Siyabonga GamaTransnet CEO

Mr Siyabonga Gama is the Group Chief Executive (acting) of Transnet SOC Ltd, South Africa’s state-owned freight transport and logistics company. This places him at the helm of the company’s record-breaking infrastructure investment programme and operational efficiency drive - the Market Demand Strategy.

In addition, he is responsible for galvanising his over 60 000 colleagues across the company’s ports, rail and pipelines operations.

For the past 11 years, he has been Chief Executive of Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), the rail freight division of Transnet, and serves on the Group Executive Committee.

Mr Gama turned around TFR, the company’s largest division, from losses when he took over and transformed it to the highest contributor to Transnet’s financial performance. Over his tenure, TFR has grown into a more than 60% contributor to Transnet’s R56,6 billion revenue, employs 30 000 of Transnet’s over 60 000 colleagues and accounts for two thirds of Transnet’s R330 billion investment programme.

Before he took over at TFR, Mr Gama was Chief Executive of Transnet National Ports Authority – the company’s ports landlord division – where he served as Port Manager and General Manager previously. He has been with Transnet for almost 21 years.

He has received several industry awards in recognition of his leadership. These include:2014 BBQ Public Sector Visionary Award;2008 National Business Leader of the year;2004 BBQ Young Business Leader of the year;Honorary lifetime President of the Union of African Railways; andHonorary member of the International Association of Ports and Harbours.

Outside Transnet, he has served as:President - Union of African Railways;President - Union of International Railways Africa (UIC-Africa);President - Port Management Association of Eastern & Southern Africa;President - Pan African Association for Africa Ports;Vice-President - International Association of Ports and Harbours;Vice-President - World Economic Council of the Union of International Railways; andBoard member of the Southern African Railway Association.

Mr Gama also serves on the boards of Italtile Limited and Mafumbuka Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd.Before joining Transnet he worked as a banker and analyst at Standard Bank and JP Morgan (New York) respectively.

He holds a Master of Business Administration (Jointly awarded by New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business the London School of Economics and Political Science), a Bachelor of Commerce Degree, and various qualifications in business leadership, management and operations.

Mokena MakekaChief Imagineer and Creative Designer, Makeka Design Lab, Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum

Mokena Makeka is one the 40 cultural leaders of WEF17, Davos/Klosters alongside such luminaries as Shakira and Forest Whitaker, recognised for speaking truth to power and seeking to change the world for better.. A sought after speaker and thought leader on African cities, design, social and spatial practices, and demographic change. He is also the founder of the House of Makeka, a premium lifestyle suite of design and product experiences working to change the world through smart and exquisite design.

He is a Desmond Tutu, Oxford fellow in leadership, an Aliko Dangote Fellow, and is Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum.

He is the founder and owner of Makeka Design Lab cc, an internationally recognised design practice founded in 2002 that deploys innovative design solutions at the urban, architectural, cultural and installation scale. Born in South Africa, and raised in Maseru and New York, he is an accomplished architect, urbanist, and design theoretician, and a leading voice on entrepreneurial development, design and property strategy. Mokena founded his practice whilst a student, offering high quality design and strategic insight work, as well as nurturing talent and providing mentorship to various persons in the creative community. He has been named by the National City Press, as one of the top 100 World class South Africans, 2013. Amongst various architecture and urban design awards and recognition in design competitions, career highlights include being selected as one of the Ordos 100 architects by Hertzog & De Meuron and Ai Wei Wei. He has served as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Design. He has also served as an advisor to the South African Minister of Human settlements. Mokena is the inaugural winner of the Gold Loerie Award for Communication Design (in Architecture) 2011. He is the youngest recipient of the Award of Merit (two time winner) from the Cape Institute for Architecture, and was the national top student across six years of study, winning the national SACAP medal for 2001(South African Council for the Architectural Profession in 2001 and Corobrik Award, 3rd place).

He is published as a contributor in: Sustainable Waters Handbook, Transport and Mobility Handbook (Alive2Green publications 2009), Counter Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in Cape Town (African Centre for Cities) 2010, and Rogue urbanism (2011) and Reflections on Cairo (2011). In addition to this he has written numerous articles and papers on topics ranging across: sustainability, urban culture, transport and urban design, planning theory and African urbanism. He has been a speaker at the SAIA Biennale Convention, Green Building conference, Decorex conversations on Architecture, The Seminar of Social Innovation and Sustainability and the Public Design and consumption Symposium, both held in Brazil, to mention a few. As a sought after speaker and interlocutor, and authority on design and development, Mokena’s warm and analytical approach offers rapid insight into complex problems.

