Director, MosaicThe Boardroom Africa
Tamsin is a social entrepreneur and venture catalyst who has been involved in the design and expansion of a string of high-social impact initiatives in Africa, the UK and Australia. She is a regular commentator on innovation ecosystems, women in leadership and good governance.
Based on her track record of building new and innovative initiatives, Tamsin advises corporate leaders, investors and policy makers with a focus on turning a transformative idea into reality. She is currently helping to launch Capital Connect, the largest ever matching of gender lens funds with potential investors from around the world. Tamsin has co-founded an innovation hub for ventures in Cape Town and the leading solution to bring more exceptional female talent into boardrooms across Africa through the creation of most extensive network of board-ready women on the continent. She has been senior advisor to the leading innovator in last mile cellular and internet connectivity and the UK Government development finance institution, CDC Group, where she contributed to the launch and expansion of The Africa List.
Earlier in her career, Tamsin contributed to the establishment of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation in Cape Town as Deputy Director, expanded care services to pregnant women living with HIV in southern Africa, served as political and policy advisor to the Premier of South Australia and helped drive the London 2012 Olympic Games’ jobs and enterprise legacy strategy on behalf of major corporates in the City of London and Canary Wharf.
Tamsin is a proud trustee of TheFlipFlopi, an organisation determined to end single use plastic in Africa.
She holds an MBA from the Said Business School of the University of Oxford with a merit scholarship awarded by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.