Accompany Advisory

B-BEE Level 2 Black Woman Owned firm, that has been a strategic partner to a top-tier (MBB) firm, working on strategic and operational transformations through advanced analytics, critical thinking, complex problem solving, and proactive performance and program management. Holds minority strategic investments in digital and disruptive businesses.

Managing Director

Nomanini

1️⃣ Co-founded digital informal sector banking platform; supported CEO and Exco; Non-Executive Director advising on strategy, value drivers, partnerships, talent sourcing, and financing to scale and grow.
2️⃣ Led commercial team of six direct reports across Africa and Middle East driving pipeline of organic and inorganic deals. Exco CCO role works with Product, Operations, and Engineering.
3️⃣ Drove Exco recruiting (Product, Operations Heads; CFO), and strategic projects around growth strategy, organisational structure, process improvement, ways of working; to drive clarity, performance growth.

Co-Founder; Investor; Board Director; Director Special Projects; CCO

Industrial Development Corporation

The IDC drives industrial value chain growth and development impact in Sub-Saharan Africa across its asset base of R120bn+. Worked with the CEO and Exco to articulate and drive delivery momentum across six key themes focused on IDC's twin pillars of financial sustainability and development impact.

Strategic Advisor to CEO

Spencer Stuart

Spencer Stuart is trusted by major multinationals and emerging companies around the world to help them make senior-level leadership decisions that have a lasting impact on their enterprises. Supported Exco teams source scarce talent and align on growth-focused strategic agendas. Worked across industries, with a focus on financial services, TMT, and FAANG.

Director

City of Johannesburg

Board member involved in strategic planning, policy critique, monitoring and challenging performance of executive team and wider management for a City of Johannesburg MOE.

Board Member, Director (Independent NXD)

McKinsey & Company

Strategy and management consultant across industries (esp. TMT, Energy, Logistics). Experience with internal firm building through best-practice consultant training and onboarding.

Management Consultant, Engagement Manager

South African Department of Health (KZN)

Worked in high-pressure roles as a Medical Officer, General Practitioner for a full-service community clinic, Emergency Response Doctor, and Paramedic College Lecturer. Key skills: problem diagnosis, structuring; fast fact-gathering; rational under pressure; psychology of teams.

Medical Doctor and Lecturer

Four Key Points:

1️⃣ Global Roots

I was born in Germany into an American-Persian Baha’i family. Speaking three languages at once was the norm. I've lived in Europe, the USA, and Africa, and seen 25+ countries.

I studied IB at a United World College, whose mission is to be a “force to unite people, nations, and cultures for peace.”

The above compel an approach of questioning assumptions, listening deeply, and seeking robust, collaborative solutions.

2️⃣ Doctor First

After IB, I toured 16+ European countries for a year with a German-based dance group; my dream was to become a multi-media producer. I became a medical doctor instead.

Apart from medical know-how, this discipline drove me to understand: 

(1) Patterns, systems, and insights from large volumes of data quickly
(2) People’s psychology, motivations, and drives dramatically improve team delivery
(3) That ‘life-and-death’ (LAD) is serious, but rare; life is mostly not LAD, so take moments under pressure to think clearly

3️⃣ Top-Tier Consulting

I’ve spent two decades in top-tier consulting, with McKinsey, Spencer Stuart, and otherwise.

I’ve held Executive, Board, and Advisory roles where broad perspectives were essential. 

One example: advising the CEO/Exco of a Financial Institution with a $10bn asset base and 800 professionals. Over two years, this client's profits doubled, and its funding pipeline grew by 147% to $1bn+ per year.  

I’ve seen the outsized value of structured, fact-driven, analytical, and disciplined approaches to incremental and innovative projects, pipelines, and problems.

4️⃣ Problems I Help You Solve

(1) I’ve spent 20,000+ hours over two decades processing leadership learnings and questions, which I post regularly. Ring the bell on my profile to be notified of these.

(2) Join “The Impactful Executive,” newsletter, where we address the three pains CEO face weekly.

(3) I help Boards and 'G3' Executives (CEOs, CHROs, CFOs) unlock value through: 

* Analytical Thinking (value drivers, model building) & Strategic Clarity (high-impact decisions)
* Execution Discipline (incremental and innovation-focused program management and value-building)
* Top Team Sciences (Exco engagement, effectiveness, efficiency, and senior team dynamics) 
* Executive Talent & Soundboarding (executive search global best practice, leadership advisory)

(4) I can hold a few Board and Exco advisory roles globally (esp. high-tech, high-growth).

If you'd like help driving outsized impact, please reach out.

Dr Ali Monadjem

iSTA Solutions

Akiva is the Regional Managing Director for ISTA Personnel Solutions South Africa, helping USA companies find and manage top South African talent, who are native English speakers, at lower costs. 

ISTA's experienced team of recruiting and staffing specialists, along with operations, training, and IT experts, provides USA clients with outstanding support while reducing operational expenses.

