Meet our team
Board & advisors
Jan Morongwa
Board Member
Former Telkom Consumer Business Director and Barclays Africa Retail CEO. Proven leader in scaling financial and telecom ventures. Multi-billion-rand growth strategies
Sunil Nagar
Board Member
Former CIO of Standard Bank and COO at Liberty and Absa. Led cost take-out, digital transformation, and pan-African operations across banking, insurance, and asset management.
Brent Spilkin
Board Member
Coached over 350 founders and executives. Guided ventures generating over R3bn in annual revenues. Authored an MBA-accredited textbook shaping SA’s freelance and digital economy
Oupa Monamadi
Board Member
Former CEO of Uthingo, the first SA National Lottery operator. Chair and director of multiple companies. Strategic oversight, governance excellence, and corporate networks.
Bongiwe Momoza
Board Member
Senior advisory roles at Sasfin and Mentova. Institutional investment strategy design. Chaired industry committees, advised retirement funds across Africa.
Bongani Khulu
Board Member
Financial services executive across banking, wealth, and insurance. IE MBA and Harvard, Wharton, UP alumnus. Led innovation and growth initiatives delivering market leadership.
Sonqoba Vuba
Board Member
Proven venture builder & strategist. Chief Partnerships Officer at NEXT176, Co-Founder of Perpetu8, COO at 10X Entrepreneur. Scaled SMEs, led high-impact collaborations.
Hazel Sgulugulu
Board Member
Former Head of Product Design at 22seven and Design Lead at Nedbank, Sven is an award-winning product strategist. With two decades across fintech, banking, and consulting, he has driven digital adoption, scaled design teams, and delivered market-leading platforms recognised with MTN’s App of the Year
Studio team
Innocent Bila
Managing Partner
Innocent has both senior corporate executive and entrepreneurial experience, having scaled ventures to multi-million-dollar success in emerging markets as well as led channel, product as well as platform experience initiatives as Divisional executive at Standard Bank Insurance and Asset Management. He holds a MMSM (WBS) and MBA (GIBS).
Emmanuel Simon
Head of Studio
A Harvard MBA and award-winning strategist, Emmanuel has led experience and product design across Kinga, Nedbank, and Absa. Former startup founder and UN-presented innovator, he has delivered digital transformations that have enjoyed triple digital growth and impacted many
Christy Bennie
Venture Design
A seasoned industry leader & specialist proposition and experience design expert who has worked with some of the largest listed entities in banking and telecoms. She combines deep behavioural science expertise with an MSc in Psychology (UNISA) and advanced studies at GIBS.
Sven Uhlig
Product & Platform Design
Former Head of Product Design at 22seven and Design Lead at Nedbank, Sven is an award-winning product strategist. With two decades across fintech, banking, and consulting, he has driven digital adoption, scaled design teams, and delivered market-leading platforms recognised with MTN’s App of the Year