Juan Engelbrecht

Juan obtained a B.Comm. Chartered Accounting degree at the North West University, South Africa and an Honours B.Comm.Cost and Management Accounting degree obtained at the University of South Africa (Unisa). The last-mentioned qualification is on par with the Chartered Institution of Management Accountants (CIMA) managerial level. Juan completed his RPE’s and wrote the Stockbroker SAIS examinations enabling him to trade directly on the JSE and providing financial advice on the stock market. During his audit articles at BDO, the 5th largest audit firm in the world, he gained valuable experience in financial and investment management of several leading SouthAfrican companies. As equity trader at Goldings, Torr & De Decker Stockbrokers in Sandton, South Africa, Juan traded with multi-millions directly on the JSE for two years and learned from the best as a young graduate. He bought his first shares at the age of 15 and have been involved in business ever since. Juan gained invaluable knowledge and experience on senior management level when he was appointed as Group Financial Manager at Shopfitting Studio in Pretoria, South Africa. Prominent franchises such as Reggies, Famousbrands, Contempo, Chamberlains, Coricraft and Rhapsody’s were some of their respected clients. Thereafter, Juan was appointed as Portfolio Manager at SA Asset Management in Pretoria, South Africa where he broadened his expertise in finance, investments and the stock market. Juan established Evolve Fund Managers in 2013 and acts as director (in co-operation with the directors of Goldings, Torr & De Decker Stock Broking firm in Sandton, South Africa) managing investors’ funds in pension funds, discretionary mandates and several other types of investments. Juan also acts as director of RFS Asset Management and Khalifa Capital that also specialise in asset management. Juan expanded his horizons when he realised the huge potential of blockchain technology and how it will revolutionize business and redefine companies and economies in the world. Juan established Zaber Import Export (Pty) Ltd and subsequently acts as CEO of the company. Juan (in partnership with Paul Pelser – a MOBU management team member) proved to operate one of the largest cryptocurrency miners in the southern hemisphere as early adopters of the blockchain technology. They manage four large cryptomining farms that showed a turnover of ZAR 100 mil for 2017 alone. As CEO of Zaber Import Export, Juan recognised the huge potential of the huge arbitration opportunity in commodities in Zimbabwe and exports chrome and lithium to Dubai as well. As CEO of Zabercoin ICO Juan gained invaluable knowledge, experience and lessons on how to successfully raise funds on the blockchain. In his endeavours, he was afforded the opportunity to establish strong business relationships with strong leaders in the blockchain space and cryptocurrency community. Juan has learned a valuable lesson namely that there is more to an ICO than just the “hype”. For example, although he personally invested 1 million USD into Zabercoin he believes this to be a learning curve appointed for a greater purpose and long-term goal. “The best way of learning anything is by doing it and not to be embarrassed if things do not always go according to plan but to learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson. When Juan takes an idea, he flies with it. He takes bold actions when everyone else is afraid to venture into uncharted waters. Juan’s individuality, ability to recognise opportunities, strategic decision-making skills, passion and persistence make Juan a very successful entrepreneur. Juan will play a vital role in leading MOBU to big heights and great success.

Paul Pelser (CA)SA

Paul was one of the team members of Zabercoin ICO in 2017 where he gained invaluable knowledge, experience and lessons on how to successfully raise money on the blockchain. After obtaining a B. Compt degree at the University of South Africa in 2000, Paul was appointed as Internal Auditor at Sasol. Sasol was established in 1950 in South Africa and since then developed into an international integrated chemicals and energy company that leverages technologies and the expertise of their work force of more than 30,000 in 33 countries. Paul produces a range of high-value product stream, including liquid fuels, chemicals, and low-carbon electricity. In 2006, Paul obtained a B. Compt (Honnours) degree at the University of South Africa (Unisa). In 2011, he passed the CA (SA) Board examinations to qualify as Chartered Accountant and Registered Auditor. Paul gained valuable experience in the fields of accounting, tax and auditing when he established Pelser Accountants in 2002 and PSP Audit Services in 2011. Both these firms are still active and successful. In addition, Paul demonstrates his expertise and skills by his appointment as Chief Audit Executive (board level) at Thistle Mining. Thistle Mining is a gold mining Canadian company that operates both in South Africa and the Philippines. Currently Paul also plays a significant role as Director and shareholder of both Pregal Mining (Pty) Ltd (an earthmoving operations mining company) and Sahalee Enterprises (Pty) Ltd (a crypto mining operations company). More importantly, and very relevant to MOBU, Paul has been one of the early adopters of blockchain technology and is currently actively involved in some of the largest cryptocurrency mining farms in the southern hemisphere. With his hands-on knowledge, understanding and experience of blockchain and crypto, Paul will play a significant role in MOBU especially in terms of finances and compliance.

