Bio

Digital Veteran. Entrepreneur. Inventor. FinTechie. Platform Builder. Transformative Leader. Speaker. Publisher. I have the corporate track-record. The start-up scars. The difficult lessons. The grit. All 20+ years of it. I’ve strategically planned, directed and led Digital commercial, strategy, technology and delivery functions in large multi-national retail, banking and teleco consumer businesses across Africa and the USA. Having developed strategies with CEOs and being instrumental in commercial accountability and delivery of integrated Digital functions for sales, service and operations, I am equally competent at the Board and C-Suite as well as branch front-lines. I've had a few internet businesses in the USA and have also successfully built and sold a technology start-up at a double digital multiple of EBIT over 4 years. Below are the top 5 points that make me an expert in Digital: 1. Digital Product Management - Running & building high volume and revenue generating web & mobile e-commerce and banking channels (P&L) in a corporate setting and as a start-up identifying, funding, building and scaling new digital businesses & models; 2. Digital Commercial Management & Digital Marketing - Crafting & monetizing market-fit customer value propositions reinforced by commercial drivers contributing to revenue growth; 3. Design and Data- A Customer-Led, Human Centered Design approach to creating exceptional customer experiences that convert and building digital analytics and data teams; 4. Digital Technology - Services, Analytics, UX, CRM, Marketing Automation and leveraging FinTech partnerships; and 5. Digital Transformation - Working through the complexities in Finance, People (rewards, recruitment, skills development, org design and performance management) and Technology (platform, web and app business architecture). Reach out for a conversation, ideas or speaking engagements around Financial Inclusion, Digital Disruption/Transformation, Digital Banking, Business Models, Blockchain, Frontier Markets, Payments, AI, eCommerce, Human Centered Design, Product Management, FinTechs, Lean-Agile, Inclusive Growth, Base of the Pyramid and all things Digital. Member of the MIT Technology Review Global Advisory Panel; Fellow of the Women Leaders of the World (in Silicon Valley), Nominated as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader; Recognized as the 2021 Top Women in Tech and Finalist for Women of the Year Award (Standard Bank Top Women Awards) Winner of multiple FinTech & social impact competitions sponsored by Bank of America, SABMiller, SeedStars+.