African Proptech Forum

Sean Howe

Sean Howe currently heads up Client Support Services for MRI’s Africa division. He believes in the importance of continuous learning and has experience in Implementation, Training and Project Management under the MRI brand. He holds dual qualifications in Financial Management and Property Studies. When not at work, you will find him out in nature with […]

Paul Schaefer

Paul is a entrepreneur with various successful and unsuccessful ventures! He was the CEO of Ithemba Property Management for 4 years where he learned his trade in the property industry. Paul is the current Founder & CEO of LeaseSurance. LeaseSurance is an InsureTech business that aims to disrupt the residential rental property sector through eliminating […]

Michael Clampett

Michael completed articles as a Chartered Accountant at Mazars in Cape Town working on various industry sectors. A five-month secondment to New York City stimulated Michael’s entrepreneurial spirit and he resigned as an audit manager in 2008. Thereafter, Michael was co-owner and owner of an agricultural retail business and commercial cleaning services company, respectively, before […]

John Oamen

John Oamen is the CEO of Cutstruct Technology, creators of LiveVend. He is passionate about helping the construction industry achieve its full potential, and has created the LiveVend platform to digitize and solve some of the major pain points surrounding pricing, material procurement, workforce, and construction project management that currently exist in the construction industry. […]

Ann-Maree Tippoo

Ann-Maree is a portfolio manager responsible for South African real estate investment portfolios within Ninety One’s global 4Factor team. She started her career at Ninety One as an Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance research analyst within the firm’s Sustainability team and currently drives the sustainability agenda within the South African Equity team at Ninety One. […]

David Kimani

David is an advocate of lean start-up principles and has used them as a guide in building ideas and businesses. His career has been in project management and business analysis with majority of it spent on deploying Airtel Money across different markets in Africa. He is well versed with how financial systems work and has […]

Bhongolwethu Sonti

Bhongolwethu has spent the last ten years working in the field of sustainability and sustainable development. Working as a Youth Advisor to UNFPA, as a member of various Commonwealth Secretariat working groups, leading the Organization of African Youth and development organisations such as Greenpop and Tore’s Foundation. He gained valuable experience in policy planning, implementation, […]

Raylene Watson

Raylene is a Professionally Registered Scientific Professional with the South African Council of Natural Sciences. She managed the sustainability portfolio for a large multinational engineering firm across Africa for six years spanning across 12 offices providing support to over 1000 employees. She has over 20 years’ experience as a technical expert in sustainable infrastructure design, […]