Director of the Centre for African Management and Markets, GIBS Business School
Adrian holds a Professorship in Economics, Finance & Strategy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), where he is the Founding Director of the Centre for African Management and Markets (CAMM). He is the author of the Visa Africa Integration Index (2012-2020) and the Investec-GIBS Savings Index (2015-2020), and has worked in many markets, from Brazil to Singapore. Since 2017 Adrian has chaired the investment committee of MeTTa Capital’s venture capital fund. He also holds a visiting professorship in Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada.
Over the past twenty-five years, alongside his academic career, Adrian established and grew an investment firm which was sold to a listed entity in 2017. In 2021 he joined a family investment office to launch their multi-asset investment portfolio alongside a special opportunities portfolio. In 2023 Adrian returned to his entrepreneurial roots to build Boundless World, an advisory firm focused on capital markets, business model innovation, and growth strategy.
Adrian holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (cum laude), MCom (cum laude) and a PhD (Economics) for which he was awarded the Economics Society of South Africa’s Founders Medal. He is a UNESCO laureate, a matriculant of Linacre College (Oxford) and has completed programmes in Capital Markets at New York’s Columbia University; competitive strategy at Harvard Business School in Boston; Machine Learning at Stanford; Financial Markets at Yale; and Game Theory at the University of British Columbia.
Adrian is a member of various industry bodies, including the Academy of International Business, the Strategic Management Society, Investment Analysts Society, Economic Society of South Africa, Economic History Society of Southern Africa and Manual of Ideas (Global).
Workshop Room 1, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 4
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Five years ago, Tyme Group's TymeBank was a small start up digital bank in South Africa.
Today, Tyme comes to the Singapore with a story - 15 million customers across South Africa and the Philippines. The first digital bank on the African continent to break-even. The fastest standalone digital bank globally to break-even. We come with a story of success, repeated across continents.
With TymeBank in South Africa and GoTyme Bank in the Philippines hitting record growth milestones every quarter, Tyme comes to the Insights Forum, together with a practiced investor and a leading professor from GIBS Business School in Johannesburg to share key trends in the market. What makes a digital bank successful in both profitability and customer growth, and what the next five years will look like for digital banks in emerging economies.
Join us for an interactive fireside chat to understand the why behind the way that Tyme plans its growth, informed by the perspective of investors and trusted advisors.
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