Carl Spies is our CTO and Senior Social Business Technologist.

Working with open source, social technologies, he seeks to help leading brands extract real value from social media trends and systems to engage customers beyond the corporate firewall, and mine social capital behind it.

Carl is recognised as an accomplished provocative facilitator and trainer having advised many organisations in South and West Africa, coordinated top-level community events and addressed national and international groups on a wide range of critical business topics.

He has a highly successful track record in identifying and humanising business systems and a reputation for provoking change in legacy systems.

He has spent the last five years establishing himself as a thought leader in systems thinking and social business design while working with clients ranging from international banks to telecoms service providers.

In his spare time Carl is a fanatical advocate for the open source movement, a passionate student of cognitive and complexity science and an enthusiastic hip hop dancer to boot.