Future of Funding - Cape Town Chapter
Thu Apr 11, 17:30 - Thu Apr 11, 21:30
Deloitte Cape Town
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Speakers
Andrea Böhmert: Andrea is Co-Managing Partner of Knife Capital, a Venture Capital Fund Manager with offices in Cape Town and London. In South Africa, Knife Capital manages KNF Ventures, a S12J VCC.
Before joining Knife Capital Andrea was Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa. Fascinated by growth, Andrea is actively involved in working with companies and entrepreneurs to master the growth journey. In 2013 Knife Capital launched its own Growth Accelerator, Grindstone, a later-stage business accelerator to assist entrepreneurs to solve the problems common to scale-ups.
Andrea holds an MBA from Henley Management College and a M.Com from Technical University Aachen, Germany.
Valter Adão: As the Chief Digital and Innovation Officer for Deloitte Africa, Valter Adão leads a team of diverse specialists that create leading digital ecosystems to assist clients and employees understand the Digital Transformation journey, uplift their digital experiences and become digital at the core, in order to thrive in a world of ever changing digital technologies.
By bringing in strategic and innovative thinking and capabilities at the intersect of emerging and exponential technologies and creative design, Valter and his team guide organisations to understand, and embrace emerging exponential and disruptive technologies by helping them move beyond potential disruption towards creating new opportunities for relevance, growth and expansion.
He is a corporate entrepreneur with extensive experience in creating new businesses across a variety of industries. He works with organizations in identifying high value, innovative opportunities, and rapidly commercialising them into viable businesses.
Valter holds an MSc and an MBA. He has been with Deloitte for 9 years. Valter is also a member of Deloitte’s Global Innovation Executive Committee and is the Life Sciences & Healthcare Industry Leader for Deloitte Africa
Leadership Team
Patricia Gomes Ambassador
Mic Mann Leadership Team Member
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