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The tech enthusiast has acquired several years of professional software development experience working for African and British firms. With his startup Deimos, he helps companies migrate their data to the cloud.
Andrew Mori (photo) is a South African tech entrepreneur. In 2018, he co-founded Deimos, a Cape Town-based cloud-native security development and operations startup that he heads as the CEO.
Deimos was launched to help companies improve the services they offer. With its software engineering, cloud security, and platform modernization services among others, it helps avoid costly decision errors by giving them access to scalable, high-performing, and reliable systems.
“Our company is focused on helping businesses make smart decisions, particularly from the cloud perspective. It’s imperative to note that migrating to the cloud, if done incorrectly, can be a very costly, difficult, and demoralizing experience. So having vast experience before starting Deimos, I can help companies mitigate risks. Deimos is assisting companies looking to modernize their software systems,” its CEO told TechCabal in November 2022, during an episode of the My Life in Tech podcast. The startup, which currently operates in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya, is Google Cloud’s largest partner in Africa. It is also a certified and experienced Amazon Web Services and Azure solutions architect.
Its CEO entered the professional world in 2007, working as a junior researcher at South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). In 2010, he spent seven months as a lecturer at Blake Hall College in the UK. He was later hired as a software engineer by Radical Company (from 2010 to 2011).
In 2012, he joined InventCommerce where he was successively lead Software Engineer and Technical Assurance Manager. In 2014, Konga Online Shopping appointed him as software engineering manager. In 2015, he became the associate director of engineering for the e-commerce firm before being promoted to the position of director of technology in 2016.
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After her engineering studies, she worked in the media industry in the MENA region before venturing into the food industry. Her foodtech startup now has the confidence of several investors.
Egyptian-born Dalia Abou Omar (photo) is the CEO and co-founder of Brotinni, Egypt's first food technology, and butchery solutions company.
Through her startup, founded in 2020, she launched a platform that enables users to order fresh, hand-cut, and ready-to-cook meat and poultry products that can be delivered by its drivers. The startup recently opened its first warehouse to better serve its clients in Cairo. It is also working on the production of sealed bags to extend its fresh meats’ shelf life to 45 days.
In early November 2022, it raised US$600,000 during a funding round led by Innlife. “We are thrilled to receive our very first round of funding, which will enable us to scale our operations, invest heavily in marketing to increase awareness as well as expand the size of our fleet to keep up with customer expectations around speed and accuracy,” Ms. Dalia commented.
The entrepreneur graduated from the Misr University for Science and Technology, in 2000, with a bachelor's degree in engineering.
A well-known radio and TV presenter, she entered the professional world, in 2004, working as a TV Presenter for Dubai TV. Between 2008 and 2014, she was also a radio presenter for the Egyptian radio station Nugoom FM. Concurrently (between 2009 and 2013), she was also a TV presenter for Al Hayat TV Network. She held the same position for On TV between 2014 and 2015. In 2012, She joined Filmhouse media as general manager before being appointed as director of production and marketing by Dubai-based Tanweer Group, in 2016. In 2019, the smart ad network Adzily hired her as director of marketing and public relations.
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She is a business analyst, consultant, and project management expert with over ten years of experience working with startups in Nigeria, and Africa in general.
Nigerian-born Damilola Teidi-Ayoola (photo) is, since September 2022, Ventures Platform’s head of platform and networks. In that position, she leads a team focused on providing post-investment support.
When she was appointed to that position, she declared she was “excited to join the team and build out different elements of the platform and networks practice.”
“The goal is to build scalable support initiatives and harness the value of our collective networks to provide catalytic value to our founders,” she added.
Ventures Platform is one of Africa's leading seed funders, investing from pre-seed to Series A rounds. It has already invested in more than 60 companies in the healthcare, financial services, insurance, agriculture, education, big data, and internet infrastructure industries. It also invests in talented accelerators and digital infrastructures.
Ms. Damilola worked at Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) as an Incubation Manager from 2018 to 2019 and as Director of Startup Coaching from 2019 to 2022.
With a Bsc in Information Technology from the Eastern Mediterranean University, she started her professional career, in 2011, working as a software developer for application service provider Socketworks. In 2013, she joined the tech company Kinetik Solutions Ltd as a market analyst.
