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Thomas Reilly is MD: Growthpoint Investec African Properties/Head: Africa Real Estate Investec Asset Management. He is responsible for establishing a pan-African real estate investment business between Investec Asset Management, Growthpoint Properties and the IFC. Overall responsibility for investment strategy, capital raising, asset origination/acquisition, debt structuring, asset/property management activities. Thomas Reilly was previously CEO of Sanlam… read more »

Greg Schwebig is the Founder & CEO of AfricaWorks, a pioneering and innovative workplace solution provider in Africa. AfricaWorks provides Design & Build services as well as Flexible Workplaces solutions to Global Corporates in 12+ countries through 9 offices on the continent. After 7 years in Kenya, Greg recently relocated back to his home-town –… read more »

Adrian Frey is the Managing Director of Beluluane Industrial Park and Free-Trade Zone (a Public- Private Partnership). The park is occupied by 35 companies from 15 different countries and supports a workforce of over 5000 employees. Beluluane offers the perfect location for establishing manufacturing business, distribution centres and connecting with the local, SADC and international… read more »

Anne-Marie Chidzero is CIO of FSD Africa Investments, the development capital investment arm of FSD Africa. A Zimbabwean, she is the former CEO of Financial Sector Deepening Mozambique, and Co-founder of a private equity fund manager, Alitheia IDF Managers, investing in women-led businesses. She also took over and led the exists of Pan African microfinance… read more »

Olivier Granet is the former CEO of AccorHotels Middle East and Africa, where he was responsible for a portfolio of over 200 hotels consisting of 50,000 rooms across over 30 countries. He joined the Middle East team in 2011 at a time when the Group had 40 hotels in the region. With almost 20 years… read more »

Geoffrey White, CEO of Agility Africa, is an expert on infrastructure development, retail supply chains, agri-business, and investment for African markets. Agility, a leading global provider of logistics and related infrastructure solutions for the oil and gas and FMCG markets, has over $5 billion in revenue, 24,000 employees, and offices in more than 100 countries…. read more »

Seanice Lojede has a degree in Mass Communications and Digital Marketing as well as in Business finance, she started her career in Media as a TV and Radio presenter and after studying digital marketing went on to co-found and build a Pan African Digital Agency servicing among other Airtel Uganda Kenya and Rwanda, Diageo, Social… read more »

Danette Breitenbach, Before her editorship, she was deputy-editor as well as freelancing for over a year on the publication before that. She has worked extensively in print media, mainly b2b, in the fields of marketing, mining, disability marketing, advertising and media. Stayed in South Africa.

Mongezi Mtati began experimenting with blogging and social media in 2007 when he took on entrepreneurship and content creation. Mongezi Mtati founded his company, wordstart, to help companies generate buzz about their products and services among south african influencers through robust digital strategy.

Dali Tembo, Having completed his undergrad in Organisational psychology, business management and public management, Dali went on to study a post-grad honours in marketing and an MBA specialising in emerging markets from the university of Liverpool.Dali Tembo has delivered strategic guidance to numerous multi-national corporations across africa and mea, run his own youth trends columns,… read more »

Kirigo kamore has experience in the fashion industry and in non-profit, where she worked as a copywriter and online editor. As of 2018, she decided to make a career transition into advertising, at mccann1886 (formerly McCann Johannesburg), where she currently works as a junior digital strategist and is one of 40 diversity champions within the… read more »

Kalliebree Keynerd leads a team of social media managers working on a range of brands, including chicken licken, anglo american, ab inbev, nestle, revlon and jet. Whilst working as head of digital at meropa pr & communications, kalliebree developed the award-winning social campaign and platform #ratherbeinmauritius for mauritius tourism sa. In 10 years of digital… read more »

As Founder and CEO of 10XBeta, product development and engineering firm working in consumer and enterprise electronics, medical devices, and specialized robotics, Marcel Botha works to build expert multidisciplinary teams to solve unique, complex problems by leveraging a global network of manufacturing partners and has developed hundreds of products. In 2010, Marcel co-founded Patients Pending… read more »