Sean is a serial entrepreneur and investor with more than two decades of experience across investing, operating, and board leadership. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, as well as a BComm (Hons) and LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand. He splits his time between Paris and Johannesburg — though he will admit (if pressed) that his best ideas tend to arrive somewhere between the two.

Sean is also the father of three remarkable sons, a voracious reader and traveller, and a committed CrossFit athlete — recently finishing 1st in Africa in the 2026 CrossFit World Championships. In earlier chapters of his life, Sean was a competitive tennis player, a representative cricket player, and the recipient of a Cambridge Blue for golf. In other words: he has always been slightly too comfortable with discipline and discomfort.

The seed for this journey was planted unexpectedly on a rooftop in Paris during Fashion Week, where a conversation with two exceptional women illuminated a painful cultural truth: the role of women in society has transformed dramatically, while many men are still navigating life with outdated scripts of masculinity and quietly wondering where they fit in. That evening became the reluctant beginning of a long, soul-searching journey into modern manhood — one informed not only by research, but by Sean’s own lived experience of triumphs, failures, relationships, fatherhood, heartbreak, divorce, growth, and the slow, messy and often humbling work of becoming a better human being.