After a three-month internship at the University of Southampton's Program Management Office (iSolutions) in 2014, she joined the CcHub team for the first time where she was a business analyst for pre-incubation companies. From 2015 to 2017, she was the CEO of the Nigerian online ride-sharing platform GoMyWay Africa.
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He is a tech enthusiast and life& business strategist. He has developed digital solutions in almost every sector (education, agriculture, communication, etc) to positively impact his continent and the world at large.
Geophrey Tenganamba (photo) is a Tanzanian entrepreneur. He is also one of the co-founders and global managing director of UjuziNet Africa, a software editor.
The software editor, established in 2020, has published several solutions in a wide range of sectors. The solutions include AdBox, a digital marketing and customer relationship management platform. This platform, founded in 2021, enables SMBs, entrepreneurs, ad agencies, and influencers to communicate, market, sell and support their online audiences. It allows users to schedule posts across social networks and automate responses to comments left by customers.
UjuziNet Africa also published Mazao Hub, an agricultural platform designed to manage farmers, and agricultural activities and control complex agricultural operations. Its digital products also include UjuZinet e-learning – which provides access to quality education online and offline- and EMA ERP, a smart business platform that simplifies and automates business processes. All of the solutions it developed boast users in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
“Our focus is Africa, and we all know that Africa is filled with SMEs. SMEs in Africa and beyond are the fastest-growing segments in the cloud-based ERP platform space. They are all looking for solutions which are affordable, customizable, flexible, easy to use, that have close support and fit their business environment,” Geophrey Tenganamba explains.
Concurrently with his mission as the global managing director of UjuziNet Africa, the latter is, since 2019, the director of operations of the software development company AkiliCodes Africa Limited. In 2016, he founded Fursa 101 Africa, a commodity, trading, and logistics platform built for farmers.
The same year, he co-founded Global Corporate Performance Limited, a business consulting and branding firm. He is also the founder of several firms including Perfect Path Innovators (2011), The African Comfort Tours (2012), and Treasure House Real Estate (2013).
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He is an investment advisor with over 20 years of experience. As one of the initiators and organizers of a prestigious African fintech-focused summit, he has received several awards celebrating his impactful contributions.
Zekarias Amsalu (photo) is an Ethiopian investor, ACCA Chartered Accountant, and an active figure in the African fintech sector. He is also one of the co-founders and co-organizers of the Africa Fintech Summit, “a vibrant community of fintech entrepreneurs, investors, regulators, and everyone in between working together to solve the largest financial issues.”
The summit, launched in 2018, is held twice a year (once in Washington, D.C., and once in a selected African country).
“The Africa Fintech Summit is an event that gathers leaders, investors, regulators, think tanks, business leaders, banks, government agencies, and other architects of the ecosystem to foster collaboration, raise capital, and explore strategies to expand the reach of financial service delivery in Africa. Each April, one AFTS is held on the sidelines of the World Bank's Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C., while another is held in a selected African country,” Zekarias told Digital Africa, in April 2022, while explaining the concept.
The co-founder is also the founder and CEO of IBEX Frontier LLC, an investment consultancy firm focused on emerging markets and preferably in Ethiopia. He was also an investor for the 2019 Cohort of the NextGen Africa program. A few years earlier, in 2002, he founded Future Proof Accountancy, an accountancy firm providing its services to Ethiopian businesses and entrepreneurs.
The experienced investor kickstarted his professional career in 1997 when he joined the Addis-Ababa-based Dashen Bank S.C as the head office accountant. In 1998, he was hired by Shell as Treasurer and East Africa Hub Credit Manager. From 2003 to 2006, he was the financial accountant of Prudential Financial, in London, UK. He then worked for Westminster Electrical as a financial manager between 2006 and 2017. At the same time, Zekarias Amsalu was a management accountant for Godrej Consumer Products Ltd from 2007 to 2008. From 2016 to 2017, he also worked for Asoko Insight where he was the Operations Manager in Ethiopia.
Currently, he is the advisory board member of the VC firm Afrinet Capital. His impactful contributions have earned him several awards. In 2018, he was named one of the top 100 Most Influential Persons of African Descent (MIPAD) Under 40 in the Business/Entrepreneurship category. Forbes also showcased him as an investment connector and, he also won the Outstanding Trade Avocate Award at the Africa Trade and Investment Summit.
