Shaun is a seasoned ICT executive with over 20 years’ experience working in the technology industry with a focus on innovation. Shaun’s success has been achieved by building and motivating teams from data and analytics to platform design, systems architecture, and product engineering.
He has previously worked for Acer Africa, Izodia, the British Council and Thera Health. He co-founded Free Minded Media – a company which specialized in creating innovative mobile and social solutions for companies and worked with brands such as Barloworld, Coca-Cola, DGB, Edcon, Postnet, SAB, Spar and Shoprite.
He also founded Awaken VR formerly SDK Africa – a company that became a pioneer in Augmented and Virtual Reality applications and was the first company in Africa to launch AR on live TV with Big Brother and the first to do a live stream in VR with Supersport.
Shaun is a former Survivor contestant, the winner of the Technology Top 100 as well as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator.
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