An ambitious natural leader and visionary . experienced senior business developer, entrepreneur and strategist with a passion for learning, technology, empowerment and innovation.

Without any formal university qualifications, an ambitious and determined Mummy had the power of choice, she did not let her adversities get in the way of her dreams. Successfully climbing the corporate ladder landing her in specialist, strategic and leadership roles within the telecommunications and IT sector.

After a successful career in the corporate world, she developed and founded a natural hair-care range which is recognized and available in every province in South Africa, with over 1000 independent distributors

Ms Matsi Modise is the Chairperson of the Technology Innovation Agency. She is the Founding CEO of Furaha Afrika Holdings with experience including entrepreneurship, technology (HR and Fintech), innovation, policy advocacy, governance, skills development, venture capital and Enterprise Supplier Development. Ms Modise is strong in company governance as an independent director, trustee, and advisor of local, continental and global organisations in various industries (global logistics, gaming, fintech, financial services, academia, venture capital and private equity). Ms Modise leads the SA Startup Act Movement calling for policy reforms that will enable SA startups to thrive.

Alan is educated in Business and Financial Management, as well as General Banking – his most recent educational intervention involved spending a month at ‘Insead Business School’ in France and Singapore further enhancing his strategy and leadership skills. He has 25 years of experience in the banking industry, mostly spent between Citibank, where he headed Citibank’s sales efforts in the mid-sized corporate market, and at Nedbank where he currently leads the Client Engagement, Sales and Channel Management efforts on behalf of the bank as it relates to their small business, professional, medical and non-resident banking segments.

From a personal perspective, Alan is married with one teenage child, he spends most of his free time with his family in the ‘outdoors’ either mountain biking, golfing, boating, adventure riding and so on. His biggest ‘outdoors’ achievement is the completion of the Cape Epic mountain bike stage race.

Terry is Head of Design at Nedbank. He reports to Ray Naicker and was one of the founding DFL team members in 2016. Terry’s role at Nedbank is to evolve the experience we deliver to our clients across all our digital and beyond banking platforms. He also supports the COO on the TOM 2.0 program and coordinates the purpose working group on behalf of the Purpose Steerco. Prior to Nedbank his focus was assisting established enterprises land design at scale to help build and ship customer centered products and solutions to market. Terry has worked in several markets across the globe.

Terry is on faculty at Parsons school of design and at GIBS, he teaches a number of design and innovation modules to MBA students and corporate executives. Terry serves on the advisory council at Design For Good and is a board member of the SA design foundation.

He holds a BA in Brand Leadership and an MSc in Strategic Design.