Patrick Schofield has pioneered crowdfunding in Africa. His focus is on financial access and inclusion in Africa. He is the CEO and co-founder of BackaBuddy NPC, Africa’s leading community crowdfunding platform. He is co-founder of South Africa’s equity crowdfunding platform Uprise.Africa and founder of Thundafund.com.
Previous founder of Streetwires, and Billboard Information Services. He is an elected Schwab Fellow, and has received a number of awards including South African Entrepreneur of the Year, Top Billing; Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Award, and Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, South Africa.