CEOwise with Dan Newman - Inspiring Entrepreneurs

We interview entrepreneur Manny Rivera, who's the founder and CEO of Planet Fitness. After learning the industry in New York, Manny started Planet Fitness with no budget by making an independent gym owner an offer he couldn't refuse.

We interview entrepreneur Alan Knott-Craig, who after running well known South African companies like CellFind, iBurst and Mxit founded HeroTel, which is a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) and his strategy is to buy up smaller WISP companies to create a broader network.

We interview entrepreneur Pepe Marais, who co-founded Joe Public, one of the biggest independently owned advertising agencies in South Africa. After being bankrupt in 2009 Pepe found his life's purpose and not only turned his business around, but his entire life. It's all documented in his booked titled Growing Greatness, which is a must read.

We interview entrepreneur Ian Fuhr, who founded the Sorbet Group in 2005 which has now grown to over 200 stores nationwide and 6 stores in the UK. Ian is a serial entrepreneur who has launched many successful companies in industries he knew very little about.

We interview entrepreneur Colin Timmis, who founded South Africa’s first cloud accounting practice in 2011, Real Time Accounting. Then, a few years after being appointed as South Africa's first Xero partner Colin became Xero Country Manager South Africa. Xero is the emerging global leader of online accounting software that connects small businesses to their advisors and other services.

We interview social entrepreneur Pat Pillai, who after being a national news anchor for 15 years, is founder and CEO of LifeCo UnLtd SA, which invests in impact entrepreneurs and impact enterprises. LifeCo UnLtd SA has benefited over 112 000 beneficiaries in SA (5000 are young entrepreneurs; 124 are established adult entrepreneurs, of those 76 are impact/social entrepreneurs).

We interview entrepreneur Mark van Diggelen, CEO of GameZBoost, whom created a white label mobile gaming platform that is currently deployed in 45 countries around the world. In addition, Mark's mobile gaming tournaments have taken the industry by storm.

We interview entrepreneur Regine Le Roux, founder of Reputation Matters, who has been looking after company's reputations for over a decade. Regine also published her first book aptly titled 'Reputation Matters' the building blocks to becoming the business people want to do business with.

We interview entrepreneur Andrew McLean, a former pro cyclist and founder of Cycle Lab, who has cycling megastores around the country. Andrew established himself as a household name in the South African cycling fraternity after presenting SuperCycling on Supersport for 17 years.

We interview entrepreneur Nic Haralambous, the founder and CEO of Nic Harry who started off selling bamboo socks online and now has brick and mortar stores with a larger product range around the country. Nic has also written a book titled Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat. which is a brutally honest look at entrepreneurship and follows Nic's entrepreneurial journey.