Sunil Geness Rainmaker

Director: Global Government Affairs & CSR Africa, Global Sustainability Lead Africa at SAP

📍 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jan 2019
The Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking Afrika at the University of Cape Town (Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika or d-school Afrika) is the only dedicated academic institution in the region that offers academic training and capacitation in design thinking to university scholars and professionals in the public and private sectors. The d-school was founded in Cape Town in August 2015 with funding, IP, and academic support from Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner - co-founder of a software company, SAP AG, and chairman of its Supervisory Board - and the Hasso Plattner Trust. Professor Plattner initiated and funded the first academic programmes in design thinking. The establishment of the HPI Schools of Design Thinking of Stanford in the US in 2005, and at Potsdam in Germany in 2007, brought academic rigor to design-led innovation practice and made training programmes in design thinking available to academic scholars and leaders in the private and public sectors. Students from all disciplines and industry and government executives come together at the d-school to learn to work collaboratively in diverse and inclusive multi-disciplinary teams on real-world challenges and to develop human-centred innovative solutions.
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Jun 2012
Young Heroes is a registered non-profit in the Kingdom of Eswatini that aims to empower the vulnerable youth
Board Member
Feb 2011
Learnership programme; ploughing back into through interacting with learners on the fundamental significane of education and more specifically STEM (science,technology,engineering and mathematics)
Past Board Member
Dec 2010
The LCA positively influence, accelerate and bring about the protection of biodiversity areas in Africa. We focus on education and skills transfer in the conservation space, leadership development, and the protection of nature through private initiatives.
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2026
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Mar 2026
With hundreds of millions of people in Africa lacking access to quality healthcare, Amp Health partners with governments to equip public sector teams with the tools and techniques they need to deliver quality health services to their people, achieve their goals, and tackle current and emerging health challenges. We believe that teams are at the heart of a government’s ability to deliver quality services. Talented individuals cannot thrive within institutions that confine them. The best policies cannot lead to meaningful change without the backing of a competent team that can execute on them. But teams – small groups of dedicated, capable people – have the power to do extraordinary things. Our approach combines embedded mentoring and capability development; experiential learning; executive coaching; curated self-directed learning; and peer exchange across countries to build highly effective public sector teams. Amp Health is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, where it operates under AIGSA, a Non-Profit Company.
2019
Board Member
Jan 2019
The Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking Afrika at the University of Cape Town (Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika or d-school Afrika) is the only dedicated academic institution in the region that offers academic training and capacitation in design thinking to university scholars and professionals in the public and private sectors. The d-school was founded in Cape Town in August 2015 with funding, IP, and academic support from Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner - co-founder of a software company, SAP AG, and chairman of its Supervisory Board - and the Hasso Plattner Trust. Professor Plattner initiated and funded the first academic programmes in design thinking. The establishment of the HPI Schools of Design Thinking of Stanford in the US in 2005, and at Potsdam in Germany in 2007, brought academic rigor to design-led innovation practice and made training programmes in design thinking available to academic scholars and leaders in the private and public sectors. Students from all disciplines and industry and government executives come together at the d-school to learn to work collaboratively in diverse and inclusive multi-disciplinary teams on real-world challenges and to develop human-centred innovative solutions.
2012
Young Heroes of Swaziland
Board Member
Jun 2012
Past Board Member
Jun 2012
Young Heroes is a registered non-profit in the Kingdom of Eswatini that aims to empower the vulnerable youth
Kwa Zulu-Natal Science Centre
Chairperson of the Board : Kwa Zulu-Natal Science Centre
Jan 2012
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