Professional History:
Craig Wing PhD is an entrepreneur and public speaker, consultant, trainer and futurist. He has two provisional patents in vision systems and computer components; has started six companies, including a non-profit in Silicon Valley for partially-sighted children; has advised and mentored more than a thousand entrepreneurs. He is the co-author of two books, one a #1 on Amazon and is working on third book. He has also been an advisor to Google X, Alphabet’s “Innovation Lab”.

As Google small business marketing head, he launched South African Business Woza online where SMEs created 50,000 websites in its first year: one every 10 minutes. He is an angel investor in disruptive, technology-driven startups and created a dashboard to “quantify the future.”

In the past two decades, Craig has delivered more than 500 keynote addresses to 5,000 global leaders and executives on understanding, creating and designing their ideal futures through imagineering and futures thinking. His expertise includes emergent futures thinking, scenario planning, disruptive technologies, emergent business models, company culture and new world of work. He’s spoken at length on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and Africa’s preparedness.

He has consulted to the United Nations; created 2050 scenarios for the Nigerian government; moderated the 10th BRICs summit on 4IR with Presidents Xi, Putin and Ramaphosa, and Prime Minister Modi; and delivered a keynote on “the role of disruptive technology for BRICs to meet the SDG’s” (2023). He has hosted sessions at the African Innovation Symposium; was head of Innovation for B4SA as South Africa recovered from Covid-19; and is an adjunct professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Duke Corporate Education, and others. He is an associate of the Tayarisha school of governance at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Clients include UNAIDS, Deloitte, Audi, Tata, Shell, MTN, Airbus, Danone, Nestle, Citi, Anglo American, Microsoft, Fidelity, Accenture, Barclays, Investec, Discovery, Standard Bank, BMW, Huawei, Mubadala fund, Indonesian Central Bank, and Indian government.

Accolades include being a Leadership Forum member, AshokaU Changemaker, WEF Global Shaper, Mail and Guardian Top 200 under 35, Destiny Man & African Independent Top 40 under 40, and a disruptive Innovation speaker at TEDx.

He is the chairperson of Moving into Dance, which educates disenfranchised youth and disabled people through dance, and a non-executive and advisor for government entities.

Academic and professional credentials:
PhD in Engineering in Futures thinking from the University of Johannesburg
MBA in Entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy from Babson FW Olin Graduate School of Business
Msc (Elec) Eng from the University of the Witwatersrand in usability engineering
Bsc (Elec) Eng from the University of the Witwatersrand
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Programs:
Fellow at the Institute of Social Innovation, in Babson, USA
Frederic C Hamilton scholarship for significant entrepreneurial achievement
Clinton Global Initiative awardee