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

ISUMO

Contributing to business optimization initiatives
Analyzing and evaluate business functionality
Providing feedback and making improvement recommendations to upper management and business owners
Training management and employees on business optimization theories and practices
Planning meetings, workshops and education seminars
Performing cash flow management and analytics
Implementing weekly standard operating procedure reviews to assess functionality and operational success
Recommending and support major restructuring projects to improve business operations

Head of Technical Customer Success

Elliptic

A year ago I  joined Elliptic in a newly created role as Head of Technical Customer Support, my task was to establish a highly skilled team of Tier 2 & Tier 3 Technical Support Agents in a fast-growing and highly innovative industry of crypto compliance, at a values-led company.

As Head of Technical Customer Support, I empowered and grew the  global customer
support team from 1 to 4  highly skilled product experts in 8 months, leading the strategic direction and operations for our customer support function. 
The support function has also expanded to cover all regions, so all support functions operate 24/7 with a key focus on customer committed SLAs and customer satisfaction feedback.
Customer Success was a key area in this role and we delivered Customer Onboarding, Customer training, Customer renewals and Customer upsell. 

I developed a team that is a source of product expertise for Elliptic customers and contributes to the constant evolution of Elliptic Solutions by proactively sharing insights and feedback from customers.

New to the world of Crypto I undertook self training with the technologies - Understand Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain transactions blockchain analytics using tools, knowledge, and insights needed to become an expert on Elliptic Lens, Navigator, and Discovery to screen wallets, monitor transactions, and surface entity information at scale.

My team supported end users of Elliptic with various queries regarding in-depth cryptocurrency investigations relating to fraud, using Elliptic's Investigation tools.
Answered queries regarding complex crypto concepts like smart contracts, NFT’s and internal transactions.

Head of Technical Customer Support

StarLeaf

Director of Global Support for StarLeaf, StarLeaf is a SaaS video conferencing and collaboration software company that provides cloud-based messaging, meeting, and calling for business users globally.
StarLeaf Global Support Programme provides comprehensive peace of mind to all end users through 24/7 self-service support for deployments of all sizes. 
Dedicated support was available through StarLeaf Gold and Platinum levels for organisations that required priority handling and instant resolution.
I was involved in various areas of the business and attend Exec Meetings, Board meetings, and Release meetings – discussing strategy, new products, marketing strategy R&D feature releases, and fixes on products with a keen focus on ensuring the company's vision is realised through delivery of service to the customer. 
Collaborating with Customer Success, Product Management and R&D teams to manage, implement and report and deliver against business goals and targets. Proactively involved with Customer Success working with High touch and low-touch customers reducing churn and growing recurring revenue.

Over the 6 years with StarLeaf, I have been in Senior Management scaling and leading the Customer Support team, in regions including the UK, US, CALA, ASIA, and Australia. It was within my remit to scale the team as StarLeaf expanded exponentially and I grew the team from 2 support engineers to 26 engineers spanning multiple support levels namely, 1st Line Technical, 2nd Line Technical Specialists and 3rd Line Technical Expert Engineers. I have also implemented a customer-focused self-service knowledgebase and an AI-based chatbot.

Director of Global Support

Leading Customer Support function globally
Building and scaling high performing global teams in a high growth business 
Strategic thinking, with disciplined execution and focus on operational optimisation
Executive-level communication both internal and external
Working with customer success, Product development and R&D Teams
A track record of hiring, developing and mentoring great talent, and building and motivating high achieving teams

Head Of Support Operations

Dimension Data

Motivate, mentor, coach and develop the skills and competencies of expanding teams, ensuring effective accreditation and skill sets across the technical services team of 11 UK and US based 
I am the senior point of customer escalation for all major technical service issues. My team is responsible to resolve all tier 3 category faults within SLA.
Lead the design of technical aspects of the service provided to our internal clients. Also ensure that all the design and delivery work is in line with the technical and business architecture policy.
Manage the 24x7x 365 Technical services teams. Adhering the global SLA’s to provide 3rd line technical resources to our global customers.
Devise and build technical road map for the Managed service to provide scalable global technical service architecture.
Develop, educate and communicate the strategy to our teams and other areas of the business ensuring that the strategy is understood and adhered to
Ensure technical team is cost effective and the work load is balanced across the teams delivering a global 24x7x365 service.
Develop and maintain customer and key stakeholders relationships (internal/ external to DD) to add value and drive up client experience, retention and profitable growth.
Contribute to the development and execution of the overall Client Services strategy as part of the management team
Maximise intra and inter departmental efficiencies by influencing/designing, implementing and managing people, processes, systems, tools and methodologies to support Dimension Data’s culture, values and service propositions
Produce and communicate management/ business information to enable visibility and decision making to maximize the current and future health of the business
Input into the development and implementation of the Service portfolio (new and existing Services)
Ownership and drive execute of Release Management cycles, and Lab functions including all field trials and software development of all VNOC technical tool sets

