User:Kenneth Kayser/sandbox

Kenneth Kayser is a multi award winning innovator (Gartner 2017 & SA Rising Star 2017 award winner) experience building and scaling digital tech companies. He is a digital transformation thought leader, angel investor, and community builder. He is a Harvard University alumni, has an MBA from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom and part of a select group of PhD candidates selected to complete their PhD in digital transformation. Notable achievements include establishing game changing tech start-ups across multiple sectors (Fintech, EdTech, Autotech). He also helps corporates digitally transform as he built new start-up ventures for banks and telecommunications firms in Africa. Kenneth has also made a contribution to the research field through his research work on start-up ecosystems specialising in helping to establish and build start-up ecosystems.

Kenneth has a remarkable journey, being born on the Cape Flats - Mitchell’s Plain (township in South Africa), a community ravaged by crime and poverty and thus overcoming that to establishing and building world class ventures. He is actively involved in community outreaches helping fight poverty, hunger and creating job opportunities. Through one of his ventures called Young Engineers, Kenneth is helping transform South Africa and Africa’s education systems by empowering and creating future innovators.