Francois Malan

Background

About Francois Malan

Francois Malan is an Investment Manager at Savant. An Industrial Engineer with and MBA, Francois has an operations management and technical project management background from working within the manufacturing industry. Following this he moved into the innovation and entrepreneurship environment. Having been with Savant for 14 years, Francois remains passionate about helping inventors and innovators turn their technology ideas into reality, while simultaneously building a sustainable business around them. Savant is the only dedicated hardware technology incubator in South Africa. Savant brings ±20 years of rigorous hands-on commercialisation experience to early-stage hardware tech projects and ventures. Savant’s aim is to promote South African companies that have developed physical products that appeal to both local and international markets. Through our work we hope to help science and engineering technology start-ups succeed in the local and global marketplace. To take African developed tech to the world - solving the world’s problems, with African solutions. SPECIALITIES- Incubation Management - Investment management - Commercialization strategy - Business support services, incubation and acceleration - Technical project and product development - New business development - General, technical, project & operations management in a manufacturing environment.