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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
If you ask people who the decision-makers are in their organisation, it’s likely that they’ll point towards the CEO and other senior executive directors. The truth is, however, that each person in the organisation takes decisions that have the potential to affect not only themselves but the entire company. Every person is a decision-maker. Realising…
How to find the right firm for a Chartered Accountant training programme Landing an opportunity to do your training as a chartered accountant (CA) at a large auditing firm used to be the dream for new graduates. But the job market has changed in the last decade and the top jobs of the future look…
Chris Hefer is an avid sports fan, but he never imagined that his career as a CA(SA) would launch him into the exciting world of the sports industry. Being part of the professional sports franchise Vodacom Bulls and being exposed to the ‘behind the scenes’ action daily allow him to enjoy experiences most people would…
Possibly one of the hardest soft skills to develop, emotional intelligence (EQ) is not only a game changer in the smart leader’s toolkit but an essential skill that when developed is worthy of superpower status. Read Usha Maharaj’s full article here.
From its inception, 2 000 years ago to the medieval period, the world wars through to the financial crisis in 2008 and the vote to the leave the European Union in 2016, London has been at the centre of the world for over two millennia. It is a city where ancient and modern intermingle to…