Bridging the expectation gap

Etienne de Villiers

Investor and prominent executive in global media and sports businesses with extensive experience in building global brands.

ATP Tour, BBC Worldwide, Pi Capital, Saracens rugby club, Virgin Racing F1, Walt Disney Television International

Willem van Biljon

Entrepreneur with a highly rated technical background specialising in software development, management and commercial strategy with experience ranging from start up to global corporate.

takealot.com, Entersekt, Nimbula, Amazon.com, Mosaic Software, LinkData, CSIR

Rob Stokes

eMarketing specialist and author of eMarketing: The essential guide to marketing in a digital world. Founder of Quirk an international eMarketing house and a lecturer on Internet Marketing.

Quirk, Mirum Agency, The Silicon Cape Initiative

Gabrielle Adams

Academic with expertise in experimental social psychology and quantitative social science research.

PhD Stanford University Graduate School of Business; Assistant Professor at London Business School; Edmund J. Safra Fellow-in-Residence, Harvard University.

Lord Clive Hollick

Clive Hollick is former Chairman of the House of Lord Economic Affairs Committee, a Director of Honeywell Inc and Trafalgar Entertainment, a partner of GP Bullhound (technology advisers and investors) and a member of the Royal Society advisory board.

Hollick has also previously served as the chief executive of UBM plc, a global media and financial services business.

JP Kloppers

Entrepreneur, innovator and leader with an eye for opportunity and a passion for efficiency and solving organisational and operational challenges.

Craig Raw

Serial entrepreneur with a focus on strategic product innovation and management. Founding CTO of Quirk and specialist in crowdsourcing applications and techniques.

David Tinker

Software developer with 20 years’ experience building scalable systems.

Ryan Harington

Dynamic change agent with a keen focus on efficiency, productivity and smooth operations. Specialist in business analysis, and systems and process development.

Melanie Malherbe

Solution sales and account management expert, specialising in innovative technology, and analytics methodologies.

Nic Ray

Growth driven executive and former CMO of digital agency Mirum SA. Nic is a global advocate for the use of opinion data in commercial strategic planning.