Meet our Top 50 Thriving Female Founder for 2019 Edition
Jayshree Naidoo is a thought leader on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the CEO of YIEDI, a company that focuses on Innovation and Strategy Consulting, Incubation Design and Management, Entrepreneurship and Supplier Development and Digital and eLearning solutions. She was recently identified as one of Fast Company SA’s most Creative People in Business for “Putting Entrepreneurs First.” She is also and Inspiring 50 Nominee for Woman in STEM.
She has held several leadership roles in SA that include positions at the Development Bank of Southern Africa, Discovery, ABSA and Internet Solutions. She was previously the CEO of Feenix, a crowdfunding platform for students launched by the bank, a board member of JASA (Junior Achievement South Africa), as well as the Chairperson of SAINe (The Southern African Innovation Network), and held a seat on NACI (The National Advisory Council on Innovation). Her last formal role was the Head of the Standard Bank Incubator, a model which was later replicated in Mozambique and Ghana
She is a professional speaker and has presented at several public and company conferences both locally and internationally and has been featured in several magazines including but not limited to CEO Magazine, SA Innovator, Destiny, Fast Company and has been published in the Innovation Journal. Jayshree is often a guest presenter on 702 – The Money Show with Bruce Whitfield. She is a guest lecturer at many of SA's top universities on the topics of Innovation, Incubation, Strategy and Digital Disruption. She was previously identified as on of the Top 25 Global FinTech Influencers.
She has local and international experience in the fields of strategy, consulting, innovation, entrepreneurship, and e-commerce. She has worked in the following sectors: Technology, Manufacturing, Health Insurance, Finance, Development Finance, and Education. Her qualifications include an MBA, CAIB (SA), Honors in E-Commerce and IT. She has over 8000 Twitter and LinkedIn Connections and Followers.