This session will share lessons from a team of corporate mavericks – Bankers turned Intrapreneurs. Join us to learn more about how we ideated, collaborated and partnered to launch a renewable energy start up in South Africa. Power Pulse, built and launched in a year helps corporates address complex regulatory environments, simplifies the decision-making process and ultimately accelerates access to alternative energy sources in Africa.

In this session we will share more about:
- What inspired us
- How to leverage client insights and partnerships
- The advantages of building from within
- Operating in uncertainty

Banker turned corporate venturer. Lizelle started her career in Investment Banking doing project financing for mining renewable energy projects. She later moved to the Power Sector team and managed relationships as well as strategy for the bank in the power, and particularly renewable energy, sector. During this role she joined the client discovery workstream focused on decentralized energy on the African continent. This design-thinking process led to the creation of PowerPulse, a digital platform focused on the solar power ecosystem in South Africa. Lizelle currently forms part of the leadership team developing PowerPulse. Kevin has been with the bank for the past 7 years. He is currently a Corporate Venturing Lead in the CIB Digital division and is the Co-Lead and Co-Founder for the Standard Bank PowerPulse renewable energy digital platform. Kevin’s career in the bank began in Structuring Advisory Investment Banking and pivoted into the digital innovation hub of the Corporate and Investment Bank where he is currently placed. He has been one of the key team members behind the design thinking and innovation process which was followed to ideate the PowerPulse digital platform business and is currently responsible for running the digital and operational aspects of the business. His passion for building new businesses within the context of digital transformation feeds his commitment to client centric innovations which are relevant in the 4IR. In his spare time, Kevin is an avid runner and digital transformation speaker. Jaco has been part of Standard Bank for past 20 years. He has been entrusted with a number of leadership roles in South Africa and other countries within our footprint. He has remained close to our client franchise in the Corporate and Investment Bank. In his current role as Head Corporate Venturing he is responsible for providing leadership and execution in building new ventures, not constrained to financial services.