Team

Deep experience at the intersection of Africa, technology, and enterprise.

Two founders who have spent careers inside the world's leading strategy firms and Africa's most active technology markets - combined with a network of sector specialists across the continent and globally.

Founders

The people behind AfricAI.

Ido Sum
Ido Sum
Co-Founder

Background

Two decades building and investing in African technology enterprises across East, West, and Southern Africa. Direct experience of what separates successful technology deployments from expensive failures - across the full range of enterprise contexts. Deep C-suite relationships across the continent's leading enterprises and the global AI ecosystem.

At AfricAI

Leads client relationships, market development, and the build of AfricAI's proprietary intelligence platform. Brings the local operating reality that determines which global solutions actually translate - and which don't.

Also

Writes about African venture, VC, and AI on Substack. Walk Together is his ongoing series on the African startup ecosystem. Founder of AfricaIntel (africaintel.co) - an AI-enriched intelligence platform tracking African startup activity and investor signals.

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Oren Salomon
Oren Salomon
Co-Founder

Background

25 years as a McKinsey and Bain partner, specialising in enterprise technology transformation and operational execution for large, complex organisations globally. Led Bain's UK Financial Services AI practice - working at the intersection of AI strategy and financial services operations for some of the world's largest institutions.

At AfricAI

Leads engagement delivery and client outcomes. Ensures every recommendation is grounded in operational reality, not consulting theory. Brings the global enterprise AI experience that informs AfricAI's deployment methodology and the rigour that turns strategy into outcomes.

Expertise

Enterprise AI strategy, financial services transformation, operating model design, change management for large-scale technology deployments, and the organisational conditions that determine whether AI implementations succeed after the advisory team has left.

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How We Operate

Three things that are non-negotiable.

Honest before helpful

We tell clients what is actually deployable in 12 months versus what looks impressive in a strategy presentation. Our reputation is built on outcomes, not on selling engagements.

Local reality first

Every recommendation is filtered through the lens of African operating reality - infrastructure constraints, language requirements, and the specific data architecture of the client. Solutions that work elsewhere are evaluated on their merits in Lagos, Nairobi, and Johannesburg.

Accountability over advice

We are an operating partner, not an advisory firm. We stand behind outcomes with performance-aligned pricing, and we stay engaged through deployment and beyond.

Network

Backed by a deep network across Africa and globally.

AfricAI's founders bring combined relationships spanning Africa's leading corporates, global AI vendors, development finance institutions, and PE firms with African portfolios. In addition to the core team, AfricAI draws on a network of sector specialists, regulatory advisors, and in-market operators across East, West, and Southern Africa - engaged on a project basis to ensure every engagement has the depth it requires.

We are selective about who we bring into client engagements. Network details are shared with clients on a need-to-know basis.

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