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After his finance courses, he worked for investment companies in France and Africa. He later chose to dynamise the African education sector with an edtech that has already earned investors’ confidence.
Hamza Faiz (photo) is a Moroccan finance expert and entrepreneur. In 2020, he co-founded Smartprof, a marketplace whose mission is to find the right tutor for every student.
The startup based in Casablanca, Morocco, connects school-aged students with qualified teachers for individual or group tutoring. It aims to become the leading one-stop tutoring platform in North and West Africa, which represent a multi-billion-dollar market when combined.
"We launched Smartprof after noticing that the private educational system was failing in Morocco. We were convinced that every student needs some kind of private assistance to overcome the challenges faced in schools. The private tutoring market is very fragmented; finding a tutor is a nightmare. Additionally, there’s no visibility on pricing, so there was a real need for a tech product that creates a great tutoring experience," Hamza Faiz explained in September 2022.
Earlier in November 2022, his startup had raised pre-seed funding of US$110,000 from Plug and Play, UM6P Ventures, and several angel investors. The funds were provided to help Smartprof expand further in Morocco and West Africa and hire additional developers to improve the quality of the platform.
In July 2022, the startup had already raised US$50,000 for its participation in the third cohort of the Mohamed VI Polytechnic University's Startgate and the Plug and Play Morocco startup competition. Hamza Faiz, the co-founder, and CEO who made it possible is a Sciences Po graduate. He is also a graduate of the University of Warwick, UK.
In 2012, he was an engineering assistant at Georgetown University’s ISIS Center. The following year, he spent two months working as the director’s assistant at the Moroccan National Human Development Initiative. From 2013 to 2014, he was the Manager, market searcher, and strategic adviser of Cœur de Couleur, a defunct wholesaler of hygienic and decorative items. After a summer internship at Casablanca Stock Exchange, he was hired by Canal + as a financial controller in 2015.
The following year, he joined Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking for an internship as a Mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets analyst. In 2017, he also interned as an investment associate at AFIG FUNDS in Dakar. Then, in 2018, he joined BNP Paribas as an M&A analyst before being hired by food delivery company Deliveroo as an operations strategy associate in May 2019. In October 2019, the food delivery company appointed him core performance manager, a position he held until October 2021.
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The entrepreneur has over 10 years of professional experience in the African supply chain industry. Through his haulage company, Haul27, he wants to address the supply and demand imbalance in the current logistics ecosystem.
Sehinde Afolayan (photo) is a Nigerian entrepreneur committed to improving the African logistics sector. He is the co-founder and CEO of Haul247, a technology platform that aims to bridge the growing gap in access to trucks and warehouses in Africa.
Through Haul247 -founded in 2020, he connects businesses to transportation and warehousing services. The tech platform manages companies’ end-to-end logistics to help them reduce costs and save time. It aims to be the go-to support for businesses in Africa.
"Most companies cannot accurately predict and forecast since different vendors handle transportation and warehousing needs. This makes it hard for them to control, distribute and plan their logistics requirements effectively. […]In response to this, Haul247 was birthed to be the “Airbnb” for trucks and warehouses in Africa,” Sehinde Afolayan explained in September 2022.
According to Nigerian media, “Haul247’s value proposition is simple- a unique platform offering opportunities for clients to transport and store their goods in one logistics ecosystem.” The platform has already integrated fourteen fast-moving consumer goods companies and moved more than 31,530,900 shipments. It has more than 151,000 square feet of warehouse space available in multiple locations.
Thanks to Haul247, Sehinde Afolayan became one of the beneficiaries of the Google Black Founders Fund 2022. The entrepreneur founded his first firm in 2007. Called Afolayan Farms, the firm specialized in the production of day-old chicks, catfish, and table eggs and later extended its services to commercial hatchery and processing.
In 2009, its founder joined Davton8020 Consulting Company as a business development executive. From 2012 to 2020, he officiated as the managing partner of B2B commodities trading company Astem International Company Ltd. Concurrently, in 2015, he pursued an MBA Summer internship as a product manager at Airtel Nigeria.
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The trained accountant chose to venture into the agritech sector by developing an e-commerce platform that sells fresh fruits and vegetables. The venture has already earned him local and international recognition.
