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About us
Helping Africa adopt AI on its own terms
Strata Nexus is an African deep-tech and AI consulting firm, headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, working with organisations, ministries and countries across the continent and beyond.
Our story
Strata Nexus was founded on a simple observation: technology is built in layers, and most projects fail where those layers meet. AI on weak data. Infrastructure without governance. Security added at the end.
Across Africa, those gaps are wider because so many playbooks were written for somewhere else. We started Strata Nexus to close them, with a firm that understands African infrastructure, data, regulation and people, and that stays to build and run what it recommends.
Our mission
To help Africa adopt AI on its own terms — secure, governed, and built for local realities.
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What we value
Context first
We start with your people, infrastructure and rules, not a template.
Practical over theoretical
Every recommendation comes with a way to build, test and measure it.
Sovereignty-minded
We design for local control of data, compute and decisions.
Security by design
Security and safety go in at the start, not at the end.
Knowledge transfer
We leave your teams more capable than we found them.
Leadership
The visionary behind Strata Nexus
Founder & CEO
Our founder is an AI strategist, architect and governance advisor with more than eleven years of experience leading enterprise AI, AIOps and digital transformation. As Head of the Microsoft AI Practice at an enterprise IT services provider in South Africa, our founder led programmes with budgets above R50 million, taking AI from executive ambition to secure, well-governed systems that run in production.
That perspective was shaped on both sides of the technology market. As Senior AI Technology Specialist at Microsoft South Africa, leading the CEMA region AI Application development, our founder advised organisations on adopting AI at scale. Earlier, as Global Manager and Lead AI Engineer at a pan-African AI and technology group, our founder built AIOps and network fraud-detection capabilities for a major telecom operator. Our founder has delivered work across Africa and the Middle East, including Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Dubai and more.
Beyond client work, our founder helps shape how Africa builds and governs AI: as Regional Ambassador of the South African AI Association, Non-Executive Board Director of the African Energy and Economic Youth Council, a member of the IITPSA Scientific Committee, and a member of IITPSA, IEEE and AAAI (the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence). This contribution has been recognised with the IITPSA President's Award as IT Personality of the Year (2024), IITPSA Technology Excellence (2023), Most Influential AI Tech Business Leader (Africa) at the UK MEA Market Awards (2024), and selection as an Obama Leader (2023).
Our founder established Strata Nexus to help African organisations and governments adopt AI on their own terms: grounded in local realities, governed responsibly and accountable for measurable value. Our founder advises clients in English and French.
Speaking & media
Our founder speaks to boards, ministries and conferences on practical, governed AI for Africa. Our founder has been a prominent keynote speaker and panellist at events including the 2026 Cyber Security Symposium Africa, the 2025 Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research (as keynote speaker), the 2026 AI Expo Africa, the 2026 ML Africa Agentic AI Conference and many more.
Why Africa can't copy-paste Western AI
What changes when infrastructure, data and regulation are different.
Fenced AI
Why a working model is only 10% of a production AI system.
Why national AI strategies stall after publication
And what it takes to give them an owner, a budget and a programme that delivers.
Sovereign AI in practice
Compute, residency and local inference without the hype.
Let's build AI that works for Africa.
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