Indian Blood.African Heart Motto: Be prepared to do everything even if you don’t know everything Co Founder and CEO of ZmBIZI (www.zmbizi.com) Email : [email protected] The Phone that pays you Profile Alpesh H. Patel is an award winning Global Entrepreneur and has been featured in more than 50 media outlets including CNN, CNBC, BBC, Forbes,GQ and Huffington Post He is an expert in business go to market strategies with a particular focus on Emerging markets and Emerging technology. A veteran in the telecoms industry Alpesh generated $500m+ for Motorola and in 2008 went on to create the first African Mobile Device brand and the world’s first Afro Emoticon character brand. This business was successfully sold in 2016 to a $5B South African conglomerate. A real life working example of a bootstrapped startup that went all the way to a trade exit. Alpesh specialises in Product conception, Go to Market Strategies, Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship ,and results orientated Sales solutions . He has been dubbed as one of the first Tech Innovators to come out of emerging markets and has worked with industry giants such as Visa, Vodafone, Western Union and Uber Alpesh is a Public speaker and has appeared on several panels such as The Titan Academy, The GSMA ,The African Leadership Network and The Wharton Conference. He is the author of “TESTED” a published narrative on the trials of Entrepreneurship. His book was nominated for “The Business Book of the Year UK 2018 “and has received crticial acclaim , wide press and multiple 5 star reader reviews. To find out more about Alpesh please visit www.peshmode.com