Global Scale-Up Conference 2025

Scale-Up Con goes global!

Scaling a business is a high-stakes journey with countless moving parts. Founders must juggle strategy, execution, people, and cash, often across multiple time zones and currencies. To ride the surge of rapid growth, every piece needs to be mapped out long before you hit that curve so the foundations are ready to carry you higher.

While every growth story is unique, companies that scale successfully share a common toolkit of proven practices. That’s where Scale-Up Con comes in. Join a powerhouse lineup of international founders from every corner of the world as they unpack how they’re building profitable, resilient, and globally scalable companies in today’s fast-moving market.

Keynote Speaker: Ayanda Vabaza-Mvandaba, CA(SA)

Ayanda is a Non-Executive Director at Outsourced CFO (OCFO) and a seasoned corporate-finance professional. After launching her career at KPMG, she built deep expertise in audit, valuations and asset management, advising SMMEs on funding, governance and sustainable growth. Ayanda also serves on the boards of African Phoenix Investments, the Western Cape Gambling & Racing Board and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, where she chairs the Audit & Risk Committee. A SAICA Top 35 Under 35 finalist, she is a frequent speaker on finance and youth empowerment, known for blending analytical rigour with a people-first approach.

Keynote Speaker: Nicolas Thiede

Nicholas Thiede is an entrepreneur with a proven track record of growing and scaling businesses across sectors. Originally from Germany, he has operated internationally, combining strategic innovation with hands-on execution. Over his career, Nicholas has founded and led three companies from startup to scale, delivered successful turnarounds and exits, and held leadership roles including Founder, CEO, COO, and CMO. His experience spans companies such as CloudRadar, PixelFaerie, eBay.com, and The Boston Consulting Group.

As Co-founder of ScaleUp Company SA, Nicholas partners with growth-hungry entrepreneurs and their teams, implementing proven scaling methodologies to drive growth with clarity and momentum. He works with clients nationwide to align people, strategy, execution, and cash.

Get tips from impressive founders from around the world. Book your tickets today!

*We’ll email the webinar access link to everyone who RSVPs, on the 30 July 2025.

About OCFO

Outsourced CFO is an award-winning CFO services, cloud accounting and automation company. We serve rapidly growing organizations with financial management services, drawing from deep wells of expertise. Our team consists of sixty expert finance professionals and has served over 700 companies in 18 countries around the world. Founded in 2013, Outsourced CFO (OCFO) offer founders and management teams innovative financial insight and world-class financial technology, building a world-class finance function for growing companies. Hundreds of ambitious management teams are turning to the advantages of fractional CFO services to rapidly scale their companies.

OCFO offers entrepreneurs the go-to finance expertise that helps solve your company’s most challenging financial problems. This includes CFO services by highly qualified finance experts, cloud accounting solutions for bookkeeping and reporting, and automation to streamline operations and integrate leading cloud systems. When partnering with Outsourced CFO, a finance professional or team with the right mix of knowledge, skills and experience is personally matched with your company – working with you to take your business to the next level with our flagship CFO-as-a-service offering. Save time and effort: simplify complex financial challenges with high-level financial and strategic insights that only a CFO can bring to the table – without having to make a full-time hire: www.ocfo.com

About ScaleUp Company SA

ScaleUp Company South Africa is a specialist growth partner for ambitious businesses. Since 2013, its 40-strong team, holding over 500 years of combined entrepreneurial experience, has helped 1 000+ scale-ups sharpen strategy, execution, cash and people. As the continent’s leading licensed partner of Verne Harnish’s Scaling Up® framework, it delivers structured coaching programmes, toolkits and masterclasses, plus nationwide summits in Cape Town, Johannesburg and online, giving founders the community and systems to keep scaling, sustainably, year after year.