Strive Masiyiwa is a telecommunications and technology entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. In his nearly four decades as an entrepreneur, he has started and invested in businesses throughout the world including Africa, the European Union, India, Latin America, the Middle East, New Zealand, the UK and the U.S.

Some of his most prominent start-up companies and investments include Mascom Wireless Botswana, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, Econet Wireless Nigeria (now Airtel Nigeria), Liquid Intelligent Technologies Group, Econet Wireless, New Zealand (now 3 Degrees Mobile), Trilogy Capital Partners Canada (early investor), Cassava Technologies, Africa Data Centres, Sasai Fintech and Telrad Group Israel. He continues to invest privately through his investment companies and family office.

Born in Zimbabwe and now living in London, Strive currently serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Unilever PLC and Netflix Inc. and on the not-for-profit board of trustees of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and National Geographic Society. He sits on several global advisory boards including Bank of America, Bloomberg New Economy Forum and Stanford University.

A co-founder of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Strive served as its second chairman after Kofi Annan. For his leadership at AGRA in support of Africa’s smallholder farmers, he was honored with the Norman E. Borlaug World Food Prize Medallion in 2019. For 15 years, he served on the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation, amongst many other pan-African and international initiatives in which he’s played co-founding, advisory or leadership roles. His family foundations, Higherlife Foundation and Delta Philanthropies, have supported over 300,000 scholarships to orphaned, vulnerable and gifted African children, public health, girls empowerment, youth mentorship, rural transformation, and other critical social impact initiatives across Africa. The foundations are managed by his co-founder wife, Tsitsi, and their oldest daughter, Elizabeth Tanya.

An honorary fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, Strive received honorary doctorates from Yale University, Nelson Mandela University, Morehouse College and Cardiff University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and electronic engineering. Committed Christians, he and his wife have six adult children. They are signatories of the Giving Pledge.