Jayshree Naidoo - CEO: YIEDI

Jayshree Naidoo is the CEO of YIEDI, (Youth Innovation Entrepreneurship Design Institute) a company that focuses on Innovation and Strategy Consulting, Incubation Design and Management, Entrepreneurship and Supplier Development and Digital and eLearning solutions. She has developed several frameworks and models for Innovation and Incubation and has created several structured acceleration programmes for Start-ups and Growth Entrepreneurs as well as Leadership Programmes for Corporates. She was previously the head and the founder of the Standard Bank Incubator and has held several leadership roles in SA that include positions at The Development Bank of Southern Africa, Discovery, ABSA and Internet Solutions.

She was previously the CEO of Feenix, a crowd funding platform for students launched by the bank, a board member of JASA (Junior Achievement South Africa), as well as the Chairperson of SAINe (The Southern African Innovation Network), and held a seat on NACI (The National Advisory Council on Innovation). She was identified as one of the Top 25 Global FinTech Influencers. She has local and international experience in the fields of strategy, consulting, innovation, entrepreneurship and e-commerce. Her qualifications include an MBA, CAIB (SA), Honors in E-Commerce and IT.

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