Pie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase is the Founder and Director at PEM Afurika, a management consulting company aiming at helping entrepreneurs to adopt a problem-based approach to business development. He is also an Associate Consultant with IDG South Africa, and a Consulting Partner with Whitten and Roy Partnership, both companies with global reach, where he focuses on people-related business solutions. Pie-Pacifique’s journey includes growing up in Rwanda in tumultuous times that claimed members of his family. His father, a political prisoner in the eighties, died in 1989 when Pie-Pacifique was only 8 years old. Due to his father’s political history, Pie-Pacifique’s family were among those who were supposed to be killed in the 1994 Genocide, narrowly surviving several attempts. Post 1994, Pie-Pacifique became his family’s breadwinner at 14, before finding his way back to school, which, against all odds, he completed with distinction. In 2001, he embarked on a challenging and uncertain journey which would lead him to South Africa, beginning his life as a refugee car guard in Durban. In 2002, odds against him, he enrolled at the then University of Natal, where he was awarded later the MR Scholarship upon completion of his degree in Physics.
Pie-Pacifique started his professional career with in banking as a Business and Systems Analyst in 2008. In 2011, he was appointed Account Executive at Avocado Vision, a company that specializes in large scale community and workplace training programs, including Enterprise Development, where he initiated and managed projects that touched thousands of people in marginalized communities in South Africa, and empowered hundreds of community based micro-enterprises. Since 2013, through his work with IDG and WRP, he delivered Business Leadership Development programs and worked on Business Development projects in numerous countries in all four corners of Africa, as well as in South East Asia. More recently, Pie-Pacifique was the Head of the Business School of the Foundation for Professional Development, a private institution of higher learning based in Pretoria.
Besides his Business and Leadership Development activities, Pie-Pacifique is currently a Council Member of the Jesuit Refugee Service-Southern Africa, as well as an international Key-Note and Motivational Speaker.
