clivebutkow

Northview

University of the Witwatersrand

Chief Executive Officer at Kalon Venture Partners

City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Talk360

Observer

GoMetro

Non Executive Director

Sendmarc

Chairman of the Board

Carscan

iXperience

Mobiz

Flow Living

Ozow

FCB.ai

SnapnSave

Kalon Venture Partners is a highly respected Johannesburg based Venture Capital Company investing in digital disruptive technologies. The Kalon team are the entrepreneurs behind the entrepreneurs and play a strategic role in their investee companies. Kalon has one of the most experienced boards with greater then 200 years, venture capital, technology, entrepreneurship and business building experience. Kalon invest in, builds and exits disruptive technology companies that will offer investors a 5 times return on their investment over 5 to 8 years equating to an IRR of circa 30%. The fund is registered in terms of section 12 J of the SA income tax act which will enable SA taxpayers 100% of the amount invested as a deduction from their taxable income.

Kalon Venture Partners

Chief Executve Officer

I am currently supporting numerous start ups, small and medium size entrepreneurial businesses to help drive business mastery in areas from strategic innovation of their products and/or services, world class strategic marketing, sales training, systems and processes, optimizing and maximizing people and processes and many more business aspects.

Various organizations

Entrepreneur support for start-ups and established businesses

I am currently involved in the mentoring and coaching of many entrepreneurial businesses as well as sharing my entrepreneurial lessons with incubators, accelerators and educational institutions in better understanding the "Road map to High Performance Entrepreneurship"​. The talk helps to demystify entrepreneurship and covers many of the lessons I have learnt from both success and failure from working in numerous start up and established entrepreneurial businesses. The topics I cover include the following: the mindset of successful entrepreneurs, why so many entrepreneurial businesses fail, key lessons from my entrepreneurial journey, effective execution of an entrepreneurial business, how to survive a start up, starting an ecommerce business, technology start ups - the road map to success, tips for better business development in an entrepreneurial business, bootstrapping your business without raising investor capital, the do's and don'ts of the investor pitch. what you need to know about social marketing in an entrepreneurial business and many more.

Various organisations

Entrepreneurial Coaching and Training

I am currently running leadership training for numerous companies, schools and universities to increase participants awareness of the leadership traits, skills and disciplines to lead a high performance company. The material includes the lessons I have learnt from both success and failure from my numerous leadership roles within Accenture as well as the many companies that I consulted to during my 28 year tenure at Accenture. The material includes: Why is Leadership Important; Challenges that Disturb Leaders most;  Mind-set of High Performance Leaders;  Importance of Soft Skills in the leadership,team; Key Leadership Attributes; how to build a winning team; Winning the “War for Talent” and the importance of embracing the Change Agenda.

Leadership training on the how to run a High Performance Company

From 2006 until 2012 I was the COO of Accenture South Africa and during this period consulted to many blue chip companies, in South Africa and globally, on numerous aspects including; innovation, Organizational Strategy, IT strategy and IT and business transformation. I also assisted many startup tech companies scale their businesses to become large enterprises. Prior to 2006 I led Accenture’s technology business and built a tram of circa 1500 people. During my Accenture career I worked across the globe building technology startups and scale ups,

Accenture

Accenture COO

I was the Ex COO of Accenture South Africa. Prior to this I headed up!Accenture South Africa’s technology business as well as heading up technology sales

Ex Accenture South Africa COO

Ex chief operating officer

Managing Director of Accenture's Technology business

Accenture (1998-2011)

Managing director technology

senior executive

Clive Butkow

Clive Butkow