Cobus van der Merwe is a former army man who has managed to carve out an impressive second career in... more

Back in 2012, Musa Kalenga was voted as one of the Top 200 Young South Africans by the Mail &... more

Simon Carpenter is Chief Technology Officer at SAP Africa. In his rather long and varied career at SAP he has... more

Chad Larson is one of the three founders of the Kenyan solar power start-up M-KOPA Solar. He serves as the... more

Eline Blaauboer is Managing Partner at both TBL Mirror Fund and Safaricom Spark Venture Fund. She’s worked in the venture... more

Ethiopian-born, Solomon Assefa is the Director of IBM Research in Africa. He is responsible for IBM’s research labs in Kenya... more

Tomi Davies is a Nigerian investor, author and tech evangelist who is widely considered the God-father of Africa’s angel... more

Riaan Badenhorst’s worst disappointment as a young man has led to a fairly successful career in IT security. There’s no... more

Brendan Horan is a chartered accountant who has served as Managing Director of Mix Telematics Africa since June 2014 when... more

Frank Schutte, is formerly the Managing Director for Retail Product & Marketing for South Africa’s largest life insurer— Liberty. In a... more

Gareth Cliff is not only a controversial South African Radio DJ and a judge on DSTV’s hugely popular Idols South... more

Maya Horgan Famodu is a consummate eclectic who wears the beautiful complexity of her Nigerian-Swedish-American heritage with pride. Maya is the... more

It’s fair to say that the Nigerian-born Toro Orero is a live wire that’s all the way lit. He serves... more

Oliver Fortuin heads up BT’s (formerly British Telecoms) operations in Sub-Saharan Africa, where he is tasked with leading the charge... more

Ben White is exceedingly well-travelled, and his love for building new businesses has taken him all around the world and... more

By his own admission, Matthew Lee would not have been voted most likely to become an executive at a leading... more

Stephen van Coller is the Chief Executive for Corporate and Investment Banking at Barclays Africa He is a Chartered Accountant... more

Our final guest on Season Two of African Tech Conversations is the “unemployable”, disruptive force that is Alan Knott-Craig Jr. It’s... more

There’s no doubt about it. WiFi is the new black. California-based, NYSE-listed wireless systems company Ruckus Wireless is betting that the... more

There are many who aspire to the title of “activist”, but few walk the tweet. But Cameroonian-born Rebecca Enonchong is... more

Anyone who's ever heard Gys Kappers speak will know how passionately he advocates for organisations to be super-intentional about systematically... more

This week’s chat on African Tech Conversations is with a globe-trotting Brit who has spent the last 20 years working... more

Brandon Bekker is Managing Director for Africa and the Middle East at email security firm, Mimecast. This former pro rugby... more

After being at the helm of Africa’s largest Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector focused fund manager for nearly a... more

Many of us can relate to being let down, or at least disillusioned with our careers when we were in... more

By her own admission, Matsi Modise, does not look a day over 25. But you would do well not to... more

Oresti Patricios co-founded Ornico Group in 1984, aka the year I was born. While incredibly disruptive in its time, the... more

Mteto Nyati is no stranger to playing ball at the highest level in Africa’s corporate scene. His resume is pretty... more

What do you get when a Microsoft geek and an IBM nerd fall in love and make a baby? Justin... more

A short while ago, we sat Trevor Wolfe down for a quiet chat. Trevor is Managing Director of crowdsourcing company... more