Elia Timotheo (photo) is a Certified Professional Accountant who graduated from the Tanzanian National Board of Accountants and Auditors (NBAA) in 2018. He is also the founder and CEO of East Africa (EA) Fruits Co. a food distribution company that aims mission to improve the lives of tens of thousands of Tanzanian farmers and small businesses.
EA Fruits, which was launched in 2013, wants to reduce post-harvest losses by collecting, processing, storing -thanks to cold chain technologies when needed- and distributing agricultural products. On its online platform, the company markets all types of food, from cereals to fresh fruits and vegetables...
“Roughly half of what farmers produce never reaches the market, and this loss is spread out across the farm-to-market value chain. First, farmers may lack the knowledge and training to properly care for their farms, produce and harvests, resulting in 20 to 25 percent of losses. Second, farmers sell produce to brokers who use inappropriate vehicles to transport perishable produce, leading to another 10 percent of losses. Lastly, in the market, it’s very difficult to sell all the produce in one day or even two, yet there are no storage facilities for a truckload of produce that just spent days travelling hundreds of miles in inadequate conditions. All this results in severe losses for farmers who fail to reap the fruits of their hard work,” Elias said in 2020 while explaining the rationale behind the creation of EA Fruits.
“To change this, East Africa Fruits establishes a relationship with smallholder farmers and provides training, food processing, storage and market access using cold-storage transportation. This process extends the shelf-life of produce and reduces post-harvest losses,” he added.
Since 2008, the trained accountant is a member of the advisory board of Changbay Sonic Hotels in Tanzania. In 2013, he co-founded the processing and distribution company AMEJ Investment Limited. Three years earlier, he had co-founded 7 Stars Computers Limited, an “affordable” computer marketing firm when he “realized that computers and laptops had vital importance to college students and they would not afford to buy by then.”
The serial entrepreneur kicked off his professional career, in 2010, by joining the foreign exchange bureau Kibo Palace Group as an exchange manager, sales assistant, and customer relations officier. In December 2011, he worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security, and Cooperatives as a field representative. Some 12 months later, he joined the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs as a junior accountant.
Thanks to EA Fruits, he has received several awards and recognitions, including the African Entrepreneurship and the SEED Africa Awards in 2015. This year he was also one of the 50 finalists of Africa’s Business Heroes.
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The serial entrepreneur has already helped create five startups in Africa. His latest venture embodies his desire to build a new credit and trade infrastructure in Africa and emerging markets.
Kageni Wilson (photo) is a Kenyan entrepreneur and the co-founder/CEO of fintech startup Finplus Group. With the latter, he aims to help close the “massive $5-trillion credit deficit faced by SMEs in developing countries each year."
To achieve its goal, the startup developed Finplus, a digital finance and e-commerce software that provides three main services. First, it enables banks and micro-lenders to lend on a large scale. It also helps consumer goods companies digitize end-to-end sales by effectively transforming their supply chain into a demand chain. Finally, it unlocks access to an instant credit line for tens of millions of SMEs and individuals in emerging markets. It has already processed more than US$1 billion in transaction value in the Kenyan, Ugandan, Tanzanian, eSwatini, and South African markets. It has also enabled access to credit for more than 3 million SMEs and individuals.
"Today, our software helps an individual or small business access credit or transact with financial institutions and suppliers every 10 seconds. We have come a long way since processing our first transaction in April 2017 and it’s all thanks to our customers trusting us to manage their relationship with millions of end customers and over a billion dollars of value. It’s an enormous responsibility and one that gives us pride as an African company building in Africa for Africans," Wilson said in November 2022.
Since 2016, the latter is a mentor in KCB Bank Group's KCB 2jiajiri program. He is also an iHub Nairobi Outreach Ambassador and a member of the non-profit crowdfunding platform 1%Club’s team.
The serial entrepreneur also co-founded the education platform Usomi, in 2012. About one year earlier, he had co-founded cloud computing service Ionacloud after co-creating digital media production company Planetary Pictures in 2011.
From 2014 to 2017, he was the founding partner of AllenHark Group, "a collective of financial technology companies building plug and play software solutions for Financial Services delivery in East Africa."
