Allon Raiz holds a B.Comm (Honours) in Marketing and is the founder and CEO of Raizcorp, a privately-held, profit-generating business incubator supporting in excess of 200 businesses. He is an author, a radio show host, and has written and hosted a primetime reality TV show all in the field of entrepreneurship. Allon is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs Organisation South Africa and Rural Roots. He sits on the advisory and judging boards of numerous local and international NGO’s and entrepreneurial Awards.

He is an accomplished international speaker and is currently completing a doctorate in Entrepreneurial Studies and Innovation. Allon’s passion, focus and interest on the development of entrepreneurs attracted the attention of the World Economic Forum which, on 11 March 2008, awarded him as a Young Global leader.