Meet the best talent today, in Philippines and South Africa: https://www.istasolutions.com/ 

Your business success is our priority.

Regional Managing Director

Sohva

Akiva was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sohva, a Fintech Accelerator. We provided outsourced services to large corporates and integrated with fast-growing tech startups. We ensured speed-to-market, tech integration, customer servicing, data-modelling, product insights, and managed strategic partnerships. 

Our team culture: entrepreneurial mindset + collaborative + customer-obsession + data-driven decisions = high-performing team, moving at break-neck speed whilst accommodating to a highly regulated environment. We pivoted from bancassurance cybersecurity into the mobile device ecosystem.

CEO, Co-Founder

Center for Creative Leadership

Akiva was Regional Director, Sub-Saharan Africa at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®), helping large corporates accelerate "Enterprise-wide Digital Transformation" - a combination of leadership + technology + business reinvention = culture change at its core. 

We served across sectors (financial services, technology, telecommunications, energy, retail, health) and global foundations. We worked closely C-suite, board members, cross-functional teams, and partners, helping them align goals, drive innovative growth, and leverage Corporate Venturing. We enabled the culture-fit between large corporates and tech-startups.

Passionate about unlocking talent & creating shared-value.

Regional Director

Whyguess

Why Guess is designed to enable Call Centres to convert more sales, increase efficiencies, reduce operational costs and deliver superior customer services via data-driven dashboards & targeted training.

Our secret sauce is combining 
1) Artificial intelligence (AI) - AI identifies patterns in our customer pipeline data that tells our call centre agents who to call at "specific times in the day" - i.e. times that a potential customer is most inclined to purchase. We applied advanced analytics to help us increase call centre efficiencies, offer better customer service and reduce costs.

2) Call Centre training - by applying our data-driven insights to agent training, helped us hone in on specific gaps that agents had and enhanced our agent scripts. Our online training targeted each agent's specific gaps, which increased our sales & customer satisfaction. 

"Why Guess" when you can use data-driven insights to enable your agents to outperform other call centre agents and achieve consistently better sales results. 

The company is a diverse mix of data scientists, call centre & online training experts working together to remove the Guess work out of call centre performance and consistently increase sales.

Why Guess was absorbed into Gijima Training Institute.

Sales Director & Co-Founder

Mediacor Solutions

At Mediacor Solutions (MCS), Akiva operated at the intersection between large corporates and tech startups. He led MCS DevOps and sales teams offering SaaS and enterprise-wide change management services. He developed strategic partnerships with an extensive global network of industry experts and C-Suite executives in the financial services, telecommunications and technology industries. He designed the SaaS Architecture, built and launched MCS learning platform. The platform allowed MCS to scale and integrated with complex enterprise software. 

Akiva's primary roles included:
-	Growth into new markets and trusted strategic partnerships across geographies  
-	Establishing the product-market fit and business models of a SaaS platform
-	Recruiting and leading top talent across geographies
-	Creating a trusted network of emerging technology experts

CEO & Founder

The SMEAnalyst

Using artificial intelligence to identify high potential businesses. The ultimate business compass, navigating businesses and stakeholders toward successful decisions, based on continuously updated studies from 38 countries spanning over 40 years. 

"This is business intelligence on steroids … a massive game-changer … Within minutes it goes to the heart of business success or failure … They provide speed-to-market which is essential in excelling within a globally competitive workforce." 
- Professor Rijamampianina (INSEAD, Duke CE)

Akiva’s primary roles included:
- Sales, marketing and revenue growth 
- Developing SaaS business model 
- Access to C-Suite executives and board members in financial services
- Identifying and building successful channel partners 
- Working closely with DevOps team

Boston City Campus & Business College

Akiva implemented a flexible and profitable EdTech platform, which gave Boston their competitive edge, able to quickly become the number 1 private education institution in South Africa - servicing over 20,000 students p/year. He had to quickly adapt and design new systems of operating for this fast-growing business that ensured effective and efficient ways of working in a highly regulated environment.

Primary roles included:
-      Implementation of a turn-key cloud solution that increased efficiencies & profits, whilst reducing costs 
-	Increased internal team agility whilst working closely with external regulators and industry experts
-	Lead the sales team
-	Global research and development of new technologies that enhanced learning
-	Developed higher education programs with multi-disciplinary experts

Director of Digital Learning

Akiva is Regional Director of ISTA South Africa, helping USA companies hire, manage, and retain top South African talent cost-effectively. He leads a customer-obsessed team that is high-performing, great to work with, and experienced.

Akiva has over 20 years of experience in accelerating business growth for global companies and new ventures across EMEA and the USA. He has a proven track record in offshoring, growing market share, and delivering superior customer services.

Akiva holds a master's degree in Innovation & Technology, is a TED Talk speaker, and a podcast host. He is passionate about unlocking talent and leveraging emerging technologies to work smarter, better, and faster.

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