Speaker

Alan Knott-Craig

Chairman, HeroTel

Alan Knott-Craig, chairman, Herotel

Alan Knott-Craig is a successful entrepreneur, best-selling author, chairman of HeroTel – a wireless broadband provider – and founder of Project Isizwe, an NGO rolling out free WiFi in poor communities. Originally from Pretoria, he studied at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (formerly UPE) and qualified as a chartered accountant in 2002; he has subsequently invested in or funded 21 companies in the tech industry.

Knott-Craig was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009. Forbes listed him as one of the top 10 young African millionaires to watch. He was also included in "100 Choiseul Africa", a list of the top 100 young African business leaders, in 2014, 2015 and 2016; nominated as the 2015 ICT Personality of the Year by ITWeb; and nominated by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 11 entrepreneurs changing the African landscape in 2017.

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