Genesis Analytics appoints Gavin Krugel as partner in Digital Excellence practice

Johannesburg-based Genesis Analytics has named Gavin Krugel as a partner within its Centre of Digital Excellence practice.

Gavin Krugel is a leader in digital innovation, with experience across fintech, edtech, healthtech, telecoms and financial services. He specialises in frontier technologies: technologies that lead to improving life, with a recent focus on AI and digital public infrastructure for sustainable impact.

He co-founded the Digital Frontiers Institute and was the CEO of Digital Frontiers for the last decade. He drove the organisation’s expansion to over 180 countries, empowering more than 5,000 partners to leverage cutting-edge digital solutions for sustainable development.

Krugel’s career highlights include being one of the early pioneers in mobile payments, spearheading mobile payment innovations as chief strategy officer at Fundamo (a Visa company) and vice president at Visa, where he advanced digital financial services in emerging markets. At GSMA, he led global initiatives in fintech and healthtech, shaping the evolution of digital economies.

He has also served on the boards of Digital Frontiers and DiaspoCare and as Chair of TroyTyla. He holds an MBA from Grenoble Ecole de Management and executive credentials from Harvard Business School and UC Berkeley.

At Genesis Analytics, he will spearhead the expansion of the firm’s digital public infrastructure offering. “Technology innovations are increasingly core to solving the world’s greatest challenges. I’m excited to partner with Genesis Analytics to drive technology innovations at the frontier of social impact,” said Krugel.

Stephan Malherbe, CEO of Genesis Analytics, added: “Gavin’s arrival signals our commitment to redefining the human-technology interface for scalable impact.”

Founded in 1998, Genesis Analytics is headquartered in Johannesburg, with its team working across Africa and beyond. The consulting firm has expertise in behavioural sciences; competition economics and regulation; climate finance; the digital economy and regulation; economic impact assessment; human development; public health and financing; corporate impact; and youth employment.

Clients include all levels of government, corporates and banks, development agencies, multilateral organisations, foundations, regulators and law firms.