Cobus van der Merwe is a former army man who has managed to carve out an impressive second career in defence technology. He’s an experienced negotiation team leader in both partnership establishment and contract closure in land warfare and avia

Ladders and Trampolines With Musa Kalenga

Apr 6th, 2017 54m 28s

Back in 2012, Musa Kalenga was voted as one of the Top 200 Young South Africans by the Mail & Guardian, and for good reason. Musa is a talented digital specialist, marketing maven, author, former Group Head of Digital Marketing at Nedbank, form

Digital Transformation With Simon Carpenter

Jan 9th, 2017 1h 2m

Simon Carpenter is Chief Technology Officer at SAP Africa. In his rather long and varied career at SAP he has been a massive proponent of Digital Transformation and its role in enabling self-sufficiency, inclusiveness and sustainable economic g

Turning The Lights On With Chad Larson

Dec 30th, 2016 1h 7m

Chad Larson is one of the three founders of the Kenyan solar power start-up M-KOPA Solar. He serves as the company’s Finance Director and Chief Credit Officer and has lived in Nairobi with his wife and three boys since the company launched in 2

Calculated VC Plays With Eline Blaauboer

Dec 23rd, 2016 1h 11m

Eline Blaauboer is Managing Partner at both TBL Mirror Fund and Safaricom Spark Venture Fund. She’s worked in the venture capital and private equity sector in both Europe and Africa for last 14 years— gaining loads of experience with new invest

Addressing Grand Challenges With Solomon Assefa

Dec 16th, 2016 59m 58s

Ethiopian-born, Solomon Assefa is the Director of IBM Research in Africa. He is responsible for IBM’s research labs in Kenya and South Africa, and oversees the development of technologies that aim to transform key industries and address the con

Poetic Investments With Tomi Davies

Sep 5th, 2016 57m 38s

Tomi Davies is a Nigerian investor, author and tech evangelist who is widely considered the God-father of Africa’s angel investment scene. He is also the founder of the Lagos Angel Network (LAN), as well as the founding President of the Africa

Safeguarding Digital Assets With Riaan Badenhorst

Aug 22nd, 2016 52m 56s

Riaan Badenhorst’s worst disappointment as a young man has led to a fairly successful career in IT security. There’s no doubt that the folks at Kaspersky Lab— currently the world’s fourth largest antivirus vendor, are rather pleased that Riaan’

Staying Secure With Brendan Horan

Aug 7th, 2016 57m 52s

Brendan Horan is a chartered accountant who has served as Managing Director of Mix Telematics Africa since June 2014 when the firm’s fleet and consumer businesses on the continent were merged into one business. Founded in 1996, Mix Telematic

Insurance Goes Mobile With Frank Schutte

Jul 24th, 2016 45m 4s

Frank Schutte, is formerly the Managing Director for Retail Product & Marketing for South Africa’s largest life insurer— Liberty.In a gutsy move, he left his cushy gig there to found a startup called MobiLife, which is "Africa’s first 100% mo

UnRadio With Gareth Cliff

Jul 11th, 2016 1h 6m

Gareth Cliff is not only a controversial South African Radio DJ and a judge on DSTV’s hugely popular Idols South Africa, but also the Co-founder & President of Africa’s largest podcast producer, CliffCentral.com.His colourful journey within b

Investor Whispering With Maya Horgan Famodu

Jul 4th, 2016 1h 14m

Maya Horgan Famodu is a consummate eclectic who wears the beautiful complexity of her Nigerian-Swedish-American heritage with pride.Maya is the Founder and Managing Director of Ingressive, a firm dedicated to guiding global capital to African

Being Delusional With Toro Orero

Jul 4th, 2016 1h 18m

It’s fair to say that the Nigerian-born Toro Orero is a live wire that’s all the way lit. He serves as Managing Partner at DraperDarkFlow— a Silicon Valley VC Fund backed by the illustrious Tim Draper, who’s investment portfolio at DFJ features

Maintaining Legacies With Oliver Fortuin

Jun 27th, 2016 59m 30s

Oliver Fortuin heads up BT’s (formerly British Telecoms) operations in Sub-Saharan Africa, where he is tasked with leading the charge for a legacy ICT institution (that is nearly two centuries old) in some of the world’s most promising developi

Wooing Venture Capital With Ben White

Jun 20th, 2016 1h 15m

Ben White is exceedingly well-travelled, and his love for building new businesses has taken him all around the world and seen him collaborate with like-minded individuals pretty much anywhere he spends three hours or more.As the founder of wh

Open Source Plumbing With Matthew Lee

Jun 14th, 2016 32m 55s

By his own admission, Matthew Lee would not have been voted most likely to become an executive at a leading software multi-national by his classmates at the trade school where he trained to be a plumber. Years after he first left plumbing to

Banking Africa With Stephen van Coller

May 29th, 2016 51m 16s

Stephen van Coller is the Chief Executive for Corporate and Investment Banking at Barclays Africa He is a Chartered Accountant who worked for Ernst & Young in South Africa and the UK for many years, before leaving the professional accounting in

Being Unemployable With Alan Knott-Craig Jr

Dec 9th, 2015 50m 32s

Our final guest on Season Two of African Tech Conversations is the “unemployable”, disruptive force that is Alan Knott-Craig Jr.It’s natural to assume that Alan Knott-Craig Sr paved the way for his son and namesake, Alan Jr to become one of t

Going Wireless With Michael Fletcher

Dec 2nd, 2015 52m 23s

There’s no doubt about it. WiFi is the new black.California-based, NYSE-listed wireless systems company Ruckus Wireless is betting that the rate of WiFi infrastructure development Africa will continue to rise. And you can be sure that they’re

Walking The Talk With Rebecca Enonchong

Nov 25th, 2015 1h 15m

There are many who aspire to the title of “activist”, but few walk the tweet. But Cameroonian-born Rebecca Enonchong is the real deal. Rebecca’s technical and leadership track record at the highest level has led to her being widely considered o

Doing Social Business With Gys Kappers

Nov 18th, 2015 1h

Anyone who's ever heard Gys Kappers speak will know how passionately he advocates for organisations to be super-intentional about systematically tapping every single employee— from the top to the very bottom of their structures, for game-changi

Living Life Like It's Global With Ashley Veasey

Nov 11th, 2015 56m 12s

This week’s chat on African Tech Conversations is with a globe-trotting Brit who has spent the last 20 years working in retail, investment and corporate banking in no less than four continents.Before Ashley Veasey’s current gig as Chief Infor

Making The First Team With Brandon Bekker

Nov 4th, 2015 45m 37s

Brandon Bekker is Managing Director for Africa and the Middle East at email security firm, Mimecast. This former pro rugby player and lawyer-turned-tech salesman has come a long way from his humble entry level position at Internet Solutions.

From Punk Rocker To Tech VC With Brandon Doyle

Aug 5th, 2015 54m 40s

After being at the helm of Africa’s largest Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector focused fund manager for nearly a decade, Brandon Doyle seems to have thoroughly shed any visible traces of his punk rock past.Since co-foundin

Pursuing Excellence With Dominique Collett

Jul 29th, 2015 43m 3s

Many of us can relate to being let down, or at least disillusioned with our careers when we were in our early twenties. In the latest instalment of African Tech Conversations, Dominique Collett-Antolik chats to Andile Masuku about experiencing