I build and run marketing systems, and the products they sell.
I’m Bokang (you say it boh-kung). I’m a technology entrepreneur building Sola, an AI-native travel company, and I offer marketing services to businesses: the whole marketing function, built and run for you.
That comes from over a decade in digital growth across Africa, Europe and America. I’ve worked at global agencies, in-house at companies operating at scale, and in my own firm.
Travel is where I come alive. What I love is the exploration, meeting people, and listening to stories that aren’t my own; every culture I spend time in helps me understand people a little better. The more I travel, the more I notice how much of it is built with only some people in mind, and the more I want to build things that make it easier and more open for everyone. That’s what I write about, and what I’m working toward.
Track record.
Over a decade in digital growth: global agencies, in-house at scale, my own firm, and independent work, across three continents.
Agencies
04MediaCom
2016–2018Paid Media Specialist at one of the world's largest media networks. Coca-Cola, Sony, Audi and other global brands.
PHD Global
EarlierPaid media at another of the world's big media networks. Global brands including Huawei and HP.
Correlate Digital
EarlierB2B performance marketing for small and medium-sized businesses.
Interface Digital
EarlierB2B and B2C Google Ads across multiple industries.
In-house, at scale
03MTV Staying Alive Foundation
2022–2023Digital Director. Set global digital strategy for multi-country behaviour-change campaigns in global health.
MTN Business
2022Online Channel Manager. Built the enterprise online sales channel from the ground up at one of Africa's largest telcos.
Leegra (HP)
EarlierHP Online E-commerce Lead. Ran the e-tailer relationships and operations that grew HP's online sales across the region.
My own firm
01Algorithm Hackers
2019–2022Founded and ran my own digital growth firm for nearly three years. End-to-end marketing for clients including Deviare, an e-learning platform for consumers and businesses, plus a long tail across financial services, education and consumer goods.
Independent consulting
03Chris Roe, United States
RecentCommunication coach. LinkedIn presence, cold outreach, client acquisition.
Heidi Mollentze, South Africa
RecentCommunication coach. LinkedIn, cold outreach, client growth.
Piosenka Plus, Poland
EarlierEvent marketing and sales for an events company.
Training & teaching
02Digify Africa
2014, then laterStarted as a trainee, returned as a trainer leading digital-literacy training across southern Africa.
British Council · Red Bull Amaphiko
via Digify AfricaTrained social entrepreneurs on using digital to grow the work they care about.
What I’ve built.
I don’t only run marketing. I build and ship my own products and stories.
Sola
2025 / liveA travel app for women travelling solo. It pulls what women have actually said about places across all the major booking platforms, alongside its own women’s community, into one place organised right down to the neighbourhood. AI reads and sorts it all, so you get what matters to you without the endless scrolling. Live on the iOS App Store, AI-native from the first screen, focused on Southeast Asia.
What other women said
aggregated from women who actually stayed, pulled across all the major booking platforms
Organised by neighbourhood
the local knowledge that matters, sorted by where you'll actually be
AI does the sorting
it reads what women have written and surfaces what matters to you
A women's community
a forum where women who have been there answer the questions only they would
Reconnecting Pangaea
2016, 2020A documentary series on the internet, access and inequality in South Africa, which I co-created, co-wrote and co-produced. It aired on eTV, a national free-to-air broadcaster.
Internet vs inequality, on eTV
Culture
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