South Africa

Director – Web Development, Analytics, SEO and SEM at The Digital Media Collective. A marketing/sales executive with extensive experience and a track record of re-designing and creating demand for underperforming markets, changing market perception and increasing year-on-year turnover. Key strengths include: data analysis; an in-depth knowledge of marketing and sales; generating market information to formulate… read more »

Dion Chang is an innovator, creative thinker, a walking ideas bank and professional cage rattler. He is one of South Africa’s most respected trend analysts and takes the unique view of “trends as business strategy”. While his feet remain firmly planted on African soil, he uses a global perspective to gauge the zeitgeist, track ahead-of-the-curve… read more »

Dee Chetty: Accenture Interactive Experience Lead for Africa. Dee Chetty has an academic background in Computer Science, Statistics & Maths which he studied in India and his career in digital started in 2007. Among other roles, Dee worked within R&D at MWEB and served as the Lead Digital Strategist for MTN Group’s agency delivering work… read more »

Chief Economist of the Efficient Group & Chairman of Efficient Private Clients. Dawie Roodt is an economist who specialises in fiscal and monetary policy. He brings invaluable exposure to the Group through his active presence in both the local and foreign media. He has been a member of the Tax Advisory Committee of the Afrikaanse… read more »

Chief Executive Officer at Finfind and Serial Entrepreneur. The World Economic Forum named Darlene Menzies one of 6 Top Female Tech Breakthrough Entrepreneurs in Africa for 2017. She is a technology innovator and serial entrepreneur with 15 years’ corporate IT experience with ABSA Bank and ICT outsource giant BCX. Since leaving corporate employment in 2001,… read more »

Founder & CEO: DaniellaShapiro.com – on the front lines of Marketing, Social Media and Branding. Daniella recently launched the Oolala Collection Club, an E-commerce platform, which fuses high-end luxury beauty and lifestyle brands with affordability and accessibility. BA Marketing Communications; Honours – Brand Leadership Former co-host on CliffCentral & contributor to PowerFM; contributes to Entrepreneur… read more »

Dalene Sechele-Manana has been in the Financial Services sector for over 18 years and has held management positions in various SA-based banks. In her current role, she heads up Private Banking at Mercantile Bank. She is responsible for growing the Private Bank portfolio with the entrepreneur in mind. Mercantile Bank Private Bank is the first… read more »

Crayg Hitzeroth is the Managing Director of Ad Dynamo Johannesburg. Building and motivating sales teams and driving organisational change are Crayg Hitzeroth and his main competencies. Ad Dynamo is a sales focused business that partners with leading digital platforms to unlock both revenue and growth. We achieve this by investing in great people that are… read more »

Engineer by qualification. Entrepreneur by passion. Googler by Spirit. 2 Masters degrees in Engineering (MSc) and Business (MBA) 2 Provisional patents 4 Companies started, including a non profit in Silicon Valley 1,000 entrepreneurs helped 50,000 Websites in one year, one every 10 minutes These are some of the numbers that highlight a short but sparkling… read more »

Cloud Platform Leader – Mobile & Cognitive Experience (MCX) Oracle Middle East, Africa and Turkey. Craig is the Cloud Platform Leader for Mobile & Cognitive Experience (MCX) Business Development in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey. Craig specializes in modern, transformational technologies such as mobile apps, chatbots, artificial intelligence, internet of things, machine learning and… read more »

Gradidge-Mahura Investments is South Africa’s only Black owned FPI approved Professional Practice. In 2018 we were rated as the Top Wealth Manager, The People’s Choice as Top Wealth Manager, the Top Wealth Manager for Lump Sum Investors, and the Top Wealth Manager for Young Professionals in the annual Top Private Bank & Wealth Manager Survey…. read more »

Craig Freer is responsible for Vox’s Cloud Services and believes that while Cloud isn’t a new concept, its adoption in South Africa is fairly unique in that it is being driven bottom-up by SMEs, as opposed to in the US and Europe, where there is a top-down approach. His mission is to ensure that Vox’s… read more »

Chief Executive Officer and founder of Kalon Venture Partners (KVP). KVP is a venture capital company investing in digital disruptive technologies. Clive is the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Accenture South Africa and has 28 years management consulting experience. During his tenure at Accenture (formerly Arthur Anderson and Anderson Consulting), he played numerous leadership… read more »

Christina Hammond-Aziz is Rainmaker’s Head of Private Sector. She holds wealth of experience from both the private sector, where she worked closely with the Institute of Directors helping businesses to differentiate themselves and expand rapidly into the market, and Central Government where she led or advised on some of its most ambitious transformation programmes –… read more »

L@Wtrust CEO and Co-founder. Christi is a transformational leader and visionary entrepreneur with a proven track record. She has won both local and international awards and is recognised as a technology industry leader. Her passion for building a business that makes a significant contribution not only financially, but also to the well being and security… read more »