Gareth is a digital maven, entrepreneur, consultant and open source evangelist. Educated as a zoologist, he is a veteran of two dot com bubbles in London, one acquisition, and runs Technovated, a leading web 2.0 provider based in London and Johannesburg.
Previously, Gareth served in London as Director of Product Management for MyHeritage.com, a global family genealogy company based in Tel Aviv.
Before joining MyHeritage, Gareth landed seed funding from London’s top early stage investors to co-found Kindo.com, a global family social network with an international team spread around the world. He then led the Product team in London to roll out a localised version of Kindo in 17 languages within 6 months, as well as an aggressive search engine campaign, both of which resulted in users from circa 220 countries and an enviable growth rate.
Kindo was voted one of the top 3 most promising Internet companies in the UK for 2008, and was acquired by MyHeritage in August that year.
In 2010 Gareth was named one of South Africa’s “200 Young South Africans You have to take to lunch” by the Mail & Guardian newspaper, and in 2009 was one of “35 Men of Influence – 35 South Africans Under 35” by GQ magazine. Gareth is the person behind TECH4AFRICA, a web, mobile and emerging tech conference, which brings global experience and perspective to the African context.
Gareth splits his time between Technovated offices in London and Johannesburg. He also mentors people in Johannesburg who are starting out in the digital industry.
Something a little less formal:
I’m a web professional enjoying the famously sunny climes of Johannesburg, Cape Town and London. I’m from a new media, digital and enterprise software background, having done pretty much everything from web design back in ‘99, through to software business development, and once again running a digital business based in Johannesburg and London and now working on a family focussed global web application called Kindo MyHeritage. I’m also getting better at getting more sleep and doing more exercise.
I get a thrill out of finding and creating new things, evangelising blogs, Wordpress, Wiki’s, Ubuntu, RSS, Jedi-like productivity, GTD, Africa, biltong, BBQ’s, taking photographs, good design and usable software, wherever possible, but quite surprisingly don’t own a Mac. You could also track down my meanderings on the internet through a neat utility called FriendFeed, or stay in touch via this little big app called Twitter 
I have contributed to .Net magazine, e-Consultancy and Lemon Foundation, ran a business group of entrepreneurial business owners in London, have kept a blog here at http://www.oneafrikan.com/ since 2001. I love to talk about ecosystems, megaherbivores and sustainability, letting the zoologist in me out.
Feel free to contact me if you’d like to chat