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The real estate and construction expert has founded two companies, in Nigeria, to contribute to the development of the local construction sector. His ventures have earned him the trust of several investors.
John Oamen (photo) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and project manager. He is one of the co-founders and CEO of CutStruct Technology Ltd, a proptech startup that wants to unlock the “next one million homes in Africa by improving the construction business environment.”
His proptech startup uses technology to change “how stakeholders buy, hire for, and manage their projects.” It developed LiveVend, a construction procurement platform that allows buyers, real estate developers, and contractors, to hire qualified suppliers. LiveVend also offers other much-needed services such as transportation, in-transit cargo insurance, and trade credit.
"We connect construction vendors to buyers. All the complex work takes place in the background. The vendor vetting, sorting out the appropriate logistics, ensuring the goods are insured, guaranteeing fulfillment and securing financing – these are the complex things we do in the background, while our users engage with a simple platform," Oamen explained in November 2022, while presenting LiveVend after a US$600,000 pre-seed round.
In 2010, John Oamen, an embodiment of the phrase "serial entrepreneur", founded Faultless Finish, a finishing, remodeling, and interior designing company. Since 2021, he is the executive director of PropTech Nigeria, a community of Proptech enthusiasts.
The real estate and construction expert entered the professional world, in 2005, as a sales executive for Auto Merchants, a construction materials dealer. In 2007, he joined the African infrastructure development company Greenfield Assets Ltd. as Chief Real Estate Broker. He worked there until the creation of Faultless Finish.
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Over the past three years, she has provided quality fintech, edtech, and enterprise solutions in the Cameroonian market. Her startup has developed a payment solution that has become a reference means for tuition payment in secondary schools in Cameroon.
Ako Joelle (photo) is a Cameroonian computer scientist and entrepreneur. In 2018, the same year she graduated from the University of Buea with a Bachelor of Computer Engineering, she co-founded Innovative Clan (I-Clan), a Douala-based startup.
The startup, whose co-founders are all computer science graduates, commits to developing software that solves major social issues. With her team, Joelle -who heads I-Clan as the CEO- developed a payment platform that allows schools to collect tuition via local mobile payment methods while ensuring financial transparency and also tracking the funds collected. The solution can be used by parents with or without an internet connection, thanks to the USSD technology. Currently, it is the major platform used by most Cameroonian secondary schools to collect their tuition fees. The country’s examination boards also adopted it as the official means for exam fee payment.
Before embarking on the I-Clan adventure, Ako Joelle worked, as a front-end developer, for the job search engine Njorku Ltd. This year, she was selected among the female founders that will take part in the VC4A Venture Showcase 2022. In 2021, on behalf of I-Clan, she won the Hackathon PAK 2021 organized by the Port Authority of Kribi, Cameroon. Two years earlier, in Kenya, she was one of the finalists of the Daikin - Samurai Incubate Ideathon Airtech Bootcamp Africa. She was selected for the launch of the Youth Conneckt Africa initiative in Rwanda and invited to take part in the Google Sub-Saharan Africa Community Summit in Accra, Ghana.
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The entrepreneur, with over 10 years of experience in the financial service sector, aspires to make a greater impact in her country and Africa. As part of this ambition, Chilufya Mutale (pictured) has co-created a startup and has received multiple awards within and beyond borders.
PremierCredit was launched in 2019. It offers an online microcredit and investment platform, operating in Zambia and Zimbabwe, that allows businesses and individuals to manage their finances more effectively by helping them save, borrow and invest easily to achieve their financial goals. The startup provides affordable credit to borrowers with flexible terms that contribute to financial inclusion and passive income for investors.
“We are building a Challenger bank for Africa that provides embedded finance that is inclusive and introduces previously disadvantaged income groups into formal financial services, thereby contributing positively to financial inclusion. PremierCredit contributes to economic growth through supporting SMEs, which form the backbone of economies in emerging markets, with capacity building through financial literacy as well as providing working capital solutions and investment services,” the co-founder and CEO said.
The certified expert in SME finance and risk management from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management also holds a post-graduate degree in Project Management from Cavendish University in Zambia (2011). She also graduated from the University of Zambia with a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Management. The idea of founding PremierCredit was born out of her desire to better serve her clients by providing solutions that better meet their needs while she was still the CEO of ExpressCredit Zambia, a registered and licensed microfinance institution.
