Our Team

“Aubuti-Mike”-Ntlai : Soweto-born intellect, leader, community builder and entrepreneur. Aubuti started his career programming in the 90’s using DOS (also known as MS-DOS). He is likened as the South African Woz & Paul Gardner Allen. In Mzansi, while kids at the time were focussed on fooling around, Aubuti Ntlai’s parents had a vision of their children gaining unrivalled expertise in IT. Being the visionaries they were, they paved the way for Aubuti’s current career. It is said that the recipe of champions is consistency (Malcolm Gladwell - The Outliers), and nothing could be truer of Aubuti Ntlai, fondly known in the KasiKlippa Team as “Mike”. He brings a solid track record from Deloitte, Standard Bank (over 14 years) and Autonomi Capital, the latter an independent provider of financial and strategic advice to the energy, infrastructure and resources sectors, in Africa and beyond. “What’s in a name” they say? At KasiKlippa we are a brand that tells the African story in a South African manner. Aubuti is nicknamed Mike, because his European co-founders initially battled with the pronunciation of his name. Obviously the team now knows his name, however the joke remains an internal one and is exemplary of how we, as a team, go beyond caste, stereotypes and race to bring much needed economic change to our communities and continent at large. Aubuti Mike serves the team as acting CEO & Board Member, offering his voluminous experience in strategy, business leadership and mentoring *(particularly within the finance and investment space) professional business culture building and community builder; in ensuring KasiKlippa becomes South Africa’s first lucrative and impactful loyalty program - the only one on the African continent that offers loyalty points towards investment and community building, while ensuring ROI for our all our stakeholders.