Experience

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  SIMERA SENSE

  • Somerset West Area, South Africa

  • Head of Business Development

    • Apr 2018 - Present
    • Somerset West Area, South Africa

    As a key member of the management team, he is responsible for developing the roadmap and executing the commercial strategy of Simera Sense’s Earth Observation products. Successes:-- The implementation and execution of a product roadmap and business development strategy across various functional areas for the products’ life cycle.-- Created and maintained strategic alliances and partnerships with all the major satellite platform manufacturers and downstream Earth Observation service providers across the space industry. -- Designed, implemented and executed a successful commercialization strategy that lead to sustainable revenue within two-years from establishing the business unit.-- Establishing himself as a global recognised Product Leader using agile product commercialization processes.

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  Quiet Entrepreneur

  • City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Chief Blogger

    • 2019 - Present
    • City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Blogging about agile product commercialization, entrepreneurship and challenges to scale your business.

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  Mezzanine Ware (Pty) Ltd.

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Co-Founder and Non Executive Director

    • Oct 2011 - Present
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    At Mezzanine we work with our clients and partners in creating productive societies across Africa.Founded in 2009, we use our market leading expertise in the digital environment to develop Mobile Solution Platforms and provide Technology & Advisory Services for products in the following industries: Agriculture, Education, Health and Utilities.

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  GeoMed

  • Stellenbosch, South Africa

  • Co-Founder and Non-Excutive Director

    • Apr 2005 - Present
    • Stellenbosch, South Africa

    GeoMed, a South African based company, is a market leader in the development of clinical decision support systems for emerging market countries. The company has a portfolio of leading medical technology and service companies offering solutions and services through a range of innovative business models.From Geomed, Geo-ICT Health, Diacoustic Medical Devices and MezzanineWare were born.

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  Stone Three Venture Technology

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Product Manager & Business Development Consultant

    • Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Serve as a key member of the Healthcare Business Unit’s Management team. Tasked to set the product strategy and roadmap, conduct market research, generate product requirements, determine specifications, pricing, and the development timelines for the agile software development team.Responsible for identifying business opportunities for the unit’s TeleHealth and Healthcare Machine Learning technologies in the USA and Canada, develop and manage relationships with current and new customers and negotiate long-term technology licensing agreements.Successfully launched the product in the USA and on-boarded early customers.

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  SensiCardiac

  • Stellenbosch, South Africa

  • Excutive Managing Director

    • Feb 2008 - Mar 2017
    • Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Responsible for funding, product development, business strategy, developing business opportunitiesand cultivating partnerships. Part of the responsibilities included complex contract negotiation and liaising with legal and IP counsel when needed. Presented quarterly reports to the Board of Directors including goal roadmaps. Major successes include:- Negotiated several rounds of funding for the company, from seed to Series B.- Created a huge validated heart sound database for structural defects of the heart.- Obtained three granted patents in the USA.- Obtained FDA clearance for three medical device products in the USA.- Established a USA based satellite office at the M2D2 University of Massachusetts’ incubator for medical devices.- Launched an Artificial Intelligent cardiac diagnostic product in the USA with several customers.- Established working relationships with several multi-national organizations.- Negotiated and created an exit opportunity for the company’s investors.

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  SunSpace

  • Stellenbosch, South Africa

  • Functional Engineer

    • Mar 2003 - 2008
    • Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Functional Engineer responsible for the electro-optical design, develop and testing of remote sensors on satellites. Design, developed and tested the electro-optical components of SumbandilaSat, South Africa's second satellite launched in to space.

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  IMEC, Belgium

  • Leuven, Belgium

  • Digital Engineer

    • Aug 1999 - Mar 2003
    • Leuven, Belgium

    Design, development and test engineer for various mixed signal imaging detectors and sensors for the European Space Agency.

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  Sunsat

  • Stellenbosch

  • Engineer

    • 1996 - 1999
    • Stellenbosch

    Responsible for the optical and environmental testing and integration of the high resolution remote sensing payload of South Africa's first satellite, SUNSAT, and the payload on South Korea's KITSAT-3.