African Proptech Forum

Tertia Barrett

Tertia Barrett is the MD of Cataly5t, a tech business transforming workspaces. With a career spanning more than 15 years in technology leadership, Tertia is passionate about how new technology can revolutionize the way we interact with our workspaces. Cataly5t works with leading tech companies to help businesses create workspaces where employees want to be, […]

Vishal Maharaj

Vishal Maharaj graduated at the University of the Natal as a Chemical Engineer and also has a Masters in Business Leadership from the University of South Africa. He has held varying strategic roles, contributing to the shaping and execution of the digital agendas of various organisations. He is currently an executive in the Digital Fast […]

Carel de Jager

Carel de Jager began his career as a Chemical Engineer in the energy industry. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Management. He now works as a consultant for the Blockchain Academy, facilitating a wide range of blockchain related training courses and presentations. Through the academy, he also delivers customised, industry-specific training to audiences ranging […]

Tom Feliz

Tom Feliz is the Director of Enterprise Sales for OpenSpace. OpenSpace makes it effortless to capture and organize complete visual records of your entire job in real-time so that you can keep teams on the same page, remotely track progress, and quickly resolve disputes or prevent rework. OpenSpace defines a new category of 360 photo […]

Andrew Mason

Andrew runs www.workplacefundi.com an independent Workplace and Facilities Management consultancy focused on helping organisations unlock workplace performance. Andrew has over 35 years experience in the built environment creating and managing amazing workplaxcces so people can do amazing work. He is the current Chairman of the South African Facilities Management Association (SAFMA) and a member of […]

Kashira Naidoo

Kashira is an experienced tech entrepreneur, innovation and disruption enthusiast, chartered accountant and a venture capitalist. She is the co-founder of two South African technology companies, one which is a tech-security analytics business that has been launched in the United States and an analytics company. She has also co-founded one of the largest polyurethane foam […]

Wendy Cerutti

Wendy Cerutti is an Associate Director at Turner & Townsend, currently based in Johannesburg. Wendy Cerutti is Head of Cost Management in Johannesburg for Turner & Townsend and also holds responsibility for integrating and deploying PropTech into our South African business. She has 16 years’ experience working across Africa and the United Kingdom delivering projects […]

Kerwen Francis

Kerwen has 18 years’ experience in project management in the built environment, 12 of which were in building and civil (structural) construction in the public and private sectors in SA, Swaziland, Mauritius and Kenya. Before joining Nedbank in 2019, he worked for IBM where he was responsible for the delivery of innovation and data centres […]

Steven Brown

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director – Fortress REIT Limited Date of appointment: April 2016 Steven entered the property industry, after completing his articles, as a listed property analyst in 2008 for Corovest. Following this, Steven joined Standard Bank’s Global Markets division in the equity derivatives finance team and thereafter joined the South African real […]

Jacque Coetzee

Jacque Coetzee graduated from University of Pretoria with a BCom Informatics and holds a Masters of Business Administration from Henley Business School in the UK. Jacque has played multiple roles in financial services, from running IT for business divisions, to delivery of large-scale programmes and defining and implementing strategic IT transformation. At Nedbank he has […]