Keshni Morar

Jozi Angels

The Jozi Angel Network is a prominent and dynamic investment group based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It serves as a vital bridge between promising startups and enthusiastic angel investors, fostering growth and innovation within the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. This network offers a platform for budding entrepreneurs to showcase their innovative ideas and business models, seeking financial support, mentorship, and strategic guidance.

Investment Committee Member

Founder Institute

Founder Institute is the world's premier idea-stage accelerator and start-up launch programme. We provide early-stage and aspiring entrepreneurs with the structure, training, mentor feedback, global network, and lifetime of support needed to start an enduring company. Many leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used our program to transition from employee to entrepreneur, test their startup ideas, build a team, get their first customers, raise funding, and more. The current portfolio has an estimated $20 Billion in funds, 80% graduate survival rate (after 5 years) and 3500+ companies launched. Responsible for the operations of the South African chapter.

Managing Director South Africa

Investable

We specialise in crafting dynamic programs for early-stage entrepreneurs, visionary investors, and vital support organizations. Let's embark on a journey to amplify your influence and catalyze prosperity across Sub-Saharan Africa. 🌍

Founder & Managing Director

Cure8Health

Provide advice on deal structuring, investments, operations and commercialisation of the cloud based medical practice management software backed by a AI-driven-workflow engine capabilities.

Strategic Investment Advisor

Styld

Conceptualized and developed a cutting-edge B2B retail SaaS platform, enabling retailers to enhance their operations and customer experience.

Vodacom

Comprehensive, integrated strategy development from deal structuring to advising business leaders on cost efficiency initiatives & developing growth plans for business units through mergers and acquisition. Won CEO team award for various M&A deals, as well as the development of the Group Strategy in FY2014/15 and again in FY2017/18 for the listing of Vodacom Tanzania on the Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange and the acquisition of Safaricom in Kenya.

Principal: Group Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions

Led implementation of >200 integration projects with budgets from R50K to R60M with requirements across telco value chain. Directed team of 10 Business Analysts & 4 Project Managers.  20 indirect reports of Developers & Systems Testers.

Portfolio Manager : Strategy, Architecture and Planning 

Morse Consulting

Led targeted change programmes from cost savings to business integration management for clients including: Liberty Life, Stanlib, Melville Douglas, ABSA Asset Management & Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA). Reported to C-level.

Senior Management Consultant

Accenture

Provided advisory on software and technical consulting services to multinational companies in the Financial Services sector.

Consultant

NamITech

Analyzed operations for one of the country’s leading firms in manufacturing credit cards & mobile sim cards for largest banks & Telco players across African continent. Shortly after joining, identified as candidate for Fast-track Management Development Programme.

Oracle Business Analyst

Network Leadership

Supported direct marketing & selling & operations ensuring up-to-date accounts & accurate month-end reporting to Exco.

Assistant Accountant

Speaker | Venture Builder | Angel Investor | Fractional Strategy Officer

Business development, mergers and acquisitions, and transformation are some of my strengths as a seasoned executive of multinational growth companies and technology start-ups. With cross-functional teams of up to 50, I have implemented over 200 integration projects with budgets ranging from US$5k to US$6 million. I have managed and transacted with businesses in the telecommunications and information technology sector, including acquisition, divestiture, IPO, restructuring, and joint ventures with a value exceeding US$4.5 billion on the African continent. 

Following my corporate career, I immersed myself into the startup ecosystem from Africa to America, founding 4 businesses, running a global startup accelerator (Founder Institute South Africa), and investing in several small businesses and startups. I mentor startups through Founder Institute, Hult Prize Foundation, The Mentorship Boardroom, The Jack Ma Foundation, and The Venture Mentoring Team. I mentor and advise founders through the fundraising process and am a DD partner to Angels and VCs.  

If you're a founder wanting to learn how to raise funding from investors, please apply here - 
https://forms.gle/GkxZUdhQoPPAChFr7

If you're an Angel looking for investment opportunities, DM me.

