprise clients through major digital transformation programs. As a Director/Partner at SLEEQ, Jacob continued to influence large-scale architectural decisions, helping organisations modernise their platforms and adopt technology with clarity and confidence.

After countless projects slowed by over-engineered and costly integrations, Jacob founded Plinqx with a clear mission: deliver a faster, simpler, and more scalable way to connect Salesforce with the rest of the business.

Tiaan Swart
Tiaan Swart
CTO

Tiaan Swart is a seasoned entrepreneur and highly experienced Salesforce architect and developer with deep, hands-on expertise across multiple industries and technologies.

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With more than seven years working across New Zealand, Australia and the Philippines — including leadership roles at CloudinIT, Deloitte Digital, and SLEEQ — Tiaan has built a reputation for delivering elegant, high-performance solutions that genuinely move the needle for customers.

A creator at heart, Tiaan has co-founded and co-owned several successful technology companies and led teams that have built multiple products across CRM, SaaS, and integration spaces. His strength lies in seeing opportunities early, rapidly building prototypes, and turning complex ideas into intuitive, high-impact solutions.

At Plinqx, Tiaan channels all of this experience into building a platform that eliminates integration friction, enhances performance, and empowers customers to innovate without the heavy technical overhead.

Graham Winder
Graham Winder
Head Of Go-To-Market

Graham Winder is a high-performing Go-To-Market and Strategic Alliances leader with more than a decade of experience driving revenue growth for SaaS companies.

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With a proven track record delivering multimillion-dollar ACV through partnerships with Salesforce, Deloitte, Accenture, Infosys, and the broader global SI ecosystem, Graham brings deep commercial expertise and a sharp understanding of what it takes to scale a product from early stage to enterprise adoption.

Before joining Plinqx, Graham held senior alliance and sales leadership roles at OneSpan, Smart Communications, and Conga, where he shaped GTM strategy, led regional alliance teams, and influenced product and market expansion.

At Plinqx, Graham leads the company's Go-To-Market strategy, uniting product, partners, marketing and sales to introduce a new category of native Salesforce integration to the ecosystem.

Raymond Yong
Raymond Yong
Advisory Board

Raymond Yong brings more than 25 years of digital transformation, governance, and operating-model expertise to Plinqx.

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A former Deloitte Digital Partner and co-founder of CloudinIT, he has led large-scale transformation programmes across government, enterprise, and commercial sectors in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, helping boards and executive teams turn digital strategy into measurable outcomes.

He has significant experience building consulting practices, scaling high-performing teams, and guiding organisations through complex technology and operating-model change.

At Plinqx, Raymond advises on growth priorities, customer value, and product direction. His background in digital strategy, cloud transformation, CRM modernisation, and board-level governance supports the company to evolve in ways that are pragmatic, scalable, and aligned to real customer challenges.

Deane Taljaard
Deane Taljaard
Chief Strategy Officer

Strategic, innovative and people-centred, Deane Taljaard brings nearly two decades of consulting and digital-transformation experience to Plinqx.

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With deep expertise across Salesforce, human-centred design, and business process optimisation, Deane has built a reputation for aligning digital solutions with real business outcomes, ensuring technology enables people, not the other way around.

Deane's career spans leadership roles at Deloitte Digital, CloudinIT, Davanti, and independent consulting practices, where she consistently demonstrated an ability to simplify complexity, elevate user experience, and deliver solutions that drive long-term value.

At Plinqx, she plays a foundational role in shaping product strategy, customer experience, and organisational alignment, ensuring the platform delivers intuitive, scalable value for every customer.

Graham Nel
Graham Nel
Software Developer

Graham Nel joins Plinqx as a Software Developer, bringing fresh energy, a passion for cloud technology, and a solid foundation in software engineering to the team.

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Graham is a passionate young developer kicking off his professional career with Plinqx. As a Software Developer, he is eager to apply his technical skills to real-world challenges, working closely with the engineering team to support the development of the platform.

His technical background includes two years at CTU Training Solutions, where he earned various Microsoft certifications with a focus on Azure and Server infrastructure. Dedicated to continuous learning, he is currently furthering his education by studying towards a Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering.

At Plinqx, Graham is translating his academic knowledge into practical results. He brings a modern approach to problem-solving and a dedication to learning best practices, ensuring he grows alongside the company while contributing to the platform's success.

Chintan Mehta
Chintan Mehta
Partner Development Manager

Chintan Mehta is a Partner Development Manager at Plinqx, bringing a relationship-first approach to building Australia's Salesforce System Integrator ecosystem.

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Chintan's career spans customer-facing leadership across telecommunications and real estate, including a retail leadership role at Vodafone and five years running his own mobile technology retail and repair business. This foundation gave him a sharp instinct for building trust quickly, reading what partners and customers actually need, and turning conversations into long-term relationships — skills he now applies to identifying and developing Plinqx's boutique SI partnerships.

He holds a Master of IT (Enterprise Management) from the University of South Australia and a Bachelor of Computer Engineering, and is currently working toward his Salesforce Administrator (ADM-201) certification, pairing his commercial instincts with a growing technical fluency in the Salesforce ecosystem.

At Plinqx, Chintan is focused on identifying, warming up, and building lasting relationships with Salesforce SIs, helping extend Plinqx's reach as a trusted name in native Salesforce integration.

Connect. Orchestrate. Agentify.

Connect

Bring the systems, data, APIs and applications that run the business together. Create a reliable foundation instead of more point-to-point complexity.

Orchestrate

Coordinate how work moves across systems, people, events and long-running processes. Make business logic reusable, visible and easier to operate.

Agentify

Give AI and agents approved access to business capabilities so they can move from answering to acting. Add identity, permissions and observability around that action.

Practical technology. Enterprise discipline.

Reduce complexity

Use the platforms customers already have. Avoid adding infrastructure or specialist tooling where it does not create value.

Make capabilities reusable

Turn integrations, workflows, skills and business actions into repeatable assets instead of rebuilding them for every use case.

Govern action by design

As automation and AI gain access to business systems, identity, permissions, policy and auditability should be part of the architecture — not an afterthought.

Work with the existing stack

Plinqx is designed to coexist with enterprise integration platforms, Salesforce investments, customer AI choices and partner IP.

Connect what you have. Orchestrate how work happens. Enable what comes next.

Ready to see where Plinqx fits?

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