Malik Fal

Managing Director - Endeavor, South Africa

Malik Fal was the former Business Operations Director of Microsoft SA before he took up the reigns at Endeavor in April 2009.  Malik is deeply committed to High Impact Entrepreneurship and sees it as a key ingredient to the development of a vibrant middle class in South Africa and beyond. Malik is passionate about the need to reduce the wealth gap between rich and poor nations and has been involved in a variety of competitiveness initiatives in emerging markets around the world, has led a number of successful consulting engagements with the World Bank, the tourism industry in Bermuda and even the Rwandan Presidency.
Malik’s role at Microsoft was Business Marketing & Operations (BMO) Group lead for West-East-Central Africa. Malik was responsible for the formulation and execution of Microsoft’s strategy in Africa’s vast geography. Before Microsoft Malik was with the OTF Group consultancy as Vice President, Africa region (previously part of the Monitor Group).  He also spent six years at PepsiCo.  Malik developed a passion for understanding the “essence of development” through exposure to a number of different models. He is particularly experienced in business strategy for firms in developing countries, and the practical roles government, private sector institutions, and individuals must play to find focused and sustainable solutions in the development process.
Prior to PepsiCo, Malik studied at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he received a Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA-2).