Bio: Andile Khumalo

A Chartered Accountant by profession and a former investment banker with Investec Corporate Finance, Andile is a former member of the Takeover Regulations Panel, a previous director of South African Airways, the former President of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa (ABASA), and a former member of the FSB’s Directorate…

Bio: Matsi Modise

Ms. Matsi Modise is the MD of SiMODiSA, an industry association whose mission is to accelerate entrepreneurship by collaborating with policy makers to enhance the success rate of high impact, high growth entrepreneurs in South Africa. She is the founder and CEO of Furaha Afrika Holdings (Pty) Ltd, with subsidiaries including Furaha Solutions (a joint…

Bio: Lorien Gamaroff

Lorien s the founder/CEO of Bankymoon, a blockchain and cryptocurrency consultancy and co-founder/CEO of Centbee, a cryptocurrency payments and remittance company. As Africa’s foremost blockchain expert, he has addressed and advised the United Nations, IMF, World Bank, FBI and Commonwealth Secretariat, the South African Reserve Bank, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, TEDx and a host of…

Bio: Willem van der Post

Willem van der Post is the CEO and founder of xTech.Capital – an exponential technology investment and management firm. He is Chartered Accountant by training, and an alumnus of the University of Stellenbosch, University of South Africa, University of Cape Town business school and Singularity University in California. Before founding xTech.Capital, Willem was the managing…

Bio: Annabel Dallamore

Annabel is rated as one of the top females in technology in Africa, and is the xTech.Institute Dean of AI, Automation and algorithms. Annabel is the CEO and founder of Strider Technologies, a leading fintech, insurtech and edtech consultancy with its own product toolbox that financial institutions can white label for rapid innovation. Strider Technologies…

Bio: Steven Pinto

Steven Pinto is the Dean of Mixed, Virtual and Augmented Reality at xTech.Institute. He is the founder and CEO of New Reality – a cutting edge Mixed reality firm that builds enterprise solutions using this exponential technology – and a serial entrepreneur who has harnessed the power of various exponential technologies in building successful businesses.…