Peter Koen has worked at the intersection of design, technology and business for over 20 years. He evangelises the value of design in technology and advocates for the involvement of users in this design process.
Having graduated from Rhodes University, he moved to Gauteng and became involved in the early days of the Internet and e-commerce. Over the years, Peter has developed a specialisation in user experience design in the financial services sector.
Peter co-founded of InfoSlips, an award-winning South African electronic communications company. InfoSlips now services over 2000 corporate customers, including 65% of the JSE top 100 and manyinternational corporations. Every month InfoSlips delivers communications to millions of recipients in 145 countries.
In 2015 Peter founded pondo, an enterprise software design collective based in Cape Town. Pondo works with companies to build better digital experiences for their customers.
His latest project is Simvida, co-founded with Eugene Maree, with the goal of reinventing personal finance.
Apart from writing short biographies on himself, in his spare time Peter enjoys long distance running and wood turning.
Peter is based in Cape Town.