Patrick Parring

CEO of Par Equity Group. He was the founder Chairperson of WECBOF, an organisation who represented small and medium size businesses in The Western Cape Province. He is concurrently Chairman of Synergos Southern Africa, a poverty alleviation think tank. Raised with his ten siblings by his grandparents in a poor environment in the midst of Apartheid. He founded his first company in 1989. Since then, he has sat on more than twenty (for profit and non-profit) boards. He of late has established a thinktank to explore «social impact» investment opportunities in the sectors of technology, food security and property.