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Our Advisory Board

Natalie Singer

Natalie Singer has more than 20 years’ experience in the recruitment industry as a recruiter, recruitment business owner and industry leader. Moreover, her accolades span as far as , including serving on both local and global professional standards bodies. Under her leadership the Federation of African Professional Staffing Organisations (APSO) won the inaugural South African Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SACCI) Association of the Year award in 2011.

Natalie still serves on the Confederation of Associations for the Private Employment Services (CAPES) Executive, including as a member of the Bilateral Task Team with Department of Employment & Labour. In this capacity she is involved in a range of initiatives for the recruitment industry including securing effective regulation and enforcement. She further represents business on NEDLAC UI Sub-Committee and continues to play an active role supporting the UIF in the roll-out of the Covid-19 TERS benefits programme.

Natalie currently works as a specialist Executive Consultant enabling people-centric competitive advantage through future-fit OD structures, HR, and talent management interventions. The GIG economy has driven radical changes in technology and the talent required for business success. This, coupled with the workplace shifts driven by the global pandemic, has changed the way that talent acquisition – and management – must operate. She works with HR and Talent professionals across organisations – big & small – challenging their thinking on how to ensure their People strategies remain relevant in rapidly changing environment. She loves challenging the status quo, sparking new ideas, exploring, co-designing, and delivering fit-for-purpose strategies, training & coaching, and gets a thrill from seeing her clients succeed!

Mitchan Adams

Born in Johannesburg, Mitchan Adams combined his passion for the arts with an education built around mathematics and science. This culminated in him studying software engineering at the University of Johannesburg, graduating in 2004. After graduating, Mitchan spent two years working at a stockbroking firm developing and maintaining software that interfaced with the JSE futures stocks and bond markets.

The next eight years saw Mitchan channeling his focus towards online and card-based payment streams working at organisations like Setcom and others. It was during this time that Mitchan, together with Lyle Eckstein, founded a company to create custom software for small businesses to operate more efficiently.

At the end of 2014, this entrepreneurial drive gave rise to Ozow, which the two of them co-founded with Thomas Pays. Focused on driving innovation in the payments industry, Mitchan is an FNB Innovation Awards 2017 finalist as well as an Endeavour Entrepreneur.

Neo Lekgabo

Neo Lekgabo is a serial entrepreneur with a professional Marketing background spanning over 15 years with companies like Multichoice, Volkswagen of South Africa, ABI, AUDI, SABC and many others.

Former co-founder of an on demand last mile delivery service, Sendr,and currently a founder of Call-a-genie, a marketplace platform that connects customers to home service providers like plumbers, electricians, hair and beauty products etc.
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