Head of Technical Services

A new dawn...a new day...a new adventure!!! 
ITaaS strategy

Technical Services Manager

•	Creation, development and implementation of Low Level Designs, Vendor Recommendations, Best practices, Technical prerequisites and Remote Access.
•	Management of the videoconferencing estate creating the Dimension Data Advance Management Platform which included the following services:
•	Remote Access Device implementation of remote access into the {Client} videoconferencing environment
•	Availability Management Tool monitoring requirements of the {Client} videoconferencing infrastructure and endpoints
•	Resource Management Tool video meetings scheduling 
•	Reporting - Carbon Miles
•	Projects included design for clients such as Dimension Data Regions and Global Customers

Technical Manager

Mvision Video Networks

Selected Achievements

Co-ordinated managed and financially tracked the migrations of 250 plus customers from a complete public IP network to a full private MPLS network within 16 months.  Working with video network architects to build and deploy an award winning video only managed network across the UK and Europe, 

Developed and documented process and procedure to ensure the Video Network Operations Centre within mvision managed customer expectations and met assigned SLA's.  Implemented network change control, structured 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support models to ensure resourcing requirements could be tracked and managed, this has enabled mvision to gain Tandberg ASP and MSP accreditations.

Increased annual installation and maintenance revenue by reviewing and improving customer services and project management skills to become one of the largest Tandberg inbound global deployment partners in the UK, supporting customers on behalf of other Tandberg partners, which now generates 140K maintenance revenue per year. 

Successfully project managed large global Tandberg video conferencing infrastructure installations. Managing Tandberg T3 & T1 Telepresence installations including room builds on behalf of Tandberg Professional services. Including procurement, delivery, project documentation and budget control.	


Implemented and developed mvision fully managed video service, creating procedure and training Video Operators to run the Concierge services for Global customers which has grown to over 500 endpoints in the last 3 years.

Growing the VNOC team from 2 members of staff up to the current level of 12 staff over the last 3 years including recruitment, performance and development appraisals and introducing Key Performance indicator and targets to the VNOC team

Network Manager

•	Proactively manage and administer Hosted Video network and client on premise equipment for the specialization device that are allocated to your role.
•	Participate where required in the VNOC Change review board on a monthly basis.
•	Develop and maintain continual improvement plans for all VNOC processes and products.
•	Provides technical input when required, to Tier 1 and 2 Helpdesk Teams.
•	Provides input when required, owns deliverables into project and transitions planning for MSVC clients.
•	Assist as a Project Resource for internal Network Operations projects and roll outs.
•	Assist in the Technical Transition of new MSVC clients, providing and documenting best practice recommendations.
•	Assisting in release management Managing carrier escalations from Helpdesk Teams ensuring incidents are dealt with within expected time frames.
•	Management of the VNOC lab environment, including specialism as assigned by Operations Director

3rd Line Video Conferencing Engineer

Video Conferencing Engineer

Grintek Telecom

Account Manager

Saab Grintek

Sales Account Manager

I am an operations consultant at ISUMO, a global IT services company that delivers innovative and effective solutions to complex business challenges. I have over 20 years of ICT experience and 10+ years focused on cloud-based solutions, as well as a certification in customer success management.

As an operations consultant, I contribute to business optimization initiatives, analyze and evaluate business functionality, and provide feedback and improvement recommendations to upper management and business owners. I also train management and employees on business optimization theories and practices, plan meetings, workshops and education seminars, perform cash flow management and analytics, and implement weekly standard operating procedure reviews to assess functionality and operational success. I have a proven track record of supporting major restructuring projects to improve business operations and customer satisfaction. I am an operational powerhouse who loves building systems and processes and hates seeing the same mistakes again and again. I am obsessed with the customer experience and use data to drive decision-making and hold others accountable. I am excited to solve problems that have never been solved before and thrive in fast-paced environments.

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