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Valter is the Chief Executive and Digital Leader for Cadena Growth Partners, a digital business modernisation, innovation for growth and venturing organization that operates at the intersect of strategic and innovation thinking, with emerging digital technologies and rapid commercialization.

He guides organizations beyond potential disruption, towards creating new opportunities for relevance, growth and expansion by contextualising and leveraging the potential and economics of emerging technologies and disruptive trends.

He is the former Chief Digital and Innovation Officer for Deloitte, managing and founding partner for Monitor Deloitte and Managing Partner for Deloitte Digital in Africa. He was also part of Deloitte’s Global Innovation Executive. He is a faculty member of Singularity University, the recipient of the Constellation Transformation 150 Award, which recognizes the top global executives leading digital business transformation efforts, a Professor of Practice at the Johannesburg Business School, and a TedX speaker.

He was recently awarded as the Big 4 Professional of the Year, by the South African Professional Services Academy, who also recognized him as a top Profession in South Africa’s Digital Industry. Valter holds an Msc and an MBA, has trained with Roger Martin, as a master strategist and is the recipient of numerous academic awards.

Abdul is a consultant, entrepreneur and an academic, with experience in cross-border operations and transactions. He is currently part of Cadena Growth Partner’s Digital and Innovation Advisory team. Cadena is a digital-for-business-modernisation, innovation-for-growth and venturing organisation that operates at the intersect of strategic and innovative thinking, emerging digital technologies and rapid commercialisation.

His primary focus is the Distributed Ledger Technology domain, where he is responsible for assessing the utility and economics of targeted DLT projects for investment and implementation purposes, thereby helping clients contextualise value through the DLT’s emerging capabilities. Abdul has helped developed the assessment frameworks used for investment analysis, utility assessments, practical deployment technical considerations, as well as regulatory requirements. He has also led the technical deployment of DLT related implementations.

He has held digital advisory roles with a focus on business intelligence and optimisation. He was an assistant lecturer in Systems Analysis and Design for the University of Pretoria and has a strong technical and academic background in leading technologies and trends. Abdul was named as Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans in 2022 for his work in the technology space, he has received accolades from the Golden Key International Honours Society, and the awarded the Informatics 370 award for the best System, exhibition, project and overall winner.”