A team that is passionate about creating positive change in Africa
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Sitoyo Lopokoiyit (Chair)
Sitoyo Lopokoiyit (Chair)Managing Director: M-Pesa Africa
Sitoyo has worked at Vodacom and Safaricom, a division of Vodacom, since 2011 where he has played a crucial role in the development and success of M-PESA, which has revolutionised the global money space, and built partnerships with global players such as PayPal, Google, and Ant Financial. In his current role as CEO of M-PESA Africa and CFO at Safaricom, he is responsible for managing and growing M-PESA in seven African markets.
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Jacques de Vos (CEO)
Jacques de Vos (CEO)CEO: Mezzanine
Jacques de Vos is the CEO and founder of Mezzanine, now a subsidiary of the Vodacom Group. His mandate is to lead this ever-growing organisation in delivering digital transformation across the African continent where more than 25 Mezzanine projects are currently active in 12 African countries. His vision for the company is to establish a platform business with unique insight and a formidable track record in the agricultural, healthcare, education and social services environments thus assisting enterprises and individuals in benefiting from the digital dividend throughout Africa.
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Francois le Grange
Francois le GrangeChief Financial Officer: Mezzanine
Francois le Grange is the Chief Financial Officer at Mezzanine, where he drives financial strategy and growth in a digital business landscape. With a pioneering spirit and a passion for venturing into the unknown, Francois excels in creating innovative solutions and monetization strategies.
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Kenneth Gomado
Kenneth GomadoManaging Executive; Finance Business Partner: Vodacom Business
Kenneth has extensive experience acquired working in Audit, advisory, FMCG, and Telecommunications industries across the African continent. Prior to joining Vodacom, he was the CFO for Vodafone Ghana and had previously worked for British American Tobacco in various senior finance roles across the continent. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town.
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Martha Lamola
Martha LamolaOperations Director (Vodacom Ventures)
Martha is both a Chartered Accountant and an Engineer, with over 25 years of experience in Finance and Technical Operations, with 18 of those years in executive management roles.
ExpandOur Solutions
Mezzanine offers a range of innovative digital managed solutions that have been designed and developed on our modular middleware platform, Helium, by our in-house product teams.
Health & Social Innovation
Health is where Mezzanine started. Our products create networked service delivery platforms with a focus on last-mile linkage to care, and efficient supply chain and pathology management. Our health products are internationally renowned and recognised as solutions that change the world.
Agriculture
Mezzanine offers comprehensive solutions for agribusiness to interact and transact with smallholder farmers in Africa. We can proudly claim that we have helped stamp out corruption in the dairy industry and fundamentally improved the yields of farmers in the Macadamia Nut industry.
Education
Education decision-makers can view real-time data from schools in their area. Whether it be incident reporting or ensuring school textbooks make it to class on-time, our digital solutions connect schools to facilitate an ecosystem of support.
Asset & Financial
Assets and financial disbursements require strict controls to manage in an accountable and transparent way. By using our digital solutions, customers can monitor and get the most out of their assets, as well as digitally disburse money regularly to large bases of unbanked beneficiaries.
Health & Social Innovation
Health is where Mezzanine started. Our products create networked service delivery platforms with a focus on last-mile linkage to care, and efficient supply chain and pathology management. Our health products are internationally renowned and recognised as solutions that change the world.
Agriculture
Mezzanine offers comprehensive solutions for agribusiness to interact and transact with smallholder farmers in Africa. We can proudly claim that we have helped stamp out corruption in the dairy industry and fundamentally improved the yields of farmers in the Macadamia Nut industry.
Education
Education decision-makers can view real-time data from schools in their area. Whether it be incident reporting or ensuring school textbooks make it to class on-time, our digital solutions connect schools to facilitate an ecosystem of support.
Asset & Financial
Assets and financial disbursements require strict controls to manage in an accountable and transparent way. By using our digital solutions, customers can monitor and get the most out of their assets, as well as digitally disburse money regularly to large bases of unbanked beneficiaries.
