The Team
Leadership
Joon Lee
Founder/ CEO of Africa Code Foundry
20 years of experience in software development in SF Bay Area. Formerly, Director of Product, Northplains. Engineering Manager, Senior Software Engineer at Xinet Inc. Decision Systems Group, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Mohale Molieleng
Chief Innovation Officer of Africa Code Foundry
Senior mobile and blockchain developer. Founded multiple startups like Wiinc, a Vodacom Innovation Park startup, Tech4All winner of Tony Elumelu award, ITMAS winner of Mobile Money Hackathon, Lunchbox, and EventsPoynt.
Startup Leads
Ntokozo Moyo
Company Manager of Africa Code Foundry
5+ years project management experience in ecommerce & higher education.
Previously Sales/IT Officer at Rankuke Investments/Rankuke Training Institute, Gaborone, Botswana.
Elias Bayona
Technical Lead
Technical lead at Creative Insights’ flagship product QFlo.
Developed Botswana Innovation Hub: Skills Ranker Platform. Experienced Deep Learning developer. Lead for Facebook Developer Circles, Gaborone.
Olebogeng Mbedzi
Technical Lead
Co-founder at Omah Capital Drive, autoloan startup in Botswana and Founding Executive Engineer at Minority Africa. Previously, research Assistant (BDFBIUST Drones Project), Software Developer at Digital Natives. Botswana Innovation Fund 2018/19 finalist.
Advisors
Raj Wanniappa
Founder of Agile Ventures Holdings (Angel Investment company)
Director & Investor in FinTech ventures including (LaybyCafe, CapitalXchange, and ENABLR). Independent director on the investment committee of a $10m early stage FinTech fund in South Africa.
Mok Oh, PhD
20+ years as a founder and executive
Previously, CTO of Mercari, VP at Samsung Electronics, Chief Scientist at PayPal, CIO at Where Inc. among others. Founder of multiple startups and advisor/ board member.
Hitesh Chhatrala
Founder of Opplane
Previously, founder of Synapse.ai GP at Redwood Collective – Investment fund for technology startups Entrepreneur/ investor/ advisor Investing for over ten years into technology startups including Virsec, Avaamo, Addepar, Redshift Networks Judge for Startx, Stanford’s accelerator.
Yong Jin Lee, PhD
Founder and CTO Fenix Research
Previously, Sr. VP of Samsung Electronics. CTO & SVP Salutron Visiting Scholar at Stanford University School of Engineering. Founder and Executive at multiple successful (Semizone, Fenix Research).