Focused on Founders who are looking to raise angel to series A funding to scale their businesses. In addition to our advisory services, Founders can participate in a 3-month  programme which includes how to improve pitch materials, generate investor interest, create an investor pipeline, startup valuations, due diligence preparation, negotiation of terms and more.

To apply, please submit your details via - https://www.f6s.com/investable-funding-fix-program/apply

Allan Gray Orbis Foundation

Working with Candidate Fellows in the Create Program to establish their ideas and validate them into a business, that can be taken to market and grow the venture.

Entrepreneur Venture Coach

GIBS Business School (Gordon Institute of Business Science)

I am a part-time faculty member in their Entrepreneur Development Academy. Through various programs I've worked with multiple ventures across different industries to help them establish clarity and strategy in their business, co-creating in building the proper structure that supports them in expansion and growth.

Venture Building | Startup Strategic Advisor | Business and Leadership Coaching | Mentor | Business Assessment

Business Coaching Specialist

Tshimologong Precinct

Irish Tech Challenge initiative. Supporting the founder to empower and enhance their ventures to global reaches.

Graça Machel Trust

Support ventures in their Women Creating Wealth programs to become viable for investment and funding.

Investor Readiness Coach

The Forward Coach

Director & Executive Coach

Nedbank

Tracking, investigating and building insights into the future 3 and 5 year trends in the technology banking space.
Strategy formulation to exploit opportunities and protect against possible threats.

Business Trend Analyst

Executive management of the Retail Forex Product Suite. 
Investigation and introduction of new products to the market.
Optimising the product marketing to make the products more relatable to clients and easier for our sales people to sell.
Increasing sales turnover.

Head of Retail Forex Product

Headed up a team of business analyst in the Retail Banking Business to explore, introduce and support the implementation of business and technology improvements.

SAS Software Suite - Managed the enterprise partner relationship with SAS including annual contract negotiation

Head of Business Enablement

Headed up a team of project managers.

Projects under project management included the introduction and rollout of Microsoft CRM, Improvement upgrades to central CIS database and creation of data warehouse.

Head of Programme and Projects 

System owner of the Aprimo Enterprise Marketing Resource Management Software Suite in the bank.
Annual Vendor Contract negotiations
Designing and deploying the software solution into the business.

CRM System Manager

Formulation and execution of marketing campaigns.

CRM Campaign Manager

Management and analysis of data to garner insights.

CRM Data Analyst 

Financial Planning Commission Administrator 

Alan provides coaching and consulting services to corporates, SMEs, and startups.  He has worked in, and with corporates for the last 27 years, and has owned his own businesses. His coaching incorporates a focused combination of leadership, entrepreneurship, and business coaching. He assists clients in imagining and designing a new future and helps transform this into reality for them.

From starting as a filing clerk, through to being a head of business in a top JSE bank and growing his own business ventures, Alan has advanced through his own journery of transformation and change which still continues for him today. These experiences have created in him an exceptional ability to observe and understand how to bridge and integrate people development, new advancements, innovations, technology, outcomes, and changes to the current NOW environment.  Through his coaching, he is able to extricate these leadership abilities from his clients and their businesses. 

Together with his clients, he creates visions that look ‘outwards-in’, and ‘future-back’ and ask “What does the world really need from us?” and “Are we creating  today, what we want for tomorrow?”.
Areas of Expertise

His clients, in corporates, SMEs, and startups, seek his assistance in helping them develop and gain clarity on their strategic narrative, business management consultation, growth and performance coaching, and for his advisement on how to advance and develop their teams and business in ways that will benefit their staff, themselves, their customers, and the extended communities they influence.  His methodologies are grounded in contextual understanding, systemic thinking, emotional intelligence, and behavioural science.  The conversation he wants to have with you is centred on what impact it is that you and your business want to create, and whether you are actively creating that impact.

Look forward to having that conversation with you!

Specialities: Management Consulting, Strategic Narrative, Technology Evaluation, Storytelling, Business & Leadership Coaching, Group Coaching, Mentoring, Facilitation, Finance & Banking, Ideation & Design, Business Acceleration, SME Development, Enterprise & Supplier Development, Performance Acceleration, Transformation Change, Organisational Development, Cultural Intelligence

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