
Nirvesh Sooful
Founder
Nirvesh Sooful is the founder and former CEO of African Ideas, a strategic consultancy that he founded to focus on helping governments to accelerate the benefits of ICT-enabled change through the transformation of the public sector and the wider economy. Nirvesh has more than 25 years of experience in the ICT industry.

Zain Ebrahim
Head: Outsourced Servces
Zain Ebrahim is an African Ideas divisional executive. His focus is growing our capability in the telecommunications space. African Ideas’ current primary telecoms client is MTN. Zain manages several MTN accounts for African Ideas. Zain has over two decades of experience in the telecoms sector in South Africa.

Aleya Banwari
Head: Talent Acquisition
Aleya Ramparsad Banwari is a Masters in Public Health student at the University of Cape Town (UCT). They/She is a graphic design and marketing specialist with 5 years of experience in social media management, largely focused on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Aleya is a Prosci-certified Change Management Specialist and recently completed the Foundation in Design Thinking Programme at the Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika at UCT.