Companies need to focus more on addressing gender pay inequalities Globally, there is renewed focus on the pay disparities between men and women. In many countries, organisations are required to report on the gender pay gap. Although this is not yet the case in South Africa, numerous organisations have taken steps to identify pay disparities…
DetailsA 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…
DetailsMs. 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…
DetailsLorien 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…
DetailsWillem 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…
DetailsAnnabel 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…
DetailsSteven 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.…
DetailsThere’s a popular notion that men and women are fundamentally different in important (nonbiological) ways − and those differences are cited to explain women’s lag in achievement. But according to numerous meta-analyses of published research, men and women are actually very similar with respect to key attributes such as confidence, appetite for risk and negotiating…
DetailsWe take inspiration from those women, girls and − yes − men, who are speaking out against outdated views of women that, in different ways, hold all of us back. Read more
DetailsThe lack of female representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and especially in leadership positions is a crucial barrier to gender equality. Read more
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