Ali Ghodsi is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, responsible for the growth and international expansion of the company. He previously served as the VP of Engineering and Product Management before ...

George Fraser is the CEO and co-founder of Fivetran. George founded the company with COO Taylor Brown in 2012 after completing the prestigious Y-Combinator accelerator program. Now trusted by more ...

Elissa Fink serves on several boards and advises fast-growing technology companies, including Dataiku, Pantheon, Qumulo, Seekout, Uberflip and Intellimize. A data-driven marketer with experience in ...

Chris Savides is the head of the Showmax business in Africa. He’s part of the core team that first conceptualised and built Showmax, bringing extensive online payments and marketing experience from ...

Erik Hersman is the CEO of BRCK, which creates rugged wireless WiFi devices designed and engineered in Kenya for use throughout the emerging markets. BRCK has a free public WiFi network called Moja ...

Michael Essien is a product of Los Angeles Unified School District. He left home to attend UC Berkeley. At UC Berkeley, he played college football while completing his undergraduate degree in African ...

Prior to 2004, Monique directed and developed sales, marketing and public relations strategies for personal clients such as Kanye West, Verizon, Burrell Communications, T.I. and Timbaland. Before ...

Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School ...

Leonard Stiegeler is the Founder of Pulse, the leading innovative media company in Africa. He is backing & investing in media-/art-/technology- & -enabled ventures/assets. Some of his interests ...

Africa’s leading Internet platform, a group that operates online and mobile e-commerce retail, marketplaces, classifieds and services companies and facilitatory services such as booking agencies.

Blinky Bill (Bill Sellanga) is a Kenyan Musician/Producer and DJ and a founding member of the forward thinking Art and Music Collective Just A Band. He is an alumni of the US State funded music ...

Wambui Kinya is a vice president, Success at Andela, a company that recruits the most talented software engineers on the African continent and pairs them with global tech companies as full-time, ...