Mokena has served as a judge on the Plascon Prism Awards and participated in the FIFA 2010 World Cup Arts & Culture Task Team, as well being the lead architect for the Cape Town station upgrade for the World Cup. He has served as a master’s of architecture examiner at Pretoria School of Architecture, WITS school of Architecture and Planning, and the University of Johannesburg.

He’s also been an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York. Mokena is a 2014 Desmond Tutu Fellow in Leadership and a member of the African Leadership Network, ALN.

Mokena is the receipt of the 2010 Johnnie Walker “Celebrating Strides,” Award for design. Mokena was a co writer of “Men About Town,” a weekly column in the Cape Times, (the city’s most respected daily newspaper) for over a year. He was a speaker at TEDxStellenbosch 2011, and is a Design Indaba alumnus, and has been interviewed on CNN. He serves as the chair the board of Isandla Institute, which does groundbreaking research work and advocacy on urban development, local government. He serves on the Board of Bush Radio and is the Chair of The Cape Town Heritage Trust.

He served on the steering committee which secured the World Design Capital status for Cape Town, and is core member of the scientific committee of the 2014 Union of International Architects conference in Durban. Mokena is the founder of MoDILA, the only independent museum in South Africa devoted exclusively to contemporary and historic design and operates under the total oversight of a public benefit organisation, the MoDILATrust© (2011). It is a registered education trust (IT2015/2011) and Non-Profit Organisation (099-829-NPO) in South Africa with a board of trustees. MoDILA has been showcased By the British council In London at the Architecture festival 2013.

A flagship program that Mokena has created is a novel learning model for disadvantaged South African teenagers to enhance their creative, entrepreneurial and leadership skills, called ACE© (Academy of Creative Excellence) supported by the National Department of Arts and Culture (2013). Most recently he serves as council chair of property portfolio for the South African Heritage Resource Agency, (SAHRA) and his skills are in demand as far afield as Dar es Salaam, Kampala, Maputo, Rio de Janeiro and New York. He has recently been appointed as Resident Equity Scholar at the School of Architecture and Planning at WITS, to assist and lead strategic approaches for the transformation of this venerable institution.

Mokena believes that good architecture is a basic human right and that through the design process one can harness the power to change not only the spaces we inhabit, but the socio-economy reality of communities, and stakeholders. Design is increasingly a critical tool to negotiate conflict, identify opportunities and to address the transformation of the environment and to create resilient cities and economies.

Zamantungwa Khumalo Executive Producer at Power FM, Global Shaper at World Economic Forum

Zamantungwa’s passion in African development, women empowerment and media is evident in the work she’s been involved in throughout the years. She is Co-Founder of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation Youth Hub (TMF Youth Hub) a youth leadership organization formed with the goal of putting African youth the centre of Africa’s renewal, and enabling them to work together on solving the political, social and economic challenges that Africa faces. Zamantungwa was promoted to Executive Producer at the talk radio station POWER FM, after being a producer on the station since its inception, where she leads a group of producers and oversees the content on the station. She has over five years’ experience in radio, having started her career at campus radio stations and eventually anchoring and producing her own talk radio show on Voice of Wits FM.Zamantungwa is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community, Tshwane Hub. She recently won the 2016 Global Shaper essay

competition on the theme of responsive and responsible leadership and as a prize, attended the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Zamantungwa has been a participant in two Young Global Leaders Education Modules: the ‘Innovation and Immersion in Africa’ and ‘Leading for Transformation’ module, both hosted by the Wits Business School.

In 2016 she was selected as one of fifty Global shapers to attend the 26th World Economic Forum meeting, in Kigali, Rwanda. At the same meeting, she project managed POWER FM’s first international broadcast across different shows. In the same year, Zamantungwa was a scriptwriter for the live broadcast of the Zambian Presidential Inauguration, in Lusaka Zambia. The broadcast was on Zambezi Magic (DStv channel 160).

In 2015 Zamantungwa was a delegate at the Civil BRICS Summit in Moscow Russia and a speaker at the inaugural BRICS Youth Summit in Kazan, Russia. While in Russia, she was chosen by the Deputy Minister in the Presidency, Buti Manamela to be a youth representative at the Heads of States Summit in Ufa, Russia.

