The Team

Kinda like the A-team but with better manners…

An aspiring social entrepreneur, engineer and data nut with a passion for education, technology and the space where the two meet. Ross is looking forward to meeting new people, discovering some unconventional businesses, driving through the mud, getting stuck in the mud, getting unstuck from the mud and cultivating a crisp right-arm t-shirt tan.
Email: ross.kinmont@gmail.com
Mobile: +27 74 179 3093

An inspirational soccer player with the tenacity of a Jack Russell and the brains of a dolphin, April Mendelsohn is like Yoda except with better skin tone and fewer wrinkles. She is a true testament to the value of a good night cream. In addition to her many achievements she is also a humanitarian, having dated Ross for two whole years.

A Seattle native and former humanitarian, the 2008 global financial crisis forced Shea to flee the US as an economic refugee. He ended up in Dubai in the employ of multinational corporate overlords doing small jobs like Middle East and African sales and business development. After seven years in the desert, the overlords shipped him to Africa where after 15 months in captivity he has broken free and is going to hitch a ride with Ross across the continent in search of new adventures, new friends and maybe a new job. In his free time Shea enjoys long dusty roads, complicated border crossings, bicycles and the Emirates First Class Lounge in Dubai.

Some say you’re born for adventures like these…I beg to differ, if that were the case, by now I would at least have the upper body strength and dexterity of a nimble gorilla to be able to clock a Land Cruiser wheel-change in under 5min, followed by a casual hot-wiring for when our electronics fail us… I would have a sixth-sense for direction like no other, be able to sniff out a petrol station from at least a mile away…by nature, completely immune to Malaria, in fact my very presence would repel such loathsome insects…I would be capable of predicting the change in weather by subtle variants in atmospheric moisture levels, and possibly have a built-in kangaroo pouch ideal for keeping snacks safe and close at hand during the many hours of travel that inevitably lie before us…

Alas, this is not the case, …yet while my anatomy may prove to be fairly standard in its entirety I was equipped with ambition, ambition to go where…well, where quite a few people have in fact gone before…but all of which had nothing but good things to say about it. Africa here we come!