Brian Golding

Brian was one of the team members of Zabercoin ICO in 2017 where he gained invaluable knowledge, experience and lessons on how to successfully raise money on the blockchain. Brian is the CEO, Managing Partner & Controlling Stockbroker of Golding, Torr & De Decker (Pty) Ltd. He is a Financial Markets professional, with over 30-years’ experience over a broad range of the South African investment markets. Brian is also a member of the S.A. Institute of Stockbrokers with an in-depth knowledge of the financial markets. In addition to the fact that Brian trades in his personal capacity in his own portfolio, he also fulfils the critical role as manager of a JSE member firm where securities are traded in markets like equity securities, derivatives and fixed-income securities. Brian will play a significant role in MOBU mostly due to his good knowledge and expertise about regulatory compliance and specifications which is very relevant to MOBU and what MOBU stands for.

Frikkie van Biljon

Frikkie started coding at the early age of 11 where he discovered QBasic on his home computer. Eversince he was driven to "beat" the computer with programming excercises. After school he graduated from the North-West University in 2009 and a BSc. degree in Information Technology (IT). In 2004 he started his web development career. Since then he has been working actively as a web developer for the last years and quickly worked his way up as System Architect and Senior Lead Developer. Over this time he managed to aquire quite a few prizes for his web development capabilities. Frikkie worked at on of the largest vocational services in Africa where he was hired to research and improve their system's performance. Challenges included overcoming the shortcomings of internet reliability in Nigeria. At Mukon he was head of development for a web based LIMS developed in JavaScript (AngularJS) and NodeJS. He further implemented a single signon platform for all projects shipped by Mukon. All web projects are developed on the framework he implemented. Implementation of the backend consistent of various tech: C#, WebServices, NodeJS, RESTful services and reporting with SSRS. He regularly had to tutor his colleagues to bring them up to speed on new tech and coding methodologies. Frikkie is currently a lead JavaScript developer for one of the largest software firms in South Africa. He fulfills the role of Lead JavaScript developer at Momentum's head office. He is tasked to manage and overview the coding standards of all JavaScript projects for his department. Part of his position is to research and present on new technologies and how it can be incorporated within the business. As a developer he has quite a technical egde - working with programming language spanning a broad range: Pascal, Delphi, C#, Visual Basic, PHP, JavaScript, Java. Although he does not have active blockchain coding experience is he still well versed on the subject. With his architect background and exposure to verious technologies he will be able to oversee and plan a system that will be scalable and maintainable.

June Engelbrecht

June was one of the team members of Zabercoin ICO in 2017 where she gained invaluable knowledge, experience and lessons on how to successfully raise money on the blockchain. June obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She also completed a Master’s degree in Business (MBA) which included subjects like business research, strategic management, financial management, investment management and international marketing. Some other relevant courses completed by her included data analysis, business research, financial advice, entrepreneurship and advanced MS Word and Excel. June has vast experience in the fields of business and education management. As business director and manager, she was responsible for functions such as general management marketing, finance, administration, sales, leadership, HR and PR. As education manager in the office of the national education of South Africa, June gained valuable knowledge, experience and expertise in various fields such as conducting interviews, data collection, qualitative and quantitative research, data analysis, presentations, editing reports of colleagues and writing reports to the national minister of education. June had been the internal moderator and chief examiner of accounting, business management and commercial mathematics of the final examinations for Grade 12 learners. She also was the author of ten business management textbooks for South African schools. All these books were approved and distributed throughout the nine provinces of South Africa. All these skills, traits and extremely useful experience of June makes her a very suitable addition to the MOBU’s management team especially in terms of her proven track record of data collection and analysis, qualitative and quantitative research work, writing skills and favourable interpersonal relations. June makes it very important to bring strategic decisions to execution.