Matt Putman & Ramsay Daly (iKhokha)
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Matt Putman & Ramsay Daly (iKhokha)
Ramsay Daly and Matt Putman are the founders of iKhokha. iKhokha is a Point of Sale Chip & PIN card reader that plugs into your iPhone, iPad or Android. Coupled with the iKhokha mobile app the product transforms the phone into a secure mobile Point of Sale terminal which enables merchants to process card payments anywhere in South Africa.
iKhokha was established in 2012 finance from Capital Eye investments, a technology focused venture capital company. iKhokha was the first fully South African designed, engineered and manufactured end to end Mobile Point of Sale solution.
Matt Putman is the Managing director and co-founder of iKhokha. Prior to co-founding iKhokha, Putman held senior positions across the digital communications and technology sectors.
Ramsay Daly is the co-founder and Marketing Director and has a strong digital marketing and digital product development background.
iKhokha has recently partnered with Mastercard to roll out 700 POS terminals to informal settlements and secured a major distribution deal with Game stores across the country.
At the end of September iKhokha won the Innovation Award at the 2016 Innovation Forum in Budapest, Hungary.
Agenda
6:00 pm Networking (Food & Drinks)
7:00 pm Fireside Chat with Matt & Ramsay
7:45 pm Q&A
8:00 pm Networking
Hosted By Guillaume De Smedt, Johannesburg Co-Director
Guillaume De Smedt, "G", as he is otherwise known, is the Global Community Director for Startup Grind. He completed his bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering and is part of the Silicon Cape Board.
Twitter: @gdesmedt1 (http://twitter.com/gdesmedt1) Hosted By Mohamed Chohan, Johannesburg Co-Director
Mohamed Chohan is the Managing Director at Startup Grind Durban. Previously he has worked as a Business Development Manager at RSAWEB and has completed a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from UKZN. He has also worked at Smartrac which is a Management Consultancy, Black Ticket Creative Bureau which is a Brand Consultancy and KPMG.
Contact him on mchohan@startupgrind.com
Twitter: @mohamedchohan (http://twitter.com/mohamedchohan) Hosted By Louise De Smedt, Johannesburg Co-Director
Louise is G's right-hand lady and has been helping make Startup Grind Cape Town a success since August 2013. She loves entrepreneurship and thinks that running her startup is way more fun than the corporate rat-race.
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Partners
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Matt Putman & Ramsay Daly (iKhokha)