Mark Mondoka

About

Making business technology decisions, make sense.

Mark Mondoka builds decision frameworks that help leaders adopt technology without becoming technologists.

Most leaders he talks to know they need to make better technology decisions. What they don’t have is a framework for figuring out when to move, what to build, and who should own it. Mark builds the decision frameworks that close the gap between “we know this matters” and here is what you can do starting on Monday”. He spent a decade in enterprise technology at Microsoft and IBM across East and Southern Africa, then another decade as an entrepreneur and facilitator supporting hundreds of entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa with building and scaling their ventures.

Before Microsoft, he was at Airtel’s Zambia operation working as a product and project manager on telecom infrastructure, value added services and mobile payments. He shipped over 100 products to over 3 million subscribers during his time at Zain and Airtel.

Mark is currently serving as Entrepreneur in Residence at Dordt University, where he teaches Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creative Thinking, and Business Applications of AI. His AI course puts non-technical business majors in front of real industry problems and asks them to build working solutions. Nobody in the room has a computer science background. The barrier to using AI well was never technical ability. It was the absence of a structured way to think about the problem.

Teaching has forced him to take everything he learned and turn it into repeatable systems that work for people who don’t share his background.

He has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs through programs via Bongo Hive Innovations with the UNDP, UNCDF, Standard Chartered Bank, the World Bank, and the Finnish Government.