About

I’m Stafford Masie. I Help Entrepreneurs Build Their Dreams

I talk around Digital Innovation and Disruption, and are applicable to any audience because technology is a transversal matter, irrespective of industry or theme.

I have been in the ICT industry for more than 25 years. My career foundations started in mid 90’s working for Telkom, Dimension Data and then Novell as a software engineer. After spending 7.5 years living in the USA working for Novell based in Utah, I notably was responsible for establishing Google’s presence in South Africa (2006).

I led their team in launching the African versions of Google Search, Adwords, Google Maps and Streetview as well as the local version of YouTube – in other words, the Southern African Google business ecosystem and strategy.

After leaving Google in 2010, I founded several fintech businesses and have since established several technology start-ups that have expanded globally. I am known for the ‘Payment Pebble®’ and ‘Payment Blade®’ which I invented and which were launched via ABSA in South Africa and ANZ Bank in Australia and New Zealand.

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They are presently being launched throughout the Asia Pacific region. During his time in the fintech arena he raised capital via an international venture capital firm and also the USA based Visa Inc (who also acquired an equity stake in one of his businesses).

Stafford continues his entrepreneurial journey today as an inventor and mentor within early-stage technology start-ups. Presently the two most notable of which are GATTACA – an artificial intelligence platform – and another which focuses on bitcoin crypto currency innovations.