In 2014 Zamantungwa was Media Director of the Tshwane Hub. In the same year, she was one of fifty African Global Shapers selected to be part of the 24th World Economic Forum on Africa, in Abuja, Nigeria. She was selected to be a speaker in a plenary session called, ‘Young and Restless’, speaking alongside Ashish Thakkar, Africa’s youngest billionaire, Kola Karim, CEO of Nigerian conglomerate Shoreline Energy International, Esi Cleland, co-founder and CEO of AfroChic Limited and Bineta Diop, Founder and President of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS). The session was broadcast live on Channels Television and was viewed by over 4 million people. At 24 years old, Zamantungwa was the youngest panelist at the Forum that year

Her passion for international affairs has seen her representing South Africa at the United Nations for Model United Nations Debates; the Y20/G20 Delegates’ Summit in Puebla, Mexico as well as the

G8/G20 Youth Summits in Washington DC, USA. She is Committee Member for the South African Youth for International Diplomacy. Zamantungwa has also represented South Africa at the One Young World Summit in Zurich, Switzerland and was a panelist for the Youth Plenary in the Brand Africa Forum. She was also a delegate at the 2014 Insight Dubai Conference, hosted by Dubai Women’s College.

Zamantungwa was Special Projects Manager at Youth Lab, a youth policy think tank which advocates for increased meaningful engagement by young South Africans on policy and socio-economic issues. One of Youth Lab’s programmes, iCre8 SA, a new programme for young innovators, was named one of Africa’s Top ten Start Up incubators to watch, in Africa by Venture Africa.

Zamantunwa is an avid-hiker and started a hiking group for black hikers called ‘Slayfontein Hiking’. She has summited Mount Emlembe, the highest mountain in Swaziland and is currently training to summit Kilimanjaro.

Zamantungwa founded her first non-profit, T.R.I.B.E (Teenagers Responsible In Building Ekasi) at the age of 12.

Sidharth (Sid) WahiPresident, CMA Investment Holdings

Sid Wahi is President of CMA Investment Holdings, a family investment holding company that is the Founding shareholder of the ABN Group; including CNBC Africa, Forbes Africa, ABN Productions, ABN Training Institute and ABN Pictures. CMA Investment Holdings is also the founding shareholder of Murdoch University Dubai, Transnational Education Africa, Tech One Global and Ananya Farms.

Sid joined the family business in May 2008 to set up the Forbes franchise for Africa. He was involved with the planning, set up and implementation of the magazine and serves as Project Director of ABN Publishing. In 2013, Sid launched Forbes Woman Africa and Forbes Life Africa across the continent.

In Jan 2012, Sid was appointed the CEO of ABN Digital, the online business of the ABN Group and has been tasked with the planning and roll out all the Group Companies into the online space across the African continent.

Post recapitalization of ABN Digital, Pty Ltd., Sid successfully acquired the franchise rights to CNBC’s marks and African content in the online arena and launched CNBCAfrica.com in November 2013.

Currently, Sid heads the digital and print publishing businesses within the Africa Business News group. Sid also serves as Vice President Strategy & Business Development for CNBC Africa and oversees the management information systems and risk management function of the Group.

He serves on the Board of ABN Publishing, ABN Pictures, ABN Training Institute, ABN Nigeria and ABN Kenya.In March 2013, Sid was part of an expedition that successfully summited Mt Kilimanjaro.

Sid completed his schooling at the Doon School in India and earned his Bachelor (Hons) of Business Administration majoring in Finance from the Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Canada.

Euvin NaidooWBS Executive in Residence, Partner and Managing Director in BCG, Member of WEF's Global Expert Panel, Young Global Leader Alumnus

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Euvin Naidoo is the first South African Partner and Managing Director to join The Boston Consulting Group's Johannesburg office where he serves as Head of the Financial Services (Banking and Insurance) and Public Sector Practices for Africa. Euvin's global and pan-African experience over the past 15 years encompasses engagement across more than 20 African

countries within investment banking, personal and business banking, insurance, and risk. His current work focuses on banking and insurance incorporating digital innovation and customer centricity. Selected in 2009 as a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum (WEF), in 2012 he was recruited to the Forum’s Global Agenda Councils, where he served on the United States Council for 2 terms. He is currently a part of the WEF's Global Expert network. Euvin is a graduate of the Harvard Business School. Columbia University’s Journal of International Affairs has named Euvin one of the ‘Five Faces of African Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. In 2011, he was selected by Forbes as one of the African continent's Top 10 most ‘Powerful and Influential Men’ of his generation.