Matsi Modise – Founder
Ms. Matsi Modise, is an avid entrepreneur and entrepreneurship activist. She has immense experience in corporate governance and building companies from the bottom up. She is an international keynote speaker, sits on various boards and is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Shapers Community and the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).
Tumi Makhubele
Managing Director
Holding a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of South Africa and over 10 years in the entrepreneurship development ecosystem, Tumi was the Operations Manager at SiMODiSA, an industry association whose mission is to accelerate entrepreneurship by collaborating with policy makers to enhance the success rate of high impact, high growth entrepreneurs in South Africa.
She is passionate about entrepreneurship and growing the entrepreneurship ecosystem in South Africa. Tumi started her career at the South African Black Entrepreneurs Forum (SABEF), and worked in corporate for a while at MVC Marketing as a Field Account Manager.
David Palos
Furaha YES partner
David is the founder of Transforming Lives, an organisation that assists companies to change trajectories through holistic interventions in performance and capabilities. Over the last 15 years he has built up a network of Businesses, Training Companies, NGO’s and Business Incubators. He has trained and coached over a thousand leaders in different companies and industries to increase their efficiency and performance. David is currently project managing a few of the exciting projects at Furaha and enjoys working with his young and dynamic colleagues there!