Hlumelo is Director or Chairman of various corporations and NGO’s, including the Circle Group of companies, Eduloan, Nashua (Cape Town), Mpilo Investment Holdings and Gamma Pharmaceutical.  He has also been CEO of Circle Capital, a private equity company advising clients in merger and acquisition transactions with assets in excess of R500 million. Circle Capital clientele include MediClinic, Snap, Sasfin and Eduloan.

Hlumelo further serves on the Board of the Baxter Theatre, and is a board member of Endeavor South Africa, a US headquartered NGO. Through his association with Endeavor, he offers mentorship and advice to a number of high impact South African entrepreneurs.

Hlumelo holds various qualifications including a Bachelor of Science and Politics, and Master of Science and Politics from Georgetown University in the United States.

After graduating from Stellenbosch University with a B.Accounting (Hons), Peter qualified as a Chartered Accountant at auditing firm Ernst and Young.  Peter spent a further 2 years in management consulting at Deloitte before joining his family business. Over the years, the Pam Golding group of companies has grown to more than 2,000 staff with offices throughout Southern Africa and Mauritius. The company enjoys a close working relationship with Savills in international operations.

Peter has been involved in all aspects of his company’s growth, and is responsible for starting the commercial property division of the group, Pam Golding Commercial.

Peter serves, and has served on numerous boards, including TBC (and NGO affiliate of the Transformational Business Network) Wesgro (promoting business in the Western Cape region of South Africa) and for a number of years was a member of the Young Presidents Organisation.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Eduardo moved to Tanzania in the early 60’s where his father, Dr Eduardo Mondlane founded FRELIMO (The Mozambique Liberation Front), and was elected its first president.  Eduardo Jr moved to Mozambique in 1975, and from 1977 studied Political Science at UCLA, after which he established Mozambique’s first private events promotions company.

In the mid 80’s, Eduardo established an Africa focused trading company and further founded the Mozambique Business Council in Washington DC. In the late 80’s Eduardo moved to Italy to advise firms on the development of infrastructure projects in Mozambique.  Eduardo has performed advisory work for the aerospace industry, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, United Technologies and Pratt and Whitney for six years.

In the mid 90’s he returned to the infrastructure development industry working on projects including the Mephanda Nkuwa Hydroelectric Dam. Eduardo also advised the Portuguese government in preparing the groundwork for the successful sale of the Cahora Bassa Dam project to the Mozambique government.

Eduardo is currently a Group Director at ABSA, Barclays Bank Mozambique, Founding Shareholder and Chairman of Retail Masters SA, holding the master franchise for the Pick ‘n Pay retail group in Mozambique. He continues to advise various multinational corporations, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique and a regular panellist at Boston University’s African Presidential Roundtable.

Daniel Isenberg is a Professor of Management at Babson College, assisting governments around the world in creating policies, structures, programs and climates that foster entrepreneurship. In addition to Babson, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, INSEAD, Reykjavik and the Technion. Dan is both an entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

Dan taught for eleven years at Harvard Business School. Between 2005 and 2009, he taught in the Entrepreneurial Management unit, where he was responsible for designing and teaching the popular second year elective, International Entrepreneurship, for which he wrote over 25 international cases.

Dan was founding CEO of Triangle Technologies, specialising in cross border transactions between Japanese companies and non-Japanese technology companies, concluding over 100 transactions including Joint ventures, OEM agreements, strategic investments, licensing agreements and distribution channels. During this period, Dan additionally helped establish two capital funds.

From 1987 to 1989, Dan created a course at the Technion called Technology Based Entrepreneurship, co-directed Tefen Entrepreneurs Program (established by Stef Wertheimer) and directed the Technion Entrepreneurial Associates (established by Ed Roberts – MIT). Dan has served on boards of several private and NASDAQ listed companies.

In 1981 Dan received a PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard University under the mentorship of Robert Freed Bales.
Dan has also been a consultant and conducted executive education for large corporations including Dow Chemical Europe, ABB, Garanti Bank (Turkey) Digital Equipment Corporation, Ford Europe, Mitsubishi, Omron, Mitsui and others.

Dan speaks frequently on the challenges and opportunities of being a global entrepreneur and on how countries and regions can develop an entrepreneurial eco-system, subject matter for which he is internationally recognised.

Robin is the CEO and founder of the Aperture Group of Companies which provides executive and professional resourcing, staffing, strategic and consulting services to companies in South Africa and across the African continent. Additionally he is also the founder of ExpandAfrica, a strategic consulting business facilitating the expansion of companies (from across Africa and internationally), into various African countries utilising a unique model combining country research, risk profiling, strategy alignment, business establishment and partnership negotiation.

Robin is an inducted member of the African Leadership Institute, a Desmond Tutu Fellow (Oxford 2009) and an inducted member of the African Leadership Network (2010). In addition to advising and sitting on a number of diverse boards, Robin has also advised several CEO’s of some of the world’s largest corporations, and played a key role in the strategy development and related structuring pertaining to the Lapdesk Company and Kommunity Group Projects.

Robin holds an Honours degree in Commerce (UNISA) in addition to various post graduate courses in tax and corporate finance.

Professor Shepherd Malusi Mayatula (‘Prof’) is a retired member of the South African Parliament and retired Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Education in the National Assembly. Prof. Mayatula holds numerous qualifications including B.Comm; B.Comm Honours (Economics); M.Comm (Economics) and M.A (Economics). In addition, Prof holds a Teachers Diploma (South Africa) and is a former winner of the Fulbright Scholarship and Research Fellowship for the North Eastern University in Boston.

Prof taught economics at the University of Fort Hare from 1975 to 1994 and held positions including Head of the Economics department, Member of Senate, Associate Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Commerce.
In 1994, after the first democratic elections in South Africa, Prof was elected as a senior MP and was deployed as the first Provincial Minister of Finance in the Eastern Cape province, and from February 1998 to June 1999 he was the Provincial Minister of Education in the same province, as well as Acting Premier on various occasions.

In 1999, Prof was redeployed to National Parliament as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Education, a position he held until his retirement. The responsibilities of the committee included processing all education bills, as well as oversight and monitoring over the Department of Education nationally.

Prof. Mayatula retired from active politics in 2009, and serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of the University of Fort Hare, as well as on the Advisory Board of The Lapdesk Company.

Malik Fal is MD of the South African operations of Endeavor; a New York-based NGO dedicated to the promotion of high-impact entrepreneurship in emerging markets.  In addition to strategic consulting and support, Endeavor carries out advocacy and media initiatives to bring entrepreneurship to the forefront of local policy and development agendas.

Prior to Endeavor, Malik was Microsoft's Business Marketing & Operations (BMO) Group lead for West-East-Central Africa, based in Johannesburg and covering 49 African countries.  This role covered a vast array of core business and special project activities, including all internal research, business planning and strategy processes, as well as Microsoft's Corporate Citizen investments in Africa.

Before joining Microsoft Malik created Chesswood's Holdings, a consulting firm in the economic development space concentrating on ad hoc projects leveraged through his considerable network.  Additionally he has held executive and senior managements positions at OTF (previously part of the Monitor Group) as Vice-President, as well as at PepsiCo in the United States and Africa.

Malik's most recent responsibilities included the management of fully-fledged competitiveness engagements for the Office of the President of Rwanda, various business development initiatives across Africa, teaching engagements with Harvard Business School and ongoing engagements with the World Bank, DFID, and USAID.

Malik holds a degree in Political Science and Economics from Richmond College (London) and a Master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.