Sandiso Sibisi

Studios Director COOi Studios

Sandiso is the founder and director of COOi Studios, a large enterprise innovation accelerator, servicing listed companies in mining, financial services and telecommunications in developing human centric innovative technology solutions.  Prior to COOi Studios, Sandiso served as the Head of Open Innovation for Africa region at Accenture. She has over 14 years technology consulting experience in delivering enterprise resource planning solutions, platforms, data management, data migration, cost reduction strategies and application development projects. Sandiso has a proven track record of driving innovation, commercialisation, and open innovation strategies across diverse industries. In 2013, Sandiso established the Born to Succeed programme, which educates and advocates for young women’s economic participation, to date the programme has helped over 120 women obtain employment. She continues her development work in gender equality through COOi Sustainability supported by United Nations Global Compact and a Girls Coding Bootcamp partnership with Rio Tinto. Sandiso holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Information Systems from Wits University, a Social Entrepreneurship Certificate from INSEAD and is currently a Master of Management candidate at Wits University.