Small by design.
Senior all the way down.
Red Chili is led by Larry Venter, with two partners who own the parts of the arc he does not. Between them they cover the three things that have to be true at once. That is how a boutique runs the whole thing end to end.
Larry Venter
Founder & Principal
Boardroom to Build
A career inside large-scale technology transformations at Microsoft, PayPal, eBay, ThreatMetrix and Shape Security, with a decade of it spent watching machine learning hold up under real pressure in fraud and identity. Long enough to see workflows break the same way in five different industries, and to learn that AI programmes almost never die in the model.
Most people at his level stop building. Larry went back to it. He retrained, and now designs and runs production agent systems himself, Lensmaker among them. He can set direction in the room where the money is decided, then take the workflow apart and rebuild it. The scars are the point. So are the tools. Boardroom to Boilerroom.
Rodney de Koch
Partner, Client & Relationships
Enterprise Readiness
A senior executive with 27+ years leading digital transformation and technology strategy across the public sector and global enterprises. Former CIO for DIRCO, supporting 127 embassies and consulates worldwide, followed by 15 years in leadership at IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and financial and technology firms, managing teams of up to 120 and a P&L of $320M turnover and $80M profit.
Today he advises C-suites and boards across Africa, Europe and the Middle East on cybersecurity, multi-cloud and AI enablement, chairs a university IS advisory board, and mentors founders through MIT's VMS programme.
Dani Venter
Partner, Talent
People and Culture
Founder and MD of Vivify Consulting, a business and technology staffing, consulting and training firm that builds high-performing sales teams and custom talent solutions for global clients.
A cross-industry commercial leader with more than two decades across technology, petrochemical and engineering: she led enterprise accounts at BCX, one of Africa's leading ICT providers, and earlier directed national petrochemical relationships across names like Engen, Total, Shell and Sasol. An accredited executive and management coach (SACAP / ICF). Dani staffs and stands up the teams that run the operating model Red Chili designs, through Vivify.
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