Tilson Mphathi Manyoni is the Managing Director of VisionWave (Pty) Ltd, Chairperson of the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Council, and Chairman of the Institute for the future of work (IFOW), which is also affiliated with TUT. He is the Head of Policy for the Black Business Council (BBC) and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Indlulamithi South Africa Scenarios 2030 and the SASOL Foundation.

Tilson holds two Master of Science Degrees; the first one he received from the University of Southern Queensland (Australia), majoring in Project Management. He obtained the second one from Saïd Business School - University of Oxford (United Kingdom) in Major Programme Management. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Industrial Engineering and Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology from the University of Johannesburg (South Africa).

Tilson has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He started his career as a Process Engineer responsible for Computer-Aided Design /Manufacturing and Factory Automation. Tilson then became a Senior Business Analyst, providing solution design and technical support for technology business solutions, i.e., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Process Reengineering (BRR). He advanced his career and took on an IT Project Manager as part of the company’s global SAP team responsible for technology implementation.