Benoit Renard

Biography

Benoit Renard is the co-founder and CEO of Tiko, an African non-profit organisation leveraging the power of a tech-responsive world to deliver impact services to underserved adolescent girls and young women in urban and peri-urban Africa. Tiko impacted more than one million girls in 2024 in the 7 countries where it operates. Benoit co-funded Tiko 10 years ago, and has been looking after its growth and expansion ever since. For the past 20 years, Benoit has been exploring several impact models, mixing marketing, business principles, international aid and technology to increase the shared value at community levels, in diverse non-profit and for-profit organizations, in Europe and Southern Africa. Benoit holds a Master of Science in Management degree from HEC School of Management in Paris, France. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa and is the father of two teenagers.