About us

We exist to facilitate companies to achieve their goals and visions through technology so that we contribute to their success and improve our world.

We help companies transform their business to stay at the forefront of technology and innovation.

Founded in Cape Town in 2010, Methys Group operates across Digital Services, Venture Studio, and Innovation. With offices in Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Paris, Tunisia and Luxembourg, we combine digital delivery, venture building and EU-backed ecosystem programmes to support innovation across Africa and Europe.

We believe technology, venture building and ecosystem collaboration can create lasting value. Across our group, we help organisations build digital products, support founders in scaling new ventures, and create pathways between African innovation ecosystems and European institutional networks.

WHO WE ARE

Christophe is a Cape Town-based entrepreneur and early-stage investor. He is a graduate of EDHEC and holds an executive MBA from UCT. With over 10 years of experience and his role as founder and CEO of Methys Group, Christophe has founded over half a dozen tech startup ventures operating in South Africa.

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Christophe Viarnaud

Founder and Group CEO

Jurie has been with Methys since 2010 and has played a key role in the group’s technology evolution for over 15 years, growing from lead developer to CTO. He leads the technical direction of Methys Digital, overseeing engineering standards across product development, QA, deployment, cloud infrastructure, and managed enterprise systems.

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Jurie Kennedy

CTO

Entrepreneur in the tech sector in South Africa, with a background in business (MBA) and engineering (MSc), Sebastien runs a portfolio of startups : Powertime – an online value added services reseller, Energy Intelligence – a utility management company and PayGenius – a multi-currency online payment processor focused on the travel sector.

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Sebastien Lacour

CEO of Paygenius & Powertime

Nannekie van der Schyff is a people enthusiast with a background in Human Resources specializing in Talent Acquisition and Development over the last 3 years. She is focused on attracting and developing Top talent, retaining, implementing and driving a culture that helps to harness the full power of the most valuable assets – “The People”. Her mission is to cultivate a diverse and high-performing workforce by fostering an inclusive environment that promotes continuous learning and professional growth.

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Nannekie van der Schyff

Head of Talent

Our diverse team brings a holistic approach to every project we take on.

By making people our focus, we have attracted talented individuals that are dedicated to empowering our clients by building them exceptional solutions that elevate their business. We are developers, designers, analysts, project managers, quality assurers and administrative support staff that value honesty, integrity and excellence.

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OUR VALUES

Value-based partnerships:

We aspire to generate the highest quality service that delivers the most value within time and budget. We work hard to make sure our customers come back for business.

People First:

We believe in value and respect. We are invested in encouraging others to find their purpose and achieve their full potential. There is nothing that matters more to us than empowerment and relationships.

Excellence:

Our view of excellence is an ever-changing mindset that meets us where we are, challenges us onward, and encourages us to fail forward but ultimately be better than yesterday.

Community:

We believe in community and authentic relationships. Unity provides the strength to achieve so much more together than we ever could alone.

Commitment & Reliability:

We are invested in everything we do, dedicated to seeing it through to the end. Delivering the desired outcome. A total quality approach in our work as our customer demands the highest standards

Purpose:

Everything we do has a reason and pushes us towards a collective goal that improves our lives and the people we reach.

Ownership & integrity:

We take ownership in achieving your strategic goals and treat your information confidentially

Talent & diversity:

We built our business on diverse talent

OUR MISSION

By connecting the ecosystems of innovation and digital transformation, and facilitating collaborative engagement between corporates, investors and startups. We create excellent digital products and serve as a catalyst for disruption by providing best-in-class performance management services that deliver results.

OUR VISION

We believe in a better future for all and that collaborative innovation will get us there. We want to play a role in that future by facilitating innovation within the ecosystems we move in.