PICSA

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

Picsa strives to improve the financial health of low-income South Africans – by offering affordable, high quality financial products, providing practical education and driving positive behavioural change. Accessibility to these products is achieved through their innovative bulk transacting approach, delivered as an easy-to-use employee benefits solution across a range of industries – from agriculture and manufacturing to retail, hospitality and leisure. The employer thus plays a crucial facilitator role; positioned to help make a lasting impact in the lives of his or her employees, while maintaining professional workplace relationships.

www.picsa.com

PAUL KIM

2019 FELLOW

CO-FOUNDER  | QuietLife Solutions

Paul is a co-founder of QuietLife Solutions, a tiny venture consultancy helping for-profits and non-profits implement redemptive imagination in their organisations. He is an actuary by trade but has built up expertise in startups, behavioural economics, and redemptive design. Paul is an eternal learner and strives to connect his Christian faith practically to all spheres of life using the lens of biblical wisdom.

LARA BARTMANN

2019 FELLOW

CO-FOUNDER  |  BRAND TOGETHER

Lara is the Co-Founder of Brand Together: a marketing agency focused on offering support to businesses that want to grow strategic and operational capacity whilst reducing risk. She believes that good marketing happens when you connect someone with the right solution. It isn’t bells and whistles that sell best but a human-centred approach. She’s a strategic, creative thinker with branding, marketing and customer research background. She spent the bulk of her career at Allan Gray, then got the opportunity to work at a non-profit, an Ad agency, a big corporate and a startup. She is an entrepreneur at heart who gets her kicks from eradicating jargon and a well-chosen font.