The professional life of Chilufya Mutale started in 2012 at FINCA, where she was the head of the local branch. She then went to ExpressCredit, and later became the Director and Consultant for Financial Services at BlueOrange in South Africa. She was one of 14 entrepreneurs selected in September for the VC4A Venture Showcase Africa 2022. She was connected with top venture capitalists as mentors and presented a pitch for her startup at the 9th Africa Early Stage Investor Summit held November 2-4. She is also one of the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women 2022.
Chilufya Mutale is among the top 100 Zambian women who are taking the lead and inspiring transformation in 2022. She has been shortlisted for the Woman Innovator of the Year award at the Africa Tech Festival Awards 2022.
The tech entrepreneur heads several startups in Kenya. His ambition is to help households fend for themselves.
Sam Wanjohi (photo) is a Kenyan entrepreneur and founder of fintech startup Popote Payments Ltd. In 2013, he launched -through Popote Payments- Popote Pay, an expense management solution designed for African businesses. The solution allows businesses to easily pay for everything including supplies, salaries, utilities, and taxes. It also enables team collaboration in the payment workflow.
“Popote Pay allows businesses to link, and enables the payout of multiple bank accounts or mobile money wallets. Completed transactions are stored alongside their notes, attachments, authorization history, and accounting general ledger, meaning the accounting part is also done. At the click of a button, records can be retrieved for use in preparing management or audited accounts. The entire process is seamless,” Sam Wanjohi explained in 2021.
Popote Pay is the result of personal experience. Indeed, in 2012, Sam presented his concierge platform, Dash2do, at the Phocuswright Travel Innovation Summit. Thanks to the concierge platform, he was the third winner of the challenge and had to scale the solution in the U.S. This was a major headache as he still had to oversee his businesses in Kenya. So, he developed Popote Pay to be able to run his Kenyan operations remotely.
In 2007, the serial entrepreneur founded Foresights Interiors, a home furniture manufacturer. Five years later, he founded Foresight Ventures, a firm that develops tech solutions to solve day-to-day problems and invests in other innovative startups.
He is also the non-executive chairman of Foresight Housing Group, formed in 2018 with the acquisition of Foresight Interior and Economic Housing Group (established in 1972).
He entered the professional world, in 2002, working as a civil engineer for the British multinational professional services firm Arup. In 2005, he entered the real estate investment sector, kicking off his entrepreneurial career.
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The physician has nearly 20 years of clinical experience in HIV/TB and 10 years of experience in the healthtech segment. The healthtech startup he founded provides effective and much-needed digital health solutions to “support self-care and provide access to services.”
Musaed Abrahams is a South African health professional and the founder/CEO of Aviro Health, a healthtech startup founded to improve access to quality healthcare in Africa.
“My goal is to create healthcare impact through technology by focusing on empathy, great design, and data,” his Linkedin profile reads.
His healthtech startup offers tech solutions that automate workflows, therefore allowing healthcare professionals to focus on important tasks. It also improves access to health information and provides digital consulting services. Currently, it claims more than 50,000 patients helped in South Africa and Kenya.
The startup developed Aviro Pocket Clinic to allow healthcare providers to easily and quickly perform digital HIV, tuberculosis, and diabetes checks. It also allows individuals to privatively perform those checks and access specialists and services for support when needed.
Its CEO holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) obtained at the University of Cape Town in 2001. In 2010, he got an HIV management diploma from the Health Professions Council of South Africa. He also took part in the Harvard Business School’s Healthcare management program.
His professional career began in 2005 as a senior physician at the ARV Clinic in South Africa. He joined Médecin Sans Frontière (MSF) in 2008 as the HIV training coordinator in South Africa. Then, from 2013 to 2015, he worked as the organization's digital content producer and editor, contributing to the creation of the eighth edition of the MSF HIV/TB guide.
Currently, he is the deputy president of MSF's Southern Africa board. Between 2016 and 2017, he was a senior business development consultant for the health technology company Praekelt.org.
Let’s note that his startup, Aviro Health, was among the top 45 of the most innovative startups at the AfricaTech Awards 2022. It is also a beneficiary of the pan-African innovation program Investing in Innovation.
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