Catherine is the co-founder and CEO of 20fifty. Launched in 2019, 20fifty specialises in modern application development and serverless cloud computing.

In non-geek-speak: the 20fifty team combines human ingenuity + intelligent technology to ideate, scope, build, test and deploy new concepts and solutions for clients who want to embrace innovation, but wish to limit operational risk and capital expense.

In her career Catherine has served on the board of Mobile Entertainment Forum Africa and the Silicon Cape Initiative. She has been named one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans; was recognized for Topco Top Women in Business and Government; featured in the Old Mutual Do Great Things start-up guide, Destiny Magazine’s Power of 40 under 40,and named as one ofSA Women Making It Big In Tech by Fin24. The Influential Businesswoman Awards recognized her as the Most Innovative Woman in Cloud Innovation in South Africa 2019.

Catherine enjoys speaking on a variety of topics and has had the pleasure of speaking at SXSW, Midem, Tech4Africa, #FastForward, MLOVE, AWS Summit, Women In Tech Summit, DW Global Media Forum, AfricaCom, Digital Futures Society Summit and numerous others.

Passionate about mentoring and life-long learning, she contributes to programs such as Techstars, Sw7, Launch Weekend and Spark-Up and recently completed the MIT Sloan Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy course.

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