Professionally
I have close to twenty years' experience working with purpose-driven entrepreneurs and innovators across the African continent, helping them access capital, scale their ventures and create an impact on socio-economic and environmental issues. My work now sits on building a new capital structure for social and environmental ventures on the continent.
I co-founded Impact Amplifier in 2011, where I am a Partner. We find, accelerate and finance solutions to Africa's social and environmental challenges, and run the following funds and programmes: 1. Africa Online Safety Fund with Google.org 2. Nedbank ReNEW Programme 3. Africa Cleantech Impact Fund 4. SWITCH Finance Facility 5. South African Breweries Foundation (SABF) Social Innovation Fund Over the coming year, our team will be launching A South African Safety and Security Innovation Fund (Mzansi Shield Fund), an ESO (Enterprise Support Organisation) Debt Fund and a Public Spaces Revitalisation Fund (The Commons Fund). I am regulated under the FSCA through Impact Amplifier Fund Management (Pty) Ltd, and serve on the boards of two nonprofit foundations.
My work increasingly brings together purpose, impact investing, entrepreneurship acceleration and artificial intelligence. At Impact Amplifier, we are building an agentic approach to asset management, philanthropy and acceleration, with code and AI agents increasingly driving our investment and acceleration processes.
Self-awareness, human leadership, a focus on impact and support from AI agents are core to how I live and work towards Africa’s development.
I’m also sharing what I’m learning and implementing through speaking engagements, writing and teaching entrepreneurs how to apply this approach in their personal lives and organisations. My Basic (Level 1) Agentic Course is one expression of this work.
The awakening
In parallel, I embarked on a long personal development journey, and became deeply interested in the psychology of purpose and capital allocation in Africa.
Working with, and solving for, business and system level solutions to human suffering has been the long term theme of my work. By influencing capital allocation decisions for entrepreneurs across the African continent, which reduce suffering, increase prosperity and transform systems is the key driver of my work.
August 2026
Lecturing on social entrepreneurship and impact investing in Africa
International cohorts of universities come to Cape Town on immersion modules, and I lecture on: social entrepreneurship and impact investing in Africa, how to build entrepreneurial ecosystems, and on capital allocation strategies with regards to impact.
Hosted by the UCT Graduate School of Business, I generally lecture for these three cohorts three times per year.
Warwick Business School
Postgraduate and MSc Management cohorts on a Cape Town immersion built around innovation, sustainable finance and social entrepreneurship.
Zeppelin University
EMBA and MBA students in Cape Town on study tours and GNAM-style exchange weeks, touring local businesses and taking classes on site.
University of Toronto
The Summer Abroad South Africa programme anchors in Cape Town, pairing lectures with consulting missions alongside township micro-entrepreneurs.
Track record
17+
Years driving access to capital for impact ventures in Africa
100+
African ventures accelerated per annum at Impact Amplifier
30
Enterprise Support Organisations capacitated with our tools, reaching 500+ ventures indirectly
50
Investees under management
$4-6m
Deployed annually
- Completed the Foundry Fellowship in 2024 with the MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship
- Co-founded Impact Amplifier, a leading social innovation accelerator on the continent
- Co-founded Africa's first social enterprise incubator after returning to South Africa in 2006
- Established and chaired the South African chapter of ANDE, part of the Aspen Institute in Washington DC
- BCom Finance, University of Cape Town, then Business and Corporate Banking in the UK: Business Consultant at Lloyds TSB, analyst at Schroders Asset Management
- Selected as one of Mail & Guardian's Top 200 Young South Africans, 2010
- Written for the Daily Maverick and NextBillion
- Featured on Business Day TV, Mail & Guardian, VentureBurn and Disrupt Africa