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Steve Briggs is a senior executive and board-level advisor with more than 25 years of leadership experience across Telecoms, Banking, Digital Payments, Digital Products, and Digital Operations, spanning both high-growth start-ups and established enterprises

He began his career as a graduate trainee at Standard Bank before co-founding two telecom start-ups, both successfully acquired by listed ICT companies. Steve later served as Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at SEACOM, the pan-African network provider, where he was responsible for Product, Sales, and Marketing across the continent.

He was among the early leadership team of fibertime™ group, a pioneering “pay-as-you-go” fibre-to-the-home network bringing affordable broadband to South African townships, and currently serves as its Head of Strategic Partnerships.
Steve has worked extensively across the African continent and has built strong commercial and operational partnerships serving customers in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
He currently sits on the boards of several businesses and non-profits, and is part-time faculty at GIBS. Steve holds B. Com Honours (Economics), MBA from University of the Witwatersrand, MTh from Stellenbosch University.